Yohannes Measho
DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer (Consultant)
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 monthsAWS DevOps Engineer (Consultant)
PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited)
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 3 monthsAWS 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 2005 - 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 yearsProcess 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.
Languages
English
Native
Education
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BSc · Chemical Engineering
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MSc · Computer Based Plant and Process Control
Certifications & licenses
AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C01)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02)
Driver's License: Full
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