Basil Ikpe
Mississauga,Canada
Summary
Proactive and innovative Application Architect with extensive hands-on practical experience designing, automating, and optimizing secure, resilient, and highly available medium to large-scale cloud infrastructure; excellent knowledge and understanding of the application of DevOps concepts in building and deploying continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using industry leading open source and AWS cloud-native automation tools. Demonstrable evidence of technical abilities, interpersonal skills, problem-solving attitude, and the tenacity to thrive autonomously in any Agile team.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Application Architect
IBM Canada Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
- Managing the preparation and creation of architectural decision documents for team reviews
- Leveraging microservices architecture principles to design architectural diagrams showing implementation strategies
- Performing Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to test out architecture design implementation possibilities in AWS cloud, with security, reliability, availability, cost, and fault-tolerant put into utmost consideration
- Researching and strategically selecting IT tools and technologies (including cloud technologies) required to build efficient IT/cloud applications and also modernize existing ones
- Automating the provisioning of cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Conducting architecture design review meetings and cadences
- Providing support for the dev team to understand architecture designs and implementation options where necessary
Cloud Architect/Engineer
Gapak Solutions Inc.
11.2018 - 11.2021
- Managed the adoption and smooth running of cloud infrastructures for clients and assisting in the design of fault-tolerant cloud architecture and migrate data to AWS cloud
- Assisted in the design of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and integrated the pipeline with GitHub code repos that triggers the pipeline upon code changes
- Conducted the deployment, configuration and troubleshooting of servers in high availability environments
- Provisioned and configured new EC2 instance servers and deploy docker based Nginx in them using Terraform in a hosted AWS cloud environment
- Coordinated the cloud architecture by developing and creating IAM roles, network, permissions, policies, and data management while adhering to all security concepts and best practices
- Monitored the architectural framework and all the infrastructures and services against threats using industry leading security control tools like IPS/IDS, AWS Shield, GuardDuty, Macie, WAF etc
- Configured Nagios and CloudWatch as monitoring software tools to check resources use and performance
- Utilized Terraform and CloudFormation as Infrastructure as Code to aid the automation and replication of infrastructure in AWS cloud environment
- Researched data and operational discrepancies based on clients’ and software team needs, and design review processes to recommend ideas and solutions
Cloud Support Specialist
StanVista Technologies & Consulting
04.2015 - 11.2018
- Coordinated data migration of our clients from on premises to Azure & AWS cloud using Storage Gateway, Database Migration Service, Application Discovery Service, Azure Synapse and Migration Hub
- Managed clients’ database servers including relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, RDS, Azure SQL server, and MariaDB), and key-value NoSQL databases including DynamoDB, Redis, and MongoDB
- Provided operational support of both AWS and Azure cloud platforms through site reliability by responding to alerts and resolving incidents, troubleshooting servers, monitoring performance and security updates
- Supported clients with full and hybrid migration setup based on security requirements, data type, volume, compute, and traffic patterns within both Azure and AWS cloud platforms
- Managed the launching of various cloud infrastructures including virtual machines, S3 buckets, databases, containers and designed both private and public cloud networks for clients
- Analyzed clients’ requirements and established best cloud services suitable for their business operations
IT Project Coordinator
KYJE Geodrill Services Ltd.
04.2013 - 04.2015
- Utilized Microsoft Project software to manage detailed IT project plans and schedules
- Coordinated meetings and liaised between all project stakeholders to discuss any IT project changes, resource management, and resolved technical issues identified
- Developed effective project methodologies and Agile best practices required to support appropriate utilization of software and hardware resources in all IT projects
- Compiled reports and analyzed key metrics to measure the status and performance of all IT projects
- Provided training and support for the end users and all IT staff while adhering to proper security procedures and data integrity
Education
Diploma - Network and System Administration
CIMT College
Mississauga, OntarioMSc - Project Management (Agile)
University of Sunderland
BSc. Tech. - Science and Technology
Federal University of Technology
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Python
- Bash
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Windows
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Docker
- Git
- GitHub
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Networking
- Nagios
- CloudWatch
- Splunk
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate (and training)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (and training)
- DevOps training
- Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner- Agile (and training)
Coretechnicalskills
AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Bash, Ansible, Jenkins, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Git, GitHub, Terraform, CloudFormation, True, Nagios, CloudWatch, Splunk
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Application Architect
IBM Canada Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
Cloud Architect/Engineer
Gapak Solutions Inc.
11.2018 - 11.2021
Cloud Support Specialist
StanVista Technologies & Consulting
04.2015 - 11.2018
IT Project Coordinator
KYJE Geodrill Services Ltd.
04.2013 - 04.2015
MSc - Project Management (Agile)
University of Sunderland
BSc. Tech. - Science and Technology
Federal University of Technology
Diploma - Network and System Administration
CIMT College
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