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Benedicta Olotu

Atlanta,GA

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There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Summary

  • "Benny" is a meticulous Systems Engineer with over 10 years of IT working experience,designing, architecting, and providing cloud (AWS Infrastructure) driven solutions that are highly available, fault-tolerant and scalable while effectively building rapport with clients, technical teams and vendors. I have a successful background and track record in various domains- Fintech, Insuretech, Payment Card Industry(PCI), Organization Frameworks that must be NIST and CIS compliant to improve and build upon company's services and market share. I have been Pivotal in successfully directing and executing tactical operation plans in Cloud Migration Journeys, disaster recovery and archive solutions. Participates in system testing and orchestrating CI/CD and DevOps processes. With an extensive experience in Firewalls, VPNs and antivirus technologies as well as managing and deploying IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and On-Prem Infrastructures.

Skills

TECHNICAL\PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

  • Terraform
  • Project management
  • AWS Code pipeline,
  • Risk management
  • Jenkins, Git/GitHub, Nexus,
  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • Team building
  • AWS Cloud Automation: Ansible, SSM
  • DevOps mindset
  • Docker, Maven
  • Kubernetes, Helm chart
  • ECR
  • New Relic
  • Tomcat/JBoss
  • TeamCity
  • Artifactory
  • Gradle
  • CloudFormation
  • Puppet
  • Chef
  • SonarQube
  • Selenium
  • Cost Optimization
  • AWS Security
  • Troubleshooting
  • Monitoring & Event Management
  • Disaster Recovery Plan/Recommendation
  • DAST,SAST,SCA,IAST
  • Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer

JJTech Inc
04.2021 - Current
  • Designed and implemented complex automated end-to-end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery CI/CD) pipelines using both open-source Jenkins and AWS native pipeline, to automate the deployment and testing of resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and
    Ansible) through pipelines using DevOps principles and reduced manual configuration by 80%.
  • Configured computing, networking and security systems within cloud environment.
  • Setup Ansible control Tower and developed playbooks to automate configuration of
    servers across environments for automation, governance and Enterprise @scale and increased productivity by 65%.
  • Built secure, highly available, redundant and resilience architectures on AWS;
    Using Terraform, AWS SDK, AWSCLI/UI, kops and Ansible to provision and configure infrastructures in AWS Cloud including; VPC, Route53, Private and Public subnets, route tables, IGW, EC2 Instances, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, EFS, NFS, EBS, S3,Databases, Lambda security groups, NACLS, among others to ensure high availability of resources.
  • Experienced in enhancing security configuration in Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Used Docker for containerization with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
  • Configured Kubernetes Clusters ensuring auto scaling and load balancing of nodes/pods.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible with Dynamic Inventory.
  • Set up AWS Control Tower for AWS Organization, Governance, Security and Compliance giving leadership 100% visibilty and transparency to budget planning.
  • Good exposure to all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources Developed and documented security guardrails for AWS Cloud environments
  • Built custom images though docker server, docker compose with multiple local containers and created production grade workflows and a continuous application workflow for multiple images.
  • Implemented multiple container deployments to AWS and maintained sets of containers with deployments Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need.
  • S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling saving cost by 17%.
  • Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made.

Cloud Engineer/DevSecOps

CenmicManagement
12.2018 - 04.2021
  • Designed, provisioned and automation of the desired infrastructure state in AWS using Terraform involving the Compute, Storage/Backup, Security, Network - Databases, Middle Tier, Application, Monitoring and DR layers.
  • Evaluated firewalls and monitored threats to establish secure cloud environments.
  • Assessed organization technology infrastructure and managed cloud migration process.
  • Collaborated with architects and engineers to design networks, systems and storage environments that reflected business needs, security specifications and service level requirements.
  • Designed and implemented the CF templates for all application layers - ALB/NLB/, EC2, SSM documents/State jobs (PowerShell, Python) automation and SSM parameterization, auto scaling, Route 53, ALB/NLB/ELB.
  • Ensured code pipelines were efficient and bug free. Reviewed release artifacts and checklists before implementation.
  • Designed a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.
  • Provided DevOps of highly agile environment (Node.js, java,Spring) with a focus on collaborative development using Git Enterprise version control, Jira.

AWS Solutions Architect/CloudEngineer

Dominion Systems
11.2017 - 12.2018
  • Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control solution and managed enterprise architecture in AWS (Control Tower, AWS Organization, Trusted
    Advisor).
  • Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including
    consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
    Setup Ansible control Master and slave nodes and developed playbooks to automation configuration of servers across environments.
  • Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS
    services to improve our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing,
    Encryption and Data path security and incident response.
  • Perform security setup, networking, system backup and patching for both AWS, and on-premise
    environments.
  • Architected high availability environment with auto scaling & Elastic Load Balancer.
  • Design for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling and other disaster recovery models.
  • Created patch management using Systems Manager automation for multi-region and multi account execution.
  • Implemented preventive guardrails using Service Control Policies (SCPs); Implemented detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS config.
  • Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using Elastic Cache, CloudFront – Edge
    locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes) etc.
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key
    rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and
    ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc.
  • Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification.

Snr Scrum Master

Guaranty Trust Bank
08.2012 - 09.2017
  • Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
  • Trained and mentored team members on best industry Practices towards technical discipline and craftmanship and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
  • Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.
  • Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
  • Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
  • Enhanced efficiency of content flow between developers and transparency of content status through integration of automated workflow pipelines.
  • Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
  • Stayed current on emerging technologies and trends that could benefit production process.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Delta State University
12.2006

AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate -

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Security Specialty -

AWS Certified Security Architect

Terraform Associate -

Hashicorp Certified

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster(A-CSM) -

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Product Owner -

Scrum Alliance

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedictao -

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