Yohannes Measho - DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer (Consultant)

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Experience

Dec 2023 - Present

1 year 8 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer role for a migration of on-premise legacy applications to AWS for a public sector client (Project: AWS Cloud Migration Project).
Migration of legacy Biometric applications running on IBM products and infrastructure to AWS.
Provision Infrastructure in AWS using Terraform: VPC, EC2, ALB/NLB, ASG, Secrets Manager, IAM, KMS, Certificate Manager, Route 53, S3 and CloudWatch.
Work closely with Security personnel to Implement High availability and replication of IBM Security Directory Service in AWS.
Provisioning, configuration management and Deployment of infrastructure and applications using Terraform, Ansible, Atlassian Bitbucket and Bamboo into development, pre-production and production environments.
Participated in agile sprint backlog grooming, sprint planning and review in sprint retrospective.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible, Atlassian Bamboo CI/CD pipelines, Bitbucket, Git, Bash Shell, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban, Red Hat Linux, Amazon Workspaces, IBM SDS, IBM ISVA, Splunk, TrendMicro, Centrify, Flexera, Agile, Scrum.

Mar 2022 - Nov 2023

1 year 9 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

1NCE GmbH

Senior Cloud DevOps and Engineer role for the migration of Deutsche Telekom’s HotSpot Drive fast Internet service for cars into the Telekom Internet Service Platform (TISP) managed and operated by 1NCE GmbH (Project: TISP).
Migration and deployment of TISP Infrastructure and telecom application components from legacy to OpenStack and AWS for OEM Tenants that included BMW, VOLVO, and Rolls-Royce in Development, Test and Production environments.
Implemented Kubernetes based micro-services architecture in OpenStack and AWS (EKS).
High and low level infrastructure design of the TISP platform which includes networking, security, logging and monitoring.
Provision new and maintain existing infrastructure resources which included AWS VPC, EC2, ALB, EKS S3, Route 53, RDS MS SQL Server, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, VPN, Transit Gateway.
Design and propose secure Network connectivity using DirectConnect and Site-to-Site VPN between third part Telecom providers and 1NCE AWS infrastructure. Worked closely with AWS professional services to validate the network design and performed full cost analysis.
Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform.
DNS migration from Akamai to AWS Route 53.
Implemented container synchronisation service from Harbor Container Registry to AWS Elastic Container Registry.
Provision and Maintain microservices applications with GitOps pattern using Gitlab CI/CD, helm and Argo CD.
Participate in production cutover and go live of migrated applications to AWS and OpenStack.
On Call duty to support the TISP production platform.
Work closely with Third Party vendors to integrate services that contribute and complement the TISP platform.
Participated in agile sprint backlog grooming, sprint planning and review in sprint retrospective.
Technologies: AWS, OpenStack, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, CDK, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Git, Bash Shell, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Opsgenie, Agile, Scrum.

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

4 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Architect Lead (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps and Infrastructure architect role for a migration project from UKCloud to AWS (Project: AWS Cloud Migration Project).
Migration of VMware VMs from UKCloud to AWS using CloudEndure.
Provision Infrastructure in AWS using Terraform: VPC, EC2, ALB, SSM, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Cost Explorer and Pricing Calculator.
Migration of PostgreSQL databases.
Configuration and deployment of different applications in development, pre-production and production environments.
Security review and remediation of AWS infrastructure for assurance purposes using AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DarkTrace and Datadog.
Participate in production cutover and go live of migrated applications to AWS.
Implemented FinOps strategy which resulted in over £1 million annual savings in AWS operational costs.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources in development, test and production environments.
Participated in agile sprint backlog grooming, sprint planning and review in sprint retrospective.
Technologies: AWS, UKCloud, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Git, Bash Shell, PostgreSQL, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux.

May 2021 - Oct 2021

6 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

AWS Lead Developer (Consultant)

MHP - A Porsche Company (Subsidiary of Porsche AG & Volkswagen Group)

AWS Lead Developer role for Industrial Cloud solution products (Project: Industrial Cloud).
Design, Development and implementation of Industrial applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IOT, DynamoDB, Cognito, Route 53, S3, EC2, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS, EC2, EC2 Image Builder, Certificate Manager, Angular and React.
Develop and Publish Industrial Cloud Solution products that conform to the AWS Marketplace standards.
Design, Development and implementation of Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, AWS SAM and CloudFormation.
Design, Development and implementation of Industrial Data Ingest models using OpenAPI 3.0, MQTT and PPMP protocols with AWS API Gateway, LoRaWAN and AWS IOT.
Develop and Implement continuous delivery process using AWS CDK CodePipeline and EC2 AMI builder pipeline.
Integrate Serverless Applications with Shop floor ERP systems (SAP).
Develop and Implement code obfuscation of Lambda functions and Layers.
Develop and Implement product license verification solution for AWS Marketplace Serverless products.
Technical review of existing infrastructure, document, propose and implement feature and security enhancements.
Provide support and Mentoring to Junior AWS Developers, DevOps and Architects.
Participated in agile sprint backlog grooming, sprint planning and review in sprint retrospective.
Technologies: AWS, Agile (Kanban), arc42, SAM, CDK, Cloudformation, IOT, LoRaWAN, MQTT, SAP (ERP), Git (codecommit), codepipeline, codebuild, Docker, Bash Shell, Typescript, React, Angular, SonarQube, node.js, python and JSON, Agile.

Feb 2021 - Apr 2021

3 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Architect Lead (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps and Infrastructure architect role for a three tier web platform (Project: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas).
Design, Development and implementation of Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK.
Design, Development and implementation of AWS Security services using Security Hub, WAF, Shield, Config, Cognito, Inspector, IAM security Analyzer, GuardDuty, SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS, Certificate Manager, encryption of RDS databases and EBS volumes.
Technical review of existing infrastructure, document, propose and implement security and feature enhancements.
Provision new and maintain existing infrastructure resources which included EC2, ALB, CloudFront, S3, WAF, Route 53 and RDS MS SQL Server, VPN and Transit Gateway.
Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources in development, test and production environments.
Technologies: AWS, Cloudformation, CDK, Azure DevOps, Git, Bash Shell, Typescript, node.js, JSON.

Dec 2020 - Jan 2021

2 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Architect Lead (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps and Infrastructure architect role for a three tier serverless mobile and web application platform (Project: Fundación Laboral de la Construcción).
Design, Development and implementation of Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform.
Design, Development and implementation of AWS Security services using Security Hub, WAF, Shield, Config, Cognito, Inspector, IAM security Analyser, GuardDuty, SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS, Certificate Manager, encryption of RDS databases and EBS volumes.
Technical review of existing infrastructure, document, propose and implement security and feature enhancements.
Develop and maintain Lambda functions using node.js.
Perform Web application scanning and security penetration testing.
Provision new and maintain existing infrastructure resources which included API Gateway, EC2, ALB, NLB, CloudFront, Route 53, LAMBDA, S3, WAF and RDS AURORA.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources in development, test and production environments.
Technologies: AWS, Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, Azure DevOps, Git, Bash Shell, Typescript, node.js, JSON.

Oct 2020 - Nov 2020

2 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Architect Lead (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps and Infrastructure architect role for a three tier web platform (Project: Sky).
Design, Development and implementation of Infrastructure as code using AWS CDK.
Design, Development and implementation of AWS Security services using Security Hub, WAF, Shield, Config, Inspector, IAM security Analyser, GuardDuty, SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS, Certificate Manager encryption of RDS databases and EBS volumes.
Technical review of existing infrastructure, document, propose and implement security and feature enhancements.
Provision new and maintain existing JIRA infrastructure resources which included EC2, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, S3, WAF, Secrets manager and RDS MYSQL.
Perform Web application scanning and security penetration testing.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources in development, test and production environments.
Technologies: AWS, Cloudformation, CDK, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Git, Bash Shell, Typescript, node.js, JSON.

Apr 2020 - Sep 2020

6 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

DevOps and Infrastructure Architect Lead (Consultant)

The Server Labs

AWS Cloud DevOps lead role with the NHS Covid-19 Home Test Delivery team responsible for the delivery of covid-19 home test kits via a serverless digital portal (Project: NHSX). Duties entailed:
Design, Development and implementation of automation services using AWS Lambda and AWS API to efficiently manage the operations of the portal. This includes monitoring stock levels in DynamoDB tables to trigger the opening and closure of the portal by manipulating CloudFront, API gateway usage plans, WAF, Secrets Manager and Slack.
Design, Development and implementation of monitoring and reporting services using AWS Lambda, AWS API, Kinesis Firehose, S3, CloudWatch, Glue, Athena, SPICE, QuickSight, SQS, Amazon MWS API, Secrets Manager and Slack.
Design, Development and implementation of alerting services using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS and Slack.
Design, Development and implementation of Amazon shipment and delivery tracking of covid-19 home test kits using SQS, Amazon MWS API, Lambda and S3.
Develop Lambda functions using node.js and python.
Provision new and Maintain existing infrastructure resources in AWS using Serverless Framework, Cloudformation, AWS CLI and SDKs.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources including Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, IAM, Cognito, ACM, Secretes Manger, Route 53, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, SSM, Athena, Glue, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, WAF, Shield, Amplify, Code pipeline in development, test and production environments.
Technologies: AWS, Cloudformation, Serverless Framework, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Git, Bash Shell, node.js, Python, JSON, JQ, React and Splunk.

Sep 2018 - Feb 2020

1 year 6 months

London, United Kingdom

Principal DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

HSBC

AWS Cloud DevOps engineer role with the Global Cloud Services AWS platform team which is responsible for the Adoption of AWS to enhance HSBC’s ability to leverage latest technologies. Duties entailed:
Contribute to the security controls in place that ensure the security of HSBC’s assets that evolve continually with AWS improvements and evolving project needs based on HSBC’s AWS Security patterns.
Build and Automate tooling and services that help many projects in more than 200 AWS accounts to build services in a secure and efficient way.
Develop robust artefacts including code modules that help project teams to get their security profiles right before any infrastructure is built.
Write technical documentation to guide project teams utilise the shared services developed by the Global Cloud Services.
Provide first line support for AWS services in development, pre-production and production accounts.
Provision new and Maintain existing infrastructure resources in AWS using Terraform modules, Cloud-formation, AWS CLI and SDKs.
Provide infrastructure support for AWS resources including DirectConnect, Organisation, IAM, ACM, VPC, EC2, Auto-Scaling, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, SES, SSM, Athena, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Config, Inspector, Trusted Advisor, Sidecar Proxy in development, test and production environments.
Provide support, maintenance, provisioning and scanning of HSBC standard Windows, RedHat and Amazon Linux base AMIs.
Provide Mentoring and coaching to HSBC application DevOps teams with AWS infrastructure and tools.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Serverless, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Enterprise Git, Nexus, Bash Shell, Python, JSON, JQ, docker, Splunk, Qradar, Alert API and XMatters.

Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

11 months

AWS DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited)

Aug 2016 - Oct 2017

1 year 3 months

AWS DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

DirectLine Group

Dec 2013 - Jul 2016

2 years 8 months

London, United Kingdom

Software Configuration, Release and DevOps Consultant

DirectLine Group (Formerly RBS Insurance)

May 2011 - Nov 2013

2 years 7 months

London, United Kingdom

Software Configuration & Release Management Consultant

DirectLine Group (Formerly RBS Insurance)

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

1 year 1 month

London, United Kingdom

Software Configuration & Release Management Consultant

Lloyds Banking Group

Sep 2009 - Mar 2010

7 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Software Configuration Management Consultant

Credit Suisse AG

Feb 2009 - Aug 2009

7 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Software Configuration Management Consultant

eyeSpan Limited

Feb 2007 - Jan 2009

2 years

Staines-upon-Thames, United Kingdom

IBM Rational Software Specialist

News Digital Systems Ltd

Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

1 year 1 month

London, United Kingdom

Software Configuration Management Consultant

fmiSolutions (IBM Tier 1 Business Partner)

Apr 2001 - Dec 2005

4 years 9 months

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Senior Development Practices Specialist

Aspen Technology

May 1998 - Mar 2001

2 years 11 months

Leyland, United Kingdom

Project Engineer

Torotrak Plc

Jul 1997 - Apr 1998

10 months

Farnham, United Kingdom

Control Systems and Applications Engineer

Cytek Projects Ltd

Sep 1993 - Jun 1997

3 years 10 months

United Kingdom

Research Assistant

University of Humberside & Lincolnshire

Sep 1989 - Aug 1992

3 years

Process Engineer

Legadembi Gold Mine

Summary

Certified Cloud and DevOps practitioner delivering technology solutions for financial, insurance, and blue-chip organisations with focus on cloud architecture, DevOps, automation, migration, implementation support, and coaching to help organisations optimise their cloud and DevOps processes.

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English

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Education

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