LEONIX ASONGWE
Houston,Texas
Summary
Around 6+ years of IT experience as AWS Engineer and DevOps Engineer in solving the typical problems and deployment operations required in different environments and supporting development.
● Experienced in utilizing AWS for importing volumes, propelling EC2, configuring security groups, auto-scaling, and stack balancers in the characterized virtual private connection.
● Had good experience in creating instances in AWS and deploying Linux environments.
● Experienced with IAM in creating new Users & Groups, and defining roles and policies.
● Experienced in provisioning of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS virtual machines, and web/worker roles.
● Experience in creating alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitoring the
server's performance, CPU utilization, and disk usage.
● Hands-on experience on Terraform a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently .
● Experience in source control tools like Git.
● Strongly experienced with Jenkins which are continuous integration tool.
● Experience in creating Jenkins pipeline and implementing projects build the framework.
● Expertise in Maven builds tools in Java environment.
● Experience with container-based deployments using Docker and worked with docker images and
containerization of applications using docker.
● Experienced in ansible and writing playbooks for virtual and physical instances provisioning,
configuration management, patching, and software deployment.
● Good experience of commands in Linux administration.
● Experienced in setting up chef workstation, bootstrapped instances using Chef, and integrating with
auto-scaling.
● Experienced in integration of unit tests, and code quality analysis tools like Junit, SonarQube, and Selenium.
● Experience working, and running SQL database scripts used as part of build and deployment
processes.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS /Azure/Gcp DevOps Engineer
Wimora Technology
08.2020 - Current
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto scaling groups
- Experienced in setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket, and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket by creating snapshots
- Used IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources
- Worked as DevOps and AWS engineer in Automating, Configuring, and Deploying instances on AWS cloud environments
- Able to create scripts for system administration and AWS using languages such as BASH and Python, created Lambda functions to upload code and to check changes in S3, DynamoDB table
- Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
- Worked on creation of source code in Git and branching, creating labels, and merging of codes on git for QA testing and release
- Integrating Jenkins with GitHub for continuous integration and collaborated deployment of the code by enabling Git hooks, the build jobs are automatically created once the changes are made to the code by the dev team
- Worked on using Maven as build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code
- Worked on to setup Docker to automate container deployment through Jenkins and worked on Docker container to create docker images for di ere environments
- Implemented Azure DevOps solutions for various development teams, including source control, work item tracking, build and release management.
- Configured and maintained Azure DevOps pipelines, including automated builds and deployments.
- Administer and support Virtual Infrastructure resources in Azure cloud environment.
- · Build and manage the HSBC GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments
· Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
· Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)
·Manage SDN in GCP - Used Ansible tower to auto deploy servers rapidly as per the requirement and also implemented and designed AWS virtual servers by ansible roles to ensure deployment of web applications
- Worked on building scripts and automated solutions using various scripting languages like Python, and YAML
- Developed Docker images using a Docker file and Docker container snapshots and managed Docker volumes also deployed Docker swarm using Ansible
- Converted existing Terraform modules that had version conflicts to utilize Cloudformation during Terraform deployments to enable more control of missing capabilities
- Environment: AWS, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, MQ server, Maven, Ansible, Shell, Python, YAML, Docker, Kubernetes, CloudWatch, Terraform.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters using Helm,created reproducible builds of K8 applications
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment ,scaling and management of docker containers
- Experienced in implementing and administering monitoring tools like Promethus, Grafana to monitor Kubernetes clusters
DevOps Engineer/Security Analyst
Primus Learning
Kansas City, KS
12.2015 - 05.2020
- Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using both Terraform and CloudFormation
- Design for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models
- Created patch management using Systems Manager automation for multi-region and multi-account execution
- Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using Elastic ache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes), etc
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks, etc
- Implemented Jenkins, GitHub, and Git for version control, code build, testing and release, and CI/CD
- Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification
- Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources
- Setup AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) for on-premise Active Directory (AD)
- Built kinesis dashboards and applications that react to incoming data using AWS-provided SDKs; and exported data from kinesis to other AWS services including EMR for analytics, S3 for storage, Redshift for big data, and Lambda for event-driven actions
- Implemented multiple container deployments to AWS and maintained sets of containers with deployments
- Setup, configured and used Ad Hoc ansible commands
- Design and architect self-healing, secured, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS
- Implemented maintenance and configuration of a user account for Dev, QA, and production servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, and Cloud Watch resources to communicate with each other using IAM
- Experience in migrating and implementing of multiple applications from on-premise to cloud using AWS services, SMS, DBMS, Cloud Formation, S3, Route 53, Glacier, EC2, RDS, SNS, Lambda, VPC, Cloud Trail, API gateway
- Provided safety reports and data analysis to building managers to inform security processes.
- Established company-wide security best practices and protocols to mitigate risk of data breach.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Experience participating in an IAM cross-functional role-modeling exercise with both business and technical users to create roles that accurately reflect the organization’s business and corresponding IT access authorizations to fulfill those Business needs.
- Experience with access models such as RBAC and ABAC
- Experience with enterprise IAM systems such as Oracle IAM, SailPoint, CyberArk.
- Experience with IAM technologies like Active Directory, LDAP, multi-factor authentication across different infrastructure topologies including external vendors is a plus
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Technology
12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
06.2012
Skills
- Operating systems: Windows, Linux, RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS
- Verbal and Writing Communication
- Production Problem Documentation
- Cloud Services: AWS, Azure ,Google cloud platform
- Monitoring Tools: , Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana ,Nagios ,Datadog
- Source control tools: GIT, GitHub
- CI/CD: Jenkins, CodeCommit
- Build tools: Maven, ANT, Gradle, Build forge, Cruise control
- GCP and Azure infrastructure platform
- Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory JFrog ,helm, gaile
- Configuration Management: Ansible Puppet, Chef
- Kubernetes:Gke, Eks ,Aks
- Infrastructure As Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Tracking Tools: Jira, Remedy, Clear Quest, ServiceNow, Confluence
- Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, PowerShell, JSON, YML, Python, Bash,
Timeline
AWS /Azure/Gcp DevOps Engineer - Wimora Technology
08.2020 - Current
DevOps Engineer/Security Analyst - Primus Learning
12.2015 - 05.2020
Southern New Hampshire University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering Technology
University of Yaounde - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
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