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Kayode Akintade

Little Elm,TX

Summary

  • A self-motivated and dynamic Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Solutions Architect and Systems
    Engineer (Linux/Unix/Windows) with over 12 years’ I.T experience in Configuration
    Management Process, Application Support, Application Deployment, Provisioning of Servers,
    Security & Compliance, Orchestration of related I.T infrastructure, Performance/Fault
    Monitoring, Upgrading, Patching and Maintenance of Systems Hardware, Software and related
    company I.T infrastructure alongside interfacing with users to determine support needs.
  • Strong technical and analytical skillset systems in a Cloud and Virtual environments. Able to
    work with technicians from various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot complex system
    architecture issues to ensure that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of the
    system meets the needs of the end users and clients.
  • Hands-on experience supporting, automating, optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS,
    leveraging configuration management, building CI/CD pipelines, and managing cutting-edge
    deployment automation of DevOps processes and cloud resources.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud Platform Engineer

Deloitte
Mechanicsburg, PA
01.2020 - Current
  • Optimize EBS volumes of EC2 instances by increasing its size and type for higher throughput.
  • Multi-Cloud Experience using Morpheus to integrate with different Cloud service providers such Azure, AWS and GCP to automate the deployment process at a very high speed.
  • Deployed and managed multi-node Kubernetes cluster on EKS and Azure AKS
  • Setup and managed Jenkins pipeline to automate the deployment microservice application to Kubernetes cluster on EKS, AKS and GKE.
  • Worked with Database team to implement Role Base Access Control (RBAC) for all Databases.
  • Provisioned fault tolerant Kubernetes architecture for EKS by integrating AWS Global Accelerator with EKS clusters.
  • Set up Disaster Recovery for EKS cluster by implementing Active -Active deployment, leveraging Global load Balancer.
  • Built Tektron OpenShift CICD pipelines for ML Data science team
  • Provisioned Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as Dynamic slave for Jenkins master running on Google Compute Engine
  • Tighten Cloud security within customer environment with tools such as GuardDuty, CloudWatch, Macie, AWS Inspector
  • Used Security Monkey to monitor alerts, and reports one or multiple AWS accounts for anomalies
  • Used CloudTracker to audit IAM user in other to ensure that permissions are not over utilized.
  • Deploy multi-tier applications to AWS by creating blueprint that contain proper configuration such as version, layout, plan, network, volumes, subnet, backups, security Groups, AD Groups
  • Create workflow that contain various automation task for provisioning of various application to AWS
  • Configure fleet of instances in a mock deployment environment and apply patches at scale using automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.
  • Troubleshoot various application deployment failures by looking at the logs and fixing all reported errors.
  • Manage patch configuration, version control, service pack and review connectivity issues regarding security problems
  • Using Infrastructure as a code to deploy AWS infrastructure with Terraform Modules for resource provisioning as well as managing security policies.
  • Worked on google cloud platform (GCP) services like Compute Engine, Cloud load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, Big Query, Pop/Sub, App Engine, Cloud Function, Stack Driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager
  • Experience in designing a Terraform module and deploying it in cloud deployment manager to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, Compute Engines in public and private subnets along with AutoScaler in Google Cloud Platform
  • Set up a GCP Firewall rules in order to allow or deny traffic to and from the VM's instances based on specified configuration and used GCP cloud CDN (content delivery network) to deliver content from GCP cache locations drastically improving user experience and latency.
  • Expertise in working with different Bug Tracking Tools like JIRA, Bugzilla, ServiceNow, Clear Quest, and Quality center.
  • Worked on Jenkins file with multiple stages like checkout a branch, building the application, testing, pushing the image into GCR, Deploying to QA3, Deploying to QA9, Acceptance testing and finally Deploying to Prod
  • Created, cloned Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
  • Extensive knowledge of Splunk for data monitoring data ingestion and indexing.
  • Extensive knowledge of Azure
  • Skilled in cloud automation, using tools such as Azure DevOps, PowerShell, and ARM templates to streamline deployment and management processes.
  • Architected and implemented Azure-based solutions for multiple clients, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Collaborated with clients to understand their business needs and translated them into technical requirements and Azure resource planning.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code (ARM templates and Terraform) for consistent and repeatable deployments to Azure .
  • Automated routine tasks and processes using PowerShell and Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors.
  • Monitored and optimized Azure resources, utilizing Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to proactively identify and resolve issues.
  • Assisted in migrating on-premises applications and databases to Azure, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity.

Cloud Operations Engineer

United Health Group, Optum
New York, NY
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Worked as part of the Cloud Ops team provisioning fault tolerant and highly available cloud environment
  • Efficiently worked with AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load burst
  • Planned, deployed, monitored and maintained Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMware VM’s as required in the environment.
  • Provisioning Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances, as necessary
  • Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & Maven as build framework tools
  • Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Ansible, Maven & Nexus in Linux environment. Used Jenkins to integrate and deploy apps to AWS
  • Built pipeline in AWS to deploy applications and integrated CICD
  • Using CloudFormation for automating the provisioning/management of AWS resources (IAM, EC2, S3, Route 53, ELB and Auto Scaling) and make calls to Puppet scripts that execute the rest (provisioning/configuration of servers on the instances)
  • Automated infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments.
  • Using Infrastructure as a code to deploy infrastructure with Terraform Modules for resource provisioning as well as managing security policies.
  • Created Docker Images using Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.
  • Manage patch configuration, version control, service pack and review connectivity issues regarding security problems
  • Configures SNS to send notification messages to inform users and services based on events on CloudFormation

Cloud Support Engineer

Power Secure
Durham, NC
02.2016 - 12.2017
  • Set up and Created a Three-tier architecture that consist of a web server, application server and a database tier using AWS VPC, Transit Gateway VPC Endpoints, S3, Dynamo DB, and provisioned EC2 instances using Auto Scale Group and ELB.
  • Optimize EBS volumes of EC2 instances by increasing its size and type for higher throughput.
  • Manage access control and security compliance through IAM, MFA and Service Control Policies (SCP) by creating, Users, Roles and defining access policies for various resources using least privilege practice
  • Configure and manage various AWS services including EC2, Amazon RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53.
  • Created Docker Images using Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.
  • Configure fleet of instances in a mock deployment environment and apply patches at scale using automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.
  • Provided 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments
  • Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring

Data Administrator

Globalcom
Lagos, NG
09.2012 - 01.2016
  • Installed RedHat Linux using kickstart.
  • Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs etc.
  • Performed RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management
  • Installed and configured Logical Volume Manager - LVM and RAID
  • Documented all setup procedures and System related Policies (SOPs)
  • Provided 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments
  • Administered DHCP, DNS, and NFS services in Linux
  • Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring
  • Provided technical support by troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Electronics Engineering

The Polytechnic Ibadan
Nigeria
08.2010

Skills

  • Language: Bash script, NodeJs, jQuery, ReactJs, HTML, CSS
  • AWS Cloud: IAM, S3, VPC, WAF, Shield, Guard, RDS, EC2, ROUTE53, Cloud-Formation, ECS, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, SNYK , GuardDuty,
  • Container Orchestration: Docker, ECS
  • Web Servers: Apache, Nginx
  • Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 98, 2000, 7, 8, &10, Macintosh, Linux (CentOS and Redhat)
  • Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL
  • Security: IAM, WAF, AWS Network Firewall, Security Groups, NaCl, CloudTrail, AWS Config,
  • Tools: Jenkins, Terraform, CloudFormation, Gitlab CICD, Ansible, Splunk, Kubernetes

Timeline

Cloud Platform Engineer

Deloitte
01.2020 - Current

Cloud Operations Engineer

United Health Group, Optum
01.2018 - 01.2020

Cloud Support Engineer

Power Secure
02.2016 - 12.2017

Data Administrator

Globalcom
09.2012 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Electronics Engineering

The Polytechnic Ibadan

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