JEFF OWUSU-BANAHENE
Edmond,OK
Summary
Smart DevOps Engineer with career spent in IT designing and planning. Talented leader with extensive knowledge of high availability architecture and concepts. Ready to tackle new challenges in project planning and development capacity.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Jasco Products
Oklahoma City, OK
03.2019 - 12.2022
- In this project, as a Cloud DevOps Engineer, I was responsible for migrating applications into AWS cloud by creating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
- Contributions: Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, facilitating automated build, test, and deployment processes for our environments
- Develop a Jenkins Pipeline job for building and deploying Docker images on a Docker deployment server and Kubernetes Cluster
- Managed Rollout and Rollback Strategies for deployments on Kubernetes ensuring a smooth and controlled release process
- Employed blue-green deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk during application updates
- Implemented monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes clusters using tools such as Amazon Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling real-time visibility into cluster performance and health metrics
- Developed infrastructure as code using Terraform, enabling the provisioning and management of cloud resources
- Collaborated with DevOps and development teams to define and enforce security policies and best practices for Kubernetes clusters, including pod security policies, network policies, and role-based access control (RBAC)
- Utilized Ansible automation tool to streamline and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment tasks in AWS cloud environments, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency
- Provided technical expertise and guidance on Kubernetes cluster architecture, deployment, and operations to cross-functional teams, enabling efficient adoption and utilization of container orchestration technology in cloud environments
- Implementing DevSecOps practices by integrating essential security tools such as SonarQube, and Trivy into CI/CD pipelines, enforcing build failures triggers in case of code quality issues, vulnerabilities, or security concerns, thereby ensuring robust security measures, and fortifying the deployment process
- Support the management and monitoring of numerous AWS-hosted features and services and maintain backups and disaster recovery of these resources.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Hobby Lobby Distributions
Oklahoma City
07.2016 - 02.2019
- Contributions: Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code check-in
- Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions not met
- Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube
- Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML
- Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible, created and automated platform environment setup
- Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Costco
OKC, Oklahoma
12.2022
- As an Engineering Lead, I am responsible for deploying infrastructure on our servers using RLM and Harness Deploy tools
- Contributions: Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, facilitating automated build, test, and deployment processes for our environments
- Design and implementation of CI/CD Pipeline to support DR (disaster recovery) environment sync up with production along with patching dashboard
- Experienced in build and deployment of Java applications on to different environments such as DEV, Pre-Prod and Production
- Create Ansible Automation tools and builds, and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes
- Developed infrastructure as code using Terraform, enabling the provisioning and management of cloud resources
- Worked with Docker and created multiple containers and images and also had experience on writing the Dockerfile
- Implemented Jenkins pipeline for deploying my customized Docker containers into the Kubernetes cluster
- Created deployments, services and ingress flows for the application setup in the Kubernetes cluster
- Supported patching activities for both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring security compliance
- Experience with AWS components such as EC2, S3, Elastic IPs, EBS, Security Groups, Route 53, VPC, Elastic cache, Snapshots and Cloud Watch
- Troubleshoot application issues by log verification
- Collaborated with development, operations, and QA teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency
- Monitored and maintained system performance, availability, and security using various monitoring tools and techniques
- Participated in Agile ceremonies and contributed to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Education
BSc Construction Management -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
GhanaSkills
- Git
- GitHub
- Gitlab
- Ansible
- Terraform
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ubuntu Linux
- Linux CLI
- Windows OS
- Groovy
- Bash
- Java
- Python
- PowerShell
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Artifactory
- Slack
- Gitlab CI
- Cloud
- Ant
- Maven
- Gradle
- MSBuild
Certification
Certified DevOps Engineer Professional AWS
Personal Information
Title: DevOps Engineer
Timeline
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Costco
12.2022
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Jasco Products
03.2019 - 12.2022
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Hobby Lobby Distributions
07.2016 - 02.2019
BSc Construction Management -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Certified DevOps Engineer Professional AWS
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