Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
References
Timeline
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Olugbenga Tifase

Owings Mill,MD

Summary

Results-driven and highly skilled DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Proven expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Linux Shell scripting, and Docker. Seeking a challenging role to contribute my skills and experience in optimizing software development and deployment processes.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Linwood Centre
04.2018 - Current
  • Expertise in CICD process using Jenkins and GITLAB
  • Lead and Deliver multiple release of F5 ingress Controller for Kubernetes and Openshift platforms
  • Designed and Developed Kubernetes custom Resource Definition for F5 Ingress controller
  • Identify potential vulnerabilities and recommend strategies to enhance overall system security
  • Implemented continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the delivery of software across various environment
  • Built, maintained, and optimized AWS infrastructure using IaC platforms such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Leveraged configuration management tools like Ansible and Chef to ensure consistency and scalability of AWS resources
  • Proficient in containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, to containerize applications and manage container orchestration
  • Utilized Jenkins and GitHub Actions for setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated code integration, testing, and deployment
  • Implemented version control, code review, and automated testing strategies within Git workflows
  • Monitored and managed network and server infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance
  • Utilized tools like Nagios, Zabbix, and Prometheus for real-time monitoring, alerting, and incident response
  • Administered Linux-based systems, performing tasks such as patch management, system optimization, and security hardening
  • Wrote custom scripts and automation workflows in Bash, Python, or other scripting languages to streamline routine administrative tasks
  • Collaborated closely with application development teams throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Work with core Kubernetes objects, including Deployments and Stateful Sets, for effective container orchestration
  • Implement best practices for Kubernetes configuration and management
  • Streamline deployment processes and enhance version control practices.

Linux System Administrator & DevOps Engineer

GEMSTONE SERVICES
09.2016 - 03.2018
  • As a fresher, I was introduced to the world of servlets, Microservices, REST API, Maven, Linux and SDLC Process
  • Designed and Automated Infrastructure as code project for test
  • Monitored and controlled disk space usage LVM
  • Designed and Developed configuration management process using Ansible
  • Administered and maintained Linux servers, performing tasks such as installation, configuration, optimization, backup, and recovery
  • Responsible for administering all server performance and ensuring availability for the same
  • Designed and maintained all system tools for all scripts and automation processes and monitor all capacity planning
  • Developed an infrastructure to provide support to all business requirements and performed troubleshooting on all tools and maintained multiple servers
  • Created Kubernetes Clusters ensuring that pods can autoscale
  • Maintained enterprise-class monitoring/management systems and associated networking technologies
  • (Nagios, Check_MK)
  • Creating new Ansible YAML, Play-books, Roles and bash shell scripts for application deployments
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline to automate the testing and deployment of microservices
  • Implemented automation scripts using Bash Shell for routine administrative tasks, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency
  • Developed a GitHub bot which responds to the issues and pull-requests raised with our opensources project in GitHub
  • Data Migration from on premise to cloud database.

Education

Bachelor - Integrated Soil Science

Federal University of Technology - Akure
05.2011

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Bash Script, Ruby
  • DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible
  • SonarQube, Sonartype Terraform
  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
  • Version Control tools: Continuous integration/Continuous Deployment, CICD, Ansible Playbook
  • Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus Grafana, ELK Stack
  • Scripting and Automation: Shell scripting

Certification

  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • CompTIA Linux+
  • CompTIA Security
  • AWS Solutions Architect

Accomplishments

  • Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 50% by implementing IaC
  • Improved deployment reliability by 95% by implementing CI/CD pipelines
  • Reduced AWS costs by 10% by optimizing resource utilization
  • Resolved critical production issues within 30 minutes on average
  • Successfully migrated all on-premises applications to AWS

References

Available upon request

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Linwood Centre
04.2018 - Current

Linux System Administrator & DevOps Engineer

GEMSTONE SERVICES
09.2016 - 03.2018

Bachelor - Integrated Soil Science

Federal University of Technology - Akure
Olugbenga Tifase