Ikenna Chima

DevOps Engineer

Merkle

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)

• Designed and implemented scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins with shared libraries and GitHub Actions, reducing the software deployment cycle time by 40% and enabling faster feature rollouts. • Managed and optimized containerized workloads on Amazon EKS (Kubernetes), improving application scalability and resource utilization by 25% through horizontal pod autoscaling and cluster rightsizing. • Automated the provisioning of multi-environment AWS infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, EC2, RDS) using Terraform modules, ensuring consistency, enforcing policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), and reducing manual configuration errors. • Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for comprehensive monitoring and alerting, achieving 99.9% system uptime and

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Cloud Engineer

Acer America

Feb 2022 - Mar 2024 (2 years 2 months)

• Engineered Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Azure CloudFormation to manage Azure resources, improving deployment reliability and enabling full infrastructure version control across 50+ environments. • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and Jenkins for automated builds, testing, and deployments to both development and production environments, reducing deployment failures by 15%. • Administered Kubernetes clusters (AKS) for container orchestration, managing deployments, scaling, and service discovery for 15+ microservices. • Configured and managed Azure Virtual Networks and Network Security Groups (NSGs) to establish secure and segmented network architectures, reducing the attack surface. • Im

Junior Cloud Engineer

Seagate Technology

Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 2 months)

• Assisted in the migration of on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure using Azure Migrate, helping decommission 30 physical servers and reducing data center operational costs by 20%. • Managed user access and permissions through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), enforcing the principle of least privilege across 5 Azure subscriptions. • Participated in automating routine system administration tasks using Bash and Python scripts, improving operational efficiency and reducing manual configuration errors across Azure environments. • Maintained and supported Dockerized applications, ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments by optimizing Dockerfiles and managing containe

Site Reliability Engineer

NETGEAR

Oct 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 2 months)

• Monitored production systems for performance, availability, and errors using Nagios, CloudWatch, and AWS monitoring tools, ensuring 99.9% high availability of customer-facing services and responding to alerts within SLAs. • Participated in an on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve critical system incidents across on-premises and AWS environments, maintaining SLAs and minimizing downtime with an average incident resolution time of under 1 hour. • Assisted in capacity planning and performance analysis for both on-premises and AWS-hosted systems to ensure infrastructure could handle traffic spikes and business growth, particularly during holiday sales events. • Collaborated with development teams to implement application performance mo

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