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MICHAEL OKODUGHA

Wichita Falls,TX

Summary

6+ years of diverse experience in developing, support and implementation as a cloud DevOps engineer.

  • Good knowledge of AWS and its services
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud front, Cloud Watch, VPC, CloudFormation, Control Tower, AWS Organizations etc.
  • Worked on Salesforce Cloud for CI/CD setup and deployments using Copado integration tool with GitHub repository
  • Worked on CI/CD workflow setup in Jenkins and in AWS environments
  • Onboarded multiple applications to Teamcity for CI/CD
  • Worked on Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible

Skills

Engineering practices:

  • CI/CD
  • IaC
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Scripting Languages
  • Network Fundamentals
  • Configuration Management
  • GitHub collaboration
  • Agile development methodologies
  • Programming Languages: Java, C#, Net, Python
  • HTML
  • Software Deployment
  • Virtualization
  • Databases: Oracle, MongoDB
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Cloud computing best practices
  • Containerization
  • OS administration
  • SDLC methodologies
  • Network administration
  • Source code management

Technologies:

  • Linux
  • Ansible
  • Bash
  • Grafana
  • Apache Kafka
  • Cloud Security Posture Management
  • Jira
  • Python
  • Secure SDLC
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Docker
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Work History

Project Role: DevOps Engineer / SRE Engineer

Charter Communications Inc
04.2022 - 03.2024

Team size: 6 members

Responsibilities:

  • Migrating EventStore DB platforms (DB clusters and auxiliary toolings).
  • Developing a solution (REST API microservice applications) for Akamai and internal cloud configuration management tool to stream events into Kafka.
  • Developing several REST API providers (parts of SRE platform to manage system states and configurations) for several systems and services (EventStoreDB, Slack, Akamai, Kubernetes, and others).
  • Leading development activities within DevOps team for GitOps tooling (Github API, Jenkins, Kubernetes): facilitating grooming and standup sessions and PR reviews.
  • Continuously increased monitoring coverage for SRE solutions (exposing metrics from apps, managing Prometheus alerts, creating and supporting Grafana dashboards).
  • Continuously conducting performance analysis of Golang applications. Found several performance bottlenecks (concurrency anti-patterns, blocking I/O cases) and fixed them, boosting performance from 2 to 10 times.

Database: EventStore DB, In memory

Tools: Azure CLI, JIRA, PagerDuty, xMatters, Confluence, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Akamai Luna Portal, Azure DevOps, Golang, SonarQube

Technologies: HashiCorp Stack (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad), Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GIT, Azure, Ansible, Linux, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Nginx, Envoy, Golang

Project Role: Build Engineer

Elevance Health
05.2020 - 11.2021

Team size: 10 members

Responsibilities:

I was part of a team migrating all the AWS CloudFront from WAFv1 to WAFv2 in order to comply with HITRUST standards.

  • AWS infrastructure terraforming
  • Deploying AWS services and AWS release management
  • Migrating AWS services to meet HITRUST and HIPAA compliance
  • Managing entire AWS infrastructure as IaC
  • Working on creating multiple AWS Config Custom and Managed rules in order to audit multiple resources and comply with HITRUST

Database: MySQL, CosmosDB, MS SQL Server

  • Streamlined communication between development and operations teams through effective use of project management tools and regular status updates.

Tools: AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, JIRA, Notion, GitHub

Technologies: Terraform, Linux, AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, Python

Project Role: DevOps/Engineer

Honest Inc
06.2018 - 03.2020

Team size: 5

Responsibilities:

  • Automate the AWS account onboarding process
  • Automate deployment of IAM roles using Terraform
  • Integrate Cloudability
  • Migrate Terraform resources from one repo to another

Tools: Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Jenkins

Technologies: AWS, Python,

DevOpsTeam size: 8

  • Implemented IT infrastructure upgrades, ensuring minimal downtime during the transition process.

Responsibilities:

  • Reworked GitlabCI pipelines in more suitable and stable way
  • Migrated architecture and services from Kubernetes to AWS serverless infrastructure
  • Solved security issues
  • Supported all infrastructural and CI/CD activities

Database: PostgreSQL, Opensearch

Tools: GitlabCI, AWS CDK

Technologies: AWS CDK, AWS Cloudfront, S3, Lambda, ECS, Fargate

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Ambrose Alli University
Edo State, Nigeria
11.2007

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - associate

Nucamp Bootcamp U.S Backend, SQL, and DevOps with Python Bootcamp Graduate


Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
MICHAEL OKODUGHA