EMEKE AMAHIA

jacobsamahia@gmail.com
682-347-9608

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
 6 + Years of total IT experience in administration, analysis, design and maintenance of
client/server and web applications
 3+ years in practicing DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure automation, quality engineering and release
management
 Experience in various roles as DevOps, Cloud Engineer, Build and Release Engineer with excellent
experience in Software Integration, Configuration, Packaging, Building, Automating, managing
and releasing code from one environment to other environment and deploy to servers, support
and maintenance under Unix/Linux/VM's Platforms.
 Excellent understanding of SCM tools such as SVN, Git, BitBucket and GitHub
 Strong exposure to both AWS and Azure cloud platforms
 Strong hands on experience in scripting languages such as Groovy, JSON, YML, Shell scripting.
 Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven,
Nexus, Slack and VSTS.
 Experience in integrating code quality tools such as SonarQube, JaCoCo, Veracode in CI/CD
pipelines.
 Strong exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and
Docker
 Strong exposure to creating Docker images and docker containers.
 Strong knowledge on practicing TDD, automating Junit tests using Maven in Jenkins.
 Strong knowledge in Tomcat, WebLogic servers on different OS's like Windows, Linux VMware,
UNIX and Solaris platforms.
 Participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, QA
UAT and Production.
 Worked with project documentation and documented other application related issues, bugs on
internal wiki website.
 A highly motivated, energetic individual, a team player with excellent communication and inter-
personal skills

EDUCATION:
 HND (MECHINICAL ENGR.) -------Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria - 2010
 HND (MECHINICAL ENGR) --------Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria

TRAINING:
 Ansible, Puppet and Docker hands on training.
 Scrum Master training.

CERTIFICATIONS:
Certified DevOps Generalist

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure

Framework/DevOps tools Maven, JIRA, SonarQube, Nexus, Jenkins, VSTS, Slack,

Build Tools Ant, Maven, Gradle, MSBuild

SCM Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab

IAC Tools Puppet, Ansible, Terraform

Containers Docker

Application/Web Servers: Tomcat, WebLogic 9.x/10.x/12c, Apache 2.x/1.3.x, JBoss 7.1

Operating Systems: HP-UX, Solaris 10, Ubuntu 16.0.4, Red Hat Linux, Windows, AIX

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres

Programming Languages: Java

Scripting & Other Tools: Groovy, UNIX Shell Scripts (Ksh, Bash), Git Bash, Putty, iTerm

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kindred Health - Louisville, KY (REMOTE) Sep 2017 to till date
DevOps Engineer

Description: Kindred is an innovating healthcare space helping employers, government, providers,

partners and individuals by providing them with data and services on on-demand basis. As a DevOps
Engineer, I am part of five members DevOps COE team. My role is to migrate the legacy applications to
AWS cloud using DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, JIRA, Docker, SonarQube and Slack.
Responsibilities:
 Used Terraform and Ansible, migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services.
Used Terraform scripts to configure AWS resources.
 Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible,
created and automated platform environment setup.
 Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket,
SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code
check-in.
 Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in Bitbucket for Agile teams.
 Helped teams to configure Webhooks in Bitbucket to trigger automated builds in Jenkins.
 Setting up Jenkins master, adding the necessary plugins and adding more slaves to support
scalability and agility.
 Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.
 Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.
 Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible,
created and automated platform environment setup on AWS cloud.
 Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.
 Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when
conditions not met.
 Converted java projects into Maven projects by creating POM file and ensured all the
dependencies are built.
 Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins.
 Manage/mentor both onsite/offshore team.
 Enforced Test Driven development for the DEV teams for every sprint

Environment: - J2EE, Selenium, Oracle 11g, Spring, Ansible, Terraform, Maven, Jenkins, AWS,
SonarQube, TDD, Slack & BitBucket
DIAMOND BANK PLC, NIGERIA July 2014 - April 2017
DevOps Consultant

I was responsible for managing Azure resources in cloud and maintain Continuous Integration and
Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for fast paced robust application development environment. As
a member of onboarding team, my responsibility is to implement DevOps transformation by working with
Agile teams to migrate applications to Azure platform.

Responsibilities:
 Setup repos on VSTS Git, merging code from develop branch to master branch and make it ready
for deployment.
 Migrated legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS by setting up CI/CD pipelines
on VSTS
 Created WebApps on Azure portal for deploying web applications using VSTS pipelines.
 Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.
 Helped teams to reduce defects rate by 30% by introducing TDD in first 3 months.
 Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds
when conditions were not met.
 Set up the SonarLint plug-ins in developer's workstation for detecting defects early during
development.
 Dockerized Springboot app by creating Dockerfile and automated docker image creation, image
push into docker registry.
 Implemented Release management workflow for QA, UAT and Prod environments.
 Prepared and presented SCM best practices for implementing continuous integration for the team

Environment: Git, Azure, VSTS, Docker, Nagios, Oracle 12c, Java, J2EE, Windows Servers, XML, JIRA,
SharePoint

Computer Warehouse Group, Nigeria July 2012 - June 2014

Systems Support Analyst

Report Generator: Java Report Generator is Java component for converting XML to PDF documents.
Using JSP we can create dynamic PDF reports as quickly and easily as HTML in a secure manner with
good design over the web as well as in a stand-alone application (Intranet).
Responsibilities:
 Gathered requirements based on the functionalities required
 Developed several modules, using the Java Sever Pages
 Used JSP page to query the database and create Xml
 Included a servlet and a servlet filter for simple generation of PDF's from XML or JSP pages.
 Developed prototypes for the application, based on the requirements, using HTML (TR/TD and DIV
concepts), JavaScript.
 Used cascading CSS2 style sheets to control look and feel.
 Wrote Stored Procedures to populate the database.
 Deployed the application on WebSphere application server.
 Performed the Unit testing and integration test cases to check the functionality of new modules

Environment: Jenkins, Core Java 2.0, JSP, XML, HTML, CSS, Oracle 9i, SQL queries, Web Sphere
Server, PHP.