Kenneth Lekeanyi
Multi-cloud Engineer (GCP & AWS). https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-lekeanyi-32441a239/
Toronto,ON
Summary
With a proven track record at Deloitte Inc. Infosys Tech., Westjet, BMI etc, I excel in leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and cross-functional collaboration to architect and deploy scalable cloud solutions. My expertise in Terraform and effective team leadership has significantly enhanced operational efficiencies and cloud migration success rates.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant; Cloud Infra/DevOps Engineer
Deloitte Inc.
Toronto, Canada
08.2022 - Current
- Provisioned resources in multiple environments using IAC (Terraform & CloudFormation) for AWS & GCP
- Consulted with cross-functional leaders to gather requirements and translate business needs into technology solutions using the SOW and the RDD
- Participated in release meetings with concerned stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks
- Created Terraform modules for consistent infrastructure provisioning
- Set up and build a CI/CD Jenkins Master integration Pipeline that runs in a single VM Instance (EC2 Instance) with it associated tools running as Docker Containers to effectively maximise cost while operating in a highly available and secured environment
- Led the team in the setting up of 3 tier Architectures and effectively integrated the MySQL Database running in the Database tier to the App tier for internal communication between the Web tier, App tier and the Backend tier
- Developed one-click Jenkins pipelines for platform deployment that integrated the SCM-GitHub, SonarQube, Maven, Nexus and Slack for events notification
- Used Ansible for configuring and installing middleware components
- Deployed microservices Applications in GCP and AWS cloud environments using Docker images and Docker containers
- Automated deployments, scaling and application management by deploying using Kubernetes clusters in AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and GCP GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
- Wrote Manifests that create Kubernetes objects like pods, deployments, Ingress services of type HTTP and HTTPS using FrontendConfig, Config Maps & Secrets, Persistent Volume Claim etc
- Created Dockerfiles, Docker Images and Containers for microservice Applications and for 3 tier Application deployment
- Assisted in migration process from On-premises to the Cloud and from AWS environment to GCP, and personally worked on Servers/Application migration from AWS to GCP Platform leveraging the MTVM toolset
- Integrated GitHub, Maven, SonarQube & Nexus Artifactory with Jenkins in a robust CI/CD Pipeline
- Troubleshoot and fixed connectivity and firewall issues while performing security and compliance checks on servers
- Developed explicit High-Level Designed Documents (HDD) and perfectly detailed Low-Level Designed Documents (LDD) for clear understanding of architectures and to relay the technical environments to the Business partners and to non-technical stakeholders as well
- Designed Git-flow Branching strategies and implemented such workflow on GitHub to align with release schedule from Release branch, Dev branch to Prod branch
- Successfully Integrated the Load Balancer backend service to Managed Instance Group (MIC) and Domain Name Service (DNS) to successfully expose Applications running within Containers and Kubernetes pods to external user bases
- Created and managed different resources and services using SDK in GCP to effectively utilize gsutile and gcloud
- Set up a company’s Organization Hierarchy structure, isolating and segregating various resources and services under different Folders and Projects for easy management and control of resources within an environment
- Environment - AWS & GCP; GCE VM Instances & aws EC2 instances, Artifactory, Gcloud, Docker, File Store, google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Load Balancer, GitHub, IAM, Jenkins, Kubernetes, MySQL, Domain Name Service (DNS), GCS Buckets, Terraform, VPC, MIG etc
DevOps Engineer
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Houston, Texas
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Set up and incorporated Trivy as a SAST tool to successfully scan and test Docker Images to ensure that all Docker Applications deployed are completely free from attacks and all vulnerabilities
- Leveraged multiple deployments using AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Pipeline native built tool to implement the ECS-EC2 based cluster and successfully set up and deploy Applications using the ECS-Faregate based cluster
- Effectively carried out deployments using IAC – CloudFormation and Terraform to provision CI/CD Pipeline infrastructure while using YAML to develop Buildspec Files
- Configured Load balancers outside clusters to effectively redistribute incoming traffic into respective Kubernetes pods running within those clusters
- Worked together with Developers to build, deploy and orchestrate containers using AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) CI/CD pipeline
- I equally set up and integrated IAST-Contrast Security tool to secure all running Applications by securely detecting all vulnerabilities to provide real-time protection
- Architected and implemented Pipelines using GitHub, CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodePipeline while leveraging the ECR as native artifactory tool for image storage
- Successfully created Dockerfiles, Docker images, Docker containers and Kubernetes objects to realize a microservice Application environment
- Built custom images through Dockerfiles to package Application source codes, configuration files, dependencies and libraries together to deploy multiple containers and ensure continuous Application workflow in microservices
- Used Jira to plan, track various tasks, and follow up while generating metrics and Reports for management and reviews
- Leveraged SonarQube as a SAST tool to effectively scan Application source codes before deploying to render the source code Bugs and vulnerabilities free
- Environment - AWS & GCP; VPC, Amazon EC2 instances, CloudFormation, Docker, EBS, EKS, ALB, GitHub, IAM, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, RDB, Route53, S3, Terraform, IGW, NAT, Security Group, Auto-Scaling Group, SDLC, Bitbucket, Lucid Chart, Draw.io, Cloud DNS and Hosted Zones, GCP NCCHub, GCS Buckets, MTVM, VM Instances etc
Solutions Architect
WESTJET GROUP
Calgary, Alberta
03.2017 - 06.2018
- Orchestrated authorization, authentication and identity access management of clients’ environments using IAM identities (Users, Groups, Service Accounts) Roles and Policies
- Set up and used Route53 routing policy as a disaster recovery framework to put in place a highly available faults tolerance architecture that is highly resilience and self-healing
- Leveraged systems manager capabilities to automate operational tasks and successfully configure system manager to harness resources in a single platform for easy access and management of resources in a company’s virtual platform
- Leveraged ECS-External cluster to manage On-premises legacy Applications during migration process
- Worked extensively on different aspects of Application deployment making use of version control tools like GitHub to manage different releases and their deployments
- Build and configured a virtual data center in the AWS platform by provisioning VPC networks, with public and private subnets, security Groups, IG, NAT Gateway, Nacls, Route Tables, WAF, LB while enabling encryption on base 64 encode
- Provisioned various compute services and databases using AWS resources such as EC2 instances, creating RDS, Security Groups and Auto-Scaling
- Environment - AWS; VPC, Amazon EC2 instances, CloudFormation, Docker, EBS, EKS, ALB, GitHub, IAM, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, RDB, Route53, S3, Terraform, IGW, NAT, Security Group, Auto-Scaling Group, SDLC, Bitbucket, Lucid Chart, Draw.io, etc
Cloud Engineer
BMI Federal Credit Union Bank
Columbus, Ohio
12.2015 - 02.2017
- Good working knowledge on IAC using Terraform and GitHub for version distribution control
- Made use of IAM to ensure that all users have multi-factor authenticator correctly set up for their individual Accounts and granted permissions based on least access privileges principles
- Integrated the CICD pipeline with Slack to ensure Continuous Feedback Loop notification on all SDLC stages for Application and Infrastructure deployment
- Created Identity Access management roles for resources like EC2 and S3 to communicate with each other
- Provided high level design and recommendations on designing and building a 3-tier architectural environment while paying kin attention to best practices to ensure high availability and disaster recovery
- Leveraged Ansible as a configuration tool to tag and patch several resources within an environment by establishing communication between Master Nodes and Target Nodes after making those servers to be ansible friendly
- Setup and build a Jenkins CICD pipeline for infrastructure deployment following best practices to deploy resources with the use of IAC-Terraform
- Environment - AWS; VPC, Amazon EC2 instances, CloudFormation, EBS, LB, IAM, Route53, S3, IGW, NAT, Security Group, Auto-Scaling, Draw.io
Education
GCP Administrator Training -
Deloitte Learning Center
Toronto, Ontario, Canada01.2024
BSc - Computer Science
Trustech Higher Institute of Technology and Professional Management
Buea, Cameroon01.2014
Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Ansible
- ArgoCd
- Automation
- AWS cloud services
- Bash Scripting
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Cloud Anthos
- CloudFormation
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Containerization
- DevOps
- Disaster Recovery
- Docker
- Documentation (HDD/LDD)
- EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
- Git
- GCP Cloud Services
- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
- Google App Engine
- Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Jenkins (cicd for Infra deployment)
- Jenkins (ci Integration)
- Jira
- Microservices
- Migration
- Monitoring
- Maven
- Nexus
- Prometheus
- Security
- Terraform
- SonarQube
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), 01/01/23
- Agile/Scale Agile Framework (SAFe 6.0), 05/01/23
Languages
- English, Fluent
- French, Intermediate
Timeline
Senior Consultant; Cloud Infra/DevOps Engineer
Deloitte Inc.
08.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES
08.2021 - 08.2022
Solutions Architect
WESTJET GROUP
03.2017 - 06.2018
Cloud Engineer
BMI Federal Credit Union Bank
12.2015 - 02.2017
GCP Administrator Training -
Deloitte Learning Center
BSc - Computer Science
Trustech Higher Institute of Technology and Professional Management
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