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Azeez Suberu

Calgary,Alberta

Summary

Industrious Dev Operations Engineer with 6years background setting up CI and CD pipelines, containerizing and deploying applications. Experienced use of tools in many sprints and epic projects like Jenkins, Git Actions, GitLab, IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation, security compliance like Checkov, OPA and tfsec, deployments with Docker and Kubernetes and monitoring analysis with NewRelic, Prometheus and Grafana, EFK/ELK.

Well-rounded and conscientious professional committed to proactively managing change and quickly deploying critical applications. Expertise in configuration management and Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

Overview

8
years of professional experience

Work History

Dominion Systems Inc

Senior DevOps Engineer
11.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Containerization and orchestration: Led adoption of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, enabling scalable and resilient application deployments and optimizing resource utilization.
  • Coordinated implementation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines on 2 projects from proof of concept to project deployment and monitoring. Introduction of Git Actions in CI pipeline helped client reduce server overhead cost by 15%.
  • Introduce use of security scanner like Checkov and tfsec in Terraform state files to perform static analysis for early detection of misconfigurations that could lead to security risks. Reduced lead time from commit to deployment by 25%
  • Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects. AWS resources like spinning VPC, Route53, Private and public subnets for fault tolerance, route tables, IGW, EC2 instances, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling groups, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EFS, NFS, S3 bucket, DynamoDB, Lambda security groups, NACLs, RDS, EFK/ELK, ECR, EKS.
  • Mentored DevOps engineer interns on proper engineering methods.
  • Created team strategy for SDLC automation, configuration management and release management.
  • Maintained metrics visibility of applications using Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana and New Relic to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.
  • Provided engineering support from code delivery until retirement of application.
  • Applied automated testing solutions for unit, integration and system testing.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.

Landmark Technologies

AWS Cloud Engineer
09.2017 - 10.2020

Job overview

  • Performed first-level incident response and service resolution for cloud systems.
  • Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
  • Responded promptly to user requests for permission changes, new storage and expansion questions.
  • Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs. Mean Time to Recovery low due to robust monitoring and alert systems integrated with compliant IaC.
  • Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
  • Partnered with sales team to design solutions for customers and drive AWS adoption and revenue.
  • Performed advanced engineering in configuration, management and deployment of AWS cloud environments.
  • Guided other teams to design, develop and deploy data sets and tools that supported product use cases.

KPMG

Linux Administrator
04.2015 - 07.2017

Job overview

  • Maintained smooth operation of multi-user computer systems through collaboration with hardware and network engineers.
  • Interacted directly with users to diagnose and correct major system issues and address concerns.
  • Created and serviced administrator and user accounts on Linux-based systems, managing 22 deployments.
  • Managed backup and disaster recovery through strict data control and retention policies, personally handling recovery tasks when issues arose.

Education

Ahmadu Bello University
Kaduna

Bachelor of Science
01.2007

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins CI
  • Docker
  • Resource Allocation
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • AWS Services
  • Git Actions
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Scrum Methodology
  • AgroCD
  • System Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Continuous Deployment
  • SaaS Model
  • SCM Git
  • UNIX Shell Scripting
  • Monitoring and analysis tools
  • Agile Work Processes
  • SonarQube
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Cloud Hosting
  • Nexus
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Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dominion Systems Inc
11.2020 - Current

AWS Cloud Engineer

Landmark Technologies
09.2017 - 10.2020

Linux Administrator

KPMG
04.2015 - 07.2017

Ahmadu Bello University

Bachelor of Science
Azeez Suberu