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Yomi. A

Dallas,TX

Summary

A dynamic professional with 8+ Years of experience multiple technical teams, architects, managers and business users, reviewed and documented workloads, system dependencies and business requirements. Mapped workloads to the capabilities of Microsoft Azure for public, private and hybrid clouds and currently working in DevOps environment. Expertise in Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production). Experience in Azure App services and Containers. Deployed and managed applications running on Kubernetes. Set up and managed Docker containers, running Go and PHP applications, for deployment into Kubernetes Pods. Experience in Azure Container Registry. Working experience in Git, GitHub, Docker, Azure Repos, TFS. Administration of Azure VMs, Docker containers, IIS, WebSphere, Tomcat & Apache servers. Installation and Configuration of WebSphere Application Server, IHS, IIS, Apache Web Server on Windows Platforms. Good understanding of ITIL processes. Skilled to work within environment of Change Request, Incident management, building the environment and prioritizing solutions for the business continuity as per the ITIL process. Experience in Automation, Installation, configuration. Troubleshooting of Red hat Linux, Ubuntu and Windows platforms and in DevOps tools like GIT, Docker, MS Build, Maven, CICD and Azure cloud. Troubleshoot any application issues raised by DEV & QA Team Responsible to make sure that application is always up & running. Strong exposure in working with Network Deployment Package. Strong exposure in configuring databases like Oracle and DB2. Involved in setting up a clustered environment like Vertical Cluster and Horizontal Cluster. An effective communicator with excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills. Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities. Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Azure DevOps Engineer (Multi - Cloud Environment)

Citi
03.2022 - 12.2023


  • Worked as Azure DevOps (ADO) Engineer to setup required infrastructure on Azure.
  • Used Kubernetes to deploy and orchestrate microservices.
  • Cluster storage, networking, managing kubelets with ETCD auto scaling of services scheduling services with kubernetes scheduler.
  • Worked on creating Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production).
  • Implemented cluster services using Azure Kubernetes services (AKS) to manage local deployments in Kubernetes.
  • Bank made a billion dollar size acquisition of a healthcare startup payment company and was involved in managing and migrating an entire cloud based payments solution application with over 200 vendors and more than 60,000 payments devices Into the Bank integrated portals supporting an hybrid deployment of both on on-prem and cloud deployment strategy.
  • We achieved cost effective deployment with a strategic integration plan thereby reducing losses due to incompatible systems associated to acquisition
  • Requirement gathering and performing functional and detailed design analysis, and responsible for developing guidelines, standards and implementation.
  • Managing and implementation of Large scale Distributed Systems to support cloud based payments solution application. Monitoring, and auto scaling to meet on-demand traffic while implementing fault tolerance and higher availability.
  • Log collection and aggregation for alerting Drive the architectural road-maps for influencing upcoming standards, tools, and technologies
  • Decoupling of monolithic apps with containerization and AWS container based services.
  • Defining Architectural Vision and analyzing gaps between Base Architecture and Target Architecture
  • Implementing AWS cloud architecture and devops CI/CD best practices with devSecOps and using monitoring tools
  • Implementing incidence response with Industry grade Incidence System Management tools that will alert support engineers with error logs in near real time
  • App monitoring and alerting ApI endpoint monitoring and alerting, SSL certificate monitoring and alerting and every possible systems failure that could arise due to large scale distributed systems
  • Provisioned EC2, EBS, S3, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, ECS, CloudWatch alarms., Cloud formation templates, Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), IAM, RDS, Lambda, Elastic-search etc
  • Based on architecture Provisioned DynamoDB with terraform state management and s3 buckets, provisioned and managed Elastic BeansTalk, CloudFront, Route53, Redshift, CloudFormation managing and working with configuration management tools (Ansible)
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform implementing cloud agnostic solution with development team Cloud Monitoring Applications like DataDog with fluentd logging with cloud watch in AWS VPC environment
  • Re-architected the existing platform ruby on rail migration to java sprint boot based application
  • This involved a proprietary cloud based payments solution
  • Hands on creating Terraform and CloudFormation Templates (Json/YML Template) to implement whole AWS infrastructure through scripting
  • Worked on designing highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 and ECS instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs in ECR
  • Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC. Architected, designed and developed the Backup and Archiving, Disaster Recovery in AWS Cloud with multi-region deployment of resources Followed Agile Methodology and scrum for implementation.

Azure Administrator/ Azure DevOps Engineer

Twitter
02.2015 - 03.2022

Responsibilities: Working as cloud administration on Microsoft Azure environments, involved in Azure AD Connect configuring virtual machines, Storage accounts and Azure resource groups.


  • Working on virtual builds on VMware and Azure, Based on application team requirement.
  • Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM’s into resource pools.
  • Working on installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN & NAS environment.
  • Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
  • P2V conversions by using VMware Standalone Converter.
  • V2V conversions by using VMware Standalone converter & Azure Connector.
  • Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations, and hot migrations.
  • Administrator Azure AD users, groups, and devices, and participate in migration between on-premises and Azure AD through AD connect.
  • Administrator on physical and virtual servers using virtualization technology using VMware & Azure.
  • Configured Azure Information Protection (AIP) and Azure RMS (Rights Management service) – Policy settings, Azure RMS cryptographic keys and built a custom AIP tracking portal.
  • Support and Resolved Azure AD issues - Office 365 (MMSSPP), Active Directory to Azure AD identity and User roles & permissions etc.
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
  • Configured high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
  • Involved in Migration plan into Azure, Server 2012R2 VM's, Hyper-V hosts, IIS, Security, OMS Monitoring and Backups.
  • Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunnelling to the Internet via On-premises network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer's Azure environment.

Sr. System Administrator/ Sr. VMware Administrator

Augusttech LLC
12.2012 - 02.2015
  • Enhanced network performance by optimizing system configurations and implementing regular updates.
  • Enhanced system performance by optimizing server configurations and implementing regular updates.
  • Managed patches for ESXi, vCenter, Windows Servers.
  • Reduced downtime by proactively identifying and resolving potential issues through thorough system monitoring.
  • Creating Templates for Windows 2003, 2008R2 and RHEL Servers.
  • Increase speed and improve quality for IT Service Management support efforts through processes development and execution.
  • Developed PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts to manage Virtual machines.
  • ITIL process management - analyze and design service management processes, research, and present best practices, and drive for continuous improvements.
  • Work with the Change Manager to develop and document IT Service Management policies, processes, and procedures based on ITIL best practices.
  • Build and configured Microsoft Failover Clusters.
  • Installation and configuration Documents were prepared for Windows and VMwareServers.
  • Securing WebSphere Admin Console, Configuring LDAP user registries and Adding LDAP groups for various roles like Administrator, Monitor, Operator etc.
  • Responsible for creating clusters including Horizontal and Vertical Clusters, cluster members to implement High Availability, Workload Management and Fail Over.
  • Troubleshooting Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
  • Installed Refresh Packs and Fix Packs to upgrade the WAS version to latest.
  • Administered WebSphere Application Server nodes using Network Deployment Manager.
  • Manage weekly and monthly Incident review meetings and provide data metrics to Leadership.
  • Deployed application ears on IBM Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment in Development, System Tests, and Performance Test on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.

VMware Engineer/Windows Systems Administrator

HCL America
06.2011 - 06.2012
  • Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2003 & Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory Administration and responsible for managing Windows and VMware. Environment.
  • Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of VMware virtual infrastructure (ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x vSphere) platforms.
  • Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates.
  • Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion.
  • Conversion of physical servers to virtual environment using P2V and VMware Converter.
  • Administering rights for Users and Groups for Virtual Center access.
  • Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX/ESXi 4.0 hosts and virtual machines.
  • Tested the validity of the native Authentication system VAS (DELL).
  • Familiar with backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third-party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
  • Perform responsibilities of implementing Windows XP and hardware applications.
  • Administered, maintained, and monitored Central site with several remote Primary sites based on Windows 2003 Servers in a Windows 2003 Domain.
  • Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfill new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup, and monitoring requirements.
  • Configure and troubleshoot backup jobs, perform file and full server restores using Symantec's Net back up.
  • Capacity Plan, Design and Deploy Data Center Infrastructure Set up for SharePoint 2010, Knowledge Lake 2010.
  • Setup, configure and maintain SharePoint infrastructure for development, QA and production servers.
  • Perform upgrades to hardware, operating systems, and applications.
  • Experience installing and configuration of Solaris, Linux for new build environment.
  • Experience working on configuration and customization of SaaS Applications.
  • Experience on deployment and creation of SCCM applications and support.
  • Experience on monitoring, configuring and managing SCCM environment.
  • Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers.
  • Experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco UCS and Cisco Switches.
  • Coordination with vendor / Service provider for problem resolution.
  • Expertise in using Spice works ticketing system to resolve client issues in their system.
  • Provide project support by configuring DNS, DHCP, GPOs and Active Directory changes and implementations as needed.
    Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, Windows Server Windows XP/Vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server HP ProLiant Servers, HA/DRS.

Education

Associate of Science -

Richland College
Dallas, TX
05.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Lagos State University
Lagos, NG
05.2009

Skills

  • DevOps Tools
  • GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes
  • Source Code Management
  • GitHub, Bitbucket
  • Cloud Platforms
  • Azure, AWS
  • Cloud Data Services, Kafka, Azure SQL, CI/CD pipeline, DevSecOps, Databrick, Data factory
  • Middleware /Application servers
  • Shell,PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Azure CLI, Arm Templates,
  • SNOW, JIRA, AZURE BOARDS
  • Middleware /Application servers

Personal Information

Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Timeline

Azure DevOps Engineer (Multi - Cloud Environment)

Citi
03.2022 - 12.2023

Azure Administrator/ Azure DevOps Engineer

Twitter
02.2015 - 03.2022

Sr. System Administrator/ Sr. VMware Administrator

Augusttech LLC
12.2012 - 02.2015

VMware Engineer/Windows Systems Administrator

HCL America
06.2011 - 06.2012

Associate of Science -

Richland College

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Lagos State University
Yomi. A