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Samuel Ogah

Denver,CO

Summary

Senior Solution Architect/DevOps Engineer with 10 years of combined IT experience and 7 years of in-depth practical knowledge of designing, building, testing, and deployment of highly available, scalable, and resilient, cost optimized cloud-based modern serverless mobile/web application on private and public clouds, taking them through the development, testing, and production stages. AWS subject matter Expert with deep expertise in Amazon Web Services. Worked with development teams and operations to implement infrastructural design using IaC, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve DevOps processes and technologies to create CI/CD pipelines. Architecting planning and design, security, development and implementation, testing, observability and debugging applications. Source Code Management using GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Configuration Management using Terraform and Ansible, Continuous Integration/Automation using Jenkins, Deployment using Docker and Kubernetes, Continuous Testing using Selenium, Continuous Monitoring with Nagios, and Release Management. Automated CI/CD pipelines to push docker image to ECR and deployment to elastic container service powered by serverless Fargate to connect the applications frontend and the backend through API. Dashboard and application monitoring using new relic and Cloud Watch. Used Python and PHP for scripting.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Cloud Engineer

Insight Global
04.2022 - Current
  • Develop enterprise level microservices architectures and implemented containers in AWS using ECS and complementary services including integration patterns with container-based workloads in AWS
  • Built and configure CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of my terraform and cloud formation templates via azure DevOps,codepipeline ,Jenkins and gitlab with YAML and JSON
  • Deployed containerized application using docker onto a kubernetes cluster which was managed by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services
  • Configured AWS Lambda to execute code in response to triggers AWS services such as S3,DynamoDB,kinesis,SNS and Cloudwatch
  • Deployed serverless application service as ECS fargate ,ECR ,Dynamo db
  • Cloud operations team lead with daily standups, delegation
    of work and management of the offshore team and validating
    scope of work against work completed. Looking over
    deliverables
  • Build and configure a virtual data center in the AWS Cloud by provisioning a Virtual Private Cloud, Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, NACL’s, Route Tables and Elastic Load Balancers.
  • Responsible for monitoring instances by creating alarms and SNS
    notifications using cloud watch.

Cloud Engineer & Solutions Architect

27Global
, Remote
09.2021 - 04.2022
  • Implemented Jenkins, Codecommit, GitHub and Git for
    version control, Code-build, Code deploy, testing and release
  • Ensured data recoverability by implementing systems snapshot,AMIs, RDS Replicas and application-level backup to S3
  • Migrated applications from internal data centers to AWS Cloud.
  • Perform patching and upgrading multiple Development, Test and Production environment databases using services such as System Manager Maintenance Window.
  • Build AWS Cloud Formation templates from scratch to create multi region web applications and databases.
  • Designed and Developing solutions for CI/CD and Release management using Git, Jenkins, maven, Kubernetes from dev to production.
  • Worked with CI/CD Code Pipeline using AWS CodePipeline,
    AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy.
  • Designed and deployed three tier architecture with infrastructure as code that was highly available ,resilent ,secure and with high performance.

AWS DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect

Adomtech – Remote
01.2017 - 08.2021
  • Successfully created CloudFormation across multiple AWS accounts including DynamoDB and RDS configurations, Configured GitHub
  • Shell scripting of the servers and plugins using YAML, Python and CentOS Linux
  • Create Identity Access Management roles for various resources like EC2,RDS and S3 in order to communicate with each other
  • Performed data migration using AWS DataSync from on- premises legacy systems to AWS Cloud Infrastructure
  • Built a Codepiple and impemented AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy
  • Implemented Unit, Smoke, and Stress testing for application reliability

Product manager

Wipro -Remote
04.2020 - 04.2021
  • Layout the strategic roadmap for development of the Apple IOS app and Android app
  • Supported the engineering build-out of the product, and sales efforts for the product
  • Ensured that every phase of a particular project proceeds as scheduled
  • Identify project requirements, develop, and maintain project plans and schedules
  • Solid understanding of business fundamentals and the role of Mobile Application

IT Project Manager Scrum Master

Supreme Pro Clean LLC
Aurora, CO
03.2015 - 12.2017
  • Managed projects totaling 10M budget annually
  • Working with developers, operations, and product owners to create automated software projects
  • Engineering, Product Management, Increased revenue by 25% with cross-functional team who identified and closed operations leak
  • Improved customer satisfaction by 30% over 7months with customer service process improvements
  • Promoted empowerment of team and encouraged sustainable pace with high levels of quality for team which improved employee retention by 10%
  • Led all sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, daily scrum with development team and product managers resulting in production marketing features that reached 1 million users.

Computer Support Technician

Musket Corp
Williston, ND
08.2012 - 02.2015
  • Installed, configured and upgrade computer hardware, software, systems, network, printers
  • Documents, tracks, and monitors problem to ensure timely resolution in of help desk ticketing system.
  • Installed, modified, and repaired software and hardware to resolve technical issues.
  • Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.

Education

Master of Business - Data Anaytics

University of Louisiana

Associate of Science - Computer Science

South Dakota School of Mines And Technology, Rapid City, SD

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology, Business Administration

Colorado TechnicalUniversity, Denver, CO

Skills

    1Cloud Service Platform Expertise
    Amazon Wed Services

    Azure Cloud services


    2 Programming Languages
    Shell Scripting
    Python


    3 Network Management
    Amazon VPC, Cloud Front
    Amazon Route53
    AWS Direct Connect
    AWS Transit Gateway and Elastic
    Load Balancing

    4 Development & Operations (DevOps)
    Nexus
    Jenkins
    Git Hub


    5 Containers
    Dockers and Kubernetes
    Elastic Container Service
    Elastic Kubernetes Service


    6 Data and File Storage
    Amazon S3, EBS, EFS and Storage
    Gateway

    7 Data and Application Migration
    AWS Migration Hub
    Database Migration Service
    AWS Server Migration Service
    Snowball & Snowball Edge


    8 Cloud Automation and Orchestration
    Terraform
    Ansible
    Systems Manager
    Cloud Formation
    Amazon Lightsail
    Auto Scaling


    9 Operating system

    Windows ,Linux , Ubuntu, CentOS and RHEL


    10 Serverless Architecture
    AWS Lambda


    11 Management and Auditing
    Cloud Watch
    Cloud Trail
    Control Tower & Organizations
    Config, SNS, SES and SQS
    Service Catalog
    Trusted Advisor and Personal
    Health Dashboard


    12 Cost Management
    AWS Cost Explorer and AWS
    Budgets


    13 AWS Developer Tools
    Code Commit, Code Build, Code
    Deploy ,Codepipeline


    14 Other Skills
    Team Player /Coach
    Interpersonal Communication
    Multitasking
    Problem Solving
    Leadership
    Troubleshooting skills
    Microsoft Office, Jira and Slack

    C E R T I F I C A T I O N

  • 6X AWS Certified
  • PMP
  • Scrum Master
  • Comptia A


Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer - Insight Global
04.2022 - Current
Cloud Engineer & Solutions Architect - 27Global
09.2021 - 04.2022
Product manager - Wipro -Remote
04.2020 - 04.2021
AWS DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect - Adomtech – Remote
01.2017 - 08.2021
IT Project Manager Scrum Master - Supreme Pro Clean LLC
03.2015 - 12.2017
Computer Support Technician - Musket Corp
08.2012 - 02.2015
University of Louisiana - Master of Business, Data Anaytics
South Dakota School of Mines And Technology - Associate of Science, Computer Science
Colorado TechnicalUniversity - Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Business Administration
Samuel Ogah