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Education
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Certification
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Hi, I’m

Dare Babalola

Beaverton,Oregon
Dare Babalola

Summary

A cloud engineer with exceptional organizational ability and experience in Amazon Web Services. Resilient, focused and passionate professional seeking to use my professional knowledge and experience in helping to transform clients' IT infrastructure, operations and applications into the most innovative, scalable, highly available, secured, fault tolerant systems and cost effective on AWS cloud platform. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

8
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Seagate Technology LLC

Cloud Support Engineer
07.2017 - 12.2019

Job overview

  • Performed network security design and integration duties.
  • Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
  • Used IAM roles to migrate monthly database backups from EC2 instances to S3 buckets
  • Created alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitored logs via metric.
  • Worked and assisted multiple, concurrent teams for the migration/re-hosting of applications.
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

Microsoft

Technical Support Hardware Engineer
04.2015 - 06.2017

Job overview

  • Delivered Tier-3 support and SME input to internal and external customers.
  • Communicating feedback to product teams and participating in product testing and development
  • Explained technical information in clear terms to promote better understanding for non-technical users.
  • Assessed system hardware and software and suggested modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.
  • Performed root cause analysis of reported issues to enact corrections.
  • Advised senior personnel on potential process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment.
  • Researched new tactics to better hone responses and shorten remediation times.
  • Suggested software and hardware modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.

ServiceNow

`Cloud Engineer
01.2020 - 07.2022

Job overview

  • Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
  • Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
  • Solving highly complex level of problems related to AWS resources.
  • Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability and scalability.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code using configuration management tools.
  • Deployed and updated roles and permission using CI/CD Pipelines.
  • Created various CloudWatch alarms that send an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message when the alarm triggers.
  • Enforced backup policy in accordance with the organizational policy.
  • Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.

Qualcomm

Cloud Engineer
08.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
  • Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform
  • Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
  • Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
  • Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
  • Plan build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets, configured routing tables, security groups, and internet gateway.
  • Develop and implement cloud-applications, migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud, and debug cloud stacks.
  • Versed experience with AWS tools, technologies, and APIs associated with IAM, CloudFormation, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, lambda, etc.

Education

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
OYO Nigeria

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
06.2012

University Overview

Skills

  • Windows Servers
  • Building Automation Systems
  • Configure Servers
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • Cloud Computing
  • Architectural Standards
  • Virtualization Security
  • Application and Server Monitoring
  • Web Traffic
  • Application Stacks
  • Continuous Integration Software
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Private Cloud Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Troubleshooting
  • Version Control Systems

Certification

  • Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS
  • Certified CompTIA Security+
  • AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Timeline

Cloud Engineer
Qualcomm
08.2022 - Current
`Cloud Engineer
ServiceNow
01.2020 - 07.2022
Cloud Support Engineer
Seagate Technology LLC
07.2017 - 12.2019
Technical Support Hardware Engineer
Microsoft
04.2015 - 06.2017
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
Dare Babalola