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Valentine Mbabid

Upper Marlboro,MD

Summary

  • Strong Experience designing and Implementing Azure cloud infrastructure geared around Applications and their networks ensuring communication between compute, database, storage and event processing resources.
  • Working with CI/CD pipelines in Azure Devops and managing user azure devops access to cloud infrastructure such as keyvaults, virtual machines, storage and others using identities and service principals.
  • Working with developers to implement task processing logic using triggers and bindings for azure functions, event Grid, Event hub and granting identity permissions to them to ensure pipeline flows run uninterupted.
  • Good knowledge of virtualization and container technologies like Docker, virtual machines. Experience in creating Dockerfiles and working with Docker containers.
  • Good Knowledge of task and hand on experience of data intergrity tools such as azure databricks, synapse analytics, sql pools and data factory.
  • Provisioning and setting up Kubernetes clusters on prem and AKS clusters. Managing their services, using persistent storage for them, Monitoring the AKS cluster and service and providing security to the aks cluster at different levels.
  • Designing Hybrid network connectivity and Azure network connectivity and adhering to various design practices. Hub and spokes, spoke to spoke and others

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
Certification

Work History

Azure Cloud Architect

US Tech Solutions
Jersey City, NJ
08.2020 - Current
  • Migrating up to 200 on premises vms to azure cloud networks using Public endpoints.
  • Working on multiple migration Projects and Monitoring migrated data in recovery services Vault
  • Designing and Implementing High availability scenarios for virtual machines and databases on Azure.
  • Using connection strings to connect resources and providing app information to developer teams to ensure proper designed systems are implemented
  • Using ADO pipelines to ensure that recently developed docker images are tested and deployed to appropriate slots in webapps and in the right sequence.
  • Designing multi-tier app infrastructure using azure compute solutions such as webapps, virtual machines, Databases, containers and provisioning processing between tiers using azure functions
  • Working and resolving tickets related to checking and troubleshooting task processing pipelines involving event grid, azure functions and logic apps.
  • Used and modified Azure blueprint artifacts to fit customer needs based off an Azure security benchmark template.
  • Provisioned and used Azure batch solutions for task processing. Built workflows for processed information to be sent to blobs as output and other solutions and ensured the flow pipeline was healthy by configuring azure monitor at every level.
  • Working with Managed Identities and Entra Id identities to ensure zero trust and required permissions are given to users

Azure CLoud Engineer

Abia Consulting
Upper Marlboro, MD
01.2019 - 11.2020
  • Managed an AKS cluster hosting over 60 Applications and configuring monitoring for cluster and pods running within them
  • Designed networking solution for AKS cluster using Service endpoint to allow AKS to access resources within the virtual network.
  • Implemented connectivity to client on premises using azure virtual network gateway and Active-standby express route to ensure High availability.
  • Implemented Hub and Spoke topologies and configured routes using virtual appliances.
  • Configuring load balancing solutions and Firewall configurations for Hub networks.
  • Set up Azure AD connect to implement hybrid identities. Configuring Conditional access and Multifactor authentication for users
  • Setting up PIM for azure roles
  • Used IAC like ARM templates and terraform for provisioning cloud resources.

Azure Engineer /Systems Engineer

Linac Health Services
Hyattsville, MD
02.2017 - 01.2019
  • Deploy Azure resources using ARM deployments, Automation with Azure CLI and the portal
  • Automating virtual machine configuration using yaml and ensured proper virtual machine communication on networks
  • Installing Azure insights extensions on virtual machines and ensure proper logs and metrics are collected on on azure log analytics workspace.
  • Managing docker images and pushing them to the main git branch once development completes to integrate them into the ADO pipeline
  • Provisioned Azure virtual networks with subnets, nics, disks and configured network security groups using IAC scripts and Azure CLI

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Yaounde
Cameroon
12.2016

Skills

  • Containers/Release - Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
  • Monitoring Tools - Azure Container Monitor, APM, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana, VMware Log insight
  • Operating Systems - Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, Unix, CentOS, Windows
  • Databases - SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB and APIs
  • Infrastructure - Cloud infrastructure ( Azure, On-Prem) Virtualization - Vmware
  • IaaC Tools - Ansible, Terraform, Git, Github, Azure Git, Azure DevOps
  • Deployment Tools - Terraform

Certification

Certified Azure Infrastructure Architect

Certified Azure Network Engineer

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

VMware VCP-NV - Network virtualization

VMware VCP-DCV

Vmware vsphere foundations

Cisco certified Network associate (CCNA)

Languages

English
Full Professional
French
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Azure Cloud Architect

US Tech Solutions
08.2020 - Current

Azure CLoud Engineer

Abia Consulting
01.2019 - 11.2020

Azure Engineer /Systems Engineer

Linac Health Services
02.2017 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Yaounde

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