Owolade Sobowale
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps and Developer
Lade is an enthusiast and advocate of everything DevOps, with over nine years of experience in the DevOps space. He has worked with startups and big corporations. As a subject matter expert in Terraform and AWS services, he holds all AWS associate certifications. Lade has a solid background in networking and automating everything.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Networking
The most amazing...
...project I've undertaken is re-architecting an organization's terraform infrastructure resulting in a substantial reduction in system deployment time.
Work Experience
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Notarize
- Architected and built a multi-environment AWS ECS cluster using Terraform.
- Migrated all microservice containers from Heroku to AWS ECS.
- Configured Telegraf to run inside containers in AWS ECS, collect application logs, and ship to AWS CloudWatch. Designed Datadog dashboards to inject the application logs from CloudWatch.
- Wrote bash scripts to enable SSM running on AWS ECS containers.
- Configured Sumo Logic to collect the AWS ECS container logs.
- Wrote Terraform configurations and modules to manage the organization's GitHub repositories. Imported all existing repositories into Terraform to be managed through Terraform.
Site Reliability Engineer
SparkPost
- Configured and managed a diverse suite of AWS services expertly, such as EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Orchestrated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins, CirceCI, Git, AWS ECS, EKS, and Docker, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Implemented robust automation strategies using Python and Bash scripting to orchestrate deployments, environment provisioning, and service configurations, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Applied site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance, including error budgeting, service level indicators (SLIs), and service level objectives (SLOs).
- Established a comprehensive monitoring and alerting ecosystem, integrating Datadog alongside PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and Slack to proactively identify and address operational issues, ensuring seamless service delivery while adhering to SLAs and SLOs.
- Managed incident response and resolution processes effectively through PagerDuty, coordinating cross-functional teams and escalating critical issues promptly to minimize downtime and mitigate risks.
- Conducted blameless post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes of outages and implemented preventive measures to enhance system resilience and stability.
- Developed internal tooling in Python and Go templating to enable developers to automate repetitive tasks and enhance development productivity.
- Collaborated closely with development teams to design and implement developer-friendly tooling, facilitating smooth software development lifecycle and deployment processes.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and development in site reliability engineering practices.
DevOps Engineer
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT Lab)
- Worked on infrastructure development on AWS using various services like EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC.
- Utilized CloudWatch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB Services, and EBS volumes.
- Configured Jenkins to automate the build deployments based on the changes captured in Version Control.
- Gained knowledge in Ansible playbook, YAML for maintaining roles, inventory files, and groups variables.
- Configured various performance metrics using AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
- Used Git for branching, tagging, and maintenance of version control and source code management.
Solutions Architect
Intertel
- Automated and managed AWS infrastructure and deployment processes, including production, testing, and development environments.
- Worked on automation continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline processes for multiple projects using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Docker.
- Configured and managed Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for fault tolerance and to avoid single point of failure of applications, providing high availability.
- Implemented identity and access management solutions for infrastructure and applications, to ensure that appropriate access controls are in place and applied effectively and continuously.
- Managed and automated all aspects of our AWS infrastructure, including compute, storage, network, permissions, and cost using shell scripts and configuration management tools like Ansible.
Experience
Terraform Architecture for Nike
Container Migration from Heroku to AWS ECS
http://www.notarize.comCloud Infrastructure and Pipeline for an Email Analytics Company
http://www.sparkpost.comSkills
Tools
Git, Terraform, GitHub, Amazon CloudWatch, Ansible, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, Sumo Logic, Telegraf, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Puppet, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Vault, Vagrant, SaltStack, AWS CloudFormation, Travis CI, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Paradigms
Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, REST
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Unix, Docker, New Relic, Kubernetes, Azure, Heroku, PagerDuty, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Other
Networking, Cloud, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Resource Management, Cloud Services, Cisco, Linux Server Administration, Containers, Nomad, Amazon RDS, IBM Cloud, GitHub Actions, Consul, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Languages
A+, HTML, Python, Bash, Java, Go
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, REST APIs
Industry Expertise
Network Security
Storage
Datadog, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Amazon Aurora
Education
Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Networking
Stratford University - Falls Church, VA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Babcock University - Nigeria
Certifications
Certified Jenkins Engineer
Jenkins Project
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Hashicorp
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Security)
Cisco
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco
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