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Rita Zannu

DevOps Engineer
Lagos

Summary

Enthusiastic technical professional with understanding of Infrastructure automation, CICD and Cloud engineering principles using different Cloud Platforms such AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Contributes to team success through hardwork and achieving excellent organizational goals.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Deputy PM

BiModal Consulting
11.2021 - Current
  • Charged with responsibilities of ensuring Project Managers and Team Leads are constantly reviewing codes written by DevOps/DevSecOps Engineers
  • Responsible for onboarding new Engineers into the organization and the partners’ environment after a successful skill assessment to ascertain the Engineer is a good fit for the project
  • Facilitating training for Project Managers and the Chief of Staff team in ensuring they provide high-quality in a high-velocity environment (client’s environment)
  • Creating a risk mitigation plan when resources are to be moved from one project to another or due to circumstance, eliminating and minimizing risks as much as possible
  • Monitoring Project Managers and the resources related to the project are well utilized to prevent delays and ensure project continuity till completion
  • Proactively communicating with the PM and Engineers to ensure high-quality service is being delivered and mitigating risks related to the PM, Engineer, or Team Lead on the project and the project itself
  • Adopted the use of Agile methodologies in project planning and reviewing all tasks done by the PM
  • Improving on processes and ensuring high-quality delivery to clients by Team Leads, Project Managers, and Engineers
  • Creating DevOps projects for personal improvements in DevOps Engineering adopting Infrastructure as Code concept using Terraform and creating CICD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins and also using AWS cloud platform (Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Watch Alarm & Logs, Amazon Grafana)
  • Setting up continuous integration and nightly builds using Bamboo(CICD) with Maven nexus repository
  • Created VPC, subnet and configured Network ACL for Cloud infrastructure
  • Completed manually and automated with Cloud Formation
  • Worked on developing pom.xml and maven plugins for java projects
  • Involved in setting up Jira as a defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plugins for the Jira bug/issue tracker
  • Integrated Maven with Subversion to manage and deploy project related tags
  • Installed and administered Sonatype Nexus repository to deploy the artifacts generated by Maven and to store the dependent jars which are used during the build
  • Reviewing tasks assigned to Engineers and PMs using Workast and Clickup, reviewing the tasks, and ensuring they are properly completed
  • Perform other duties as assigned and willing to learn new tools Ability to work and multi-task in a fast paced environment
  • High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills and attention to details.

DevOps Contractor

Strata Consulting
11.2021 - Current
  • Onboarding Engineers, Team Leads, and Project Managers on the company’s environment
  • Scheduling meeting with client stakeholders and resources involved in the project
  • Reviewing skills assessment conducted by a project manager to map an Engineer who is a good fit for the project
  • Using JIRA to create onboarding tickets and for project-related tickets, also used to make requests and assign to the team in charge
  • For documentation using Confluence and Google suites and also sharing access to team members
  • Played pivotal role in deploying the content Cloud platform on Amazon AWS using EC2, S3, and EBS
  • Evaluate Chef and Puppet framework and tools to automate the Cloud deployment and operations
  • Resolved update, merge and password authentication issues in Bamboo and Jira
  • Involved in implementing Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Bamboo, and Crucible)
  • Installed and configured Crucible for code reviews and web interface for browsing source code artifacts, commits, files, revisions, and individual/group code metrics
  • Supported Cost Optimization project using Cloud Custodian and creating architecture from GitHub and CodeBuild to Deployment.

DevOps Engineer

BOLDLink - SIG, Ltd
London
06.2021 - 11.2021
  • Github/bitbucket configuration
  • Jenkins CI/CD with master-slave configuration
  • Automated Infrastructure provisioning in AWS services such as EC2, VPC, EFS, S3, Route53, etc
  • Experienced in working with AWS resources like IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, VPC, Lambda, Route 53, Auto Scaling
  • Handled deployment to dev, staging and prod env through Jenkins pipeline and CLI
  • Deployment of Applications with Helm chart
  • Used Confluence and JIRA as a Collaboration and project management tool
  • Presented project status, issues, and other key information to management, peers and stakeholders
  • Provided support (including determination and Resolution)
  • Collaborated with engineers, partners and peer developer, architects in other areas to ensure clear delivery of project
  • Adopted Infrastructure as code technique using Terraform and CloudFormation to provision infrastructures
  • Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in Bitbucket for Agile teams
  • Setting up Jenkins, adding the necessary plug-ins and adding more slaves to support scalability and agility
  • Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML
  • Installing, setting up and amp; troubleshooting Ansible
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code check-in.

DevOps Engineer

Darey.io
London
01.2021 - 06.2021
  • Used Terraform and Ansible, migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services
  • Scaled organizations containerization systems by integrating Kubernetes while managing pods
  • Managed the deployment of virtual instances in AWS using Cloud Formation and or Ansible the AWS environment which includes managing the IAM, VPC, Security group
  • Knowledge and experience in multiple DevOps tool sets such as: Chef, Puppet, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub among others.

Site Reliability Engineer

She Code Africa
Lagos
02.2021 - 04.2021
  • Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible
  • Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins
  • Implemented and deployed different web stacks such as MERN, LAMP, LEMP to EC2 instances in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Deployed a client-server architecture using MYSQL and MongoDB
  • Installed and configured Network File System and Database server using MYSQL
  • Also added Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes, and installed web servers such as Nginx on EC2 instances
  • Used Terraform scripts to configure AWS resources.

IT Helpdesk Support

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Lagos
04.2018 - 03.2019
  • Provided front-line primary technical support to end-users on various technical issues and problems relating to hardware, software, and peripherals
  • Managed and attended to the Service-now Portal where clients log requests and report issues hindering them from performing their jobs effectively.

Landover Company Ltd
Lagos
05.2017 - 07.2017
  • Assisted in the installation of software such as Bio-metric Attendance Software used in taking attendance of employees on a daily basis
  • Troubleshooted and resolved any computer-related issues the employees in the organization encountered.

Education

Higher National Diploma - Computer Science

Yaba College of Technology
04.2019 - 08.2021

National Diploma - Computer Science

Yaba College of Technology
05.2016 - 02.2018

Skills

Containerization Docker, Cloud Formation,Kubernetes, Helms ChartProg Lang and Scripting: Python, Java, Bash, Groovy, Unix Shell Scripts (Ksh, Bash)Servers: Nginx, Apache 2x/13x, TomcatDatabase: MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL, PostgresTools: Git, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence, Clickup, Asana, WorkastOperating System: CentOs, RedHat (RHEL), Ubuntu, Unix, WindowsGood problem-solving skillsGood communication skillsTeamworkLeadership skillsTime management

Certification

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Timeline

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

04-2022

Deputy PM

BiModal Consulting
11.2021 - Current

DevOps Contractor

Strata Consulting
11.2021 - Current

AWS Cloud Practitioner

08-2021

DevOps Engineer

BOLDLink - SIG, Ltd
06.2021 - 11.2021

Site Reliability Engineer

She Code Africa
02.2021 - 04.2021

DevOps Engineer

Darey.io
01.2021 - 06.2021

Higher National Diploma - Computer Science

Yaba College of Technology
04.2019 - 08.2021

IT Helpdesk Support

PricewaterhouseCoopers
04.2018 - 03.2019

Landover Company Ltd
05.2017 - 07.2017

National Diploma - Computer Science

Yaba College of Technology
05.2016 - 02.2018
Rita ZannuDevOps Engineer