GIDEON OLANREWAJU
Leeds,West Yorkshire
Summary
Motivate Network support/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience, recognized for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organised with excellent leadership and team-building record.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Development Operation and Platform Engineer
WELINK UK Communications
09.2022 - 10.2023
- Responsible for WeLink infrastructure planning, network design, technical risk analysis, technical decision authority, deployment, and maintenance of WeLink UK network infrastructure
- Responsible for data analysis, data visualization, data modeling, and data reporting
- Worked on AWS-cloud, VMWare, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, cisco routers, MikroTik routers and OSS platform
- Assist in creating critical firewall rules that makes the network safe
- Assist with adding new customers to WeLink network
- Deployed WeLink VPN service, deployed Zabbix platform, deployed Nagios platform, deployed OpenSpeedTest Server, deployed WeLink L2TP server, and deployed WeLink Asset management platform
- Assisted with series of automated configuration using Ansible and Python
- Assisted with automated log collected and old logs deletion
- Extensive use of Apache, Nginx, MongoDB, Redis,RDS, MySQL, AWS Glue for ETL, Route 53 for DNS service
- Coding: Python, Java, Java Script, Nodejs, Shell Scripting.
Core Network Technical Expert and DevOps
NOKIA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
12.2020 - 08.2022
- Infrastructure planning, infrastructure provisioning, and infrastructure maintenance
- Worked on Nokia Cloud infrastructure, VMware, and AWS
- VMware vSAN
- VMware NSX
- Manage team of network engineers
- Assist with network design and help with routing of diameter messages within core network nodes via diameter routing agent (DRA)
- Assisted with automated network testing
- Worked with software developers for software Q&A
- Implementation of diameter configurations and rules on DRA: (Session binding, Topology hiding, failure handling rules, diameter global rate limiting, diameter peer rate limiting, signaling firewall rules)
- Coding: Python, Java, Java Script, Nodejs, Shell Scripting.
Technical Expert/DevOps
NOKIA (First Point Group)
09.2020 - 11.2020
- Support End to End 5G deployment on Togo Telecom project
- Report directly to Nokia Togo country manager
- Core Network Infrastructure planning and infrastructure maintenance
- Worked on Nokia Cloud infrastructure
- Deployed automated speedtest platform
- Manage team of engineers
- Work hand in hand with core network engineer for the deployment of Nokia CMM (Cloud Mobility Manager) and Nokia CMG (Cloud Mobile Gateway) RAN Manage team of RF engineers Infrastructure planning
- Assisted in 5G RF installation design Assisted in configuration of the first 10 5G sites on Togo Telecom project Assisted in achieving promised throughput targets and deployment targets on the project Coding: Python, Java, Java Script, Nodejs, Shell Scripting.
TECHNICAL Engineer/DevOps
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
09.2019 - 09.2020
- Worked on Nokia Cloud infrastructure and VMware Infrastructure planning and infrastructure maintenance Migration of Baremetal infrastructure to hardware Deployed automated speedtest platform Responsible for technical management of 5G deployment on Vodacom South Africa
- Assisted in 5G RF installation design Assisted in configuration of the first 10 5G sites on Togo Telecom project Assisted in achieving promised throughput targets and deployment targets on the project Coding: Python, Java, Java Script, Nodejs, Shell Scripting.
RAN TECHNICAL PROJECT Expert/DevOps
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
01.2018 - 09.2019
- Worked on Nokia Cloud infrastructure Migration of Baremetal infrastructure to hardware Responsible for technical management of all Radio Access Technology development on Vodacom Project which include NB-IOT, LTE-Advance, Massive MIMO POC
- Working hand in hand with Nokia Solution Manager on all new solutions and create a structure for successful implementation of these new solutions
- Managing the resolution of all technical issues raised by customer
- Coding: Python, Java, Java Script, Nodejs, Shell Scripting.
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
07.2017 - 12.2017
- Manage team of engineers
- Responsible for High Level Design of Vodacom Project LTE/UMTS/GSM Technologies and advising customer on Implementation of new Technologies like 3G/LTE Modernization, NB-IOT
- Nokia sub-contractor training instructor on Huawei equipment
- Managing Nokia field resources
- End to end management of Nokia sub-contractor.
LTE TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM Wireless Consultant/Technical Lead (Mercury Project)
FIRST POINT GROUP (HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, South Africa)
02.2017 - 06.2017
- Manage team of engineers Preparation of LTE TDD/FDD Database using offline CME and online CME for WBS Commissioning and Integration of TDD/FDD eNode (LTE) for WBS Onsite installation supervision for WBS Base Station Carrier Aggregation configuration for WBS Cluster optimization for WBS phase 1 project.
LTE/UMTS/GSM Wireless Consultant/Technical Lead (Vodacom Spring Project)
FIRST POINT GROUP (HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, South Africa)
09.2015 - 01.2017
Education
Master of Science (MSC) in Information Technology -
WALDEN UNIVERSITY
06.2018 - 05.2022
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MARJON
05.2013 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Technology (BTECH) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering - undefined
LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
09.2005 - 05.2010
Skills
- AWS (EC2, ECR, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Fargate, RDS, VPC, Firewall, AWS glue, AWS Athena, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, Quicksight, Lambda, IAM)
- VMware Cloud – vCenter, vSAN, NSX
- SQL (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)
- Cisco routers & switches
- MikroTik router & switches
- UNIX and Linux OS
- BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, MPLS
- TCP, UDP, SCTP
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python, Java, JavaScript, GO, HTML, CSS, Nodejs
- Shell/Bash scripting
- REST API
- OSS
- Network Management
- Network Security
- Firewall
- Network design
- Radio Access Network (RAN) design and RAN equipment commissioning and integration
- Signaling Transfer Point design, commissioning, integration, configuration, and maintenance
- Full knowledge of SS7 network, full knowledge of SiGTRAN network, full knowledge of diameter network, and full knowledge of IMS network
- Diameter Routing Agent architecture, design, configuration, and maintenance
- End to end IMS network design and end to end diameter network design
- Design and deployment of NetNumber TITAN platform to be used for Signaling Transfer Point, Signaling Firewall, and Number Portability
- Configuration and Implementation of rules to enables sophisticated routing of SS7 messages and Global Title Translation of SCCP traffic (incl support of TCAP/CAP/INAP/MAP) within operator network
- Implementation of Signalling Firewall rules to allows monitoring, validation, and control of SS7 messages for detecting and preventing fraudulent, malicious or extensive use of the operator’s signaling network
- 5G RF installation design 5G NR configuration
- Design of RAN part of GSM, UMTS, LTE, and 5G network
- Leadership, strategic planning, progress evaluation, communication, and motivational skills to get everyone to perform at optimum best
- Software documentation
- Development life cycles
- Javascript
- HTML expertise
- PHP
- New employee mentoring
- Engineering standards
- HTML and XML
- Team reporting
- Solutions deployment
- Agile
- SQL
Custom
CSCO13668656
Certification
Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core (CCNP ENCOR)
Cisco Certified Network Associate - (CCNA)
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Network Infrastructure Configuration
Microsoft Certified Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Development Operation and Platform Engineer
WELINK UK Communications
09.2022 - 10.2023
Core Network Technical Expert and DevOps
NOKIA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
12.2020 - 08.2022
Technical Expert/DevOps
NOKIA (First Point Group)
09.2020 - 11.2020
TECHNICAL Engineer/DevOps
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
09.2019 - 09.2020
Master of Science (MSC) in Information Technology -
WALDEN UNIVERSITY
06.2018 - 05.2022
RAN TECHNICAL PROJECT Expert/DevOps
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
01.2018 - 09.2019
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER
NOKIA SOUTH AFRICA (FUTURE AFRICA CONSULTING & TRAINING)
07.2017 - 12.2017
LTE TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM Wireless Consultant/Technical Lead (Mercury Project)
FIRST POINT GROUP (HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, South Africa)
02.2017 - 06.2017
LTE/UMTS/GSM Wireless Consultant/Technical Lead (Vodacom Spring Project)
FIRST POINT GROUP (HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, South Africa)
09.2015 - 01.2017
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MARJON
05.2013 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Technology (BTECH) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering - undefined
LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
09.2005 - 05.2010
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