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FRANKLINE AJEAKWA

Cloud DevOps Engineer| SRE|AWS SolutionsArchitect
Baton Rouge,LA

Summary

Highly skilled AWS Cloud Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer with excellent track record and experiences in infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, cloud orchestration/automation, documentation, and enhancing an organization's software product’s lifecycle and features following industry best standards while adhering to governance, security best practices and compliance. For over 6 years now, I have been heavily involved with hands-on automation, containerization/orchestration and building security robustness in the architectural/application designing of cloud environments as a DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer. My major responsibilities in the past have also been geared towards a timely end-to-end enterprise software release process, relational database management, transforming business requirements into technical solutions amongst others within the SWDLC engagements. I managed On-premises infrastructures, provisioned hybrid setups and heavily involved in the utilization of AWS/AZURE native tools and services for cloud infrastructure provisioning, security, cost optimization and application/resource maintenance. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS/TECHNOLOGY STACK PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Automation Security Best Practices Collaboration and Communication Version Control Cost Optimization Containerization Infrastructure Monitoring and Management DevOps Mindset Troubleshooting and Problem solving Project Management Governance and Compliance Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring and Management (IAC) Monitoring and logging

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

SERVICES

Frontline Education
02.2021 - Current
  • TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES
  • SCM, Git/GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker Swarm, Docker, Jenkins, Apache httpd, Nginx, HAProxy, Tomcat, Wildfly/JBoss, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Nexus, Maven, SonarQube, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Linux, Unix, Windows, VS Code, SVN, AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, AWS IAM, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ELB, AWS EBS, AWS EKS, AWS VPC, Route53, Secret Manager.

Site Reliability Engineer /AWS DevOps Engineer

Kiawitech IT Consulting
03.2019 - 12.2020
  • Setup and configuration of automated CI\CD pipeline for deployment of releases triggered by AWS CloudWatch events into EKS cluster using Code pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build, Lambda functions, and Elastic Container Registry in AWS
  • Working as part of DevOps Team working closely with developers for different internal automation and build configuration management
  • Built and configured Linux and Windows servers in AWS EC2 and ensured they are hardened to meet Frontline benchmark then joined to the AD Domain before application usage
  • Enhanced cost optimization by implementing lower environment server stop and restart automation and subscription to reserved instances for consistent production workload EC2 instances
  • End to End security best practices implementation in all endpoint layers of infrastructure architecture
  • Actively managed, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3 and RDS including backups, patching, and scaling
  • End to End configuration and deployment of node group and Fargate Profile EKS clusters using terraform IAC
  • Applied knowledge working in AWS multi-account strategy in AWS Organization and Landing Zone
  • Applied knowledge of configuring AWS Firewall Manager suite of product such as WAF, AWS Shield, Security Group baselining etc
  • On ingress traffic using AWS Application load balancer and network load balancer
  • Configuring Route53 to map ingress traffic to DNS registered CNAME/Alias and further routing to AWS Load Balancer Ingress Service
  • Migrating application Sources Codes from different version control systems such as BitBucket, GitHub into AWS Code Commit
  • Deploying Dockers Engines in virtualized platforms for containerization of multiple apps
  • Working with developers to decouple monolithic applications into containerized applications
  • Setup and maintenance of Helms as package management for EKS configuration management
  • Working with DockerHub to pull and push Docker images
  • Experiencing using declarative and imperative approach to Kubernetes deployment
  • Experience troubleshooting and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters and Objects
  • Experience in network troubleshooting and analysis with a view of getting root causes of issue in the Kubernetes clusters
  • Deployments using Blue Green, Rolling updates and Canary deployment patterns and strategies
  • Experience using helm and helm charts as Kubernetes package manager
  • Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control in AWS EKS Clusters and other AWS services
  • Configuring ELK (Elasticsearch, Kibana) for Log monitoring of Containerized applications
  • Configuring Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring containerized applications, alerting and visualization
  • Implemented AWS Landing Zone for organizational governance to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
  • Implemented Control Tower Preventive and Detective guardrails and leveraged Account Factory, integrated with Lambda for new AWS account creation and setup.

Data base Administrator

Microsoft
  • MSSQL installation and configuration of SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2/2012
  • Upgraded SQL versions from SQL2000 to SQL2005 and 2008, 2008R2 to 2012
  • Participated in Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery site into AWS
  • Ensured Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for all database related infrastructure components
  • Prepared Play-by-Play Documents for each Server to be migrated
  • Scheduled Full, Differential, and Transactional log backups for users and system databases in production using IBM Tivoli Storage System (TSM) and SQL Agent
  • Setup Transactional and Snapshot Replication and made sure data was in sync
  • Setup Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005 and 2008R2
  • Monitored disk space usage, memory and connections and Databases for lock escalation, dead lock, resource utilization by sessions, package caching, buffer pool hit ratios
  • Captured SQL/runaway queries using SQL Server Profiler /Performance monitor
  • Ran DBCC consistency checks and fixed data inconsistency databases
  • Tuned Stored Procedures and T-SQL statements for better performance
  • Documented best practices, policies, procedures, and standards
  • Deployment of code/Builds into QA and Production environments
  • Worked with Development, QA, Application Engineering, Release Management, and Project Management Teams
  • Served users Ad-hoc requests for pulling reports/results.

DevOps Engineer

Gladly Inc
12.2018 - 01.2019
  • Leveraged the use of Docker for containerization with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Building and configuring Kubernetes Clusters ensuring that nodes/pods can auto scale and load balance
  • Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible with Dynamic Inventory and Ansible tower for SAAS
  • Carried out hands-on utilizing the capabilities of Terraform, AWS SDK, AWS CLI/UI, kops and ansible to provision and configure infrastructures in AWS Cloud including VPC, Route53, Private and Public subnets, route tables, EC2 Instances, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, EFS, NFS, EBS, S3 buckets, Databases, Lambda Security Groups, NACL, among others
  • Configuring DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, MongoDB)
  • Writing, modifying, and maintaining; ansible playbooks, and automation scripts
  • Use Helm charts to deploy Kubernetes manifest configuration files into EKS clusters
  • Software Configuration management (Automate CI & CD pipeline using Ansible, Nexus, SonarQube, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform & GIT)
  • Writing inventory and manifest files, ansible playbooks, terraform manifest files and Kubernetes manifest files
  • Created Ansible playbooks for installation, patching, configuration of servers, user management, with different levels of access, file management, deployment, and full automation
  • Wrote terraform configuration files and creating AWS CloudFormation templates to provision our infrastructure with EKS Clusters, ec2 instances, IAM roles, VPC’s, S3 bucket, and other resources in our environment
  • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching strategies
  • Setup development and testing environments for Apache and Nginx webservers couple with AWS ELB SSL for all HTTP to HTTPS thereby maximizing security
  • Configured Security groups firewall rules for ingress and egress traffic
  • Proposed and implemented the migration from monolithic architecture to microservices
  • I have configured continuous monitoring using NewRelic, Prometheus and Grafana, ELK
  • Data Analytics and log management using EFK (Elasticsearch Filebeats and Kibana), NewRelic, Prometheus and Grafana, ELK
  • I have installed and configured web/application Servers (JBoss/Wildfly, Nginx, apache, Tomcat)
  • I have configured, installed, resized, and deployed Elastic Computers in AWS and Google cloud
  • Experienced in enhancing security configuration in Linux, Windows, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Analyse and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT
  • Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures
  • Working very closely with Developers and Build & Release team to setup Jenkins server & slave nodes
  • Experience in container-based deployments using Docker images, Docker hub and Docker registries
  • Used Helm to simplify code writing to handle complex application deployment integrated with Jenkins
  • Created custom mode VPCs in AWS with multi-regional private and public subnets along with firewall rules to allow SSH, ICMP, and RDP ingress traffic
  • Created, managed, and administered user accounts security and SSH password-less login
  • Network configuration & troubleshoot issues with respect to network and configuration files
  • Set up maintenance scripts using metadata for graceful startup and shutdown of servers
  • Used Jira to track vulnerabilities, requests, and incidents, and confluence for documentation
  • Set quality gate policies on SonarQube for duplicate lines, code coverages, code smells, to track bugs, vulnerabilities and failed the Jenkins pipeline when the threshold was not met
  • Participated in recruitment, onboarding, and training of new recruits
  • Recommendation or introduce new technology, attend training or job-related seminars
  • Mentored Junior DevOps engineers in best practices in CI/CD deployments
  • Environment: Windows Server NT/2000/2003/2008R2, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2/2012, SQL Query Analyzer

Education

BSC - Computer Science

University of Buea
October 2013

Accomplishments

  • Implements Identity and Access Management Using the following tools/services: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, Active Directory, Azure AD, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS SSO, OKTA
  • Build, test, maintain and Deploy applications using Cloud Orchestration/Automation tools and services like: AWS Commit, AWS Code pipeline, AWS Code build, AWS EKS
  • Efficient in designing and implementing robust infrastructure/application security with the use of AWS native tools and services like: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector, Amazon Macie, Security Groups, Network Access Control List
  • Proficient in utilizing Monitoring & Event Management tools/services like: AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs), AWS SNS, AWS Cloud Trail, Prometheus and Grafana, New-Relic
  • Ensuring compliance and Governance in my environments and teams utilizing the following: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Budgets, AWS Certificate Manager
  • Efficient in use of Programming Languages like: Bash Shell, python, html, PowerShell, YAML, JSON, Groovy scripts, manifest files
  • Excellent mastery in the utilization of Application Delivery(CICD) using tools like; vs-code, ansible,terraform,AWS CloudFormation, Sonarkube Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Commit
  • Design and maintain solutions to protect company Data by employing the services of : AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, EBS volume Snapshots Lifecyle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM
  • Strong experience in providing infrastructure as a Service, configuration management and provisioning using: AWS Service Catalog, ansible, terraform, AWS Cloud formation
  • Highly proficient in cloud Network architecting utilizing native services like: VPC (Virtual Private Network), Virtual Gateways, Transit Gateways, Customer Gateways, Internet Gateways, Nat Gateways, VPC Peering connections, Direct Connect, VPC Endpoint and more
  • Experience in Image and Patching utilizing: AWS SSM Patch Manager, SCCM
  • Proficient in Ops Analytics utilizing AWS native tools and Open-source tools like: Splunk, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Idera, SolarWinds
  • Efficient in Relational Database Management using services like: Microsoft SQL Management Studio, AWS RDS management services
  • Keep up to date with AWS updates,best practices and industry trends via continuous studies abd AWS Re:Invent

References

REFERENCES: Available on request.

Skills

Containerization

Automation

Security Best Practices

Version Control

Configuration Management

Infrastructure Provisioning, Monitoring and Management

Collaboration and Communication

Cost optimization

DevOps mindset

Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

Governance and Compliance

Project Management

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Company CulturePersonal development programsWork-life balance

Timeline

SERVICES

Frontline Education
02.2021 - Current

Site Reliability Engineer /AWS DevOps Engineer

Kiawitech IT Consulting
03.2019 - 12.2020

DevOps Engineer

Gladly Inc
12.2018 - 01.2019

Data base Administrator

Microsoft

BSC - Computer Science

University of Buea
FRANKLINE AJEAKWACloud DevOps Engineer| SRE|AWS SolutionsArchitect