Ifiok Ntewo, Developer in Washington, DC, United States
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Ifiok Ntewo

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Cloud Architect and Developer

Location
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

SADA
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Bash Script, Containers, Kubernetes
Addx
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Architecture, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer...
Deloitte
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The most amazing...

...thing I've built was an AWS serverless environment for a US DoD customer database with AWS Lambda and Amazon Cognito, among other components.

Work Experience

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

2020 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Bash Script, Containers, Kubernetes

Lead AWS Solutions Architect

2019 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Architecture, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Lambda, Redshift

Senior Consultant | Solutions Engineer Level 6

2017 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Cloud Architecture, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes

SAP on GCP

Worked on an SAP deployment project on GCP that required:
• 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

This project was meant for GCP Foundation onboarding and build-out. I was the lead cloud engineer for this engagement. Following the SOW, I conducted discovery, knowledge transfer, and design sessions and provisioned the environment using Terraform as IaC.

Migration

Served as lead architect in the migration of VMs from Rackspace to AWS. Based on the discovery, I designed the future state architecture in AWS to include instance specs and network considerations. I also handled backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and cost optimizations in AWS.
OCTOBER 2022 - PRESENT

New Relic Partner – Advanced Practitioner

New Relic University

MAY 2022 - MAY 2024

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Hashicorp

MARCH 2021 - MARCH 2023

Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Network Engineer

Google

NOVEMBER 2020 - NOVEMBER 2022

GCP Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NOVEMBER 2018 - MARCH 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

OCTOBER 2018 - OCTOBER 2025

Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer

Google

JULY 2018 - PRESENT

Exam 533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Microsoft

APRIL 2018 - SEPTEMBER 2023

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AUGUST 2017 - PRESENT

Exam 534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Microsoft

MARCH 2017 - SEPTEMBER 2023

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

DECEMBER 2016 - MARCH 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Tools

Terraform

Languages

Bash Script

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, AWS Lambda, Azure, Azure IaaS

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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