OLA YUSUF
Richardson,TX
Summary
A detailed Solutions Architect & DevOps Engineer skilled in multi-cloud Environments with 8 years of proven history designing and maintaining highly functional cloud-based applications. Oversees routine troubleshooting and updates to reduce network downtime and the likelihood of security compromises. Collaborates with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems. Well-versed in critical DevOps practices, ensuring seamless deployment of applications, combining financial and business goals with pragmatic end-user feedback to optimize post-production updates. Adept at working with technical and non-technical people to accomplish shared objectives and achieve business success with innovative technical solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Solutions Architect & Devops
MATHEMATICA
05.2022 - Current
- Designed and implemented a hybrid AWS-based infrastructure using tools such as EC2, S3, code deploy, ELB ASG, and Cloud Formation, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 45% improvement in application performance.
- Collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders' needs.
- Led a team of developers in designing and deploying an AWS-based data pipeline using tools such as Kinesis and Redshift, resulting in a 75% reduction in data processing time and a 50% improvement in data accuracy.
- Collaboration with a team of engineers in the design and implementation of a disaster recovery solution using tools such as Kubernetes and Helm, resulting in a 90% reduction in recovery time and a 100% recovery success rate.
- Monitored and reviewed Weekly and Biweekly Releases for all the projects' Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery models.
- Implemented an AWS-based security solution using tools such as IAM and CloudTrail, resulting in a 90% reduction in security incidents and a 100% compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Leverage AWS API to manage resources on AWS for many services such as EC2, S3, IAM, ELB and created python script using AWS API Calls to manage all resources on AWS.
- Developed and implemented a monitoring and alerting solution using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, resulting in a 50% reduction in incident response time and a 30% improvement in system availability.
- Set up Cloud alarm rules for operational and Performance Metrics for our AWS Resources and Applications, this improved Operational Performance by up to 50%, and made it easier for us to observe a single platform across multiple infrastructures.
- Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS Services.
- This enhanced security by 55% through data encryption and supported the transfer of data on SSL.
DevOps Engineer/SRE, Leader
First LeaderSOFT INC
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Set up a Linux server with the necessary software and tools for the web application.
- I Created a deployment pipeline using Jenkins, which included building the application, running tests, and deploying it to the server.
- Configured the server for optimal performance and security, including setting up firewalls, SSL certificates, and monitoring tools.
- With our multi-Cloud deployment approach, Led the migration of the organization's legacy on-premises application to Azure, resulting in improved agility, disaster recovery, and security.
- Led the migration of this healthcare organization's electronic medical records system to Azure, resulting in improved performance, security, and compliance.
- Implemented a DevOps pipeline (CI/CD), leveraging Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
- Automated routine processes and system tasks using PowerShell scripts: created PowerShell functions, modules, debugged and troubleshooted scripts for various Windows platforms.
- Responsible for Azure authentication, authorization, and role-based access control (RBAC).
- Our team developed and deployed an automated infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and ARM templates, resulting in a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 40% improvement in infrastructure scalability.
- Designed and implemented an Azure-based CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Azure DevOps and Git, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time and a 75% reduction in deployment errors.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Walgreens
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure stack services, including Compute, Web & Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, Azure Data Lake, HDInsight Clusters, Azure SQL, and ARM focusing on automation, created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions not met.
- Implemented Azure Hybrid integration to integrate the applications, data, and processes using API'sWorked with Azure AD, Azure Blob Storage, and Data Factory to compose data storage, movement, and processing micro-services into automated data pipelines and have used Azure compute services and Azure Web apps.
- We deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS) into secure VNets and subnets, creating pipelines for deploying code from GitHub to the Kubernetes cluster in the form of Docker containers using Spinnaker.
- She worked on Server services (Azure Functions), created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions, and Enabling Application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the Applications using the VSTS.
- Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as code, Execution plans, Resource
- Graphs, Change Automation, and Implemented Terraform modules for deploying applications across Azure.
- Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure cloud environment to host migrated IaaSVMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases. Established connection from Azure to On-premises data center using Azure ExpressRoute for Single and Multi-subscription connectivity.
- Implemented Jenkins jobs to create Azure Infrastructure from GitHub repositories containing
- Terraform code and created on-premises active directory authentication using automation with Ansible playbooks.
- Worked on Docker-Compose, and Docker-Machine to create Docker containers for testing applications in the QA environment and automated the deployment to Nexus, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- Configured and set up an environment within Kubernetes Cluster with a master and three minions. Collaborating with the development team to create Docker and Kubernetes containers for each microservice and installing all required dependencies for each container.
- They are written the Ansible playbooks, which are the entry point for Ansible provisioning. The automation is defined through tasks using YAML format to set up the Continuous Delivery pipeline and run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.
- We are experienced in building pipelines for distributed stream processing using Kafka and for metrics evaluation using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Integrated Docker container-based test infrastructure to Jenkins CI test flow and set up build environment integrating with GIT and JIRA to trigger builds using Webhooks and Slave Machines.
- Created a Jenkins pipeline to drive all microservices builds out to Docker Hub, then deployed to Kubernetes, created pods, and configured Kubernetes Replication controller.
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
FUSION SOLUTIONS, INC
01.2015 - 12.2017
- Continuous monitoring and health checks of the host machines and cleaning up the workspace activities. Worked closely with software developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
- Analysis of error logs in all Jenkins and Bit Bucket, Artifactory, and SonarQube.
- Installation of DevOps tools in Linux platform and connecting to each other.
- Worked with Bit Bucket to create projects and repositories and provide access to users.
- Provide support to other team members on Jenkins and Bit bucket etc.
- Performed software configuration/release management activities for different Java applications.
- Designed distributed private cloud system solution using Kubernetes (Docker) on CoreOS. Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, and Stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks and has Integrated Ansible with Jenkins.
- Managed Nexus repository to download artifacts during builds in Jenkins and integrated Ant and GIT to deploy project-related tags.
- Installed and configured Nagios as a monitoring tool for disk usage, CPU utilization, list of open files etc And sending alerts to our teams based on the same Setup threshold alerts in Nagios XI and updated contact definitions to notify potential service or host interruptions.
- Maintained build-related scripts developed in Ant and Power Shell Modified build configuration files, including Ant's build.xml.
- Involved in migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure Database using SQL Azure Migration Wizard and used Python API to upload agent logs 3 into Azure blob storage.
- Created and Maintained Subversion repositories, branches, and tags.
- Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Application Server.
- Installed sonar on Jenkins server and configured with the build process for the code analysis process for better code quality and rapid feedback for development teams and managers.
- Working with Azure Artifactory with Artifacts (War, Jar, Tar.gz, ear, pom) along with deploying project maven-based dependencies to Artifactory.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
ECOLE SUPERIEURE SAINTE FELICITE ( E.S.S.F )
Cotonou Benin11.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Lagos State University
Ojo Lagos08.2009
Skills
- Aws
- Azure
- Cloud formation
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Agile
- Java
- Python
- Powershell
- Cloud shell
- Jira
- Confluence
- Git
- Bitbucket
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Database
- Linux&Windows
- Kafka, Log stash, Splunk Prometheus/ Grafana
- Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, Azure Dev Test Labs, And Azure DevOps Server
Accomplishments
- In the same project, led a team of engineers in the design and implementation of a disasterrecovery solution using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup, resulting in a 90% reduction inrecovery time and a 100% recovery success rate
- Developed and implemented a monitoring and alerting solution using Azure Monitor and Log
- Analytics, resulting in a 50% reduction in incident response time and a 30% improvement insystem availability
- Cost Optimization
- Used Azure DevTest Labs to create and manage the development and testing environments,to save costs on VMs
- Used Azure Cost Management and Billing to monitor usages and identify areas to optimizecosts
- Used Azure Advisor to identify underutilized resources and resize them to save costs With thisapproach io was able to save costs significantly
- Lead a Team of Engineers in the Design and Implementation of disaster recovery sollutions
- Developed and Implemented Monitoring and alert solution using AWS Monitor and Log
- Analytics
- Cost Optimization using different AWS Cost optimization Services
- Billing Monitoring and Alerts Setup
- AWS Backup Services Setup for Application as well as Infra backup.
Certification
AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE -CERTIFIED
AZURE SOLUTION ARCHITECT-CERTIFIED
Work Availability
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Timeline
AWS Solutions Architect & Devops
MATHEMATICA
05.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer/SRE, Leader
First LeaderSOFT INC
01.2020 - 04.2022
Cloud Solutions Architect
Walgreens
01.2018 - 12.2019
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
FUSION SOLUTIONS, INC
01.2015 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
ECOLE SUPERIEURE SAINTE FELICITE ( E.S.S.F )
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Lagos State University
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