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Chuka Onya

Product Management
TX, United States
Skills
Cloud Computing
About
CHUKA B. ONYA's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). CHUKA also has skills associated with System Developers and Analysts (Information and Communication Technology). CHUKA B. ONYA has 7 years of work experience.
Work Experience

AZURE CLOUD ENGINEER / SRE

GE POWER
March 2020 - Present
  • • Work effectively within a diverse team of developers, designers, and project managers. • Responsible for the administration and ongoing maintenance of the Azure DevOps platform • Ran SQL CRUD operations on SQL server for application maintenance. • Made calls and debugged issues with REST API by using POSTMAN • Configured virtual load balancers on Azure to ensure even distribution of loads between sets of web servers and deployments on Kubernetes using services • Configuration of Kubernetes Replica Sets, services to manage workload among pods in a node, creation of deployment template for easy rollout of updates on images on docker hub and creation of service to make external nodes communicate with pods through node port, cluster IP for communication between different group of pods and load balancers to distribute traffic • Assisting customers in creating and making API calls from third party applications to Application performance manager to get information such as SLA, SLM, KPI, Service health and application metrics • Configuration and monitoring of alerts, data collectors, metrics, and customization of dashboard to meet customer's needs using Prometheus, SiteScope and Grafana. • Creation and management of fully automated CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps using both YAML and classic pipelines • Worked with Software Engineers to deploy, automate build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases. • Continuous deployment and setup of services on Azure such as AKS, Azure site recovery and backups for disaster recovery and BCP, function apps, key vaults, SAS and monitoring solutions • Deployed and managed services such as virtual machines, Networking, App services, storage, identity, databases on Microsoft Azure and AWS • Deployed Kafka brokers and zookeeper as a messaging system on clusters and created topics for processing massive amount of data from databases and other microservices • Configured producers, consumer, connectors for easy transport of data between producers and consumers. • Infrastructure and resource provisioning using terraform and configuration management with ansible. • Proactively monitor and fix problematic application services to ensure optimal performance using both open source and non-open-source tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Ambari for resource management of big data services • Manages multiple environments such as development, test, stage, and production. • Implement continuous integration/deployment concepts on all products. • Created and supported application deployment pipelines that are automated and reliable using Azure DevOps. • Created Virtual Networks, subnets, and configured Network ACL for Cloud infrastructure. Completed manually and automated with PowerShell.

AZURE CLOUD/DEVOPS ENGINEER

August 2019 - March 2020
  • As a developer team member, I collaborated directly with developers to build and maintain their release pipeline and monitor azure pipeline. • Identify opportunities to automate activities that impede service development or delivery. • Engage development teams to ensure application architectures include administrative features that enable and enhance logging, monitoring, and configuration at runtime (without code changes). • requirements and migrating complex, multi-tier applications on Cloud Platforms as a cloud architect. • Recommend, design, implement, and optimize continuous feedback mechanisms. • Work with cross-functional teams to migrate systems from our data center into Azure. • Design, develop, and monitor Azure cloud environments that are modern, automated, and scalable. • Accurately documenting, track, and monitor reported problems/Incident to ensure a timely resolution via salesforce ticketing software. • Implementation and architecture of environment on Microsoft Azure and deployment of services such as App service plans, Logic apps, Function apps, Azure automation. • Implementation of fault tolerant, disaster recovery leveraging, availability sets, availability zones and multi region deployments • Implementation of virtual machines to host web servers for multi-tier web applications, leveraging load balancers and virtual machine scale sets • Disaster Recovery and business continuity using Azure recovery service vault and Azure backup and Azure Site Recovery • Implemented deployment and configuration strategies for new services, including provisioning resources and go-live • Migrated on premise hyper V virtual machines to the cloud using azure migrate and migrated database and app services using Azure DMS and Azure app service migration tool • Implementation and management of Azure DevOps by creating organizations, projects, processes, work items, Azure Board and Azure Pipelines

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

INTEL CORPORATION
August 2016 - March 2019
  • Led, managed, and support the team throughout all project phases and ensured that all stakeholders aligned with project specifications, requirements, deadlines, and schedules. • Performed hardware, operating system, security and application updates/patches on these systems as well as operating system hardening based on industry standards. • Installed, configured, managed windows servers, domain controllers, DHCP servers, DNS servers, created user accounts, groups, group policies, deployed, upgraded software, managed applications, backup and restored data, checked event logs, assigned permissions, managed tasks for disks and volumes, files and folders management, managed servers remotely, Monitored server performance, security related events, managed network printers. • Daily lab tasks like server imaging, OS installations, Configuring Disk arrays, RAID configurations and handling lab stuff like VLAN, network cables, KVM, security patching. • Reduced cost by utilizing reserved instance for business-critical apps and instance spot for dev test environment. • Wrote bash script to automate repetitive task avoiding administrative overhead • Automated various task with bash scripting and scheduled the automated task using cronjobs. • Managed storage, file permissions, IO and redirections, system services, processes to ensure uptime of various apps and services
Education

University of Texas

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering