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Damien Badimah

North Reading,MA

Summary

• Over 5 years+ experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining system applications in AWS cloud in Windows and Linux environments and overall 6 years+ IT experience. Experience in maintaining and configuring of user account for production, Dev and OA servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, EBS resources to communicate with each other using IAM. Experience In migrating and implementation of multiple applications from on premise to cloud using AWS services. Build servers using AWS, importing volume, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connections. Timely execution of IT Project from inception to execution, strategically managing resources within budget. Managed technical support operations, carefully troubleshooting issues to identify root causes and prevent recurrence. Facilitated a risk assessment, system analysis, vulnerability/ penetration check, and security system services and Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT/DEVOPS ENGINEER

Alphabet Inc
04.2021 - Current
  • Used AWS IAM to create new accounts, roles, users, groups and policies.
  • Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, SNS),
  • Created Private networks and sub-networks and brought instances under them based on requirement.
  • Assisted in migrating existing data center into the AWS environment.
  • Deployed and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) and configuration management using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Worked on integrating GitHub into continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins,
  • Created full Micro-service CI/CD Pipeline for development environment, Performed automation tasks on various Docker components like Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker Machine, Compose and Docker Registry.
  • Wrote Yaml templates for Cloud formation and Python scripts for Boto3, contributing to our repository on GitHub.
  • Worked with Agile methodologies to move development life cycle rapidly through initial prototyping to enterprise- quality testing and final implementation.

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Pioneer Natural Resources
02.2019 - 03.2021
  • Involved heavily in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, Ansible, Terraform and AWS.
  • Configured Jenkins to implement nightly builds on daily basis and generated change log that includes changes, happened from last 24 hours.
  • Developed and maintained Python Shell scripts for build tasks.
  • Dockerized applications by creating Docker images from Dockerfiles, deployed on Cloud Infrastructure with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
  • Created VPC and enabled auto scaling and load balancing.
  • Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, SNS.
  • Created and managed S3 buckets for the Cloud Watch logging, Artifactory repository and for Static Webhosting, generated SSL certificates.
  • Created security groups for both individual instances and for group of instances under a network.

DESKTOP SUPPORT TECHNICIAN

Zentech I.T. Solutions Limited
01.2016 - 02.2019
  • Installed and configured printers and scanners, resetting default device passwords to prevent cyber attacks.
  • Assisted in technical support process refinement to improve customer service and support.
  • Set up new desktop systems and configured laptops for incoming employees, loading required software and server permissions.
  • Disassembled computer systems to troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues.
  • Performed daily maintenance of computer systems to keep network processes fluid.
  • Updated software versions with patches and new installations to close security loopholes and protect users.
  • Conducted routine maintenance on servers and systems, keeping networks fully operational during peak periods.
  • Responded to support tickets within timeframe to improve customer service.
  • Configured new employee work stations, including all hardware, software and peripheral devices.
  • Reviewed current hardware and software configurations and recommended modifications to increase system speed.
  • Updated and reconfigured existing and new computers with current software and operating systems.
  • Supported customers having data connectivity issues, assisting with troubleshooting steps and rebooting of hardware.
  • Assisted end-users with software and hardware troubleshooting to determine causes of system

Education

Information Technology And Systems

Fordham University- Current
The Bronx, NY

Bachelor of Science -

University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana

Skills

  • Web and Application Servers
  • Version Control Systems: Git, Github
    Scripting Languages: Bash
    Container Management and
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes
  • Container Image: Docker
  • Operating Systems: Windows, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu
  • CICD Tools: Jenkins, CodePipeline
  • Infrastructure Provisioning:
    Terraform, CloudFormation Configuration Management:
    Ansible, Systems Manager
  • AWS Core Services: EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB, Route53, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB etc
  • Management and Auditing:
    CloudWatch, AWS Config, CloudTrail
  • Governance: AWS Organization,
    AWS GuardDuty
  • Networking: VPC, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP
  • Teamwork, Multitasking, Effective Communication

Certification

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE

Timeline

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT/DEVOPS ENGINEER

Alphabet Inc
04.2021 - Current

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Pioneer Natural Resources
02.2019 - 03.2021

DESKTOP SUPPORT TECHNICIAN

Zentech I.T. Solutions Limited
01.2016 - 02.2019

Information Technology And Systems

Fordham University- Current

Bachelor of Science -

University of Ghana

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