Andrew Jonas
McKinney,TX
Summary
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 independently.
A professional with 8 years of extensive IT professional experience, and 7 years hands on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing application deployments. An avid learner who is eager to explore new technologies and adapt to new organization and implement their requirements. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable code.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
AWS/DevOps Engineer
IBM
02.2020 - Current
- In one of our microservice projects, I worked in a team where I was tasked to set up and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to support our Java-based projects.
- I have used Terraform as infrastructure to deploy most of my AWS services as code.
- I have set up our GitHub repository, Git branches, created organizations, and invited our team members and assign least access privileges.
- I have configured cloud-based Kubernetes clusters using Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Kops, and self-managed clusters with Kubeadm to automate deployment, scaling, descaling, and managing of containerized microservices applications.
- In some projects, I have been tasked to use RBAC to create and assigned Roles, Cluster Roles for authentication and authorization of required members.
- I have configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) by managing users' new accounts, roles, groups, and policies
- Used Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt data stored in secret managers, Etcd, S3 buckets, EBS volumes, and Databases for high security and data integrity.
AWS/DevOps Engineer
WALMART
01.2016 - 02.2020
- I built three tier architecture on AWS cloud-environment consisting of Web-tier, apps-tier and database-tier.
- Helped my company save over 3 million in my first year.
- Configured internet facing Elastic Load Balancer to route traffic to applications in private subnets.
- I have set up auto-scaling group for high availability of applications and to limit controllable downtime.
- I have collaborated with my team for a project involving migration of on-premises resources to AWS cloud platform using AWS services.
Information Security Analyst
ALORICA
07.2013 - 01.2016
- I was able to develop recommendations and programs that helped reduce security risks.
- Performed compliance control testing.
- Served in capacity that dictated, monitored, and mediated various aspects of security which included – physical security, software security, and network security.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
- Administered and monitored firewalls, intrusion detection systems and anti-virus software to detect risks.
- Drafted security reports and metrics to track security performance and strategize improvements.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University Of Calabar
Cross River State01.2009
Skills
- Operating Systems: Linux [RedHat 8, Ubuntu] Windows
- Cloud Platform: AWS [IAM Role, Policy, EC2, EBS, EFS, EKS, ECR, S3, CPC, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation]
- Scripting Languages: Bash Shell, Java
- Distributed Version Control Tool: Git
- Source Code Management: GitHub
- Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Build Tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle
- Remote Artifactory Repository: Nexus
- Code Quality Analysis Tool: SonarQube
- Application Server: Tomcat
- CI/CD tool: Jenkins
- Containerization Tools: Docker, Amazon EC2
- Container Orchestration Tools: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS
- Monitoring Tool: Prometheus and Grafana, Datadog, New Relic
- Ticketing: Jira, Service-Now, Confluence for documentation
- Application Deployment and Configuration management: Ansible
Timeline
AWS/DevOps Engineer
IBM
02.2020 - Current
AWS/DevOps Engineer
WALMART
01.2016 - 02.2020
Information Security Analyst
ALORICA
07.2013 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University Of Calabar