Kingsley Noah
Development
Texas, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
KINGSLEY NOAH's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). KINGSLEY also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). KINGSLEY NOAH has 9 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
CLOUD DEVOPS & SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
WALGREENS
July 2020 - Present
- * Developed and maintained infrastructure as code, observability, and monitoring, alerting, continuous integration, and deployment. * Used monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, and Prometheus to finding problems, resolve and/or escalate to support and application development and ensure that we exceed our service levels. * Contributed to the creation of system support documents, operational run books, and build recipes for server configuration. * Developed and maintained container deployment, continuous integration, and JavaScript. * Designed build triggers, tools, integrations, and workflows while also implementing multi-agent process in Azure. * Eliminated extended downtime of network and processes by installing and configuring a Nagios server to monitor Windows/Linux servers. * Reduced downtime by performing regular server audits, designing, and implementing system redundancy and high availability for servers and storage systems. * Jumpstarted, integrated, analyzed performance, managed for availability, tuned, provided troubleshooting of Solaris and Linux Red Hat servers. * Maintenance of Subversion source control on the Linux server monitoring systems, using my experience with Docker, Ansible, and AWS. * Managed existing Docker Swarm and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, ensuring they can run smoothly with minimal downtime. * Led and contributed to the development, maintenance, and usage of deployment and task automation (OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services), and implementing Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques. * Improved our continuous integration abilities, with the priority being the ability for us to have an environment (SQL database, Elasticsearch, Redis) for automated integration testing. * Developed and maintained cloud integration, script documentation and other standards that align with enterprise architecture standards. * Helped the organization add additional microservice containers and recommend how they can be integrated into the rest of our stack. * Facilitated and participated in an on-call rotation and hold retroactive root cause analysis meetings, focusing on identifying remediations using blameless postmortems. * Developed a modern continuous deployment platform with cutting-edge technologies (containers, cluster schedulers, service mesh, dynamic secrets provisioning). * Participated in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate. * Provided troubleshooting in resolving issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
DEVOPS CONSULTANT & AUTOMATION ENGINEER
CAPITAL ONE
March 2017 - June 2020
- * Evaluated recurring issues and develop automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc..) to resolve long term. * Developed YAML pipelines for the deployment of Java/Ruby/ applications. * Worked with Terraform Cloud for the deployment and management of core cloud infrastructure. * Interprets requirements and develops Terraform IaC in alignment with best practices. * Build, edit, and trigger release and build pipelines within Azure DevOps. * Evaluates existing IaC and provide recommendations for improvement to accommodate stakeholder needs. * Troubleshooting infrastructure in AWS and on-premise environments. * Administers IAM roles as need to accommodate business needs while maintaining least privilege mindset. * Examined existing Docker implementation and recommend improvements as needed to solve for growth and scale needs. * Executed on established tasks as defined by Cloud Solution Architects across multiple client environments. * Worked with CSA and Senior DevOps Engineers to validate technical plans and time estimates. * Provided timely feedback to the customer project team on any issues or roadblocks that arise during project execution. * Utilize re-usable Infrastructure-as-Code to provision AWS services and infrastructure when possible. * Implemented CI/CD pipelines for common workloads using appropriate tooling. * Assisted with migrations that fall within the scope of the Cloud Elevate service. * Deployed and configured AWS and 3rd party services that are appropriate for current client needs. * Researched and remediated infrastructure security issues to strengthen client security posture. * Troubleshoot and repair customer infrastructure; assist with escalations as necessary. * Completed thorough documentation of existing client environments, infrastructure changes as they occur, time spent on each aspect of the project, and completed work.
CLOUD DEVOPS & SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
FIELD NATION
March 2015 - December 2017
- * Supported cloud teams in the design and decision-making process to ensure adherence to best practice. * Managed network security using Load balancer, Auto-scaling, Security groups and NACL. * Used DevOps tools such as Ansible and Packer for configuring and deployment of different applications built with languages such as Ruby and including creating user, maintaining branches and tags. * Developed a fully automated continuous integration system using Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, MySQL and custom tools developed in Python and Bash. * Maintained IAM systems as well as recommending and coordinating optimizations for automation and adoption across the infrastructure, at cloud scale. * Demonstrated commitment to IAM best practices including change management, technologies (e.g., 2FA, authentication, authorization, federation). * Automated the daily and weekly build process to allow us to build daily builds twice a day for faster turnaround time for submitted code change. * Created and ran automated nightly build to discover newly produced bugs earlier, reducing bug fixing time from 1-2 days to few hours. * Built and released source code to various environments in AWS cloud and extensively automated the build automation and source/version control process. * Supported developers and QA engineers on the release process and to make various builds in particular environments; clustering and database replication and cloud deployment, AWS using right scale. * Supported network and server infrastructure and advance automation using Ansible to help the teams work smarter and more efficiently. * Delivered infrastructure automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment of technical solutions leveraging Azure Services and Features. * Worked closely with Managed Services Provider and Information Security to ensure monitoring, logging, and auditing of relevant events and assisting in automation of security controls. * Automated deployment of infrastructures and tools Including the use of Ansible and Terraform. * Integrated source control into third-party continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD systems.
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