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Daniel Adesina

Summary

Over 5 years of experience as an IT Specialist and Cloud Engineer. In-depth knowledge of building, deploying and maintaining cloud environment with focus on different DevOps Tools, CI/CD and AWS/GCP Architecture and container technologies. Hands-on experience using configuration management tools Chef and Ansible. Experienced in containerization all applications - Spring Boot, Java, Angular, and python applications using Docker and deployed to Kubernetes clusters and ECS Fargate. Worked with AWS services as EC2, S3, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, IAM roles, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Elastic beanstalk, VPC, SNS, DynamoDB. Hands on experience with Build tools as ANT, Maven, Docker and Bamboo/Jenkins, also automation scripting as shell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Managed tagging, branching and maintenance versions of production using SCM tools like Subversion and GIT. Understanding of Agile Methodologies and process, and well versed with various cloud challenges. A well versed Cloud Engineer well-versed in software and database development. Committed to protecting sensitive client data by monitoring firewalls and eliminating cybersecurity threats. Proven skills in network and computer configurations.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

IT Analyst

Virtual Benefit Solutions
Chapel Hill, USA
12.2022 - Current
  • Working as cloud administration on Microsoft Azure environments, involved in Azure ADConnect configuring virtual machines, Storage accounts and Azure resource groups
  • Created, updated, and maintained Azure security standards and best practices across Azure/365 domain
  • Maintained and built numerous VMs and Docker containers through Azure while leveraging AKS
  • Administrator on physical server and virtual servers using virtualization technology using Hyper-V, Xenserver and VMware
  • Created, updated, and maintained DevOp scripts using powershell, bash, & python to manage, distribute and secure company data
  • Configuration of Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, DHCP, DNS, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Front door, Application Gateway, and Traffic manager
  • Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, and security within Linux OS
  • Collected, prioritize, determine time and money cost, build, test and deploy needed configurations of software, AD, & security policies
  • Developed robust, scalable, modular API-centric infrastructures
  • Built databases and and table structures for company’s web application.
  • Expanded systems with new features and structural components.
  • Offered decision-makers ROI and cost-benefit projections to guide project development and implementation.
  • Formulated and designed computer systems using data modeling, information engineering and structured analysis.

DevOps Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield
, USA
10.2018 - 04.2022
  • Refactor monolithic applications to a Microservices and Component based architectures for CI-CD deployments
  • Created Task definitions and services CloudFormation stacks for ECS Fargate container Deployments for multiple RESTAPIs and invoked the container from AWS lambda functions
  • Created Step function flow using more than 10 lambda functions for scanning the Fannie Mae AWS infrastructure
  • Used Extensive Cloud formation for provisioning AWS infrastructure using urban Code Deploy tools for SAST, DAST, SCA, Infra and compliance scan applications
  • Designed the Release Plans while coordinating with Stake Holders including Project Management Lead, Development Lead, and QA Team Lead
  • Configured and managed SCM tools SVN, Git, branching strategies and troubleshoot code merging issues with coordination with application developers
  • Created and deployed IaC Cloud formation stack for SNS Topics, AWS lambda, Cloudwatch Dashboard, DynamoDB, Step function, SSM parameter store, Secret manager entries for REST APIs using Urban code tool deployment tool and Jenkins file
  • Worked on migration of applications project from on premise to AWS Cloud platform by building a Continuous delivery pipeline using Jenkins file(CI) and Urban Code Deploy(CD tool)
  • Installing, configuring, and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines for automating deployments and providing complete automation solution
  • Assisted in Maintaining/Updating existing Development, Staging, and Production ECS clusters
  • Collaborated closely with the application teams to drive adoption of the container solution, setting up orchestration for application deployments
  • Guiding development teams on best practices to containerize applications
  • Ensured optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions and the container orchestration platform (Docker/ECS fargate) is regularly maintained and released to non-production without any downtime
  • Assisted development team to migrate applications to Docker-ECS fargate -AWS platform
  • Created Jenkins CI_CD pipelines for continuous build & deployment and integrated Junit and SonarQube plugins in Jenkins for automated testing and for Code quality check
  • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices Docker builds out to the jfrog Artifactory repository and then deployed ECR repo and ECS cluster for container deployments
  • Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount and Packages
  • Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment on AWS environments through automated tools
  • Experienced in creating custom applications container images, tagging and pushing Docker images to jfrog artifactory repository and enabling twist lock stage
  • Authored Terraform modules for infrastructure management
  • Authored and published a module to the Terraform registry for enterprise customers to deploy our product inside their AWS environment
  • Hands-on experience of tracking tools such as JIRA
  • Environment: Jenkins ,Urban code deploy-Release, Git, SVN, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Nginx, shell script, Docker, Ansible, Python, JIRA, AWS (Faregate, EKS, S3, EC2, EC2 Systems Manager, IAM Roles, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, Elastic beanstalk, VPC),twist lock
  • Evaluated existing security architecture and protocols for risk of vulnerability and recommended improved tools and protocols to management.
  • Determined possible breach of company proprietary data to unauthorized resources and analyzed past performance data to enhance operations.
  • Built firewalls and encrypted data to secure confidential information.

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Myland Pharmaceuticals
Raleigh, NC
08.2016 - 11.2020
  • Collaborated with other developers on designing, developing, testing, and implementing new JSP pages, HTML pages, and Servlets
  • Provided web support and beneficial advice to clients
  • Participated in weekly team meetings with managers; provided drafts and reports on the progress of the projects
  • Developed JUnit tests and created Cobertura code coverage reports for JAVA applications
  • Created Jenkins pipeline and integrated SonarQube, CAST, HP-Fortify, Sona Type-CLM (Static code analysis) with
  • Analyzed system risk to identify and implement appropriate security countermeasures.
  • Audited networks and security systems to identify vulnerabilities.
  • Developed plans for implementing additional measures to maximize customer security based on individual needs suggesting approaches not universally required.
  • Performed technology upgrades of Spring 2.0.2 to 3.0.1 and Hibernate 2.1.6 to 3.2.5
  • Designed and developed a standalone Java application using the Java template engine Free Marker to automatically generate HTML pages
  • Developed different SOAP Web Services using WSDL
  • Interacted with external services to get the user information making web service SOAP calls
  • Used XML, WSDL, and SOAP Web Services for communicating data between different applications
  • Developing re-usable web services using SOAP, XML, WSDL, XML Schema
  • Used XSL/XSLT for transforming and displaying data
  • Created Database Tables, Sequences and wrote hibernate mapping files and POJO class
  • Used Hibernate annotations to persist the data into Oracle Database
  • Used Log4j and commons-logging frameworks for logging the application flow
  • SOAP UI is used extensively to test the middleware components independently
  • Created build and deployment plans for QA, TRN and PRD environments using Bamboo
  • Leading DevOps and AppOps for QA, ACPT and PRD deployments.

Education

Associates - Science

Durham Technical Community College

Skills

  • Linux (AWS, Red Hat, Ubuntu), Windows, Centos
  • Languages: CSS, JAVA, Shell scripting, Bash, Python, JavaScript
  • AWS Cloud: AWS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ELB, Route53, S3, Cloud Front, SNS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, etc)
  • Networking: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS, SMB, SNMP, SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP
  • Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP WSDL, XSD, XSL, XPATH
  • Container services: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS
  • Continues Integration/Deployment tools: Jenkins, Terraform, GitLab
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Source Code Management: GIT, Github, Gitlab
  • Monitoring and logging tool: Splunk, ELK stacks, CloudWatch, Grafana
  • Web and Application Server: Apache 2x, Apache Tomcat 6x, 7x, Glassfish, Ngnix
  • Database: MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, RDS
  • Harden Network and Server Infrastructure

Certification

AWS Certified SysOps Administrators – Associate Level AWS Certified Architect – Associate Level AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Timeline

IT Analyst

Virtual Benefit Solutions
12.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield
10.2018 - 04.2022

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Myland Pharmaceuticals
08.2016 - 11.2020

Associates - Science

Durham Technical Community College
Daniel Adesina