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Niyi Komolafe

DevOps Engineer
Rosenberg,TX

Summary

Results-driven Azure DevOps Engineer with 8 years of IT experience including Azure DevOps, Cloud solution architecture, Network Design, and System administration. Proficient in Multi-Cloud/DevOps and middleware operations. Experienced in maintaining system integrity and optimizing workplace processes. Skilled in leading Operation, DevOps using IAC and CI/CD pipeline with automation tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker. Proven track record of troubleshooting and providing innovative solutions. Dedicated mentor promoting cross-functionality across teams.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

AzureDevOps Engineer/Production Support

Optimum Tech/Siemens
Houston , Texas
2020.01 - Current
  • Hands-on knowledge on CI/CD, DevOps pipelines building, and deployment process with a focus on tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, K8s, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and AWS services.
  • Implemented DevOps practices across multiple cloud SAP environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
  • Build CI/CD from scratch and be responsible for maintenance.
  • Responsible for distribution and deployment of applications.
  • Design, configure, customize, develop, integrate, and test the application to meet the customer's requirement documentation.
  • Build, release engineering, and configuration management, which includes environment setup, build automation, continuous integration, scripting, and deployments.
  • Experience in deploying the artifacts in IIS, Nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, and WildFly Servers.
  • Experience in checking the code quality using SonarQube, and knowledge of SAST and DAST.
  • Performance testing for complex systems, build release, and environment planning, designing, implementation for projects across different technologies.
  • Automate compute engine and docker image builds with Azure Pipeline, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
  • Define IAM roles for applications to restrict the scope of resource access.
  • Experience with Amazon AWS Cloud services: EC2, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB, AMI, Auto scaling, Load balancing.
  • Implement AWS High availability with AWS ELB to perform balanced instances across multiple AZs.
  • Provision of highly scalable, durable, and available resources.
  • Utilized AOTS ticketing system to accurately track and delegate incoming issues companywide, prioritizing and resolving the most pressing issues.
  • Led coordination efforts for a large-scale system, lab, and data migrations between data infrastructures while keeping user disruptions to a minimum during the transition from development to production environment.
  • Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
  • Minimized disruptions to the data system by utilizing failback switching to retain data and productivity.
  • Deployed WAR, JAR, EAR files on WebLogic and Tomcat to maintain server integrity.
  • Relied upon by multiple teams to write and maintain documentation, and ensure accessibility of information.
  • Sound knowledge of UNIX/Linux, SQL, shell scripting, Mobaxterm, and Putty.
  • Experienced in the usage of CRUD for database select and execute purposes.
  • Automation, with the help of Autosys, for prompt scheduling, reporting, and monitoring of jobs.
  • Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of applications with JIRA dashboard.
  • Optimized queries and reduced users' resource load, increasing the efficiency of the company's EBS.
  • Built high-performance data integration solutions such as Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) package for data warehousing.
  • Provided support for web servers configuration and maintenance activities.
  • Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
  • Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Managed infrastructure components including virtual machines, storage devices, networks.
  • Worked closely with DevOps teams in order to design best practices for deploying applications into production environment.
  • Collaborated with developers in order to troubleshoot application related issues quickly.
  • Coordinated with other teams for successful rollouts of new features or bug fixes.
  • Developed procedures to automate code builds and deployments.
  • Resolved customer issues by establishing workarounds and solutions to debug and create defect fixes.
  • Collaborated with support team to assist client stakeholders with emergent technical issues and develop effective solutions.
  • Worked closely with systems analysts, engineers and programmers to understand limitations, develop capabilities and resolve software problems.
  • Updated software upon release of vendor patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
  • Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine design feasibility.
  • Leveraged Agile methodologies to move development lifecycle rapidly through initial prototyping to enterprise-quality testing and final implementation.

Middleware Administrator

Compressor Products International
Houston , Texas
2018.01 - 2020.01

  • Collaborated with development teams to understand their requirements and implemented solutions accordingly.
  • Provided technical support to users regarding any queries related to Middleware applications usage or configuration changes.
  • Managed application logs, monitored system resources utilization levels and took corrective measures when required.
  • Installed, configured and administered middleware applications such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic.
  • Directed installations of WebLogic, JBOSS servers, and configured Production and Non-Production domains.
  • Installed and configured Apache and IIS plugins for WebLogic and JBOSS cluster configurations for multiple instances.
  • Served as team mentor, bringing new hires and other team members up to speed with proper server protocols to ensure cohesive efforts and cross-functionality.
  • Created SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating, and implementing the communication link between the web server and the application server, optimizing efficiency.
  • Relied upon to write and adeptly modify existing Script, WLST, to automate startup/shutdown for WebLogic Servers.
  • Oversaw troubleshooting, utilizing thread and heap dump, and garbage collection analysis for WebLogic server issues.
  • Supported company middleware infrastructure with Bash and Shell scripting.
  • Using SQL Server Profiler, Extended Events, Query Store, Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) for performance and other third-party monitoring tools
  • Configured and managed network services, HTTP.
  • Backup and Recovery management using a GUI based tool (NetBackup 6.0)
  • Work on automation of AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Jenkins.
  • Design and build infrastructure on AWS cloud by using services including EC2, ECS, S3, ELB, and Auto Scaling.
  • Manage and maintain Linux-based physical and virtual servers.
  • Provided 24/7 support during peak production times, maintaining operational readiness to provide diverse support for various key issues using ticketing tools, such as BMC Remedy.
  • I have experience working with tools in CI/CD pipeline, including Jenkins and Ansible.
  • Monitored network performance to determine adjustments needed.

ServiceNow Admin/Dev

Gulf Pacific Solutions
Houston , Texas
2017.01 - 2018.01
  • Experience in using ITIL practices to implement ServiceNow applications.
  • Worked closely with IT and business partners to configure and improve core platform capabilities in accordance with ITIL best practices.
  • Experienced working in an agile Scrum environment, following Agile practices.
  • Created Catalog Requests and Record Producers to ensure proper requests to the end user.
  • Designed and developed ServiceNow solution, including creation, configuration, and customization of application, form design and layout, table, UI policies, service catalog, per business request.
  • Created custom Notifications for Incident, Problem, Change, and Catalog Request whenever required.
  • Designed custom tables and applications based on business needs.
  • Experienced in Service Catalog creation and maintenance, also in building workflows and record producers.
  • Analyzed data to identify problematic areas and suggest improvements.
  • Participated in the implementation of custom applications, modules, tables, and views as per the client's requirement.
  • Customization of form design and layout for various ITIL processes for Incident Management, Problem Management, Knowledge Management, Change Management, and Service Catalog.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering -

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Skills

  • Azure DevOps Expert
  • WebLogic Administration
  • AWS Architecture
  • Server Development
  • Database Architecture
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS VPC
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • SonarQube
  • JIRA
  • Data Recovery
  • Middleware
  • Documentation
  • Bash Scripting
  • Shell Scripting
  • Automation
  • Integration
  • JBOSS
  • Ticketing & Troubleshooting
  • Process Optimization
  • Linux Environments
  • ETL Informatica
  • Continuous integration
  • Software Development
  • Configuration Management
  • Incident Management
  • Continuous deployment
  • Containerization Technologies
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Version control systems
  • System Administration
  • System monitoring
  • Application Configuration
  • Technical Troubleshooting
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Server improvements
  • Dashboard creation
  • Agile Methodology
  • Technical Support
  • Load Balancing
  • Troubleshooting and diagnosis

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, 2023-01-01
  • Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, 2023-01-01
  • WebLogic 11G and 12C Configuration, Domain Deployment

Timeline

AzureDevOps Engineer/Production Support

Optimum Tech/Siemens
2020.01 - Current

Middleware Administrator

Compressor Products International
2018.01 - 2020.01

ServiceNow Admin/Dev

Gulf Pacific Solutions
2017.01 - 2018.01

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering -

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, 2023-01-01
  • Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, 2023-01-01
  • WebLogic 11G and 12C Configuration, Domain Deployment
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