Chukwuemeka Amattah

Chukwuemeka Amattah 25200 Carlos Bee Blvd, Apt# 170, Hayward, CA 94542. Phone:- Mailto:-,-SEX: MALE Career Highlights: I am an exceptionally motivated SecDevOps, Solution Architect, Developer, SysOps with 10 years of experience providing excellent customer and mission support. Manages multiple projects concurrently with insightful prioritization. As Amazon Web Services Security Specialty, Solutions Architect, Developer & SysOps administrator, I help companies understand how to transform their IT infrastructures, operations, security & applications to make the most out of scalability, innovation & cost efficiency of the AWS platform. Work experience AWS Solutions Architect - Security (SecDevOps Engineer) | Verizon June 2019 – January 2020 Responsibilities; Develop security automation and APIs in the Public Cloud across the key pillars of security (i.e., IAM, CICD Security, Security Logging, Incident Response, Data Protection, Compliance Validation). Architect, build, and operate AWS environments with well-established best practices. Create and manage IAM, VPC, EC2, ALB, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, RDS, Codepipeline, CloudFront, Autoscaling, Load Balancing, RDS, RedShift, DynamoDB, CloudTrail and CloudFormation/Terraform. On-premise to AWS migration (CloudEndure, DMS and AWS Server Migrations). Linux and/or Windows administration via automated scripting of operations within those OS environments Reviewing and evaluating technical risk materials (i.e. vulnerability scans and configuration scans) and working with the Information System Stewards to process technical risk issues. Managing the configuration management process and conducting technical change impact assessments Providing security expertise and recommendations to the System Owner and performing risk management tasks in accordance with the lifecycle phase of the system (categorize, select, implement and assess). Ensure that the appropriate technical security posture of the system is maintained at all time. Collaborating with Security Platform and Services Teams to build and integrate existing security solutions. Managing cloud security vendor products (e.g., Evident.io, Dome9, Qualys etc.) for associated IT portfolios. Assisting in the implementation of a formalized information security awareness offerings. Becoming proficient with corporate and industry security requirements. Working closely and collaboratively with Information Security Officers (ISOs), IT Portfolios, and Business units to support their needs. Acting as an advocate of information security policies, standards and as a mechanism to enable the business effectively while managing risk appropriately. Partnering with enterprise teams to establish preventative controls to support compliance via automation Gaining deep security-level knowledge of cloud environments, and continuous monitoring solutions to understand and explain security risks and mitigation techniques. Assisting in the implementation of a formalized information security awareness offerings. Driving the mitigation of reported risks from continuous monitoring solutions. Representing the Security Automation team with various stakeholders including App Development, Compliance, Legal, Cloud Engineering to gather requirements; negotiating acceptance of security controls, and influence stakeholders to adopt security controls. Engaging with all levels of leadership to gather requirements and build appropriate cloud security technology roadmaps and implementation plans. AWS SysOps Engineer |Window Book Inc. March 2018 – March 2019 Resonsibilities: Plan, design and deployment of EC2, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, CDN, S3, VPN, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, AWS Trusted Adviser, ELB (Classic, Application and Network), ASG, AWS Auto Scaling Group, Route 53 etc. Create and manage users, groups, policies & roles in Identity & Access Management (IAM). Ensure technical oversight, review and quality control of AWS services throughout the project. Designing and managing Windows servers, Linux servers, apache webservers etc. Mainly focused on designing, installing, and managing the configuration of the development and production environments on AWS platform, using console, Terraform/CloudFormation. Design of Highly Resilient and Scalable multi-tier architecture on AWS. Supervise client-facing technical activities to ensure required business value is delivered. Migrating on-premise servers & data to AWS using DMS, Snowball, S3 Accelerator, AWS Storage Gateway. Using ansible to configure and manager our production and development environment. Using docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Senior Systems Engineer | Wipro Limited March 2017- February 2018 Responsibilities: Migrate on-premise services to AWS and configure Disaster recovery plans. Create and manage users, groups, policies & roles in Identity & Access Management (IAM) for access control purpose. Linux and/or Windows administration via automated scripting of operations within those OS environments. Onboarding of new employees and offboarding of users. Managing current Active Directory Infrastructure and execute Level 3 global support on Active Directory. Managing AD objects using power shell and directory services. Creating and managing users, groups, and OU and Modifying attributes of AD objects. Plan the Group Policy Strategies, implement & Troubleshoot on domain Environment. Creating and managing virtual machines for test environment. Creating and managing share folder, assigning share and security permission as per requirement. Preparing Dumps for AD objects and its attribute as per requirement. Configuration and management of domain and standalone DFS servers. Creation and management of DSF shares. User and folder-based quota management using disk quota and FSRM. Quota management and screen policy management for NAS storage using NTP software for NAS. File screen policy management. Creation of hidden shares and normal shares. Creation and management of drive mapping scripts (VBS, PowerShell or via GPO). Data backup and restore using Tivoli, Symantec and Arc server. Maintaining 80+ Member Servers and 50+ Master servers. Scheduling backup as per the requirement of various projects. Restoring data as per the organizational requirement. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates. Experience in configuring data store to ESXi server using ISCSI /LUN. Managing an ESX host from Virtual centre and putty. Managing VMWARE visualization Infra – (ESXi host configuration, Provision VM, Move VM’s from 1 host to other, VM resource Planning. Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines. Working on AWS clustering like HA and DRS clusters using multi availability zones. Working experience on migration concepts like CloudEndure, DMS and AWS Server Migrations. Server Administrator |Atos IT Solutions and Services November 2015- February 2017 Responsibilities: Rack, Cable, Build, Install, Provision and Manage HP servers. Installation and Configuration of Printer Server and Network Printer on Windows 2012 Server. Configuration of File Server on Windows Server 2012. Active Directory Backup on Windows Server 2012. Configuration and Application of BIOS settings. Installation of Windows Server 2012 (R2) on a Virtual Cloud. Installation and User Creation of Active Directory in Windows 2012 Server. Installation, configuration and management of Webservers (Apache/Tomcat). Configuration of Group Policy in Windows Server 2012. FTP Server Installation and Configuration on Windows Server 2012. Disk Quota Management and Configuration on Windows Server 2012. IIS, DNS and DHCP Server Installation and Configuration on Windows Server 2012. Experience with automation configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes and Chef) VPN Server Installation and Configuration on Windows Server 2012. Datacentre, Server, Backup and Disaster Recovery Management. Setting up Shared Folder Permissions on Windows Server 2012. WSUS Server Configuration on Windows Server 2012 Installation of Server Operating Systems, Applications and Configuration of Server iLO. Installation and Management of MS SQL, Oracle database and Operating Systems (Windows Server 2008/2012 (R2)). Running and supervising weekly and monthly database full backup (Backup tools - ARC –Serve / Storage HP). Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities to servers, migrations, network connectivity, security, test quality assurance of server hardware and database applications. Maintaining Active Directory Policies and groups, Business applications. Cisco CLI Switches and Cisco CLI Router Configuration. Apache and Nginx installation and configuration Datacentre Technician/Technical Support | IBM Bluemix March 2015- August 2015 Responsibilities: Build and deploy servers with accuracy and troubleshoot servers if unforeseen issue arises during the deployment process. Professionally resolve hardware and Operating System issues via trouble tickets. Supervise over 10,000+ servers and run daily walkthroughs through the datacentre to maintain cleanliness and organization of hardware components, servers, and equipment for daily functionality of the datacentre. Provide remote assistance with other affiliated datacentres via PuTTY, RDP, troubleshoot tickets, e-mail, and chat system (Spark). Build racks for future server deployments. Running SFP, Fibre Optics, and Ethernet cables. Racking and mounting layer-2 Cisco switches. Assist with NOC (Network Operations Centre) with troubleshooting Fibre Optics, Load Balancers, hardware firewalls, and network routers/switches. Experience with Jira escalations and escalating tickets to different departments if needed. Microsoft Windows Servers 2012 R2 (Installation & Administration). Web Server and Database installation Rack, build, cable, configure, and provision Intel and AMD servers Troubleshoot, test quality assurance of server hardware. Proficiency in Python & Java Programming. Cloud Solutions Architect | Michael Raymond Nigeria Limited November 2012- August 2014 Responsibilities: Design and implementation of AWS solutions like; Route53, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Autoscaling, Load Balancing, RDS, RedShift, DynamoDB, EMR, VPC etc on AWS platform. Design of Highly Resilient and Scalable Websites on AWS. Lead client-facing technical activities to ensure required business value is delivered. Provide technical oversight, review and quality control of AWS services throughout the project. Oversee the transition of projects from Delivery into the Service Management function. Contribute to the development of AWS standards, best practices and organisational capability. Act as an escalation point for AWS technical issues and decisions. Configuration of File Server on Windows Server 2012. Installation and configuration of Linux Server. Active Directory Backup on Windows Server 2012. Configuration and Application of BIOS settings. Installation of Windows Server 2012 (R2) on a Virtual Cloud. Installation of Active Directory in Windows 2012 Server. User Creation in Active Directory Windows 2012 Server. Configuration of Group Policy in Windows Server 2012. FTP Server Installation and Configuration on Windows Server 2012. Web Server and Database installation Graduate Trainee (Mechanical Engineer) | NNPC November 2011 –October 2012 Responsibilities: As a member of a work team under mechanical maintenance, job entailed: Maintenance of rotary equipment, example; Inspections and overhauling of generating sets, overhauling of pumps. Overhauling of Allen diesel engine. Monitoring and protecting of pump station with the aid of an instrument protective device Upgrading of loading meters from analogue to digital in various depots. Keeping up to date with operational Issues. Developing effective processes, as a member of a work team under maintenance, to enable an effective operational output. Promotion of Sustainable Development. Creating Management operation executive committee (OPEXCOM) and management executive committee (OPEXCOM) Prevention of avoidable emergencies such as oil spills, gas emissions and releases; but when they occur, responding swiftly, learning from each incident and improving on readiness Skills developed and used: Communication Skills, ability to investigate, analyse and provide scientific solutions that will provide a sustainable development. PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCE Excellent team player/Leader, Multitasking. Good communication and interpersonal Skills. Metacognitive skill. Care and attention to detail. Self-motivated and target oriented. Ability to work under pressure. Enthusiastic and committed to excellence in my work Good level of scientific and technical understanding. Ability to work effectively with minimal or no supervision. I am self-motivated with strong communication and problem-solving skills and have the ability to learn quickly, work efficiently with team as well as independently. I am capable of multi-tasking, quick to adjust to a new environment and flexible enough to meet up a deadline. Awards & certificate 2009 Proficiency Certificate in Management Nigeria Institute of Management (Chartered) 2008 Academic Pyramid of Excellence Certificate The National Society of Black Engineers (United State of America) Professional Affiliation/Membership Member, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Member, National Society of Engineers (United State of America) Member, Nigeria Institute of Management (Chartered) Education 2010 University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. 2018 University of The People (UoPeople). Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science. Certification and training AWS Certified Security – Specialty | Validation No. HM3XGXZ2GE111BGR (April 2020 – April 2023) AWS Certified Developer – Associate | Validation No. 5TNM8GW21EFEQD3T (Oct 2017 – Oct 2020) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | Validation No. FC2TEPHK2B141E9V (Feb 2017 – Feb 2020) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate | Valid. No. DWZJM5E1KB1QQ334 (Oct 2017 – Oct 2020) AWS Technical Essentials | Amazon Web Services AWS Business Essentials | Amazon Web Services AWS Security Fundamentals | Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services | Brainbench, Cert. URL: https://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Linux Essentials 010-150 Validation: lpi.org/v/LPI-/uxacucbfhs| Linux Professional Institute Google IT Support Professional Certificate, a 5-course specialization by Google on Coursera. Specialization Certificate earned on August 24, 2018. IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts by Google on Coursera. System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services by Google on Coursera. OpenStack Essentials - 2017 Refresh | LinuxAcademy.com High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability | Cloud Assessments Git and Git Lab – Start to Finish | LinuxAcademy.com VMware Technical Solutions Professional 2015 (VTSP 2015) | VMware Partner University VMware Data Center Virtualization | VMware Partner University Microsoft Azure Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (Cert. of Completion) | CBTNUGGETS Understanding Microsoft Azure Core Functionalities (Certificate No: D72662D2C2F-BF1AE83614FAC3) SQL Server 2014 Essential Training (certificate no-C43079DE-D2FA5) | lynda.com PHP Fundamentals from Scratch (Certificate URL: ude.my/UC-HQI0OMLW) Atos Data Protection, Code of Ethics, Security and Safety Awarenes | Atos University Customer Data Center Services, Customer Experience | Atos University SoftLayer, an IBM Company | KeyStone Learning Systems Certificate Security Awareness Essentials 2922 The University of Texas System | edX Certificate (2013) Graduate Certificate in Energy Technology & Policy REFEREES: On Request.