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Work History
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Ben Uhunoma

Dallas/Fort-Worth,TX

Summary

Acquired 3+ years of IT experience in the field of DevOps and Cloud (AWS) Engineer involved in SCM, Build & Release, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux and hands-on experience in utilizing Amazon Cloud services, including EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, S3, Snapshots, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SNS, RDS, ELB, IAM.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Solution Architecture (Contract)

Capital One
01.2022 - Current
  • Migration of EC2 Instance from one account to another account
  • Creating branches and tags on Git repository and provided branches access permission to dev team
  • Created new users, managed existing users, and assigned roles and permissions following the principle of least privilege using AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)
  • Collaborated with developers and Sysadmin to troubleshoot system issues
  • Checking cost utilization, optimizing and resource reduction
  • Creation of Instances in EC2 with Load Balancer and Auto scaling features
  • Created VPC, Public and Private Subnets, NAT gateway and worked on VPC peering
  • Configured Auto scaling policies and configuration for the Production Environment
  • Monitoring the AWS infrastructure using services like SNS, Cloud watch and Cloud Trail
  • Maintained data backups with internal tools
  • Established and managed Security Groups for inbound and outbound traffic in both public and private subnets
  • Scheduled and executed regular periodic tasks using Crontab
  • Creating AWS infra as per requirement, launching EC2 servers, creating VPC’s etc.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Agile Sentinel
01.2021 - 11.2022
  • Creating and managing EBS and S3 Buckets, implementing policies for pre-prod and prod environments, configured IAM Roles and security groups
  • Used S3 Storage Life Cycle to automatic move objects from one storage class to another
  • Validating code quality using SonarQube; Writing Ansible playbooks and Roles to automate deployment
  • Monitor CPU Utilization's, network In & Out with Cloud-watch metrics
  • Experience with Linux and Windows environments and knowledge of shell scripts
  • Executed daily support tasks, including check-in, checkouts, imports, exports, branching, tagging, and conflict resolution
  • Oversaw EC2 Instances in the AWS cloud, involving creating, restoring, and provisioning instances from AMIs
  • Collaborated with developers and Sys Admin to troubleshoot software and system issues
  • Controlled the user access to multiple AWS services by creating IAM policies
  • Enforced security best practices in the AWS environment, including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls (security groups and NACLs), bucket policies, and ACLs, and mitigated DDoS attacks
  • Leveraged cloud security tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF, IAM, Inspector, VPC Flow logs, CloudShield for infrastructure security, and KMS Encryption for data security.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Contract)

Gray Strategy Consultants
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Develop and maintain network security tools, including Firewalls – AWS WAF, Network Firewalls, Firewall Manager, Route53, and AWS Shield
  • Gathered detailed business requirements and use cases to inform cloud service development, ensuring technical specifications aligned with business needs
  • Monitored the server and provided performance report to the client
  • Experience on creating, deleting, and updating the buckets in S3 and policies for user access
  • Worked on Versioning, Encryption of buckets and Cross Region Replication Created VPC, public & private subnets, route tables, Internet GW, NACLs, and security groups
  • Implemented best practices for Docker, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, pipeline etc
  • Responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes
  • Installed and Setup Git Repository (Version Control System) at client side
  • Creating S3 buckets, creating S3 object lifecycle, website hosting etc
  • Daily build and deployment on multiple environments such as QA/DEV/UAT.

Education

Cyber Security Certificate (In-View) -

Texas State Technical College

Certificate in Data Analytics -

Colaberrry School of Data Analytics
Dallas, TX
01.2018

BSc. Honor. Mathematics and Statistics -

Ambrose Ali University
01.2006

Skills

  • Auto Scaling Groups
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Application Migration
  • Infrastructure Automation

Certification

  • AWS Certified – Solutions Architect (Associate), AWS04179771, 2024
  • AWS Certified – Cloud Practitioner, AWS03725544, 2023
  • AWS Certified – Linux Essential, LPI000598239, 2024
  • Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)- Scrum.Org, 2020
  • Certified Safe Scrum Master Safe 5.0 (SSM) – SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK, 2020
  • Certified International Scrum Institute (Scrum Master) – SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK, 2020

Additional Skills And Competencies

Cloud Technology: AWS Cloud AWS Services: (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, AMI, VPC, VPC Peering, NACL, SG, Route53, Auto Scaling, ELB, SNS, CloudWatch and Cloud Formation). Trusted Advisor, Amazon System Manager (SSM). EFS, WAF. Version Control System - Git, GitHub Operating System - Linux administration Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible Code Validation/Analysis – SonarQube CI/CD - Jenkins. Containerization - Docker Scripting - Groovy, Shell & Bash Scripting, Monitoring tools & Data Visualization - Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch Database: MySQL Orchestration - Kubernetes, AWS EKS AWS Secret Manager, Qualys, Nessus, OpenVAS, Symantec DLP Technical Documentation and Reporting Atlassian JIRA, Data Security and Encryption Team Communication and Collaboration

Timeline

AWS Solution Architecture (Contract)

Capital One
01.2022 - Current

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Agile Sentinel
01.2021 - 11.2022

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Contract)

Gray Strategy Consultants
01.2020 - 01.2021

Cyber Security Certificate (In-View) -

Texas State Technical College

Certificate in Data Analytics -

Colaberrry School of Data Analytics

BSc. Honor. Mathematics and Statistics -

Ambrose Ali University
Ben Uhunoma