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Innocent Arinze

Innocent Arinze

Devops engineer
Houston,TX

Summary

3 years of hands-on experience in CI/CD, DevOps Engineering processes and Linux Systems Engineering, capturing cost savings driving efficiencies. Quick thinker and learner, with ability to assume any role with very little learning curve or supervision. Extensive experience in providing simple and scalable solutions to complex issues. Drive cross-functional, peak-performing teams to achieve business objectives with customized applications and process improvements. Very enthusiastic about learning and polishing my tech skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

DATA SERVICE GROUP
02.2020 - Current
  • Implement Agile /DevOps development practices/methodologies/Best practices
  • Create and maintain documentations of build, release process and application configuration to comply with audit requirement and industry best practices
  • Establish and automate CI/CD Build and deployment pipelines to facilitate quality incremental frequent releases with shorter feedback loops in software development lifecycle using tools like Jenkins (Maven) Azure DevOps and AWS pipeline
  • Responsible for writing Kubernetes or EKS declarative manifest files and imperative commands to create pods, replica set, services, deployments, scale, rolling updates and rollbacks in Kubernetes cluster
  • Write Terraform scripts from for building Development, Staging, and Production environments to facilitate self-service/enablement
  • Resolve deployment issues in collaboration with different stakeholders in different time zones
  • Actively manage and improve AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
  • Troubleshoot failed deployments; configure build and deployment tools to send an Email notification incase the deployment or a build fails which decreased down time by 95%
  • Mentor new DevOps engineers in terraform, source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
  • Maintain Git work flows for version control/Design branching structures
  • Documenting blameless postmortem reports
  • Build and deploy Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow thereby increasing scalability and optimizing speed
  • Provision and manage configurations using Terraform and Ansible (writing Ansible playbooks)
  • Collaborate with other team members to accelerate the software development and integration processes
  • Build and Delegate tasks for a frontend app built with Javascript,HTML,css and backend coded as lambda function with other AWS services like DynamoDB and API Gateway
  • Support/participate in on-call rotation
  • Document all changes for future reference and create training modules designed to assist and train on boarding new employee.

Linux administrator

DATA SERVICE GROUP
02.2020 - 07.2020
  • Created and maintained user access for new and existing employees
  • Wrote simple bash shell scripts for automation, deployments, server configuration, system tasks, Kernel updates, package installation, system resource inventory, resulting in increased productivity and efficiency
  • Automated tasks using Cron jobs
  • Monitored Linux CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk utilization, and services using IOSTAT and TOP
  • Installation and configuration of web servers on Linux platforms
  • Troubleshoot access log files for errors
  • Great understanding of virtualization.

STORE ASSIST. MANAGER

G.C ARINZE AND SONS INT. VENTURES
06.2013 - 09.2018
  • Customer conflict resolution
  • Pricing parts to maintaining profitability
  • Receiving parts, including placing them into inventory and properly labeling and storing them
  • Overseeing special orders
  • Helping customers find and purchase the correct parts for their needs.

Education

An Associates Degree - Agricultural Engineering

Auchi Polytechnic Auchi, REFERENCES

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms –AWS
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS
  • CI/CD – Git, GitHub, Jenkins/Maven, AWS code pipeline, Azure Devops
  • IaC tools – Terraform
  • Monitoring and logging – Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, AppDynamics, DataDog
  • Operating Systems - Windows, Linux(VMware, RedHat Enterprise Linux)
  • Linux - Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian,Alpine
  • Source Code Management tool – Git, GitHub
  • Image Building
  • Troubleshooting
  • Artifactory – AWS ECR, Nexus, Private Docker hub
  • Atlassian JIRA

Timeline

DevOps/Cloud Engineer - DATA SERVICE GROUP
02.2020 - Current
Linux administrator - DATA SERVICE GROUP
02.2020 - 07.2020
STORE ASSIST. MANAGER - G.C ARINZE AND SONS INT. VENTURES
06.2013 - 09.2018
Auchi Polytechnic Auchi, REFERENCES - An Associates Degree, Agricultural Engineering
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