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ERIC IYEN

ERIC IYEN

Kennesaw,GA

Summary

Highly motivated, Experienced and versatile Software Automation/Cybersecurity Engineer with over 8+ years of Cloud experience in solutions architecture, developing, integration, securing and supporting Enterprise Business services. Mostly proficient in AWS, Azure, with a strong focus on achieving non-repeatable secure processes, in an automated streamlined workflow fashion leveraging CICD methodologies, strong background of networking, linux administration, DevOps, and full stack engineering practices, Cost optimization, compliance, to meet industry best standards maximizing profit and business growth towards continuous improvement process for Mankind while adopting new Technologies and Tools.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Integration Engineer

MTX Group
05.2023 - 05.2024
  • EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND MEETING ETIQUETTE, ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN MEETINGS AND LEAD TECHNICAL WORKING SESSION AND PROFESSIONALLY.
  • SPRINT, PI, CAPACITY PLANNING SOC 1&2 AUDITS, CHANGE AND INCIDENT RMANAGEMENT, CAPA RESOLUTIONS.
  • SNOWFLAKE DATA INGESTION, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN DATA WORKFLOWS, UNIT/INTEGRATION AND HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH LDAP TECHNOLOGY, (DIT, AUTOMATED DATA SYNC AND CRUD OPS.)
  • PENETRATION/VULNERABILITY, IMAGE OPTIMIZATION/SECURITY, PIPELINE/IMAGE BUILD SCAN
  • MULTI CLUSTER CENTRALIZED LOGGING SOLUTION WITH LOKI-GRAFANA AND BACKEND STATE WITH S3 AND KMS
  • THREAT MODELING AND INFRASTRUCTURE POINT OF FAILURES WITH WIZ DASHBOARDS, ANALYSIS AND SNOWFLAKE INBUILT DATASETS.
  • TERRAFORM REBUILD WITH MODULES, STATE MAINTENANCE AND KEY ROTATION, LOCK ID, VERSIONING, WORKSPACES FOR PROJECTS AND TEAM MEMBERS AND OPTIMIZING COST WITH BACKEND S3 STATE.
  • EKS CLUSTER, CONTROL PLANE, WORER PLANE-KUBELET, AMI, PATCHES, HARDENING, DISASTER RECOVERY, BACKUP AND GRACEFUL RECOVERY, DRAINING AND AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION TO ENSURE BUSINESS CONTINUITY.
  • BUILT EFFECTIVE MONITORING AND LOGGING AND AUDITING OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS TO ENSURE MANDATED COMPLIANCE POLICIES.
  • JMETER/TAURUS PERFORMANCE AND LOAD TESTING Cluster DESIGN AND CONFIGURATION WITH GITOPS-ACTIONS SELF HOSTED RUNNERS.
  • THOROUGH AND ADVANCED EXPERIENCE ON PATCHING LINUX SYSTEMS, RED HAT BASED, DEBIAN BASED UBUNTU, CENTOS, APT, YUM AND THIRD PARTY REPOSITORIES INTEGRATION FOR ADVANCED SYSTEMS COMPLIANCE.
  • PERSISTENT/ STATEFUL SETS APPLICATIONS DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE,
  • EXPERIENCE WITH DEVOPS AND CI/CD CONCEPTS AND TOOLS.
  • STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE (IAC), AUTOMATION, AND SCRIPTING SKILLS (TERRAFORM, CDK, PULUMI, ANSIBLE, PYTHON)
  • MULTI-CLOUD MIGRATION ( GCP TO AWS CLUSTER - INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRATION AND DESIGN)
  • ADVANCED TROUBLESHOOTING, PROBLEM-SOLVING, WRITTEN, AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS
  • EXPERIENCE WITH IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (IAM, IAM IDENTITY CENTER, SAML, ACTIVE DIRECTORY THIRD-PARTY INTEGRATION.), CONTROL TOWER AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.

AWS Lead Cloud Engineer

ARISGLOBAL Ltd
12.2020 - 06.2023
  • Automated workflow for CI, Jenkins deployment and integration with terraform/helm charts repo.
  • Cloud Migration, Cost optimization, Security design, customer onboarding, scaling and performance, technical SME on adopting cloud native or open source technologies
  • Managed team of 5 to develop automation processes that enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor applications that boosted production by 35% Analyze and resolve configuration issues in
  • Dev, Test and production Datadog, pagerduty configuration, integration for seamless automation/ agent deployment and escalation policies for on-call rotations
  • Infrastructure and Source code deployment on Multiple environments implementing GitHub actions and terraform workspaces.
  • Set-up Firewall rule setup with WAF, Custom CIS, CVE, OSWAP benchmark compliance, Shield and Ip rules for bottlenecks and DDOS attacks
  • Automated incident response Management with playbooks, config Configured and SME on Guard duty, trusted advisor, Inspector for scanning, Vulnerability, reachability and host hardening
  • Configured and SME on Guard duty, trusted advisor, Inspector for scanning, Vulnerability, reachability and host hardening
  • Performance test set-up with EKS cluster across multiple regions to test user experience and API loads
  • Engage with Inter-teams' platform, EPD, Database and Architecture, group on planning, troubleshooting and strategy for deployments
  • Third-party software integrations, Maintain and improve CICD pipelines for data pull and sync with AWS app flow
  • Designed security solutions for multi-account Patching and compliance for senior management that met 100% satisfaction
  • Implemented and maintained customer keys, rotations, custom emails, pager-duty on-call rotation and support for engineers.

Devops Engineer

NORO TECH LLC
12.2017 - 12.2020
  • Create and manage IAM user accounts and role-based policies for access to AWS services
  • Designed, provisioned, configured, and maintained cloud infrastructure that was secure, scalable, and highly available, leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure as code using tools such CloudFormation and Terraform
  • Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins and Maven, eliminating 85% of manual work
  • Setup Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS and documented procedures to deploy Kubernetes clusters via Helm charts and best practices for deploying applications onto Kubernetes
  • Set up Blue/Green Deployment with Azure traffic manager to achieve zero downtime
  • Works across teams to unify strategy and alignment, Identify and remove potential roadblocks & bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives
  • Writing Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML to customize and quickly deploy infrastructure on Tower
  • Supported software testing at operating system level and submitted reports on upgrades and bug fixes
  • Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures
  • Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders for uniformed tooling and methodology to increase product delivery
  • Tuned systems to boost performance
  • Planned, designed and developed solutions on Amazon Web Services
  • Helped individual teams to set up their repositories in bitbucket and maintain their code and help them setting up jobs which can make use of CI/CD environments
  • Championed in cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Worked closely with customers to get to know their business and technical goals and challenges
  • Managed the relationship between the organization's technical demands and the capacity to be pulled from the AWS cloud
  • Ensured compliance with the company's policies and procedures during design, development and implementation
  • Automation of cloud infrastructure configuration and deployment using cloud Formation and Ansible
  • Designed and deployed public and hybrid cloud solutions for customers using appropriate services based on requirements
  • Provisioned a secure environment for AWS VPC network, and implementing infrastructure as code using configuration management tools
  • Implementing CICD pipelines using Jenkins and monitor infrastructure
  • Implemented and ensured security compliance across all infrastructure on AWS environment Migrated customers' on-premise workloads(applications) to the AWS cloud platform
  • Designed, developed and implemented high availability, backup and recovery strategy for applications and databases
  • Defined and deployed monitoring metrics, and logging systems on AWS
  • Identified appropriate use of AWS and deployment, and operational best practices
  • Scripting with JSON, YAML, Bash script.

Education

Skills

Cloud Services: AWS CLI, Azure Vault, ARM, Biceps, CDK, Cloud formation, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, SNS, IAM, Time-stream DB, Kinesis, AWS HealthLake, AWS- APP_config, lambda@edge, API GATEWAY, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Route53, Load balancers(app/ network), EKS(full cluster management/deployment multi region blue-green, canary) ECS (task definitions, versioning, image scan and deploy) IGW, NAT gateway, AWS Code-Commit, AWS Code-Build, AWS Code-Pipeline, AWS Code-Deploy, secrets, KMS, Parameter Store, SSL/TSL encryption, Route 53 (name records, DNS configuration and Domain names)

Versioning Tools: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab


Operating Systems: Debian(Ubuntu 16,18,20,22) Rhel ( centos 6,7,8,9 RHEL 7,8 Amazon Unix), Windows, MAC OS X, VM


Reporting and Visualization: Datadog, Excel, Pagerduty, Prometheus, Grafana
Scripting & Coding: Bash, YAML, PYTHON, Some Groovy
CICD: Jenkins, Code-pipeline, code-deploy


Automation: Rundeck, Amazon Systems Manager, Datadog Automated Workflow, Lambda


Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Cloud-Formation, Vagrant, CDK, Pulumi
Data as service- Snowflake, RDS, DataIku

Application Integration, Micro-services Architecture, System Administration, Performance Tuning, Enterprise Architecture, Regulatory Compliance, System and Network Security

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2023)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) (2021)
  • AWS certified security specialist (2023)
  • MICROSOFT AZURE ADMINISTRATOR (NOVEMBER 2021)
  • HIPAA SECURITY AWARENESS (JUNE 2020)

Othercompetencies

  • Skype For Business/Lync
  • Documentation of processes and procedures
  • Writing Business Requirement
  • Project Management
  • Tools: ServiceNow, Remedy, Clear-Vision
  • Customer Focus Service
  • Analytical
  • Troubleshooting Crisis Management/Escalation
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Cross-Functional Team Management
  • Remote Desktop Support
  • Program Management
  • System Multitasking
  • Remarkable analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Ability to work flexible schedules
  • Physical Fitness Training

Hobbies and Interests

PASSION FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING, BIKING, RUNNING, GYM, SPIRITUAL GROWTH, WATCHING NEWS, BASKETBALL

Timeline

Senior Integration Engineer

MTX Group
05.2023 - 05.2024

AWS Lead Cloud Engineer

ARISGLOBAL Ltd
12.2020 - 06.2023

Devops Engineer

NORO TECH LLC
12.2017 - 12.2020

ERIC IYEN