Richard Falegan
DevOps Engineer/ Solution Architect
Clayton,NC
Summary
Am a skilled DevOps engineer/Solution Architect with 8+ years hands on experience configuring and managing infrastructures for enterprise level applications. Automating and optimizing mission critical deployment to AWS, leveraging Configuration management, CICD and DevOps processes. Am relentlessly focus on scalability, automation and performance. Am a critical thinker, a great team player, can work independently, flexible, fast learner and always eager to contribute to both team and organizational success.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE
Modern Medicine-Boca Raton
Boca Raton, FL
01.2022 - Current
- Build out of new environments for New clients using terraform for infrastructure's deployment and and Ansible for config management and dependencies.
- Support data-conversions team. Using jenkins job to stage prod database back-up on staging servers to run deltas and test application updates.
- Consolidating series of jobs on on jenkins to reduce turnaround time.
- work averagely on 5 JIra tickets per day.
- Troubleshooting application deployment errors. support releases and hotfixes
- Use New relic and Opsview to monitor our environment, oversight performance and mitigate issues arising.
- On call for a week every eight weeks
- Setting up access for new team members. and granting approved elevated access for existing members
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Provided technical assistance during operational changes via both on-site support and remotely.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
DevOps Engineer
CloudHight Consulting
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Part of 10 member team of DevOps Engineers who Provision several highly scalable enterprise-ready applications infrastructure to AWS cloud using automation tools.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.
- Use Ansible for continuous updates and batch jobs of over 100 servers thereby boosting quality and slashing customer complaint by 40%
- Configure and set up Newrelic as monitoring tools for infrastructure, JVM, APM, and application performance and setting up alerts to ensure quick response to issues.
- Researched and identified new technologies and tools helping to grow agile development environment.
- Set up Git repositories for agile teams .
- Develop and oversee knowledge base repositories regarding key interfaces and associate detailed documentation.
- Assist with Migration of clients data center and infrastructure from on premises to AWS cloud. Enabling hybrid environment for those that ll like to keep both.
- Analyzing storage needs and making recommendations based on AWS s3 storage classes, thereby helping clients save storage cost in tune of 100s of thousands of dollars.
- Overhaul shell deploy script to implement CICD process that reduces time to deploy from 4 hours to 1hour
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Troubleshooting system issues arising from cloud environment
- Wrote and updated documentation to outline technical design of entire project.
- Maintain Git workflow for version control, enhancing team effectiveness.
Junior DevOps Engineer
Rich N' Suzz
Cary, NC
03.2016 - 01.2018
- Building and maintaining templates and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes
- Updating all activities in Jira for application team in order to track status of user stories and defects.
- Implemented automated alerting around infrastructure issues which resulted in quicker and more efficient fixes.
- Acts as subject matter expert in infrastructure automation and owned all technical aspect of platform configuration
- Wrote code and scripting to maintain responsive scalable infrastructure leading to savings of $32,000 in annual server cost.
- Assisted with refining Software Development Life Cycle to fit system needs
- Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use
- Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend
Education
Training - Cloud Engineering
MotivaLogic Academy
Dublin, Ireland 06.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria 02.2002 - 05.2007
Skills
IAC Tools: Terraform
CI/CD: Jenkins,
SCM: Git, GitHub, Gitlab
Operating System: Amazon Linux, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Centos
Database: MySQL, DynamoDB, Aurora, Oracle, PostgreSQL
CM: Ansible
Cloud Platform: AWS
Containerization and Orchestration: Dockers and Kubernetes
AWS services: VPC, S3, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Security group, SNS, SQS, Cloud Architecture, Identity & Access Management, Route 53, ECR, ECS, Fargate, KMS, EKS, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS Cognito, EBS, and RDS
Certification
AWS Solution Architect-Associate
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE
Modern Medicine-Boca Raton
01.2022 - Current
AWS Solution Architect-Associate
10-2021
DevOps Engineer
CloudHight Consulting
01.2018 - 01.2022
Junior DevOps Engineer
Rich N' Suzz
03.2016 - 01.2018
Training - Cloud Engineering
MotivaLogic Academy
06.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Lagos
02.2002 - 05.2007