Najeem Shosan
bristol,bristol
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work history
AWS/ Devops/DevSecOps Engineer
01.2018 - Current
- Clients (3XPoint, Renovite, Payment solutions, Bramfitt Technologies, UCAS UK LTD, Easyfundraising UK, Pulsive Uk)
- Adnin Outsourcing UK/, Prem and Cloud Services) - Contracts
- Using Git to track changes and keep branches synchronized with master/ development branch across environments and collaborating with various team on specific projects using Git to maintain existing code pipelines
- Full migration from private cloud to public clouds environment and hybrid system
- Building RTO, RPO and AWS backup disaster recovery and Firewall, security, and network configuration for highly availability and scalability within cloud and premises environment
- Administering automating using Jenkins, Gitlab Ci, Bamboo, GitHub actions to provision packer, Terraform and Ansible on AWS and AzureDevops Cloud Infrastructure
- Baking golden AMIs and configuration tools using Puppet, Packer and Ansible in the packer file to provision packages for dev, test, and pre-prod environment
- Deploying certificate verification with puppet
- Administering, managing Kubernetes clusters and provisioning AWS resources such as VPC, Subnet, Security Group (SG), ASG, NAT Gateway, EC2, S3, RDS, routes on existing infrastructure using terraform and AWS CLI, EKS, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS / Aurora, Route 53 etc
- Also, MS-AZURE resources such as computer, networking and storage for an application deployment and management (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Provisioning VMs with Vagrant, EC2s with Terraform and provisioning test environments using Docker containers and optimizing continuous app development and MTD with OpenShift on ARM
- Automating Infrastructure to anonymise users' profile and personal info to comply with GDPR and providing SSO solution to enhance security to enhance user experience
- Migration of on-premises customers to Cloud based Customers
- Planning and Implementation for security, defining infrastructure and processes as code with Terraform, Cloud formation and automation process with bash and python
- Automation of deployment using Shell scripts to facilitate deployment of application through the CI/CD process
- Using repos (S3, ECS) to store and retrieve artifacts and web / API server, such as Apache or NGINX
- Team collaboration with Atlassian tools - Jira/ confluence/ slack
- PowerShell application development of tools for data migration and other tools to be used by others to help provision, manage, or troubleshoot deployments
- Development, configuration, integration, testing, optimisation, implementation, and debug of bespoke customer solutions both on-premises and on Azure Cloud (SAAS)
- CI/CD process and Implementation of software on cloud and on-premises Server through from STAGE, TEST and PROD
- Development and Implementation of SQL and Oracle server for customers to manage software
- Testing of digital software applications that may be deployed to enhance solution
- Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions
- Identify threats, infrastructural issues, problematic code, and dangerous vulnerabilities.
IT Supports /Network Analyst
06.2014 - 12.2018
- HAYS, PLAN B and Vertex IT Solutions, Southwest waters /Petrofac / Technip/ Emerson UK /Wood group/Ethos energy group/Crossrail London
- Worked in department, providing 2nd line support
- Hardware and software installation, cisco servers, dell, and hp
- Tasked to resolve and escalate, when necessary, as 2nd line front and back-office service tickets
- Troubleshooting and hands-on Hardware repair experience
- Installation and mounting of rack in data and server centre
- Printer break fix, support Laptop and Desktop Build
- Pre-migration, discoverable and post migration process of windows domain
- Software and hardware testing technical support
- Remotely accessing desktops, laptops to resolve incidents on XP and Win 7 and extensive vendor management and liaison
- Installation, configuration and deployment of operating systems and software to user's computers and maintain, monitor business critical servers and VMware Infrastructure and Citrix XenApp environment
- Maintain and monitor the Storage and Exchange Infrastructure and monitor remote sites and offshore installations
- Performing Weekly Exchange, Storage, back up checks and collaborate with other IT departments on assigned projects and issues
- Ensure that users are kept Informed and up to date on the status of tickets and issues and expectations are appropriately always managed domino Admin for database management and creation
- Off-shore assignment to resolve on-board problems and Investigation and resolution of business specific applications
- Providing Out of Hours on call support for the business and maintain high levels of confidentiality and information security, complying with the relevant legislation and company's relevant policies and procedures.
Technical Support
Compass group
02.2012 - 12.2013
- Provided technical support and to troubleshoot desktop issues reported to service desk and liaise with end-users to confirm normal operations following migrations coupled with general desktop duties
- Imparted training and technical support for users and supervised help desk technician
- Provided support for users on computer based automated car park payment machine and software infrastructure
- Reporting of engineering progress as part of the daily LOB and Identification of technical, schedule and commercial risk
- Support of technical and project execution audits imposed by clients
- Testing and Fault finding to ensure quality of delivered IT software
- Broad range of support, customer service and project activities.
Education
MSc -
Module: PHP, Java OOP, JavaScript, CSS, Html. CCNA (Networking) - undefined
Postgraduate Diploma - Information Technology Management
Sheffield Hallam University
Automation and Instrumentation Training - undefined
Technocrat Automation Institute
Postgraduate Diploma - Software technology with Network Management
Robert Gordon University
BSC (Hons) - Physics Electronics
Olabisi Onabanjo University
2008
Skills
- TECHNICAL and DIGITAL SKILLS
- Languages and Scripting:
- PowerShell, Linux, JavaScript
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA Exam - In view
- Aws certified architect solution- In view
- Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat-centos), Windows
- Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis and RDS, Excel, Access, Oracle, SQL Server
- Programming: UI/UX and Python, Bash Scripting
- Source code management: Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub, and Nexus Repo and IQ Admin
- PGP in Cloud cyber security training in progress -Careerera
- Cloud platforms, Azure, AWS, and Private premises services
- Scalability: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Traefik, Mesh Istio
- Operating systems: AWSLinux, RHel, Ubuntu and windows
- Monitoring Tools: ELK, Elastic stack, Grafana, New relic, Datadog and Pixie
- Devops - CI/CD: JIRA, Devops, Trello, Confluence, Project Online, Git, Bitbucket, Ansible,
- AWS, Docker, AWS, AzureDevops, Jenkins, Vagrant, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kibana, Grafana, Snowflakes, Puppet, Packer SonarQube, Sumologic, SAST\DAST, API security implementation and containerization and container Security
Interests
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Interests and Activities
Currently include:
Availability:
, I.T support services and travelling.
Earliest starts date: Given 1 weeks' notice.
Timeline
AWS/ Devops/DevSecOps Engineer
01.2018 - Current
IT Supports /Network Analyst
06.2014 - 12.2018
Technical Support
Compass group
02.2012 - 12.2013
MSc -
Module: PHP, Java OOP, JavaScript, CSS, Html. CCNA (Networking) - undefined
Postgraduate Diploma - Information Technology Management
Sheffield Hallam University
Automation and Instrumentation Training - undefined
Technocrat Automation Institute
Postgraduate Diploma - Software technology with Network Management
Robert Gordon University
BSC (Hons) - Physics Electronics
Olabisi Onabanjo University
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