Ibrahim Akande

About Ibrahim Akande

Lead | Senior DeVops Cloud Engineer & Solutions Architect with extensive experience in Amazon Web Services. Proficient AWS/DevOps Engineer Over 9 years of experience in IT industry comprising Linux Administration, Software Configuration, Build/ Release Management, Deployment Automation, Amazon Web Services and cloud implementation. Strong experience in setting up the enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2 instance, ELB, EBS, S3 Bucket, Security Groups, Auto scaling, AMI, RDS, IAM Cloud formation, Cloud Front & VPC services.*Experience with migration to Amazon web Services (AWS) from Datacenter.*Experience in working with EC2 Container Service plugin in JENKINS which automates the Jenkins master-slave configuration by creating temporary slaves. Architected and implemented automated cloud infrastructure using Chef and Puppet on multi platforms on AWS Cloud Servers. Experience in working with con􀀁guration management tools like PUPPET, CHEF and ANSIBLE. Experience in setting up Puppet Master, Puppet Agents for managing enterprise policies and configurations Resilient, focused and passionate professional experienced in transforming clients\' IT infrastructure, operations and applications into the most innovative, scalable, highly available, secured, fault tolerant systems and also cost effective on AWS cloud platform

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Engineer Lead Devops Engineer

   Slalom

   Jun 2021 — Present

   Planning, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes. • and VMWare Vm\'s as required in the environment. • Used security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and Route tables to ensure a secure zone for organizations in AWS public cloud. • On boarded and migrated test and staging use cases for applications to AWS cloud with public and private IP ranges to increase development productivity by reducing test-run times. • Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch. • Implemented and maintained Chef Configuration management spanning several environments in VMware and the AWS cloud. • Working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems. •Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for Archival storage and backup. • Creating public and private subnets within the VPC and attaching them to the EC2 instances based on the requirement. • Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates. • Utilize AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups. • Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs. • And also, configuration automation using Docker containers. • Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing docker volumes. • Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configuration s to modularize and optimize end product configuration, converting production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server provisioning • Used Nagios as a monitoring tool to identify and resolve infrastructure problems.

Education

• Eastern Mediterranean University

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2013 — 2017

• Maverick College Ibadan(High school)

  Physical Sciences, 3.89

  2006 — 2012