Ifiok Ntewo
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Developer
Washington, DC, United States
Toptal member since February 23, 2023
Ifiok is an accomplished cloud practitioner with demonstrated success developing and executing cloud technology solutions. His knowledge of cloud and operational strategies helps promote organizational growth and cloud adoption acceleration. As an AWS 5x, Azure 2x, GCP 3x, HashiCorp, and New Relic certified professional, Ifiok is comfortable being the intermediary between business requirements and engineering value.
Portfolio
Experience
- Bash Script - 13 years
- Linux - 13 years
- AWS Cloud Architecture - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - 7 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 4 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 3 years
Work Experience
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
SADA
- Served as lead engineer for several engagements towards onboarding clients to the GCP, conducting discovery and knowledge transfer sessions, executing timely deliverables, and deploying eventual landing zones.
- Migrated multi-tiered workloads from on-premise and AWS to the Google Cloud Platform, including provisioning the target infrastructure and executing cutover plans that minimized system downtime.
- Delivered immutable infrastructure-as-code solutions via Terraform.
Lead AWS Solutions Architect
Addx
- Designed and implemented the Authoritative Data Environment, an AWS serverless platform.
- Served as a solutions architect and technical content contributor for prototype solutions built on AWS and Azure platforms for the Navy as part of OTAs.
- Made recommendations for services to be provisioned in the cloud based on client requirements as a trusted advisor.
Senior Consultant | Solutions Engineer Level 6
Deloitte
- Built and managed the services provider operating model for Deloitte OpenCloud.
- Drove the deployment of customer workloads into the cloud and balanced their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting the development of the customers' cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations.
- Worked within the OpenCloud networking team to gather clients' and project teams' requirements and designed and implemented network architecture and connectivity within AWS while collaborating with the team leads and the specialist leaders.
- Defined systems strategy and support procedures, developed requirements, and designed, prototyped, tested, and implemented technology solutions.
Project History
SAP on GCP
• Develop the design for a future state architecture in GCP
• Build a green field landing zone for the GCP
• Develop and implement a backup and recovery strategy in the GCP
• Migrate SAP VMs from on-premises to the GCP
New York Mets
Migration
Certifications
New Relic Partner – Advanced Practitioner
New Relic University
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Hashicorp
Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Network Engineer
GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer
Exam 533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Microsoft
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Exam 534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
Microsoft
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Skills
Tools
Terraform
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, AWS Lambda, Azure, Azure IaaS
Languages
Bash Script
Storage
Google Cloud, Redshift
Other
AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Certified Developer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
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