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Akintola Hammed

Overland Park,KS

Summary

Well-rounded professional with relevant 5+ years experience in IT industry comprising of tier 1,2 and 3 support, AWS cloud services, DevOps, environment architecting , deployment and monitoring, Cloud security.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Devops/Platform Engineer

Maximus/USDA
Kansas, MO
03.2022 - Current
  • Responding to technical concerns quickly and effectively devised solutions using IAC (terraform), AWS services and resources, Serverless and non-Serverless services e.g Ec2, Vpc, ebs, AlB, NLB, lambda, APIs, etc.
  • Deploying product updates, identifying production issues, implementing integrations and fixing issues with cloud automation and configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, chef etc..using bitbucket/github for SCM and git for versioning.
  • Providing Level 2 Technical Support which consists of: additional information gathering /problem isolation; providing case reproduction and relief for both new and known complex problems; and escalating unresolved problems or those requiring formal fixes.
  • Patching all environment as required, continuous automating, testing, and deployment. CICD tools e.g Jenkins, Gitlab, etc..
  • Investigate and resolve technical issues, develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems, perform root cause analysis for production errors
  • Ensuring that code releases go smoothly, analyzing data for improvements and optimization. Manage software development operations, implement engineering tools and use their process knowledge to streamline updates or creation.
  • Creating systems software and analyzing data to improve existing systems. Ensure efficiency within workplace and workspaces, meeting deadlines and optimizing code for eventual server output.
  • Providing technical support by troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various servers on different platforms e.g Apache servers, Jboss, jenkins,ECS, Nexus etc..

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Arrow Electronics
Denver , CO
02.2021 - 03.2022
  • Manage and support full application stacks from the OS through custom application. CICD pipeline with Jenkins/Gitlab..
  • Administering, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux server.Infrastructure orchestration using terraform, containerization with Docker and deploying to AWS EKS.
  • Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, IAM roles , policies ,Multi-factor Authenticator.Security rights, disk space and process monitoring on web servers using AWS services and resources.
  • Building and configuring web servers for different types of applications. Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery , security groups NACL, Cloudwatch etc.
  • Project onboarding for new application development and managing existing applications. Configuration management using Ansible or puppet.
  • Securing and protecting infrastructures and applications with AWS services like Guard duty , AWS config, AwS Shield. WAF. Palo Alto CORTEX XSOAR
  • Software development CICD pipeline security, monitoring and operations. Leveraging AWS resources/services with open source tools like GIT, Maven , Jenkins , Ansible , Gitlab, Docker, terraform. Nexus. Sonarqube etc..
  • Establishing connections between Vpcs in the same accounts and across accounts using transit gateway , Vpc Peering as well as as establishing connections between On-prem and cloud networks.
  • Install, configure and support Apache on Linux servers
  • Manage patch configuration, version control, service pack and review connectivity issues regarding security problems
  • Manage systems routine backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.
  • Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
  • Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Modified existing software to correct coding errors, upgrade interfaces and improve overall performance.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Monitored and updated back-end data by inter-communicating between Team members and clients. .
  • Maintained existing applications and designed and delivered new applications.
  • Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.

Cloud Support Engineer

Podroom
Durham, NC
02.2017 - 02.2021
  • Efficiently worked with AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load burst Planned, deployed, monitored and maintained Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple environments.
  • Provisioning Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances as necessary .Configure and manage various AWS services including EC2, Amazon RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, CloudWatch, cloudfront , and Route 53.
  • Manage access control and security compliance through IAM, MFA and Service Control Policies (SCP) by creating, Users, Roles and defining access policies for various resources using least privilege practice
  • Built pipeline in AWS to deploy applications and integrated CICD Using CloudFormation for automating the provisioning/management of AWS resources (IAM, EC2, S3,
  • Route 53, ELB and Auto Scaling, provisioning/configuration of servers on the instances) Using Infrastructure as a code to deploy infrastructure with Terraform Modules for resource provisioning as well as managing security policies.
  • Utilized source code control for tracking configurations and changes.Bitbucket as SCM, Configuration management using puppet enterprise and terraform as IAC.
  • Diagnosed and executed resolution for network and server issues.
  • CICD pipeline operations , security , monitoring etc.

FRACTIONATION SUPERVISOR AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

SUDIT OIL AND CHEMICALS
10.2015 - 02.2017
  • I worked at the fractionation department at Sudit Oil and Chemicals, where we fractionate the refined, bleached deodorized palm oil from the refinery into Olein and Stearin.

DATA ADMINISTRATOR

GLOBACOM NIGERIA
11.2013 - 02.2015
  • AIG Benefit Solutions offers a wide range of benefit options to employers and associations of all sizes
  • They offer employers and affinity groups innovative solutions that can help them offer valuable protection to their employees and members while controlling costs
  • Installed RedHat Linux using kickstart
  • Created, cloned Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts
  • Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance
  • Performed RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management
  • Installed and configured Logical Volume Manager - LVM and RAID
  • Documented all setup procedures and System related Policies (SOPs)
  • Provided 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments
  • Administrated DHCP, DNS, and NFS services in Linux
  • Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring
  • Provided technical support by troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms

Education

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Pure And Applied Chemistry

Ladoke AKINTOLA University of Technology
Nigeria
02.2013

National Diploma - Electrical Electronics Engineering

The Polytechnic Ibadan
Nigeria
03.2007

Skills

  • Updates and Upgrades
  • System Configuration
  • Troubleshooting
  • Internal policy compliance
  • IT Infrastructure Planning
  • Application support
  • Git, Terraform, Ansible , Jenkins ,Maven, Nexus, Sonarqube,Kubernetes, Jira
  • System upgrades
  • Networking
  • Infrastructure planning
  • YAML
  • Python
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Time Management
  • Excellent Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • JSON
  • Cloud services
  • JBoss, Tomcat
  • Network security
  • Firewalls, VPNs and security products
  • Security groups , NACL, Firewalls
  • Scripting skills

Timeline

Devops/Platform Engineer

Maximus/USDA
03.2022 - Current

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Arrow Electronics
02.2021 - 03.2022

Cloud Support Engineer

Podroom
02.2017 - 02.2021

FRACTIONATION SUPERVISOR AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

SUDIT OIL AND CHEMICALS
10.2015 - 02.2017

DATA ADMINISTRATOR

GLOBACOM NIGERIA
11.2013 - 02.2015

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Pure And Applied Chemistry

Ladoke AKINTOLA University of Technology

National Diploma - Electrical Electronics Engineering

The Polytechnic Ibadan

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