David Popoola
Dallas,TX
Summary
I am a highly skilled and certified AWS Cloud Engineer with over 8 years of experience in cloud development, migration, and management. I possess extensive proficiency in AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda, and am adept at using Terraform and Cloud Formation for infrastructure as code. My expertise extends to cloud administration, user management, and open-source software configuration, as well as application hardening and change management. I excel in optimizing cloud architectures for performance and cost-efficiency, implementing robust security measures, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. With a strong technical background and problem-solving skills, I drive innovative solutions and maintain seamless cloud operations.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Regions Bank
05.2022 - Current
- Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC, resulting in a 30% improvement in system reliability
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, reducing manual setup time by 40% and ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments
- Designed and managed network architectures on AWS, including VPC, subnets, and VPN configurations, to ensure secure and efficient connectivity
- Automated routine operational tasks through scripting and AWS Lambda functions, streamlining workflows and enhancing operational efficiency
- Conducted regular security audits and assessments, applying best practices to maintain compliance and safeguard sensitive data
- Facilitated training sessions and knowledge transfer workshops for team members on AWS best practices and cloud technologies
- Collaborated with development teams to integrate AWS services into applications, optimizing deployment strategies and improving application performance
- Provided technical support and troubleshooting for AWS-related issues, ensuring prompt resolution and minimal impact on business operations
- Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline, automating deployment processes and decreasing deployment time by 50%
- Optimized cloud infrastructure for performance and cost-efficiency, achieving a 20% reduction in monthly cloud expenses through effective resource management and rightsizing.
- Maintained documentation of all cloud infrastructure changes, ensuring transparency and consistency throughout the organization''s IT landscape.
- Automated daily backups of critical data using AWS S3, reducing the risk of data loss in case of system failures.
- Developed comprehensive strategies for leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency during periods of high demand.
- Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures.
- Collaborated with team to analyze system solutions based on client requirements.
- Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Philips
12.2018 - 04.2022
- Built and improved reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services
- Created VPCs and attached all applicable components needed to build a fault tolerance and highly available environment
- Applied auto scaling and elastic load balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance to EC2 instances
- Installed and configured Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence) and LAMP application on EC2 instances and perform various software installations
- Provisioning users accounts using IAM in collaboration with enterprise Active Directory
- Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads
- Managed security keys using AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in a wide range of AWS services
- Performed system monitoring using Nagios, CloudWatch and New Relic
- Participated in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities
- Deployed code via GIT and worked with the DevOps team to help push codes to GitHub
- Created and attached volumes into EC2 instances and make sure all attached volumes have EBS snapshots initialized
- Installed 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
- Install and configure Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence) and LAMP application on EC2 instances and perform various software installations
- 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 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
- Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities.
- Partnered with sales team to design solutions for customers and drive AWS adoption and revenue.
- Performed first-level incident response and service resolution for cloud systems.
- Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
- Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
AWS Cloud Engineer
RCH Solutions
12.2016 - 11.2018
- Assisted with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS SNS
- 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
- Provided 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
- Deploy infrastructure- and application-level software changes
- ITIL practices in server and application hosting
- Conducted pre- and post-implementation reviews
- Provisioning High-performance large-scale compute servers used en masse by engineering processes, run as a set of clusters, controlled by scheduling tools such as IBM’s LSF or build farms such as Jenkins
- Provisioning High availability application servers used to run supporting processes such as databases, ALM tools
- Provisioning Large scale network attached storage infrastructure used to service the above
- Provide technical conceptual guidance to other group members and management and suggest directions for investigations.
- Automated daily backups of critical data using AWS S3, reducing the risk of data loss in case of system failures.
- Maintained documentation of all cloud infrastructure changes, ensuring transparency and consistency throughout the organization''s IT landscape.
- Developed comprehensive strategies for leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency during periods of high demand.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ogun State02.2007
Skills
- Cloud Platform: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, Terraform, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, EBS, DynamoDB)
- Infrastructure Management: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation), EC2 Instances, S3 Buckets, VPC Management, Elastic File System (EFS), Route 53, IAM (best practices)
- DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS CodePipeline, Microservices (Docker and Kubernetes)
- Monitoring & Optimization: AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Performance Tuning, Cost Optimization
- Security: AWS IAM, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Encryption (KMS), Compliance & Risk Management, Certificate Manager (ACM)
- Networking: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Subnets, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53
- Collaboration & Tools: Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, CLI, Bash and Shell Scripting, Python
- Data Management & Reporting: Data Modeling, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Warehousing, BI Applications, Analytical Reporting Tools, Disaster Recovery
- Infrastructure Automation
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Infrastructure
- IT Operations
- Systems Engineering
- Scripting Languages
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect–Associate
- AWS Certified Sysops Administrator–Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Developer–Associate
- Certified kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Terraform Certified
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Regions Bank
05.2022 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer
Philips
12.2018 - 04.2022
AWS Cloud Engineer
RCH Solutions
12.2016 - 11.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Olabisi Onabanjo University