Tobi Popoola
Dallas,TX
Summary
Critical thinking DevOps engineer, maintaining highly functional digital systems for uninterrupted workflows. Efficient Cloud Engineer with over 6 years of experience assembling cloud infrastructure. Utilizes strong managerial skills by negotiating with vendors and coordinating tasks with other IT team members. Implements best practices to create cloud functions, applications, and databases. Adept at installing network components, adding new lines, and configuring components. Sets up, troubleshoots, and optimizes peripheral devices. Proficient in updating software and hardware to meet performance demands. Oversees routine maintenance checks and software update schedules to reduce network downtime and likelihood of security compromises. Loves collaborating with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills, Abilities to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS DevOps Engineer
VetEZ- Veterans Affairs
01.2022 - Current
- Lead the QA team in creating, implementing, and managing procedures to uphold software and system quality across the development lifecycle
- Deploy code via GIT and push codes to GitHub
- Experience working with tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible and Jira
- Prioritize, assign, and track agent tasks to completion, including work in external applications to ensure customer issues are quickly resolved using Amazon Connect
- Collaborated with support team to assist client stakeholders with emergent technical issues and develop effective solutions
- Orchestrated automation workflows with Ansible, reducing manual intervention and ensuring consistency
- Implemented automation of infrastructure on the AWS Cloud using CloudFormation templates,
- deployed LAMP web apps on Amazon Linux instances, provisioned EC2 instance, created S3 buckets with bucket policy, build RDS database, DynamoDB tables, and assess applications for exposure and vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector.
- Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
- Manage security keys using AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in a wide range of AWS services
- Apply Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance to EC2
- Build and improve the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon web services
- Design and execute test plans to guarantee compliance with organizational guidelines and user needs
- Write high-quality infrastructure-as-code that automates the provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring infrastructure
- Run Infrastructure as code using Terraform for various CSP's and CloudFormation scripts to build AWS Infrastructure and resources
- Install and configure Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence) and LAMP application on EC2 instances and perform various software installations
- Provision user accounts using IAM in collaboration with enterprise Active Directory
- Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads
- Manage security keys using AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in a wide range of AWS services
- Perform system monitoring using Nagios, CloudWatch and New Relic
- Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities
- Hands on Experience in NoSQL technology like MongoDB(Crud Operations, Indexing Replication, Aggregation, various ops manager activity)
- Deployed and managed applications running on a mix of Kubernetes and AWS
- Automated the deployment of cloud servers using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS with the help of Python
- Led a team in Migrating all applications from ECS to EKS Eliminate data silos with a single storage platform to Optimize costs with tiered storage and policy management
- Use advanced automated testing tools and frameworks to simplify testing procedures and enhance the effectiveness and scope of testing
- Implementing changing as IAC using terraform, also Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization automate client management systems for the efficient maintenance of client accounts
- Oversee all phases of development of the new Java-based vendor application system for the financial services industry, from conceptualization and design to progress and deployment
- Preformed end-to-end architecture and implementation assessments of various AWS services like Amazon EMR, Redshift, S3
- Designed and developed Security Framework to provide fine-grained access to objects in AWS S3 using AWS lambda, DynamoDB
- Set up and worked on Kerberos authentication principals to establish secured network communication on cluster and testing of HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce to access cluster for new Users
- Implement machine learning algorithms using python to predict the quantity a user might want to order for a specific item so we can automatically suggest using kinesis firehose and S3 data lake
- Use AWS EMR to transform and move large amounts of data in and out of other AWS data stores and databases, Such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB
- Developed software for embedded systems, coding solutions for both new installations and in-situ hardware
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Docker to streamline application releases
- Assisted with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS SNS
- Implement and maintain resources using terraform to schema RDD
- Used Spark SQL for Scale and amp python interface that automatically converts RDD case classes to schema RDD
- Import data from different sources like HDFS/HBase into Spark RDD and perform computations using PySpark to generate the output response
- Create Lambda functions with Boto3 to de-register unused AMIs in all application regions to reduce the cost for EC2 resources
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Git, and Docker to streamline application releases
- Implemented POC'S for various deployment strategies and worked on the enhancement of the existing system.
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
- Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
LENDISTRY
02.2017 - 06.2019
- Assisted with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS SNS.
- Improve monitoring and alerting system (PagerDuty & Datadog) Monitoring and logging system to improve and allow us to obtain all needed information meaningfully
- For all alerts, Creation of runbooks with step-by-step instructions on how to fix a problem.
- Implement automation of infrastructure on the AWS Cloud using CloudFormation templates, deployed LAMP web apps on Amazon Linux instances, provisioned EC2 instance, created S3 buckets with bucket policy, build RDS database, DynamoDB tables, and assess applications for exposure and vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector.
- Using IAM administration (created users, groups, roles, policies), build VPC with custom Network Access Control List and Security Groups, site deployment on Elastic Beanstalk
- Create and attach volumes onto EC2 instances and make sure all attached volumes have EBS snapshots initialized
- Deployed scalable and highly available sites using Autoscaling group and Application Load Balancer
- Engineered Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deploy
- Python Scripting and Automation: Regular expressions, website crawling, document parsing.
- Worked with various scripting languages like Python and Bash
- Using AWS Budgets to set custom budgets for tracking costs and usage of resources in an AWS account
- Setting up alerts by email when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed budgeted threshold
- Hosted several web applications (such as; PHP-MySQL app) on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to provide secure, resize the compute capacity in the cloud
- Also used Amazon's EC2 AWS Solutions Architect to advised and implement the hosting of the company's applications within the Private Subnet and access to those applications with the help of the bastion host.
- Also made use of Content Delivery Services (Cloud Front and AWS Global accelerator) to cache data closest to users for low latency.
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS and TLS, Firewalls, Security Groups, and NACLs, S3 bucket policies
- Experience in migrating and implementing multiple applications from on-premise to cloud using AWS services, SMS, DBMS, Cloud Formation, S3, Route 53, Glacier, EC2, AURORA, SNS, Lambda, VPC, Cloud Trail, API gateway
- Installed, configure, maintain, and administer Linux / UNIX operating systems and components
- Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache
- Designed, developed, and implemented high availability, backup and recovery strategy for applications and databases
- Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation.
- Collaborated with application developers, Project Managers, and QA analysts to ensure proper testing, configuration, and deployment
- Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple apps
- Deployed and configured Git Repositories with branching, tagging, and notifications
- Experience in building applications of various architecture styles like Micro-Services architecture consisting of Restful web services and Docker container-based deployments
- Worked on configuring Cross-Account deployments using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, and Code Deploy by creating Cross-Account Policies & Roles on IAM and using STS for granting temporal credentials to users
- IAM (best practices)
- Amazon Web Services
- JavaBean
- EC2
- S3
- Data dog
- AWS Secret Manager
- Kafka
- System administrator
- System Configuration
- Cloud Trail
- Opsgenie
- New Relic and Nagios
- VPC
- CloudFormation
- Elastic Load Balancer
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Git, Docker
- Configuration Management: Ansible
- Scripting: Python, Shell Scripting
- Operating Systems: Linux
- Monitoring: [Specify Monitoring Tools Used]
- Production Releases
- Configuration and Management
- Auto Scaling
- Cloud Font
- SNS
- EBS
- LAMBDA
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- CI & CD processes
- Elastic File System
- Route 53
- Application Deployment
- Terraform
- Automation tools: Selenium, TestComplete.
Education
Information Assurance & Security - Master of Science
AIU (American Intercontinental University)
01.2023
Computer Science - Bachelor of Science
ESSF University Benin
01.2015
Skills
- Nodejs
- JavaBean
- EC2
- S3
- Data dog
- AWS Secret Manager
- Kafka
- System administrator
- System Configuration
- Cloud Trail
- Opsgenie
- New Relic and Nagios
- VPC
- CloudFormation
- Elastic Load Balancer
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Git, Docker
- Configuration Management: Ansible
- Scripting: Python, Shell Scripting
- Operating Systems: Linux
- Monitoring
- Production Releases
- Configuration and Management
- Auto Scaling
- Cloud Font
- SNS
- EBS
- LAMBA
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- CI & CD processes
- Elastic File System
- Route 53
- Application Deployment
- Terraform
- Automation tools: Selenium, TestComplete
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associates)
- AWS Solution Architect (Professional)
- AWS Certified Devops Engineer (Professional)
- AWS Certified Security (Specialty)
- Hashi Corp Certified: Terraform (Associate)
- Certified Information System Auditor
Timeline
AWS DevOps Engineer
VetEZ- Veterans Affairs
01.2022 - Current
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
LENDISTRY
02.2017 - 06.2019
Information Assurance & Security - Master of Science
AIU (American Intercontinental University)
Computer Science - Bachelor of Science
ESSF University Benin
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