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Steve Mofor

Santa Clarita

Summary

Accomplished IT professional with extensive expertise in systems design and development, specializing in the implementation of cost-effective, high-performance technical solutions. Demonstrates proficiency in cloud technology, particularly with Amazon Web Services, to create scalable and fault-tolerant systems that meet complex business demands. Proven track record in leading the architecture for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms, delivering detailed blueprints, and robust platform requirements. Committed to driving innovation and efficiency within technology infrastructure. Detail-oriented, problem solver and coachable on new concepts and picks up skills quickly

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer

Kaiser Permanente/Tata Consultancy Services
Pasadena
03.2020 - 12.2024
  • Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail
  • Create AWS resources like EC2, S3 bucket and s3 bucket permission to facilitate deployment
  • Create S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files required to serve static content for a web application
  • Maintain high availability of applications by setting up auto scaling groups across multiple regions
  • Monitor application performance metrics in order to identify potential areas of improvement within the cloud environment
  • Create IAM policies for users and groups with proper access control levels according to organizational security requirements
  • Configure backup plans for data stored in Amazon S3 buckets by scheduling regular backups and establishing retention periods
  • Design and edit blueprints for IT infrastructure and networking architecture according to management’s
    demands.
  • Design and implemented scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using AWS services to meet client requirements.
  • Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies for secure access control.
  • Use security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud
  • Define roadmaps for security best practices and guardrails for workloads deployed into AWS environment
  • Create and configure elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost
    efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment
  • Maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service
  • Implement best Security practices by architecting infrastructure designs for private and
    public network deployments
  • Create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup
  • Work on the databases of the Amazon RDS and carried out functionalities for creating instances as per the
    requirements
  • Experience in creating CloudFormation stacks to provision for VPC’s, public & private subnets, NAT, RTs as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC
  • Implement Amazon RDS multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier.
  • Configure event bridge notifications with Security Hub for critical findings in order to stay up to date with security threats in the AWS environment.
  • Provide technical support to customers regarding their queries about deploying applications on Amazon Web Services.
  • Ensure compliance with security policies through periodic audits and reviews of all resources hosted on Amazon Web Services platform.
  • Implement best practices for cost optimization across multiple projects running on AWS cloud resources.
  • Manage and monitor AWS environments using CloudWatch, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Utilize AWS Lambda for serverless computing, reducing infrastructure costs and improving scalability
  • Played a key role in helping the organization transition from Waterfall to the Agile methodology
  • Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to help manage and prioritize the program and team backlog.
  • Utilize Confluence and JIRA for documentation and project tracking

Senior Scrum Master

T-Mobile
Los Angeles
07.2017 - 03.2020
  • Monitored sprint performance metrics including velocity, defect rates, cycle times, to identify trends and opportunities for optimization
  • Advised teams on how to improve their efficiency through better utilization of Agile Scrum tools and techniques
  • Developed retrospectives after each sprint or milestone to identify areas of improvement for future projects
  • Conducted regular reviews of existing processes and procedures to ensure they are optimized for maximum efficiency.
  • Collaborated with other scrum masters across the organization to share best practices and lessons learned from previous projects
  • Defined release plans based on available resources, timelines and budget constraints while ensuring quality assurance is maintained throughout the process
  • Participated in design discussions with architects and developers to ensure solutions meet customer requirements while adhering to established standards and best practices
  • Organized sprint planning sessions to ensure team members understood user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Acted as a primary contact between development teams, product owners, stakeholders and other external parties throughout the entire lifecycle of a project
  • Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, impediments and plan for the day's tasks
  • Tracked project progress against goals using agile methodologies such as burn-down charts, velocity tracking, and task boards
  • Facilitated P.I. Planning events with a mastery of the use of the Structure, Epics, Features, and User stories in JIRA

Education

BBA - Marketing

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
08-2011

Skills

  • AWS Services: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM, Kinesis, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ElasticSearch, CodeDeploy
  • Tools: RedHat, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform
  • Web Technologies: XML, JS, and JQuery
  • Database software: MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon Aurora
  • Programming: JSON,
  • Operating Systems: MS Windows, Visual Studio, Linux
  • HIGH AVAILABILITY - Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant systems, as well as AWS Route 53
  • BACKUP and RECOVERY - Expert knowledge in backups, restores, and recovery processes, expert experience with data security
  • Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, SAFe
  • Applications: ServiceNow, JIRA,Rally,Confluence

Certification

  • SAFe Agile 5.0

Languages

French
Full Professional

Timeline

AWS Cloud Engineer

Kaiser Permanente/Tata Consultancy Services
03.2020 - 12.2024

Senior Scrum Master

T-Mobile
07.2017 - 03.2020

BBA - Marketing

Texas A&M University

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