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GABRIEL OKOM

GABRIEL OKOM

London

Summary

  • 5 years of experience in the field of DevOps Engineer in application configurations, code compilation, packaging, building, automating, managing and releasing code from one environment to other and deploying to servers.
  • 9+ years of overall experience working in Devops, Cyber Security and System Technologies.
  • Experienced in Azure by installing, configuring and maintaining for purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for end to end automation for all build and deployments and creating CI pipelines.
  • Hands on experience with AKS, Azure Blob, App Service, VPC, LB, VM Scale Sets, Auto scaling etc.
  • Experienced in branching, merging and maintaining the versions using SCM tools like Git and GitHub on windows and Linux platform.
  • Experienced in Project Management and issue tracking tool like JIRA.
  • Experienced in the creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
  • Created custom Docker Images using Docker file for easier replication of DEV and QA Environments in local machines.
  • Performed and deployed builds for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments.Developed and deployed Chef, puppet based on their cookbooks, recipes and manifest.
  • Deployed servers and infrastructures using Terraform.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of a team.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills and a hard-working team player, well-practiced in attending phone calls and answering business team queries.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Devops Engineer

Bluegate
11.2022 - Current

Environment: Azure AKS, ACS, VNet, Vnet Peering, WebApps, Load Balancers, Auto scaling, UNIX/LINUX, Redhat Linux 6, CentOS, Jenkins, Windows, Apache Tomcat, Shell Scripts, Docker, Nagios, Ansible.

  • Managed modules and playbooks in Ansible and Implemented environments, roles, and templates in Ansible for better environment management.
  • Used Shell scripts to day to day activities and tasks for automating.
  • Used Jenkins and Azure DevOps tools to automate the build processes.
  • Installed and configured Jenkins master and slave nodes. Built CI/CD pipeline and managing the infrastructure as code using chef and puppet.
  • Deployed Game Apps and E-Commerce Apps using Azure
  • Used in GIT to manage source code.
  • Setup Chef Server, workstation, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications.
  • Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers.
  • Automated the continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins, Docker.
  • Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Grafana for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring.
  • Worked on Docker container to create Docker images for different environments.
  • Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its distributable format, such as a WAR file.
  • Implemented the successful deployment and management of kubernetes clusters

Cyber Security Engineer

University Of Greenwich
09.2021 - 09.2022

Environment: Docker, MFA, SQL, Python, ISO, VNets, VPC, RBAC, Entra ID, Key Vaults.

  • Experienced with thorough hands-on experience in Azure, Docker, Java, SQL and Python.
  • Participated in functional reviews, test specifications and documentation review.
  • Created Azure user, group, and implemented AD, and MFA.
  • Established enterprise governance solutions, such as RBAC, Azure policies, and resource locks.
  • Configured Azure DDoS Protection Standard to safeguard Azure applications from DDoS attacks
  • Managed and maintained incident records.
  • Performed Internal IT Audit and Risk Analysis using ISO 19011, (27001/2, ISO 22301, ISO 27017, and COBIT
  • Implemented and managed NSGs to control inbound and outbound network traffic to institution wide VNets.
  • Implemented, configured and maintained Azure Security Center, Azure Firewall, Azure VPN, and Azure Key Vault.


Devops Engineer /System Administrator

Glowfields
08.2015 - 09.2021

Environment : Azure Monitor, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELS Stack, ARM, CI/CD.

  • Developed and managed shell scripts for automation processes.
  • Analysis of Existing application and identifying improvements.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines to automate build and deployment processes for multiple projects.
  • Managed infrastructure as code using ARM templates and Terraform to provision and configure Azure resources efficiently.
  • Implemented configuration management with Ansible for maintaining consistent server configurations across environments.
  • Collaborated with development teams to optimize application performance and scalability on Azure cloud services.
  • Conducted regular monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor and ELK Stack to ensure system reliability and performance.

Education

Master of Science - Cyber Security

University of Greenwich
09.2022

Bachelor of Science - Technology Education

Delta State University
02.2014

Skills

  • Versioning Tools - Git
  • CI - Jenkins, Azure Devops, GitLab
  • Build Tools - Maven, MS Build
  • Ticket Tracking Tool - JIRA
  • Containerization Tool - Docker, Kubernetes
  • Operating System -
    Windows , Unix, Centos, Ubuntu
  • Azure- AVM, LB, AppService, AF, AKS, VNet, Az DevTest Labs, ARM
  • Scripting Language - Shell, Python
  • Web server - Apache Tomcat
  • Database - Oracle,SQL Server, MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL, CosmoDB
  • Big Data - Hadoop, MongoDB
  • Monitoring Tool - Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana
  • IaC - Terraform, ARM

Affiliations

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Devops Expert AZ-400
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator AZ-104
  • Microsoft Certified Developer Associate AZ-204
  • Microsoft Certified Security Operation Analyst SC-200
  • Google Certified IT Support

Timeline

Devops Engineer

Bluegate
11.2022 - Current

Cyber Security Engineer

University Of Greenwich
09.2021 - 09.2022

Devops Engineer /System Administrator

Glowfields
08.2015 - 09.2021

Master of Science - Cyber Security

University of Greenwich

Bachelor of Science - Technology Education

Delta State University
GABRIEL OKOM