Basile Mbah
Development
TX, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Basile Mbah's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Basile also has skills associated with System Developers and Analysts (Information and Communication Technology). Basile Mbah has 9 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
DevOps / DevSecOps Engineer
DOMINION SYSTEMS
January 2017 - Present
- * Supervised multi-tier enterprise and web application deployments in Kubernetes, leveraging AWS resources. Serviced clients in federal (Navy, Army, law enforcement), Fintech, and healthcare verticals. * Applied Terraform and Ansible scripts to provision and configure EKS, VPC, Route53, EC2 instances, etc. in AWS Cloud and GCP. Integrated and configured Nexus repository manager for sharing artifacts within company. * Fortified servers by patching, enforcing SELinux and firewalls, and setting up password policies as required by company. Generated and maintained fully automated CI / CD pipelines for code deployments. Produced simple bash scripts to upgrade kernel and patch servers. * Possesses experience with Python and PowerShell. Put packages in place by using yum and rpm on various servers. Composed CI / CD pipelines on Jenkins and set up auto triggers like poll SCM, building periodically, and GitHub web-hooks. Enhanced security configuration in Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes. Installed and configured Grafana to constantly monitor network, memory usage, and hard drive status. * Proficient in utilizing Git for version control, branching, and collaborative development. Managed code repositories on platforms like GitHub and GitLab. Implemented Git workflows, including feature branching and pull request reviews, to facilitate effective collaboration within development teams * Oversaw GitHub and Docker hub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging. Managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS Cloud, including backups, patches, and scaling. * Migrated on-premises workload to cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Moved applications from visualization to containerization. Utilized Azure DevOps extensively in some of projects. * Configured and deployed highly available scalable applications in AWS Cloud by using EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, and auto scaling and monitored these applications with CloudWatch, Grafana, and AWS SNS. * Designed and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed by using AWS Elastic Container Service. * Crafted and maintained documentation and SharePoint on processes in GitHub and procedures for project activities. Monitored and managed log on UNIX and Linux servers, including processes, crash and swap management, and performance tuning. * Created and administered user accounts; managed user security, password recovery, aging, and complexity. * Experienced in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools like Terraform. Designed and maintained infrastructure using declarative code, ensuring consistency and scalability across environments. * Employed bash shell scripting to schedule and automate processes, including full and incremental backups, using tar, crontab, and snapshots and migrating and enlarging file systems on Solaris 10 and Linux. Leveraged TypeScript to build large-scale web applications. * Used Git and GitHub as SCM tool, created branches and tags, and provided access permissions to developers on various branches. Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins for continuous inspection of code quality, unit tests, and bug tracking. * Built and configured Kubernetes Clusters, ensuring that nodes / pods could auto scale, communicate with each other, and load balance. * Became proficient in RedHat Ansible Automation Platform, with hands-on experience in automating deployment, configuration, and monitoring of complex web applications, using playbooks, roles, and Tower. * Established organizations, projects, repositories (in Azure Repos Git, GitHub, BitBucket Cloud, and TFVS) and set them up, maintaining best practices. * Utilized Python to write infrastructure scripts using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage infrastructure resources, promoting the principles of Infrastructure as Code for better scalability and reproducibility. * Proficient in Python scripting for automation, task orchestration, and tool integration. Developed custom scripts to automate routine tasks, improving workflow efficiency. Applied Python to create solutions for log parsing, data manipulation, and system monitoring.
Linux / DevOps Engineer
BEYOND TECHNOLOGIES
January 2015 - January 2017
- * Participated in migration of physical Linux / Windows servers to AWS Cloud. * Expertise in log management using the ELK Stack. Implemented Elasticsearch for log storage, Logstash for log processing, and Kibana for visualization and analysis. Designed centralized logging solutions to facilitate troubleshooting, auditing, and performance analysis * Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS for orchestrating containerized applications. Successfully deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS, leveraging EKS to simplify the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized workloads * Identified and troubleshot network-related issues, TCP / IP, DHCP, and DNS. * Wrote and modified Ansible playbooks to automate servers and to manage web applications, config files, database, and packages. * Extensive automation experience using Terraform and Ansible for provisioning and configuring infrastructure. Applied Terraform for infrastructure orchestration and Ansible for configuration management, resulting in streamlined and reproducible deployment processes. * Set up and configured Nexus repository manager for sharing artifacts within company. * Hardened / secured servers by patching, enforcing SElinux, utilizing firewalls, and setting up password policies as required by company. * Installed packages by using YUM and RPM on various servers. * Scheduled various regular, periodic, future, and queue tasks by using crontab. * Drafted Terraform scripts from scratch for provisioning Dev, staging, and prod environments. * Performed UNIX administration, including changes, disk space management, application installations, and backups. * Configured file systems by using LVM; also added Swap space where necessary. * Developed and managed disk / partitions in Ubuntu, Centos, and RHEL. * Formed and managed file systems, mount points, and volumes in UNIX / Linux.
Education
JULIANA KING UNIVERSITY
Organizational Leadership
JULIANA KING UNIVERSITY
Master's Degree in Christian Counseling
HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science degree
LANDMARK METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science degree
