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Kayode Bello

Schaumburg,US

Summary

DevOps leader with 6 years of experience, leveraging CI/CD tools and technologies to enhance CI/CD pipeline build, automation, and release. Skilled in provisioning of secure infrastructure, deploying secure Application, implementing automated security scanning, and managing vulnerabilities. Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach, significantly improving deployment processes and monitoring with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively and independently.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Devops Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
03.2022 - Current

Environment: Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, EBS, Auto scaling, UNIX/LINUX, Redhat Linux 6, CentOS, Jenkins, Windows, Apache Tomcat, Shell Scripts, Docker, Prometheus, Ansible.

  • Managed playbooks in Ansible and Implemented environments, roles, and templates in Ansible for better environment management.
  • Used Shell scripts to day to day activities and tasks for automating.
  • Used Jenkins tool to automate the build process.
  • Installing and configuring Jenkins master and slave nodes. Built CI/CD pipeline and managing the infrastructure as code using Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
  • Have experience in cloud platform like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
  • Worked in GIT to manage source code.
  • Managed distributed version control environments such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket , ensuring seamless collaboration among development teams and maintaining code integrity.
  • Setup Chef Server, workstation, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications.
  • Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers.
  • Automated the continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins, Docker.
  • Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Prometheus and Grafana for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring.
  • Worked on Docker container to create Docker images for different environments.
  • Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its distributable format, such as a WAR file.
  • Implemented process for release management, automated code deployment, configuration management, and monitoring.
  • Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using tools like TeamCity/Harness for the deployment of microservices to Kubernetes clusters. Ensured continuous integration and delivery for scalable and maintainable microservices architecture.
  • Integrated SonarQube, reducing security vulnerabilities by 40%.
  • Established a disaster recovery plan, reducing downtime by 50% during incidents.
  • Plan and design disaster recovery strategies before Go-live.
  • Deployment of serverless Application(lambda, APIgateway).

DevOps Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
06.2018 - 03.2022

Environment: Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, EBS, Auto scaling, UNIX/LINUX, Redhat Linux 6, CentOS, Jenkins, Windows, Apache Tomcat, Shell Scripts, Docker, Prometheus, Ansible.


  • Documented the systems processes and procedures for future references, responsible to manage data coming from different sources.
  • Demonstrated exceptional proficiency in deploying and managing resources on both AWS and Azure cloud platforms, showcasing a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.
  • Conceptualized, cloud orchestration tools, including AWS Cloud Formation and Azure Resource Manager, configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet, to streamline infrastructure provisioning and optimize configuration management on both platforms.
  • Crafted and delivered comprehensive architecture and deployment plans for AWS-based applications, with a sharp focus on ETL, IAM, IAC, server less deployment, API integration, VPC provisioning, and security.
  • Leveraged Terraform modules for efficient management of configurations, applications, and services, simplifying the installation process for web servers and AWS and Azure instances.
  • Conceived a 25% reduction in release time through comprehensive automation, optimizing deployment and management tasks on both AWS and Azure.
  • Enhanced Kubernetes security measures, reducing breach vulnerabilities by a substantial 60%.
  • Streamlined infrastructure deployments by harnessing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools such as AWS Cloud Formation and Terraform.
  • Led successful proof-of-concept initiatives, validating feasibility, and ensuring the highest security standards. Offered invaluable guidance and support to development teams on AWS services, architecture patterns, and best practices.
  • Collaborated closely with operations teams to maximize cloud infrastructure performance, monitor, and troubleshoot.
  • Processed a remarkable 35% reduction in AWS expenditure through resource optimization and cost- saving strategies.

Systems Engineer

Zenith Bank - Head Office
12.2014 - 06.2018

Environment : Linux, Phoenix

  • Engineering the Bank's Infrastructure area and responsible for managing, delivering and monitoring systems and infrastructure.
  • Proactively ensured the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
  • Monitored IT Infrastructure performance for bottlenecks, recommended solutions and liaised with engineers to provide issue resolution.
  • Provided Global RedHat Linux Infrastructure Server Support & Consultancy, including 3rd level Market
  • Data Application support, Data Contribution support & management.
  • Upgraded Network infrastructure, as well as troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of Linux backbone, and associated 3rd party feeds using 'Geneos/ITRS'.
  • Involved in Linux based Market Data Platform management & Monitoring of Server environments for up-to-the-second visibility of key mission-critical systems, applications, and processes.
  • Knowledge of Agile Software Engineering and Development Principles.
  • Performed installations and patching of software and system backups - data recovery.
  • Understanding of operating system and networking concepts: Linux/Unix systems, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL.
  • Developing UNIX shell scripts for automation processes.
  • Involve in fixing the unit and functional test case/data defects.
  • Analysis of Existing application and identifying improvements.

Linux System Engineer

Zenith Bank - Head Office
12.2010 - 11.2014
  • Implement security requirements and baselines in Phoenix environments including authorization, authentication, and identity access management.
  • Evaluated, designed, implemented, and advocated new technologies, architectures, and security products that sustainably support security requirements for the bank.
  • Identified and define application security requirements and security baselines in the bank's environment.
  • Conducted security and compliance risk assessments and aligned necessary controls, policies, and procedures to protect information assets from intentional and unintentional modification, disclosure, or destruction.
  • Performed continuous analysis of internal security posture of both infrastructure and applications through regular penetration testing and vulnerability scanning and following up on the remediation actions on findings.
  • Managed security tools and procedures, demonstrated and taught operational teams to utilize controls, assisted and supported leadership for organizations' cloud strategy decisions.

Education

Higher National Diploma - Accountancy And Finance

Yaba College of Technology
Lagos, Nigeria

Associate - Chartered Accountant -

Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria

Skills

  • Versioning Tools - Git
  • CI - Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Teamcity, ConcourseCI, Github Action
  • Build Tools - Maven
  • Ticket Tracking Tool - JIRA
  • Containerization Tool - Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Azure Container Services
  • Operating System -
    Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS,Unix
  • AWS - Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, Auto scaling
  • Languages - SQL, NO SQL
  • Scripting Language - Shell, Python
  • Web server - Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Nginx, Send Mail
  • Database - MySQL, Oracle, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Cassandra, PostreSQL, NOSQL
  • Virtualization: VMware, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Vagrant, Virtual box
  • Monitoring Tool - Prometheus, Grafana
  • Other skills: TDD, Agile, Scrum, Confluence, Unit Testing, System Design

Affiliations

  • Certified - Cloud Practitioner
  • Associate - AWS Solutions Architect
  • Associate - AWS Developer
  • Associate - AWS Sys-Ops Administrator

Timeline

Devops Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
03.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
06.2018 - 03.2022

Systems Engineer

Zenith Bank - Head Office
12.2014 - 06.2018

Linux System Engineer

Zenith Bank - Head Office
12.2010 - 11.2014

Higher National Diploma - Accountancy And Finance

Yaba College of Technology

Associate - Chartered Accountant -

Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria
Kayode Bello