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Certified AWS developer with 5+ years of experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructures. Knowledge of DevOps processes, networking, cloud computing, and continuous improvement methodologies. In-depth problem-solving proficiency and a capacity to adapt to varying situations and assignments.

  • Name: Solomon Ajaezi
  • Address: Houston, Texas, United States
  • Email: me@solomonajaezi.com
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Education

December 2012

Industrial Management

University of Texas

Master of Science in Industrial Management

June 2008

Mechanical Engineering

University of Benin

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Certifications

August 2022

AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C01)

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September 2022

Professional Scrum Master I

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Professional Experience

Dec 2019 – Present

DevOps Engineer | Point Comfort, TX

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  • Configured and managed various AWS Services, including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53.
  • Installed and configured various software on EC2 using the LAMP stack.
  • Applied auto-scaling and elastic load balancing to create a high availability and fault-tolerant application.
  • Built CI/CD pipeline using GitHub and Code Pipeline.
  • Provisioned, configured, and orchestrated multiple servers to run a containerized application using Vagrant, Ansible, and Docker.
  • Provisioned a Jenkins server to deploy applications into Kubernetes clusters.
  • Participate in change management on Jira to help track daily work activities and confluence to create technical documentation for cloud services.
  • Monitoring enterprise-level toolsets and critical business applications using Splunk Enterprise.
  • Schedule AWS Lambda functions to trigger various AWS resources.
  • Perform system administration/ SRE tasks such as installing, configuration, patching and maintenance of different applications in an on-call support environment.
April 2018 – Dec 2019

Cloud Engineer (Site Reliablity) | Houston, TX

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  • Designed and implemented a highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS, including EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 storage.
  • Automated the deployment and management of the infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Monitored the performance and availability of the infrastructure using CloudWatch and Nagios.
  • Troubleshot and resolved complex technical problems, including performance and security issues.
  • Worked with the development team to implement CI/CD pipelines and improve the reliability and efficiency of the delivery process.
Sep 2013 – August 2017

Reliability Engineer | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Shell Oil
  • Monitoring equipment performance and identifying potential issues that could lead to equipment failure or downtime.
  • Maintaining disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure the availability of equipment.
  • Managed a cross-functional team of 8 to solve complex reliability issues.
  • Championed continous improvement and operational excellence projects with a focus on cost savings and improving efficiencies.
December 2011 - January 2013

System Engineer Support | Tyler, TX

University of Texas
  • Managed and maintained network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless access points.
  • Installed, configured, and maintained services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Servers, SSH and yum repository.
  • Building, configuring, patching, upgrading, and troubleshooting of physical and virtual Windows servers (rack mounts/blades, and VMs.)
  • Diagnosed and resolved LAN Configurations and systems errors. Maintained and managed over 200 servers. Projects included Installing and configuring 15 physical/virtualized servers.

Skills

  • Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of AWS tools such as Auto Scaling, EC2, RDS, Route 53, LB's, EBS, and S3.
  • Knowledge of Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform.
  • Experience in Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
  • Experience in Linux, MacOS, CentOS, Windows, and Ubuntu.
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VPC Peering.
  • Knowledge of Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, and Splunk.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Indepth collaboration, critical thinking, and leadership shills.

Projects

November 2021

Built and Deployed a Dynamic Website on AWS. The project features a 3-Tier VPC Architecture

  • I used AWS services and tools such as EC2, S3, RDS, Route-53, NAT Gateway, Bastion host, MySQL, MySQL Workbench, LAMP Stack, and Auto Scaling for this project.
August 2021

AWS CI/CD Website (Font End & Back End)

  • Technologies Utilized: AWS S3, Route53, Certificates Manager, CloudFront, Git, Github, CodePipeline, Python (Boto3), HTML, CSS.

Contact

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Email Address

me@solomonajaezi.com

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