Personal details

Henry E. - Remote DevOps engineer

Henry E.

Based in: 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Timezone: West Central Africa (UTC+1)

Summary

I have over 4 years of hands-on experience supporting, configuring and automating mission-critical deployments on major cloud platforms, leveraging CI/CD, configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tools and processes whilst aiming to help organizations ship software faster, securely and efficiently.

I am also a mentor. I love teaching technology, especially cloud engineering.

I joined codementor because it gives me that opportunity to connect with the tech community around the world and help people solve challenges.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer (Team Lead)
MyXalary | Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Java
Node.js
MySQL
MongoDB
Linux
Azure
Nginx
Agile
Apache tomcat

Built, maintained, and refactored CI/CD pipelines for our core applications using Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions to improve cycle time and increase operational efficiency.

Actively managed cloud infrastructure on Azure comprising virtual machines, app services, databases etc including backups, disaster recovery, patching and scaling.

Piloted the adoption of work tracking tools such as Jira and Azure Boards to improve developer productivity.

Reduced production downtime caused by human errors by implementing deployment approvals for production deployments thereby improving application reliability.

Established observability by setting up and integrating our infrastructure on Grafana Cloud

Cloud Engineer
Bento Africa | Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
MySQL
MongoDB
Amazon EC2
Jira
MEAN Stack
Circleci
Agile
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

I was responsible for the management and security of application infrastructure on AWS.

My achievements include:

Managed a scalable AWS environment consisting of EC2 Instances, RDS, AWS ECS, Route53, and AWS Fargate.

Maintained and refactored CI/CD Pipelines using CircleCI thereby improving cycle time.

Implemented Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) modules with Aqua on our AWS Environment.

Implemented event-based notifications for our infrastructure leveraging Slack ChatOps.

Education

Federal University of Technology, Owerri
Bachelor's degree・Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Oct 2013 - Jan 2019

Personal Projects

2019
Nginx
JavaScript
A URL Shortener

Certifications & Awards

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft | Mar 2023
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft | Mar 2023