Prince Attafuah
Elkins Park,PA
Summary
DevOps Engineer with over 7 years career spent in IT designing and planning, analysis, design and maintenance of client/server web applications. Talented leader with extensive knowledge of high availability architecture and concepts. Ready to tackle new challenges in project planning and development capacity.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineering
Zalon Tech.
02.2022 - Current
- Maintaining and upgrading CI infrastructure and processes as needed to support development teams
- Creating and maintaining cloud infrastructure using IaC and change management best practices
- Troubleshooting CI pipeline issues and utilizing various monitoring, alerting and logging tools to analyze data/usage patterns and discover potential areas of improvement
- Consult with other teams on best practices around access, stability, and cost-efficiency of the services within our ecosystem
- Clearly document and occasionally demo new features and upgrades implemented by our team
- Develop procedures to automate code builds and deployments
- Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process
- Defined build and configuration standards to provision infrastructure services
- Deployed and supported infrastructure automation and configuration management tools
- Integration of database and backup servers into enterprise systems
- Configuration, installation and upgraded SQL databases
- Proposing technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components
- Supporting system users, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols
- Maintained stability, integrity and efficient operation of information systems supporting organizational functions
- Suggested system updates or changes after conducting in-depth technical reviews
- Completed software updates and assessed security patches for optimized computer use.
DevOps Engineer
Launch Consulting
08.2020 - 02.2022
- Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems
- Drove project lifespan from concept to final rollout in development and deployment
- Created new instances of CI/CD tools in new server
- Maintain and extend existing CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins servers
- Create new pipelines to support new infrastructure, capabilities, project requirements
- Troubleshoot pipeline issues, implement solutions with minimum supervision
- Update any related process documentation to match implemented changes
- Participate in team code reviews, support unit and integration testing
- Contribute to project planning, offering insights into schedules and resource allocation
- Install new instance of SonarQube and configured in new server
- Configured Ldap with various CI/CD tools
- Work collaboratively with team members to ensure successful delivery and implementation of assigned tasks
- Solve problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
- Monitor submitted tickets; field, assign, escalate and communicate via Jira and Slack workflows
- Teamed with business analysts to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
DevOps Consultant
NDK Cyber
12.2018 - 04.2021
- My responsibility is to migrate the legacy applications to AWS cloud using DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, SonarQube and Slack, Datadog, Ansible Tower
- Responsibilities: Set up CI Pipeline that checkout the code from SCM and packages it using Maven build tool
- Implemented Release management workflow for QA, UAT and Prod environments
- Prepared and presented SCM best practices for implementing continuous integration for the team
- Created Bash Scripts for process automation
- Building & Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Engine on AWS
- Troubleshooting problems, resolving root cause, and where possible, fixing the bug(s)
- Helped teams to configure Webhooks in GitHub to trigger automated builds in Jenkins
- Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions not met
- Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel
- Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.
DevOps Engineer
Saviynt
08.2019 - 07.2020
- As a member of an operational team, my responsibility is to implement DevOps transformation by working with Agile teams
- Responsibilities: Migrating complex, multi-tier applications from private servers to Cloud based on given requirements
- Design, Optimization and Documentation of the Operational aspects of the Cloud platform
- Set up Server/Agents for monitoring App WebServers
- Develop scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
- Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in Gitbuck for Agile teams
- Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible Tower
- Wrote Ansible playbooks for Code Deployment and Configuration Management
- Setting up Jenkins master, adding the necessary plugins and adding more agents to support scalability and agility
- Set up CD Pipeline that deploys artifact built and deploys to Dev, QA, UAT and Prod
- Designing and enhancing robust Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to accelerate product iteration
- Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
- Determining best technology approach for complex tasks.
Education
Associate of Science - Social Science and IT
Accra University
Accra 07.2016
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification -
CompTIA Security Plus -
CompTIA A+ (2016) Google IT Support Certification (2016) -
Skills
- Framework/DevOps Tools : Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Jenkins, Datadog, Slack, Bamboo, Octopus
- Build Tools : Ant, Maven, Gradle, MSBuild
- Versioning Tools : Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- IAC Tools: Ansible Tower, Terraform
- Containers: Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes
- Application/Web :Apache 2x/13x ,Tomcat, Nginx
- Operating Systems: Ubuntu Linux,Redhat, Centos, Linux - 2, Windows
- Scripting & Other Tools: Groovy, Scripts Bash, Mobaxterm
Timeline
DevOps Engineering
Zalon Tech.
02.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Launch Consulting
08.2020 - 02.2022
DevOps Engineer
Saviynt
08.2019 - 07.2020
DevOps Consultant
NDK Cyber
12.2018 - 04.2021
Associate of Science - Social Science and IT
Accra University
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification -
CompTIA Security Plus -
CompTIA A+ (2016) Google IT Support Certification (2016) -
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