Samson Orakwue

About Samson Orakwue

Enthusiastic, committed and results oriented Solutions Architect/Cloud/DevOps Engineer with over 8 years\' experience working in an agile environment, and a long track record of successfully directing and executing tactical operations plans, including but not limited to supporting and collaborating with clients, technical teams and managers, migrating to the cloud, designing and building reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructures, and automating and optimizing mission critical deployments in cloud, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD and DevOps processes. TECHNICAL SKILLS Operating systems: Windows, Linux, RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS Cloud Services: AWS, Azure Monitoring Tools: CloudWatch, Nagios, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana Source control tools: GIT, GitHub, Subversion, CVS CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo, Team City, GitLab Build tools: Maven, ANT, Gradle, Build forge, Cruise control Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory JFrog Configuration Management: Ansible Puppet, Chef Infrastructure As Code: Terraform, CloudFormation Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Tracking Tools: Jira, Remedy, Clear Quest, ServiceNow, Confluence Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, PowerShell, JSON, YML, Python, Bash, Ruby,Linux Database: MySQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL

Experience

1. Aws Devops Cloud Engineer

   Citi Bank

   Dec 2018 — Present · US

   I use Terraform, Cloud formation,code pipeline,code build, code deploy,templates, sns, sqs,rest,python,microservices,lambda,kubernetes, jira,jenkins,confluence, compliance,cloud infrastructure, maven,blockchain, groovy, helm, Windows server management, java, bash and ansible. • Jenkins enterprise edition, Docker, nexus and artifactory for building the cycle of DevOps to streamline the process from development to deployment. • Building CloudFormation change sets via CodePipeline • Environment rollback, Code Pipeline Code Build and Code Commit. • Node or Python (both highly preferable) • Nested stacks and templatization • I use Terraform to build different infrastructure in different environments. defining my variables in my terraform files to make my code reusable • Created and Configured Red Hat Linux Environment and Solaris Virtual Machines in AWS using EC2. • Designing and implementing CI (Continuous Integration) system: configuring Jenkins servers, Jenkins nodes, creating required scripts (Perl & Python), and creating/configuring VMs (Windows/Linux). • Written scripts to containerize using Dockers and orchestrate it using Kubernetes & Configured the services using modern DevOps tools, like Ansible. • Worked with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes. Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its Config Maps, selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods. • Experience with SDLC and Agile Development tools (Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, JIRA). • Containers created by PCF are managed by installing Pivotal Cloud Foundry on EC2. Used Docker to virtualize deployment containers and push the code to the EC2 cloud using PCF. Used Spring Cloud Boot for Microservices development. • Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and deployed to Kubernetes. docker

Education

• Maryville University of Saint Louis

  BSC, Computer Science