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Ugochukwu Ihekwoaba

Floral Park,United States

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Summary

Detail-oriented Computer Systems Engineer committed to improving system design and operations for reliable workflow management. Researches and implements budget-conscious security and encryption solutions to protect user privacy and increase overall network health. Creates easy-to-follow guidelines and troubleshooting documentation for non-technical staff. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Skills

  • Tools – Confluence, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Player, GIS JIRA (Kanban board), Tableau, SharePoint, Lucid Chart, Prezi, PuTTy, Drawio, Cisco SCI (Secure cloud Interconnect, Cisco Multi-cloud manager (MCMP), Cisco Command Line, SecureCRT, Enterprise Service Platform (ESP, ServiceNow), Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Openssl, SaaS
  • AWS – IAM, EC2, VPC Design, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoint, Autoscaling Group, ELB, Amazon S3, Route 53, AWS Glue, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch Alarms, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, Control Tower, AWS Workspace, Active Directory, VPN, Direct Connect, Amazon Connect, KMS, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Edge Locations, Cognito, AWS CLI, System Manager (SSM), CloudTrail, Lambda, Athena Query
  • GCP – Compute Engine configuration, Alarms, VPC configuration, Firewall rule configuration, Application installation in VM instances, Load balancer configuration, and port mapping
  • OPERATING SYSTEMS - Windows, Linux
  • ADDITIONAL SKILLS – LDAP/LDAPS, Certificate Authority, NAGIOS, Prometheus, Grafana for monitoring, Managing Apache Tomcat, Digital Marketing and Content Creation (social media), Sales, Digital Sales, E-commerce sales,

Work History

Cloud Engineer

Eli Lilly
01.2020 - Current


  • Designed and deployed public and hybrid cloud solutions for customers using appropriate services based on requirements.
  • Implemented versioning and server-side encryption using KMS on S3 buckets to maintain critical data integrity.
  • Ensured compliance with the company’s policies and procedures during design, development, and implementation.
  • Analyze projects to gather documents for architecture requirements.
  • Prepared detailed reports on updates to project specifications, progress, identification, conflicts, and team activities.
  • Configured security groups to the various authorized subnet and IP addresses in AWS.
  • Create and manage IAM user accounts and role-based policies for access to AWS services.
  • General Cloud and infrastructure operation and maintenance.
  • Leveraged Tableau to create high-quality dashboards for analysis.
  • Provided technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools to disseminate information regarding reports, metadata enhancements, and tools using Tableau.
  • Elicit requirements for Tableau reports and support the customization and implementation of Tableau reports.
  • Generated custom reports summarizing business, financial, or health data for review by management and other stakeholders using Tableau.
  • Analyzed and evaluated data from multiple sources and reconcile anomalies to create a technical report that supported key business decision requirements.
  • Generated analytics of performance/usage metrics.
  • Deep-dived into the company’s seasonal data trends to suggest possible ways of improvement to gain a competitive advantage.
  • Created and reviewed technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
  • Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.

Cloud Engineer

Walmart
08.2018 - 12.2019
  • Oversaw development and maintenance of organization's computer systems and intranet.
  • Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
  • We used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
  • Identified, analyzed, and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
  • Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.
  • We have partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
  • Managed various databases and configured, installed, and upgraded new ones.
  • Client-facing role in understanding client’s business requirements.
  • Design non-monolithic highly available, scalable, secure, elastic, self-healing, and fault-tolerant architectures for business continuity and provision for disaster recovery.
  • Monitor resources and applications using AWS Cloud Watch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EC2, ELB, EBS, RDS, S3, and SNS and configuring notifications for alarms generated based on defined events.
  • Ensure compliance with defined privileged user access controls.
  • Configure Autoscaling group and elastic load balancer for scaling services.
  • Create secure S3 buckets using bucket policy and ACL to grant only permitted user access to bucket.
  • Provision for Disaster recovery for S3 bucket using Cross-regional replication rule to create source bucket and destination bucket.
  • Optimize Cost by leveraging instance launch types like reserve and spot instances to critical and non-critical workloads, selecting EC2 instance type based on resource requirement, leveraging autoscaling groups, instance scheduler, S3 storage classes, and S3 lifecycle policies.
  • Creating users’ workspaces using AWS workspace, troubleshooting user login issues, and password resetting from Active directory.
  • Automate Backup of resources using AWS Backup
  • Automate critical patches of servers using Patch manager in AWS System Manager
  • Running Batch files
  • Perform monitoring using NAGIOS, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • Installation and management of Apache Tomcat server for Java web apps.
  • Configure multi-account architecture, IAM policies, governance, data security, network design, and logging within provisioned AWS Landing Zones.
  • Configure Master RDS with standby DB in Multi-AZ setting and create read replicas and standby for read replica in different region for disaster recovery.
  • Design serverless architecture with Lambda integrated with SNS, Cloud watch logs, and other AWS services.
  • Develop Cloud Formation, and Terraform templates to provision infrastructures in cloud.
  • Architect and implement continuous integration and deployment using CICD pipeline.
  • Analyze critical data, application, networking, and security concerns and engage in Troubleshooting to resolve problems.
  • Identified, analyzed, and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
  • Used metrics to monitor applicaton and infrastructure performance.
  • Initiate technical conversations and presentations to explain best practices to product and solution options to meet customer needs and explain preferred options to customers and technical and non-technical departments.
  • Created VPCs, created public and private subnets, configured security groups and NACLs, configured internet gateways, and created Route tables.
  • Configure VPN connections with on-premises network.
  • Configure VPC and TGW peering between regions and accounts.
  • Network configurations to connect spoke and Transit VPCs on SCI portion through CCI GW to Cisco Enterprise Network.
  • Perform CSR failover testing of spoke VPC to transit VPC using Terraform and establish connectivity via POSTMAN.
  • Built CICD pipeline using codec and cisco’s code platform.
  • Resolved customer incidents on the Enterprise service platform (ESP).
  • Resolved Manual ACL approval.

Certification

  • Certified

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
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Ugochukwu Ihekwoaba