ANTHONY ELEKO
Dallas,TX
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting, automating, and optimizing scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Expert in AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK. Proven ability to improve deployment velocity, enhance system reliability, and enforce security and compliance across hybrid cloud environments. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, efficient, and highly available solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
KYNDRYL
09.2021 - Current
- Automated provisioning and configuration management for 1,000+ Linux servers using Ansible integrated with Red Hat Satellite, slashing environment setup time by 50%, accelerating development and testing cycles.
- Architected and maintained multi-branch Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, facilitating continuous integration and delivery for microservices and monolithic applications, increasing deployment frequency by 35% while minimizing rollback incidents.
- Developed and implemented self-healing monitoring dashboards and alerting workflows leveraging Prometheus and Grafana, improving system uptime to 99.995% and reducing manual intervention by 40%.
- Integrated hybrid authentication frameworks combining SSSD, Kerberos, and Active Directory to enforce secure and centralized access control policies across on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
- Spearheaded automation of security hardening and regulatory compliance audits via OpenSCAP and CIS benchmarks, reducing audit preparation time by 60%.
- Collaborated with development teams to containerize legacy applications using Docker and Podman, streamlining deployment pipelines and reducing environment discrepancies.
- Mentored junior DevOps engineers, establishing best practices for Infrastructure as Code and automation standards.
DevOps Engineer
IBM
08.2020 - 09.2021
- Managed a fleet of 1,200+ production servers with proactive automated monitoring and alerting solutions, maintaining a 99.9% SLA uptime.
- Developed, enhanced, and monitored CI/CD pipelines for containerized microservices using Jenkins, Git, and Nexus, improving release cycles and code quality.
- Reduced patching downtime by 40% through development of Ansible playbooks and automation of routine maintenance tasks.
- Integrated Centrify (Delinea) IAM solutions across hybrid multi-cloud environments, centralizing identity and access management and enhancing security compliance.
- Designed and deployed custom Splunk dashboards to provide real-time system health and security monitoring, improving incident response times by 30%.
- Supported AWS cloud migration activities focusing on IAM roles setup, EC2 provisioning automation, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Collaborated with Security and Compliance teams to implement vulnerability scanning and remediate risks before production deployment.
- Led weekly DevOps knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation efforts, improving team skillset and cross-department collaboration.
DevOps Engineer / Automation Specialist
Anthem Inc.
03.2017 - 08.2020
- Automated deployment and configuration management across 10,000+ hybrid servers with Ansible and Bash scripting, ensuring consistency and repeatability of environment setups.
- Developed and integrated compliance automation workflows with Red Hat Satellite to ensure audit readiness, reducing manual audit prep by 70%.
- Enhanced security posture by enforcing stricter IAM policies using LDAP and Centrify, and managing sudoers and PAM policies across environments.
- Delivered Tier 3 support for automation tools, DNS services, secure file transfers, and incident response, improving mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 25%.
- Coordinated cross-team efforts in incident response and root cause analysis to prevent recurring infrastructure failures.
- Automated DNS provisioning and updates via scripting, reducing manual errors and configuration drift.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
ESPAM Formation University
01.2013
Skills
- AWS
- EC2
- S3
- IAM
- VPC
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Red Hat Satellite
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Ansible
- Git
- Nexus
- Shell Scripting
- Bash
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Podman
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Splunk
- Nagios
- Centrify
- Delinea
- SELinux
- PAM
- LDAP
- CIS Benchmarks
- OpenSCAP
- Python
- PowerShell
- Jira
- Confluence
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
Websites
Certification
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- CompTIA Linux+
- Splunk Core Certified Power User
- Splunk Core Certified User
Core Competencies
AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC), Terraform, CloudFormation, Red Hat Satellite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Ansible, Git, Nexus, Shell Scripting (Bash), Docker, Kubernetes (basic), Podman, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, IAM, Centrify (Delinea), SELinux, PAM, LDAP, CIS Benchmarks, OpenSCAP, Bash (Advanced), Python (Basic), PowerShell (Basic), Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket
Personal Information
Title: DevOps Engineer
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
KYNDRYL
09.2021 - Current
DevOps Engineer
IBM
08.2020 - 09.2021
DevOps Engineer / Automation Specialist
Anthem Inc.
03.2017 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
ESPAM Formation University
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