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Chinonso Odo

Arlington,TX

Summary

Very skilled Cloud / DevOps engineer with 7+ years of experience in overall cloud development, cloud migration, and implementation of various cloud management products and services. Cloud engineer with experience in cloud administration, user management (IAM SSO), open-source software installation and configuration, operating system, application hardening, and change management. Strong skills in providing operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources, which includes launching, maintaining, and troubleshooting EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Relational Database Services (RDS), Elasticsearch, backups, automation via Puppet, Powershell, code deployment via git, GitOps, configuration, maintenance, monitoring via CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and New Relic.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer

William Sonoma INC (K-Power)
03.2020 - Current
  • Create and improve the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services
  • Resolved complex Windows Server-related problems by analyzing CloudWatch metrics, AWS logs, and utilizing EC2 Systems Manager for remote management
  • I have extensive experience with Drupal Core APIs along with Configuration Management, Features, REST API, JSON API
  • Provided guidance to customers on utilizing AWS Tools for PowerShell to automate tasks such as instance management, snapshot creation, and scaling
  • Deploying a three-tier web application and ecommerce Application
  • Have experience using ansible to patch several servers
  • Secure customer site through installing and configuring Drupal site
  • Designed and deployed Windows-based EC2 instances on AWS, ensuring optimal performance and scalability
  • Designed and implemented event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge to streamline application workflows and integrate various AWS services
  • Utilized Jira as a project management tool to track and prioritize tasks, manage sprints, and ensure efficient project workflows
  • Help patch servers running Drupal, PHP using Ansible and systems manager
  • Create and attach volumes onto EC2 instances and make sure all attached volumes have EBS snapshots initialized
  • Implemented AWS CloudFront to optimize the delivery of static and dynamic content across global edge locations, reducing latency and improving user experience
  • Resolved PowerShell-related issues in customer environments, including scripting errors, compatibility challenges, and connectivity problems
  • Create VPCs and attach all applicable components needed to build a fault tolerance and highly available environment
  • Apply Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance to EC2 instances
  • Created and maintained detailed technical documentation using Confluence, facilitating knowledge sharing and improving team collaboration
  • Install and configure Apache, Nginx, Drupal, and WordPress on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances
  • Run Infrastructure as code using Terraform for various CSP’s and CloudFormation scripts to build AWS Infrastructure and resources
  • Assisted customers in designing cost-effective and high-performing Windows Server architectures on AWS
  • Install and configure Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence) and LAMP application on EC2 instances and perform various software installations
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and management using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, including setting up EventBridge rules and CloudFront distributions
  • Launch and configure local and external database servers on EC2 and RDS instances
  • Experience working with tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible and Jira
  • Provision user accounts using IAM SSO in collaboration with enterprise Active Directory
  • Worked with various scripting language like Python and Bash
  • Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads
  • Manage security keys using AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in a wide range of AWS services
  • Perform system monitoring using Nagios, CloudWatch and New Relic
  • Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities
  • Implemented disaster recovery strategies for Windows workloads using AWS Backup and AWS Site Recovery, achieving minimal data loss and downtime
  • Deploy code via GIT and worked with the DevOps team to help push codes to GitHub, GitOps
  • Hands on Experience in NoSQL technology like MongoDB (CRUD Ops, Indexing Replication, Aggregation, sharding, various ops manager activity)
  • Implemented AWS EventBridge for building event-driven solutions, integrating with various AWS services to enhance application workflows and data processing
  • Utilized AWS Tools for PowerShell to interact with AWS services, enabling efficient management of Windows-based resources directly from the command line
  • Using Elasticsearch as part of an application stack as a powerful search engine, logging and log analysis, system observability and even security
  • Deployed and managed applications running on a mix of Kubernetes and AWS
  • Automated the deployment of cloud servers using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS with the help of python

AWS Cloud Engineer

Chewy
06.2018 - 03.2020
  • Assisted with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS SNS
  • Hands on experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
  • Experience in creating large scale data processing pipelines for streaming and computing with a wide range of tools and technologies on Cloud such as: Snowflake, Kafka, MongoDB or similar
  • Applied cost management strategies on Azure using Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor to optimize resource usage and reduce cloud spend
  • Good working knowledge of microservices using Docker and Kubernetes like EKS, Rancher or similar
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability patterns using solutions such as CloudWatch, New Relic
  • Implemented PowerShell-based infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation for consistent and repeatable Windows Server deployments
  • Knowledge of web services and API
  • Collaborated with AWS engineering teams to provide customer feedback and contribute to Windows-related feature enhancements
  • Integrated EventBridge events into CI/CD pipelines to trigger automated build, test, and deployment processes for various applications
  • Orchestrated Windows Server updates and patches across multiple AWS instances using Systems Manager, enhancing security and compliance
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles using in GitLab, Terraform, HELM, Unit testing, Code Analysis (Snyk), Container Scanning (Prisma)
  • Implemented monitoring and logging strategies on Azure using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and integrated with third-party tools for centralized logging and alerting
  • Familiar with AWS virtual private cloud (VPC)
  • Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate PowerShell scripts into CI/CD pipelines for automating testing and deployment of Windows-based applications
  • Implemented automation of infrastructure on the AWS Cloud using CloudFormation templates, deployed LAMP web apps on Amazon Linux instances, provisioned EC2 instance, created S3 buckets with bucket policy, build RDS database, DynamoDB tables, and assess applications for exposure and vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector
  • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail to track the performance and usage of EventBridge and CloudFront
  • Collaborated with AWS engineering teams to provide customer feedback and contribute to Windows-related feature enhancements
  • IAM administration (created users, groups, roles, policies), build VPC with custom Network Access Control List and Security Groups, site deployment on Elastic Beanstalk, S3 static site hosting, launched EC2 instances using Bootstrap
  • Deployed scalable and highly available sites using Autoscaling group and Application Load Balancer
  • Engineered Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deploy
  • Implemented PowerShell scripts to manage Windows Server container deployments in Amazon ECS, streamlining the deployment process and minimizing errors
  • Engineered PowerShell scripts for automating Windows Server application installations and configurations on AWS EC2 instances
  • Python Scripting and Automation: Regular expressions, website crawling, document parsing
  • Resolved complex Windows Server-related problems by analyzing CloudWatch metrics, AWS logs, and utilizing EC2 Systems Manager for remote management
  • Platforms: Windows, Linux and MacOS
  • Using AWS Budgets to set custom budgets for tracking costs and usage of resources in an AWS account
  • Created automation solutions on Azure using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Azure Automation to streamline infrastructure operations
  • Setting up alerts by email when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed budgeted threshold
  • Experienced with deploying application content management using Drupal, HTML5 and other web methodologies in a cloud environment
  • Worked closely with compliance teams to implement Windows Server security best practices and achieve industry-specific certifications
  • Resolved PowerShell-related issues in customer environments, including scripting errors, compatibility challenges, and connectivity problems
  • Hosted several web applications (e.g, a PHP-MySQL demo app) on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to provide secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
  • I also used Amazon’s EC2 Auto Scaling to help maintain application availability and to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to the conditions I defined

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bimbo Bakeries
01.2017 - 06.2018
  • Responsible for the creation of IAM user groups and attachments of policies and creation of users with the appropriate roles attached to them
  • Responsible for the creation of S3 buckets and objects that are stored in the buckets as well as encrypting them
  • Creation of VPCs as well as private and public subnets, internet gateway, Nat-gateways, route tables and creating/associating elastic ips
  • Experienced with SDLC and creation as well as maintenance of a CICD Pipeline
  • Responsible for all technological and operational duties associated with AWS cloud computing, including design, planning, management, optimization, maintenance, and support
  • Set up and managed AWS CloudFront distributions to deliver web content with low latency and high transfer speeds
  • Define, document, and implement policies for cloud-based systems (Landing Zone, Control Tower, IAM, Config, SCP)
  • Documenting changes and workflow in an Agile environment (Jira, Confluence, Jira SM)
  • Clearly communicating with IT and non-IT professionals to ensure effective use of all cloud services
  • Developed automation scripts using Python and Boto3 to interact with EventBridge and CloudFront, automating routine tasks and enhancing operational efficiency
  • Review AWS Cost Explorer, Cloud Health, Trusted Advisor, and other tools to provide optimization of all resource use/cost
  • Strong ability to learn new technologies quickly and in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to drive and assist in the implementation of services to standardize cloud environment
  • Ability to assess on-premises workloads and profile requirements needed to support AWS

Education

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

University of Phoenix
01-2026

B.S - Computer Engineering

Tarleton State University
01.2020

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, EventBridge, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CloudWatch, IAM)
  • DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD
  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, Bash, PowerShell
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux), Windows Server
  • Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancers
  • Security: AWS IAM, Security Groups, NACLs, Encryption, Compliance (HIPAA)
  • Database Management: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Timeline

AWS Cloud Engineer

William Sonoma INC (K-Power)
03.2020 - Current

AWS Cloud Engineer

Chewy
06.2018 - 03.2020

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bimbo Bakeries
01.2017 - 06.2018

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

University of Phoenix

B.S - Computer Engineering

Tarleton State University

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