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Cletus Nwabueze

Dallas

Summary

Highly skilled and certified Cloud Engineer with 6+ years experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, cost-optimized,and secure private/public cloud infrastructure utilizing AWS, and Azure. Skilled incloud administration, user management, open-source software installation and configuration, application hardening, and change management. Deep problem solving abilities and motivated learner who thrives in independent and team settings and adapts quickly to changing situations and assignments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps Engineer

NathConsult
09.2021 - Current
  • Built web apps using Infrastructure as Code, Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline.
  • Built Containerized web app with Docker, Amazon ECR, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS.
  • Monitored Kubernetes cluster using Prometheus for metrics scraping and visualizing the metrics with Grafana dashboard.
  • Used Python and Bash scripting to automate various daily tasks in AWS using Lambda Functions.
  • Deployed and Managed codes via GIT and GitHub for source control.
  • Manage over 100 application servers with Ansible.
  • Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities and use Confluence to create technical documentation for Cloud services.
  • Created VPC and attached all applicable services to build a secure network.
  • Applied Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create a highly available and fault tolerant applications
  • Launched and configured RDS instances and DynamoDB tables for applications.
  • Performed full AMI backups for all production instances with critical workloads.
  • Used AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access.
  • Application and system log analysis using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Logic Monitor, Datadog, and SNS.
  • Set up and implemented AWS Shield, AWS Config, Amazon Macie, and Amazon Inspector for the security and protection of sensitive data.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps

Discover Finacial Services
08.2020 - 09.2021
  • Leveraged Terraform to automate provisioning of scalable and fault tolerant, cost optimized applications and cloud infrastructure and Ansible for configuration management.
  • Worked with development teams to help engineer scalable, resilient, secured applications in the cloud.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, CodeBuild, CodePipeline and CodeDeploy.
  • Created and Managed IAM policies for access control and user policies.
  • Monitor AWS resources in our environment with Datadog, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and SNS.
  • Performed S3 buckets creation, access policies, and archive outdated data to Glacier through Life-Cycle Policy configuration.
  • Designed, developed, and implemented high-availability, backup, and recovery strategies for applications and databases.

AWS Cloud Engineer

First Bank Of Nigeria Plc
08.2017 - 07.2020
  • Monitored and tested application performance using CloudWatch, and Datadog to identify potential bottlenecks, developed solutions and collaborated with developers on solution implementation.
  • Developed comprehensive strategies for leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency during periods of high demand.
  • Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
  • Captured and shared best-practice knowledge among AWS community and presented sessions at meetings.
  • Enhanced system performance by implementing AWS CloudFormation templates for infrastructure automation.
  • Setup and configured VPC Private-Link (Endpoints), Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, Reverse Proxy Caching, CDN, IPsec, and VPN for secure data transfer, and secure connection to other AWS services and other AWS accounts.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Anambra, Nigeria
07.2015

Skills

  • AWS
  • Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Docker, Docker Swarm
  • Amazon ECR,ECS
  • Amazoon EKS, kubernetes
  • CodeCommit, GitHub, BitBucket
  • CI/CD Pipeline, Jenkins, GitLab
  • AWS CLI
  • Bash/Shell Scripting
  • Python
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Jira, Confluence
  • Slack, Microsoft Teams
  • Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
  • DevOps principles
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Monitoring and Alerting
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Containerization Technologies

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps Engineer

NathConsult
09.2021 - Current

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps

Discover Finacial Services
08.2020 - 09.2021

AWS Cloud Engineer

First Bank Of Nigeria Plc
08.2017 - 07.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Cletus Nwabueze