Linda M-Okoronkwo
Mississauga,ON
Summary
DevOps leader with 4+ years of experience, leveraging DevSecOps tools and technologies to enhance CI/CD pipeline build, automation, and release. Skilled in provisioning of secure infrastructure, deploying secure Application, implementing automated security scanning, and managing vulnerabilities in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
theITern llc
04.2020 - Current
- Played a pivotal role in embedding security into CI/CD automation, focusing on security tools integration into CI/CD to enhance security posture and improve efficiency and productivity for developers and sysadmins
- Key tools include SAST tool Checkmarx, DAST tool Qualys, open-source component scanner MEND, and container security scanner AquaSec
- Demonstrated expertise in interpreting scan reports, identifying vulnerabilities, and guiding the development team in timely and effective remediation
- Offered AWS Cloud Security Engineering expertise, particularly in automation with secured environment setup, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Identity and Access Management
- Developed Platform-as-a-Service on AWS Elastic Container Service for deploying containerized applications in a secure manner
- Achieved a compliance score of 99.5% with the help of security initiatives.
Senior Security Consultant
Galaxy Media
03.2017 - 04.2020
- Designed a secured hybrid network connection between the provisioned private network in AWS Cloud space and customer corporate network
- Defined and implemented cloud security requirements and baselines in AWS environments
- Evaluated, designed, implemented, and advocated new technologies, architectures, and security products
- Conducted security and compliance risk assessments and aligned necessary controls, policies, and procedures to protect information assets
- Managed security tools and procedures, demonstrated and taught operational teams to utilize controls.
Linux Systems Engineer
SWAP Consulting
03.2012 - 02.2017
- Responsible for managing, delivering, and monitoring systems and infrastructure in the Capital Markets Infrastructure area
- Proactively ensured the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Provided Global RedHat Linux Infrastructure Server Support & Consultancy, including 3rd level Market Data Application support
- Built, upgraded Network infrastructure, and involved in Linux based Market Data Platform management
- Performed installations and patching of software and system backups.
Education
Physiotherapy Assistant/ Occupational Therapy Assistant -
Mohawk College of Applied Arts And Technology
Hamilton, ON01.2019
Skills
- AWS: EC2, Autoscaling, ECR, Lambda, S3, RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudFront
- Application Vulnerability Assessment: Qualys, Splunk
- IAM Policy Management: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Network Security Architecture: AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Terraform
- Cloud Security Best Practices: AWS Config
- Security Automation with Scripting: Bash Scripting, YAML, Pipelines
- Incident Response Planning: AWS CloudTrail
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloud9, Python
- DevOps CICD Tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
- System monitoring and centralized logging platform (Prometheus, Grafana ELK)
- JIRA
- Linux Environments
- Source and Version Control: Git, GitHub
- Agile
- Databases: Oracle, MongoDB
- Software Development Tools: JIRA
- Agile development
- Software Quality Assurance
- Technical Writing
- Continuous Integration Systems
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Configuration Management
- Security best practices
- Maintenance and troubleshooting
- Test Automation
- Containerization Technologies
- Monitoring and Logging
- Linux Operating System
- Infrastructure Automation
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft Azure Fundamental
- CompTIA Security+
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
theITern llc
04.2020 - Current
Senior Security Consultant
Galaxy Media
03.2017 - 04.2020
Linux Systems Engineer
SWAP Consulting
03.2012 - 02.2017
Physiotherapy Assistant/ Occupational Therapy Assistant -
Mohawk College of Applied Arts And Technology
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