SAMUEL MENDEZ EZEOFOR
CLOUD / DEVOPS ENGINEER
PROFILE
Passionate Cloud Engineer with a strong diagnostic and troubleshooting aptitude, committed to assembling robust cloud infrastructure and ensuring top-notch database performance. Adept at coordinating tasks within IT teams and collaborating with vendors, while implementing best practices for cloud functions, applications, and databases. Dedicated to maintaining system security by monitoring firewalls and mitigating cyber threats. Proficient in various networking concepts and experienced with multiple coding languages. Seeking to leverage years of experience in cloud engineering to contribute value to an organization.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Azure/GCP
- Automation: Terraform, Ansible
- Operating Systems: Linux
- Version Control: Git
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring: Cloudwatch, New Relic, Datadog
- Project Management: Jira, Confluence
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Git Actions
- Scripting: Bash, Python
- Incident Response
- Troubleshooting
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills with significant experience resolving end-to-end technical issues in production environments
- Experience administering RDBMSs such as Postgres, and MySQL, MongoDB
- Experience in cloud and on-premise infrastructure administration
- Migrating application and database from On-premise to Cloud
- Configuring and using common Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) + Networking concepts, including firewalls and load balancers
- Coding languages such as Shell scripting, Python, and PowerShell
WORK EXPERIENCE
Cloud Engineer, eBay Inc., Dublin, Ireland
07/2022 - Current
- Achieved zero downtime during major migrations through streamlined CI/CD pipelines using Git Actions and Terraform
- Designed highly available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant systems utilizing EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancer
- Made accurate, policy-aligned decisions to improve cloud infrastructure responsiveness and efficiency
- Assisted with troubleshooting and resolving cloud systems-related issues
Cloud Engineer, Cloudhight Consulting Inc., Dublin, Ireland
03/2020-07/2022
- Led provisioning of AWS services including EC2 and S3
- Supported development teams in CI/CD pipeline setup using Jenkins and automated infrastructure with Ansible for optimized on-prem and cloud operations
DevOps Engineer Intern, Jetbury, Lviv, Ukraine
02/2019-02/2020
- Assisted in setting up CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure for improved efficiency
EDUCATION
Ivana Franka University
2012-2015
Computer Science.
Motivalogic Academy
2016-2019
DevOps Engineer
CERTIFICATIONS
- DevOps Engineer - Motivalogic Academy
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- MongoDB Associate Developer Python.
- MongoDB Associate Database Administration