Ridwan Lawal

Cloud/Devops Engineer

Skilled DevOps Engineer with 7+ years total progressive IT experience with 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, Scripting and DevOps processes.

Work Experience

Devops Engineer

Accenture

Chicago, Illinois

Feb 2022 - Present

  • Responsible for building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration and Security. Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats

Devops Engineer

Kored Consult

Valley Stream, New York

June 2019 - Feb 2022

  • Build, manage and maintain infrastructure on AWS to deliver highly scalable services
  • Use Infrastructure as Code tool such as Terraform to provision infrastructure necessary to host and run applications on AWS
  • Compile and build software source code using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Git and Maven
  • Run Test and generate test results
  • Maintain fully automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for application and code deployment using Jenkinsfile
  • Leverage Ansible to automate configuration management
  • Implement CI/CD pipeline for microservices using integrated tool such as SonarQube, Jfrog Artifactory, Docker and Slack leading to faster time-to-market for software deployment
  • Collaborate with development/test teams to design, build, and deploy automated platform
  • Make effective infrastructure automation improvements by maintaining expertise in current and emerging technologies and tools.
  • Demonstrate knowledge by providing Devops best practices on ensuring standards are created across deployments and implementing cultural shift within the Team.
  • Create, modify, and maintain Ansible playbooks, Bash scripts to perform tasks and automate processes.
  • Assist clients to scale their infrastructure using DevOps best practices.
  • Work in a team with diverse and multiple stakeholders.

Cloud Engineer

Imalpay Inc

June 2016 - Dec 2018

  • Managed and continuously improved application infrastructure in the cloud using Terraform.
  • Developed terraform modules and CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructures in AWS cloud.
  • Ensured the highest level of infrastructure performance by using monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
  • Provisioned and managed AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, Route53, IAM, Lambda etc.
  • Continuously optimize AWS resources to reduce cloud cost.
  • Built serverless applications with AWS Services including AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3 and other AWS services.
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, IAM roles and policies, configured security groups, NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc
  • Scale-up EC2 instances on AWS cloud using Autoscaling
  • Maintained and supported deployment with CI/CD techniques leading to faster time-to-market for software deployment.
  • Launched EC2 cloud instances using Amazon images (RHEL, AMAZON Linux 2, Ubuntu)
  • Created team member user account and manage IAM roles and permission.
  • Promoted Agile and Devops culture across organization to increase velocity.
  • Created VPC and subnets for different environments (Dev, QA, Stage) in AWS.
  • Integrated Webhook on GitHub to trigger automated build and feedback in Jenkins.
  • Ensured proper documentations of system architecture and deployment.
  • Provided systems status reports to higher-ups as appropriate.

Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Professional Certification, 2022

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform

Associate Certification, 2022

AWS Certified Developer

Associate Certification, 2022

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate Certification, 2021

Education

University of Lagos - Lagos, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science (BS) Hons, Dec 2014

Physics

Skills

  • CI/CD tool and Build Tools: Maven, Jenkins
  • Version Control: Git, GitHub
  • Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux
  • IaC Tools: Ansible, Terraform, Cloud Formation
  • Monitoring Tool: Datadog, CloudWatch
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS
  • Networking: TCP/IP, VPC
  • Containers: Docker, ECS, EKS, Dockerfile
  • Scripting & Other Tools: Bash Scripting, Python
  • Project management tool: Microsoft Team, Jira
  • Good communication skill, excellent collaboration skill, problem-solving and good team player.