Cloud DevOps Engineer

OBIORA CHIKWELU

California, United States

Email: ***.*********.******@*****.***

Phone Number: +1-510-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obi-devops-sre

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven Cloud DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in designing, automating, deploying, monitoring, and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure and applications. Skilled in building scalable, secure, and highly available environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experienced in implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration, configuration management, and cloud cost optimization. Strong collaborator with proven ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams and adapt quickly in fast-paced environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Etech Consulting, LLC

DevOps Engineer June 2024 – Present

• Recognized by management for outstanding contributions and exceptional performance on critical projects such as Search API project that was successfully delivered within 4 months instead of 6 months’ timeline.

• Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Jenkins, enabling automated build, test, and deployment processes.

• Configured and managed Argo CD for Continuous Deployment (CD), reducing manual deployment efforts, minimizing errors, and improving deployment governance and access control.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform for deploying and maintaining cloud resources including VPCs, subnets, networking components, Kubernetes clusters, EC2 instances, RDS databases, and other cloud services.

• Managed remote Terraform state and reusable Terraform modules to improve infrastructure consistency, team collaboration, and environment standardization across development, testing, and production.

• Implemented and maintained Ansible automation for server configuration management, software deployments, and patch management, significantly reducing manual configuration errors by 20% to 30%.

• Established monitoring, observability, and incident response solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty, improving system reliability and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).

• Performed Kubernetes cluster upgrades and maintenance to enhance security, maintain compliance, and reduce costs associated with unsupported cluster versions.

• Integrated Kubernetes environments with supporting tools and services to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of containerized applications.

• Built and managed Docker images for application building, testing and deployments.

• Enhanced application and infrastructure security by integrating SonarQube, SNYK, or TRIVY into CI/CD pipelines for code quality analysis, vulnerability scanning, and container security assessments.

• Administered and supported cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, utilizing services including:

AWS: VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, ELB, Lambda, Route 53, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch and others

Azure: Virtual Machines, Networking Services, Storage Solutions

GCP: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Networking Services, GKE.

• Implemented Helm and Helm Charts for Kubernetes application packaging, deployment, and configuration management, improving deployment consistency and operational efficiency.

• Developed Bash scripts to automate routine operational tasks, including scheduled or cronjobs, data transfers, file archiving, EBS volume management, and server maintenance activities.

• Reduced annual cloud infrastructure costs by 10%–24% through FinOps best practices, resource optimization, rightsizing, and cost monitoring initiatives.

• Installed, administered, and maintained Linux, Unix, and Windows server environments while ensuring 99.9% system availability and resolving operating system and application-related issues.

TOOLS TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT/VERSION CONTORL SYSTEM: GitHub/Git

• SCRIPTING AND LANGUAGES: Python, Bash, Shell, Groovy, YAML, JSON

• CODE AND IMAGE SCANNERS: SonarQube, SNYK, TRIVY

• ARTIFACTS AND IMAGE BUILD: Maven and Docker

• IMAGE STORAGE: Docker hub and ECR

• CONTAINER ORCHASTRATORS: Kubernetes and AWS ECS

• CONTINOUS INTEGRATION/CONTIOUS DEPLOYEMENT: Jenkins/GitHub-action and ArgoCD

• MONITORING AND ALERT TOOLS: Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch and PagerDuty

• INFRASTRUCTURE as CODE – IaC: Terraform and AWS CloudFormation

• CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS: Ansible

• DATABASE: MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, and MongoDB

• ACCESS CONTROL: AWS IAM and GCP IAM

• WEB SERVERS: Nginx, Apache and Tomcat,

• CLOUD PLATFORMS: AWS, GCP and AZURE

CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect In-view

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Valid till now

• The Cooper Union, Albert Nerken School of Engineering, New York Valid till now Advanced certificate course on Computer Aided Designs (CAD)

EDUCATION

• ESUT, ENUGU

Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) in Mechanical and Production Engineering,

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