CHIMEZIE ANI

Work History

DevOps / Infra Engineer

VIZIO

04.2022 - Current

Established end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Github, cutting release cycles by 50% and minimizing deployment errors
Managed the team Git repository to foster good collaboration and data management
IAM Administrator, manage the employee database of users and job roles following security best practices
Leverage Federated Identity and SSO to authenticate and authorize users and computers in a domain network, assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers, and installing or updating software
Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using Grafana, Prometheus and CloudWatch integrated with SNS for notification
Leveraged on kinesis stream and firehose pipeline for data migration
Built and deployed 3tier php web applications
Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve the overall security posture of our environment, including but not limited to Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing and Encryption
Data migration from GCP to Azure and AWS
Databricks account and workspace admin, setting up users with administrative and non-administrative access to AWS to manage networking and security for instance and IAM credential passthrough
Built a CICD pipeline with Jenkins, Docker container and Kubernetes for data processing, testing and deployment to meet business and product ask, in an evolving software development lifecycle (SDLC) using Java base applications and infrastructure as a code (iac) – Terraform to build the base infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineer – support the team in resolving technical issues, and monitoring progress to ensure successful project execution
Collaborate with cross functional team for a successful project implementation
Designed, implemented, and maintained infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources on Google Cloud Platform
Created reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure components, ensuring consistency and reducing configuration errors
Refactor terraform scripts to speed up rapid deployment and release process in software development lifecycle
Orchestrated containerized applications on GKE, reducing resource wastage and ensuring seamless scaling
Experience integrating and deploying static code and container analysis tools such as SonarQube, Binary Authorization using Infrastructure as Code also deploying and maintaining k8s deployments that leverage Docker, Cloud Anthos, and other tooling
Implemented security best practices in GCP including multi-factor authentication, service account access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and Firewall Rules, GCS Bucket Security, ACLs, etc
Utilized Ansible to automate configuration management tasks and application deployments across heterogeneous environments in Google Cloud
Developed Ansible playbooks to standardize server configurations, ensuring consistency and minimizing configuration drift
Design and Implement H.A compute infrastructures from scratch on GCP using GCE, GKE, App Engine and Load Balancers
Develop Cloud Strategy and Roadmap, and work with Operations on leading cultural change for cloud adoption and support
Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP engineering, CTO and VP Sales, and identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

TCS

03.2019 - 03.2022

Developed CI / CD to standardize the infrastructure and automate the DevOps processes, allowing customers to rapidly build, test, and release code while minimizing errors
Design/develop aspects of migration journey - the assess, mobilize, and migrate phases including leveraging CART, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS, Cloud Endure etc
Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve the overall security posture of our environment, including but not limited to Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing and Encryption
Developed terraform modules and CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructures in cloud
Leveraged AWS Control Tower and landing Zone automation to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment
Automatically remediated Trusted Advisor findings using Amazon CloudWatch events and AWS Lambda
Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
Leverage Postgres, Aurora, SQL and NOSQL Database for storing and querying of big data for speed, reliability, and scalability
Optimized cost by selecting the right instance type/size base on application requirements
Leverage S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies for customer data based on SLA
Leveraged EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost saving measure
Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
Leverage on Amazon Connect to track interactions and analyze flow logs, provide intelligent and high-volume outbound communications across multiple channels to enhance business efficiency and good customer experience, set up contact center for Customers and Salesforce engagement
Designed, provisioned, and automated the desired infrastructure state in GCP using Terraform involving the Compute, Storage/Backup, Security, Network - Databases, Middle Tier, Application, Monitoring and DR layers
Work with compliance and information security teams to understand reported vulnerabilities and plan immediate remediation
Involved in building security models for Networks (VPCs), Firewalls, NICs, Static IPs for database workloads on GCP
Design, Build and set-up Cloud SQL instances on GCP based on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server

Cloud Engineer

Infosys

11.2017 - 03.2019

Built a multi-tier Network Architecture connecting AWS with on-prem using VPN IPSec, VPG, CPG and Direct Connect to connect On-prem to AWS with a dedicated bandwidth, VPC Peering and transitive gateway for VPC connectivity, while incorporating security best practice
Architected and configured Dev / Stage / QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.)
Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, Single-Sign-On (SSO) etc
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, etc
Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals
Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications
Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
Deployed and configured infrastructure using infrastructure as a code - Terraform and Ansible
Migrated high availability applications and databases to Aws EC2 and RDS with minimum or no downtime
Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform
Designed 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 models based on customer’s functional and non-functional requirements
Leveraged Auto scaling groups to right-size EC2 pools to match the level of demand and helped to manage costs by eliminating excess capacity
Used advanced technologies in our architecture patterns including leveraging ECS, EKS, Lambda functions, parameter store, DynamoDB etc
Completed infrastructure security Assessment for applications hosted in AWS
Built high-performant, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for customer applications, and performed reviews for architecture and infra builds
Developed and implemented DDoS-resilient architectures
Improved performance of databases in our environment by leveraging read replicas for read-only queries and RDS multi-AZs deployment for production workload and elastiCache to retrieve data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores

Junior AWS Network Engineer

FAAN

08.2015 - 10.2017

Built secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
Implemented security best practices in AWS IAM including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks
Set up billing alarms and notifications based on threshold limits
Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals

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DevOps / Infra Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cloud Engineer

Junior AWS Network Engineer

Education

Master’s - business administration

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Associate of Arts - Computer Programming

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