Simi Obasa
Dallas,TX
Summary
DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of experience in architecting resilient cloud infrastructures. Expertise in building, deploying, and scaling cloud solutions has resulted in significant cost savings through optimized infrastructure management. Focus on automation and performance optimization enhances operational efficiency and reliability. Proven track record in troubleshooting complex technical issues to ensure maximum uptime and seamless operations.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Engineer II (SME)
Amazon web services
Dallas, Texas
07.2022 - Current
- Provided expert-level technical support to diverse customers, assisting with production deployment, troubleshooting, and resolving complex infrastructure issues, achieving a 97% customer satisfaction rating.
- Directed and implemented multiple application and database migrations to AWS, ensuring seamless transitions and optimized performance.
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes Clusters (cloud/on-premises) with master/minion architecture, utilizing YAML files for pods, deployments, auto-scaling, load balancers, and health checks.
- Designed and developed CloudFormation templates to automate provisioning of EC2, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, IAM roles, and S3 buckets, improving deployment efficiency.
- Automated infrastructure deployment and upgrades using Terraform and CloudFormation, ensuring consistent and reproducible configurations across environments.
- Utilized Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudWatch, Amazon S3, API Gateway, and Lambda to build a modern microservices web application.
- Responded to customer tickets and assisted in troubleshooting escalated issues within hosted applications or provisioned infrastructure.
- Produced detailed documentation and provided mentorship to team members, enhancing operational efficiency and infrastructure knowledge.
Cloud Architect & DevSecOps Consultant
Deloitte Touche llp
Houston, TX
05.2020 - 06.2022
- Architected AWS solutions using EC2, Lambda, ECR, EKS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Groups, and S3, ensuring scalable and cost-effective infrastructure.
- Built highly reliable and fault-tolerant Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD, utilizing Groovy shared libraries and integrating Ansible for deployment automation.
- Developed secure Dockerfiles to build container images that minimized vulnerabilities and improved performance.
- Crafted reusable and modular Terraform and Terragrunt files for consistent Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments.
- Automated infrastructure deployments and upgrades using Terraform and CloudFormation, ensuring infrastructure scalability and resilience.
- Provisioned and managed Kubernetes clusters along with hosted applications using Helm charts and manifests for seamless deployment.
- Enhanced infrastructure security by implementing IAM, KMS, Vault, Docker Security Scanner, and SOPS, reducing attack vulnerabilities.
- Prepared capacity and architecture plans to create AWS Cloud environments to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
- Contributed to end-to-end automation by integrating Python and Bash scripts for repetitive tasks, significantly increasing operational efficiency.
Education
B.S Computer Science And Mathematics -
University of North Texas
Denton, TXSkills
- Linux Systems: Red hat/Centos/Ubuntu
- Scripting & Programming Language: Python, PowerShell, Bash/Shell, JavaScript, C, Java, YAML, JSON, VS code
- Source Code Management: GIT, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, DroneCI, Bamboo, Azure Pipelines, Gitlab Pipelines
- Infrastructure as code - Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM Template, BICEP
- Containerization - Docker/Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, Openshift
- Logging & Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk, ELK, DataDog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, CloudWatch, Azure Service Health, Azure Network Monitor
- Application/Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, NGINX, IIS, JBoss41, WebSphere, Web Logic 9x/10x, Gerrit
- Large scale cloud deployment with AWS - VPC, K8S, EC2, S3, WAF, IAM, ELB, ASG, Lambda
- Ticketing and Documentation: Jira, Service Now, Confluence, Kanba
Certification
- CSA Certified Cloud Security Knowledge
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Splunk Certified Power User
Websites
Timeline
Cloud Engineer II (SME)
Amazon web services
07.2022 - Current
Cloud Architect & DevSecOps Consultant
Deloitte Touche llp
05.2020 - 06.2022
B.S Computer Science And Mathematics -
University of North Texas
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