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SeniorSoftwareEngineer

OLUFEMI OLAKAYODE

Houston,TX

Summary

Highly motivated Azure Cloud/Devops Engineer with over 6 years experience in maintaining and enhancing complex cloud environment through building engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications in the production environment across the Azure public cloud platform. Highly keyed in keeping my skills up to date with the latest technologies; solve problems, even with complex and high-uncertainty challenges and focusing on increasing the velocity of development and the delivery of applications while minimizing downtime.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Hugo & cat
New York, NY
03.2023 - Current
  • Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.
  • Securing Azure Infrastructure using Azure Security Solutions; Azure Sentinel, Azure Application Gateway, Front Door, NSGs, Azure Firewall, and WAF Firewall Policies and Monitoring Infrastructure wide Security using Azure Security Centre.
  • Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.
  • Used PowerShell Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support.
  • Troubleshoot pod and other cluster issues on a Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Implementing and Managing Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure and working on Worked in DevOps group running Jenkins in a Docker container.
  • Migrating virtual environments VMWare to Azure cloud using ASR.
  • Designed, developed, and maintained business enterprise solutions as mobile, windows, web or distributed application.
  • Configured VMs availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
  • Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policy and routing.
  • Using Terraform to create staging environment and destroy same after application testing to manage Azure cost.
  • Designed and Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
  • Automated the release pipeline to achieve zero touch deployments using Jenkins, ansible, dockers.
  • Setting up Azure active directory permissions for the Team and managing all infrastructure support services.
  • Setup monitoring using grafana, application insights and Azure monitor to ensure proper monitoring of the cluster.
  • Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
  • Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Vodafone UK
London, United
12.2021 - 03.2023
  • Maintained high availability through fault tolerance, system standardization, and vigilant disaster recovery planning.
  • Utilized automation tool such as Terraform and Ansible, for automating deployments, monitoring, management and incident response for the platforms.
  • Proven experience in working on Azure environments & its offerings (PaaS, SaaS or IaaS), PowerShell, Loadbalacing, Firewall and DNS.
  • Performed builds, and code changes, installation procedures, and systems including source code control and issue tracking while utilizing VSCode software.
  • Assisted with branching/merging in support of parallel development requirements.
  • Monitored usage and changed configurations to improve capacity or performance of servers.
  • Provided collaboration systems support that includes the full range of lifecycle management system engineering, development, testing and implementation services, as needed and as directed by the agency to provide effective and efficient operations of the O365 platform.
  • Supporting operations activities including: monitoring and managing O365 systems, investigating and resolving system issues, documenting issue causes and resolutions, and providing technical assistance to end users.
  • Created dashboards in VSTS for CI/CD pipelines, Work items and bugs.
  • Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
  • Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and Managed releases of Helm packages.

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Vendease Limited
London, United Kingdom
11.2020 - 11.2021
  • Assisted with development and implementation of common operations model for Azure networking systems operations.
  • Performed PowerShell scripting to do Patching, Imaging, and Deployments in Azure.
  • Supported cloud teams in the design and decision-making process to ensure adherence to best practice.
  • Deployed Azure infrastructure as code via Terraform AzureRM provider, Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines within Azure DevOps.
  • Implemented and stayed abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
  • Designed and deployed dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on Cloud Infrastructure Automation using infrastructure as code such a Terraform.
  • Preparing capacity and architecture plans to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases
  • Worked on Azure suites like Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake(ADLS), Azure Data Factory(ADF) V2, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Service Bus, Azure key Vault, Azure Analysis Service(AAS), Azure Blob Storage, Azure Search, Azure App Service, Azure data Platform Services.
  • Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker as well as Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
  • Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.

Azure Devops Engineer

Integrate Commercial Brokerage LLC
Dubai, UAE
01.2018 - 11.2020
  • Created corporative application for business purpose.
  • Develop on ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC.
  • Build Database through code first in MVC.
  • Participated in system specification meetings, analyzed user requirements, coordinated with coders and team members.
  • Followed Agile and Scrum Methodology in Communication and collaboration, with functioning software.
  • Working with VS2010/VS2013 .NET Framework 4.0/4.5, Asp.net, c# .Net and MVC Web Application.
  • Extensively working with User Interface using HTML5, DOM, COM, CSS, Bootstrap, Java Script, JQuery, Json Data and Angular JS.
  • Extensively Working with Whole data base moving to LINQ , Entity Frame work to SQL Server 2008/2014(Stored Procedures, triggers, tables, Views, etc).
  • For User's information and associate ID's Supervisor ID's checking in DB reports (SSRS, SSIS using BI) for that Using SQL server 2008/2014 and SQL server Management studio.
  • Using Tortoise SVN/TFS for version control.
  • Extensively using browser for checking developing pages for debugging the application (Google Chrome, IE and Firebug of Firefox browser).
  • Other using language - HTML5, Ajax, Jquery, Bootstrap, Responsive, WordPress and etc.

Security Analyst

Leadway Assurance
Abuja, Nigeria
06.2015 - 12.2017
  • Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
  • Provide initial support and resolve security issues reported through monitoring tools or by users, such as internet access problems, virus/malware attacks, and email security.
  • Collaborate with the security team to promptly respond to client requests for security briefings and provide recommendations to the company as needed.
  • Manage and utilize enterprise logging and SIEM tools to automate threat detection and behavioral analysis.
  • Work with system and development teams to ensure consistent security practices across the department and handle requests for DNS updates or SSL certificates.
  • Support the network team in configuring secure VPN services and resolving networking and performance issues.
  • Provide intelligence on upcoming malware and attack threats.
  • Conduct physical and digital vulnerability assessments and assist relevant teams in remediation efforts.
  • Conduct forensic and external investigations in partnership with HR and partners.
  • Collaborate with project teams to deliver security overviews for new and ongoing projects.

Education

Master of Science - Management

University of South Wales
Wales, United Kingdom
09.2021

Higher National Diploma - Management

Federal Polytechnic Ado
Nigeria
05.2014

Skills

  • Meeting Participation
  • Direct Server Support
  • Strategic Project Planning
  • Performance Management
  • Compute(Virtual Machines, App Service, Scale Sets, Azure Functions)
  • Containers (Azure Kubernetes, Container Instances)
  • Databases (Cosmos DB, Azure MySQL, Azure Maria DB, Azure SQL, Azure PostgreSQL)
  • DevOps (Azure DevOps, Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, Test Plans)
  • Identity (Azure Active Directory, AAD Domain Services, AAD B2C, Azure Information Protection)
  • Management (Microsoft Azure Portal, Azure Advisor, Cloud Shell, Azure Backup, Azure Cost Management, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Scheduler)
  • Storage (File Storage, Archive Storage, Disk Storage, Blob Storage, Queue Storage, Data Box)
  • Networking (Virtual Network, Application Gateway, Azure DNS, ExpressRoute, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Azure CDN, Traffic Manager)

Additional Information

  • IAC Tools: Experienced in automating software build, deployment and server configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins & Git.
  • Experience using open source SCM tools such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and containers such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
  • Exposure to Azure DevOps practices and automation of software testing, delivery and infrastructure changes.
  • Delivery of scalable Microsoft Azure solutions for DevOps, with a focus on Azure IaaS and PaaS (Azure DevOps, Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, Test Plans.
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines/Release, Azure Compute – VMs, KeyVault, Storage, Networking, Azure Front Door.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux systems internals with a good understanding of Azure networking and protocols.
  • Deploy Azure infrastructure as code via Terraform AzureRM provider, Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines within Azure DevOps.

Certification

  • AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty

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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Hugo & cat
03.2023 - Current

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Vodafone UK
12.2021 - 03.2023

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Vendease Limited
11.2020 - 11.2021

Azure Devops Engineer

Integrate Commercial Brokerage LLC
01.2018 - 11.2020

Security Analyst

Leadway Assurance
06.2015 - 12.2017

Master of Science - Management

University of South Wales

Higher National Diploma - Management

Federal Polytechnic Ado

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