Richard Antwi
Www.linkedIn.com/in/richard-antwi-b947b9264
Summary
Smart DevOps Engineer with a career spent in IT designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure. Proficient in AWS and GCP cloud, Linux Administration, automation, and improving processes to facilitate ongoing technical support to internal customers. Skilled in Bash and Python scripting languages to drive innovation and improve the efficiency and agility of software delivery. Strong collaborator with excellent communication and leadership skills. Adept at working with teams under Agile or independently in fast-paced settings.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Data Service Group
Bear, DE
03.2021 - Current
Implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform to provision GCP resources, including virtual machines, storage buckets, networking components, and load balancers. Used Terraform modules for reusability and maintainability.
Deployed and managed containerized applications on GKE. Set up Kubernetes clusters with high availability, auto-scaling, and load balancing for seamless application deployment and scaling.- Leveraged AWS cloud technologies to design and implement scalable database solutions, optimizing resource allocation and cost-effectiveness.
- Developed automation scripts using shell scripting and Python to streamline database management tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce manual intervention.
- Implemented robust security measures, including authentication, access controls, and data encryption, to protect sensitive data stored in the cloud databases.
- Administered Git repositories, overseeing version control, pull requests, and code reviews to foster efficient and collaborative software development practices.
- Led a project at work using a Python script to know the state of instances, types, and names, sending SNS notifications to both the dev and QA teams through Cloudwatch after integrating the script in a lambda function on AWS cloud.
- Utilized Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management, ensuring efficient and scalable deployment of cloud resources.
- Deployed pods into the Kubernetes QA cluster using helm chart
- Led a serverless project taking inputs of employee data, hosted on an S3 bucket, using API gateway and a DynomoDB to store the data using lambda function; all the project was hosted on AWS cloud.
Linux System Administrator
Data Service Group
Bear, DE
02.2017 - 02.2021
- Analyzed equipment performance records to determine the need for repair or replacement.
- Reduced service backlog by resolving daily tickets efficiently.
- Deployed Ansible playbook to patch 200+ webservers
- Conducted data migration from on-premises to AWS
- Configured a bash shell script that helped the middleware team to automate routine tasks on configurations and installations of packages, repetitive tasks such as backup, and system updates on a cron job in our Linux/Unix environment.
- Installed, configured, and maintained Linux servers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian Enterprise) for production, development, and test environments.
- Managed user accounts and file systems using Linux command-line tools.
- Configured and managed network services, including DNS, DHCP, VPN, and VLAN.
- Implemented security measures, including SELinux, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and SSH.
- Managed and monitored virtualization platforms using VMware, and VirtualBox.
- Set up monitoring systems using Nagios.
SQL Server Database Administrator
Willvan Financial Service
Norcross, GA
03.2015 - 02.2017
- Created and monitored performance metrics to keep databases functioning at optimal capacity.
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security
- Provide 24/7 support for critical production systems
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support
- Implementing performance tuning on the databases
- Involved in SQL security/planning, administering and creating user accounts for proper access
- Performed database backups for production, test, and development servers and restored backups to ensure that we had good backups
Education
Bachelor of Science - Building Technology
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Kumasi, Ghana08.2000
Skills
- Versioning tool -Git & GitHub
- CI/CD -Jenkins, Maven, Ansible
- Ticket Tracking tool-Jira
- Containerization tool-Docker, Docker compose, Amazon ECR, Kubernetes
- Cloud Infrastructure-AWS and GCP(IaC-Terraform, CLI/API), EC2, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, ELB, SNS,EKS, GKE, ECR, Auto-Scaling Group, Security Group,IAM, Amazon S3,Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud SQL
- Operating Systems -Windows, Linux/Unix,Ubuntu
- Web/App Servers-Apache, Tomcat, Nginx
- Scripting Language -bash shell, Python3
- Monitoring tools -Amazon Cloudwatch, Prometheus & Grafana
Timeline
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Data Service Group
03.2021 - Current
Linux System Administrator
Data Service Group
02.2017 - 02.2021
SQL Server Database Administrator
Willvan Financial Service
03.2015 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Building Technology
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
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