Emmanuel Ojukwu
Development
Florida , United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Emmanuel Ojukwu's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Emmanuel also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Emmanuel Ojukwu has 8 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
AWS Cloud and Devops Engineer
Universe Consulting
January 2016 - June 2020
- * Developed and deployed a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. * Successfully coordinated the cloud migration process, leading to the development of robust infrastructures for dev and test deployments in the cloud. * Reduced the monthly maintenance costs of client's corporate websites from $6,000 to $500 by migrating from Rackspace to AWS. * Established a highly available, fault-tolerant hybrid environment, merging clients' on-premises data centers with the AWS Cloud. * Enhanced end-user latency by deploying static websites using S3 and CloudFront distribution across edge locations. * Provisioned a VPC from scratch on AWS, including private and public subnets, security groups, and network access lists, and implemented scalable services through auto-scaling and elastic load balancing. * Automated the deployment of microservices and instances like AMIs, EC2, ECS, and S3 using CloudFormation, improving deployment efficiency. * Deployed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, optimizing the planning, inspection, and configuration of AWS resources. * Integrated Jenkins for multi-stage builds and deployments, achieving high scalability in application delivery. * Developed and managed a comprehensive IT Disaster Recovery Strategy, ensuring robust system resilience and data integrity. * Coordinated and streamlined the migration from RHEL 5 to RHEL 7, enhancing system performance and security. * Led the rollout of standardized golden AMIs across EC2 instances to ensure consistent security patching. * Managed over 3000 Linux server application service accounts, ensuring secure and efficient access control. * Participated in disaster recovery coordination for applications hosted on AWS, ensuring continuity and availability. * Implemented fault-tolerant and highly available 3-tier applications on AWS, achieving optimal application performance and reliability. * Innovated AWS account consolidation and resource management using Python boto3 automation, Lambda, and CloudFormation, streamlining cloud operations. * Built custom AWS resources with CloudFormation, enhancing cloud infrastructure customization and scalability. * Orchestrated automation for Linux host patching using Ansible, improving security and system uptime. * Managed Linux client authentication and authorization with Centrify and IDM, securing system access and data integrity.
SAIF Corperation Contract
April 2023 - Present
- Senior Cloud Engineer * Migrated Proxy-Only Records for Production Primary Domains as well as static assets from fastly to cloudflare. * Implemented a custom CloudWatch and Lambda-based monitoring solution for AWS, significantly reducing downtime through automated issue detection and resolution. * Automated deployments with Azure DevOps CI/CD, improving efficiency by 40%. * Implemented Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery, ensuring business continuity. * Deployed Netbox IPAM using a Helm chart and ArgoCD on a Kubernetes cluster, managing configurations, and monitoring the health of the deployment. * Configured and managed Envoy to improve observability and manage network traffic utilizing Ruby programming language. * Responsible for creating Terraform modules such as PrivateLink for multiple use cases, including data-bricks connectivity. * Created Terraform modules to manage infrastructure such as VPC, VPC peering connections, CloudWan, EC2, Load balancers, IAM roles, auto scaling groups, S3, RDS, security groups. * Led the implementation of an IPAM solution for the company. Drafted IPAM requirements, identified providers, tested solutions and built out a POC of the IPAM solution. * Automated account data scraping and integration into NetBox with a GoLang script, improving asset management efficiency. * Successfully migrated Envoy to Kubernetes, enhancing system scalability and reliability through optimized container orchestration. * Streamlined testing and deployment processes by implementing CircleCI, significantly reducing time to production. * Responsible for monitoring cloud billing and cost management, as well as health performance, capacity and backup/recovery services. * Employed Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. * Successfully engineered a robust service mesh architecture using Istio, then eventually Consul and Emissary, facilitating secure, reliable inter-service communication and enabling dynamic request routing for optimized application performance and resilience. * Implemented an advanced DNS management framework using OctoDNS, enabling consistent and automated DNS records synchronization.
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
TowerHealth
June 2020 - April 2023
- * Achieved a 20% reduction in monthly cloud costs through Azure Cost Management optimizations. * Enhanced user access security and convenience by integrating Azure Active Directory with applications for streamlined single sign-on. * Achieved scalable, high-availability web application hosting with minimal overhead using Azure App Services. * Reduced operational costs with scalable, event-driven applications via Azure Functions for serverless computing. * Cut provisioning time from hours to minutes with efficient CloudFormation stacks for VPCs, subnets, and routing. * Designed and implemented cloud recovery and failover strategies, aligning with company objectives. * Managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS with Terraform, enhancing deployment efficiency and scalability. * Deployed a web application on AWS Fargate using React, Docker, and ECS, demonstrating modern deployment strategies. * Seamlessly migrated applications and databases to AWS, utilizing the 6Rs strategy for optimal performance. * Implemented cost-efficient, fault-tolerant environments with elastic load balancers and auto-scaling groups. * Created S3 buckets for efficient static content delivery, enhancing web application performance. * Ensured application scalability with DNS management through Route 53. * Deployed a serverless architecture with API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB for efficient server management. * Enhanced system reliability and performance monitoring with CloudWatch. * Improved network security with NACL and security group configurations. * Streamlined cloud management and architectural replication of on-premises infrastructure. * Monitored Service Level Objectives with Datadog dashboards for real-time insights. * Securely configured NFS server and client setups, including auto-mounts for cross-domain user directories. * Optimized Ruby on Rails application performance on AWS with services like EC2, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk. * Utilized AWS SDK for Ruby for programmatic AWS service interactions, demonstrating cloud integration skills. * Deployed and scaled microservices-based applications on Kubernetes with advanced features for efficiency. * Implemented a secure reverse proxy solution for RDS database access in isolated VPC networks with NGINX. * Developed an IAM Extract tool with Node.js for streamlined IAM role/policy management in CloudFormation. * Optimized storage solutions with on-prem storage migration to AWS using Data Sync. * Automated script deployment and network monitoring with ArgoCD, enhancing operational efficiency. * Governed multi-cloud environments with AWS Control Tower, ensuring compliance with best practices. * Established secure, bidirectional replication rules between S3 buckets, ensuring data encryption at rest. * Led legacy system migration to AWS, ensuring smooth transition and system optimization.
Education
Hampton University
M.S
