AFOLABI ALABI
Summary
Result oriented 6 x AWS Certified Professional with several years of experience in various areas of IT operations, cloud and devops engineering.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Bluelabs Analytics
05.2022 - Current
- Set up Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environments using Terraform and created configuration files for resource deployment, management, and automation.
- Configured and deployed cloud resources in AWS and maintained their working state by running periodic checks on their availability, performance, and security posture.
- Developed and maintained automated systems used for development, testing, and deployment of various software components while adhering to current DevOps principles and methodologies.
- Documented infrastructure design, processes, and configurations to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure consistent practices.
- Worked within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack developments, tools, and technologies.
- Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines to automate the software build, testing, and deployment processes.
- Identified opportunities to optimize and streamline existing CI/CD pipelines, reducing build and deployment times.
- Managed the provisioning, configuration, and operation of virtual servers (EC2) and containerized applications running on Elastic Container Service.
- Implemented monitoring and logging solutions such as CloudWatch and Datadog to proactively identify issues and ensure system performance and reliability.
- Operated Auth0 to manage and secure user authentication into applications and services and support developers to build identity controls into applications.
Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect
Spire Systems
07.2019 - 05.2022
- Designed secure, cost-optimized, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure by utilizing fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, etc.
- Extensive use of version control systems including Git, Github and the use of scripting languages such as Python and Shell/Bash to engineer process automation thereby eliminating 80% of manual work.
- Designed and implemented serverless Architecture using Dynamo DB, AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, encryption using KMS, firewalls and the enforcement of strong password policies.
- Utilized containers such as Docker to build, deploy and support microservice applications.
- Supported the implementation of software release strategies for various applications according to methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure the successful integration of code changes and resolve any integration issues.
- Utilized infrastructure as code (Terraform) to deploy infrastructure and services and automate the installation of web applications.
- Provisioned users across data stores and assigned permissions based on authorized levels of access; also prepared reports on user access.
- Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts to streamline billing and incorporate policy-based restrictions.
- Collaborated with software engineering teams to implement and maintain security tools and initiatives during the development lifecycle and after deployment to live environments.
- Supervised Penetration Testing (pen test) exercise and implemented recommendations on systems and workflows identified from the pen test across various AWS accounts and services.
Database Administrator
Spire Systems
05.2018 - 06.2019
- Assigned and granted system privileges, profiles and roles to users and application users.
- Provided remote database support for users using SSH and terminal services.
- Ran queries on RDBMS such as Oracle and MySQL using SQL.
- Support of planned and unplanned outages, verifying database shutdown/startup processes as well as correct application connectivity to the database.
- Configured Data Guard replication with one Primary and multiple standby instances while incorporating Disaster Recovery solution of having one of the standby databases in a remote datacenter.
- Monitored, optimized, and allocated physical data storage for database systems.
- Performed bulk load into the database using SQL Loader.
- Database tuning and capacity planning to ensure acceptable level of performance.
- Installed and configured relevant network components to ensure database access as well as database consistency and integrity.
Education
Associate of Science - Computer Information Systems
Montgomery College
Rockville, MD07-2026
Skills
- Languages: Python, C#, Bash, Basic
- Cloud Solutions
- Web Technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- CI/CD (Terraform, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ansible)
- RDBMS: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Certification
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- CompTIA Security+ ce Certification
Timeline
AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Bluelabs Analytics
05.2022 - Current
Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect
Spire Systems
07.2019 - 05.2022
Database Administrator
Spire Systems
05.2018 - 06.2019
Associate of Science - Computer Information Systems
Montgomery College
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