Mike Adufe
Mansfield,TX
Summary
10+ years of cumulative professional IT experience, first as a system administrator experienced in managing and setting up UNIX and Linux-based servers and storages hosting critical applications for telecommunication service providers and extensive years in practicing DevOps, Cloud Automation & Quality Engineering.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Dell Technologies
05.2020 - Current
- Managed AWS resources in the cloud and maintained the CI/CD pipeline for a fast-paced, robust application development environment
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, and Slack
- Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML
- Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in GitHub for Agile teams
- Integrated GitHub webhooks into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process
- Created Dockerfile and automated Docker image creation using packet, Jenkins, and Docker
- Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible
- Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube and Veracode
- Set up Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS
- Migrated legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS by setting up CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps
- Created WebApps (PaaS solutions) on the Azure portal to deploy web applications using Azure DevOps pipelines.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Epsilon
08.2019 - 04.2020
- Managed and automated infrastructure deployment using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Built CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitHub CI/CD
- Worked with EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB, S3, EMR, Redshift, and supporting networking and management/monitoring services
- Developed high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using AWS technologies
- Built enterprise-class, highly available CI/CD pipelines
- Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
- Deployed and maintained Microservices in Dev & QA environment
- Implemented docker-maven-plugin in maven pom.xml to build docker images for all microservices
- Used Docker file to make the docker images from the java jar files.
Unix System Administrator
Gray Strategy Consultants
08.2012 - 07.2016
- Troubleshooted and identified faulty hardware issues on customer IN/VAS Linux server platforms
- Planned activities around the replacement of defective hardware on Linux servers
- Communicated with customers on server maintenance's impact on live traffic
- Reviewed maintenance MOPs with customers and level 2 support engineers
- Wrote Cron-scripts to perform scheduled activities like database backups and log file purging
- Installed new software patches on Linux servers and monitored stability after installations.
Unix System Administrator
Agile Sentinel
03.2011 - 07.2012
- Ensured 24/7 uptime on clients' Server Platforms
- Performed hardware and software installation and upgrades on servers and storage
- Troubleshot server hardware and software faults
- Consulted in the procurement and installation of Field Replacement Units (FRUs)
- Performed monthly health checks on customers' servers and scheduled preventive maintenance.
Education
Bachelor of Science (BSC) Industrial Mathematics -
Ambrose Alli University
Edo State, Nigeria01.2003
Skills
- JIRA
- SonarQube
- Nexus
- Artifactory
- Jenkins
- Slack
- Azure DevOps
- Ant
- Maven
- MS Build
- SVN
- Git
- GitHub
- S3 Bitbucket
- GitLab
- Azure Git
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Vault
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- CDK
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Tomcat
- WebLogic
- Apache
- JBoss
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Linux
- Windows
- HP-UX
- Solaris
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- EC2
- VPC
- EBS
- NLB/ALB
- SNS
- S3
- IAM
- CloudWatch
- Lambda
- Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- Java
- Groovy
- HCL
- YAML
- Python
- JSON
- Node Js
- Angular
- Shell
- Bash
- NodeJS
- PHP
- SCRUM
- KANBAN
- UNIX Shell Scripts (Ksh, Bash)
- Git Bash
- Putty
- ITerm
Websites
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSMI) - Scrum.org
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 4.6) - Scaled Agile Framework
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Additional Information
Highly motivated, energetic individual, a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Additional knowledge in Snowflake administration, including creating and managing Snowflake warehouses, monitoring user activity, and optimizing query execution plans.
Training
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Dell Technologies
05.2020 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer
Epsilon
08.2019 - 04.2020
Unix System Administrator
Gray Strategy Consultants
08.2012 - 07.2016
Unix System Administrator
Agile Sentinel
03.2011 - 07.2012
Bachelor of Science (BSC) Industrial Mathematics -
Ambrose Alli University