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CHURCHILL CHE
Cloud | Azure | DevOps Engineer
Baltimore-Washington. DC
Contact: 240 264 9321
[email protected]
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SUMMARY
I have extensive experience and a proven track record of success in the IT industry, with 7+ years of experience
in Windows/Unix/Linux System Administration, over 5+ years in Azure and AWS Cloud. Am interested in
further enhancing my skillset in administering, configuring and maintaining cloud systems. I am highly
proficient in troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues on systems and the cloud. I always
utilize my knowledge, skills, and abilities in Information Technology to solve challenges and deliver value to
the organizations.

SKILLS
● Azure Cloud: Images, Templates, Storage accounts, NSG, RG, Azure Firewalls, VM provisioning, Cloud
shell, Load balancing, Azure tenants and subscriptions. Cost analysis, User accounts, and endpoints.
● Operating systems & Platforms: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows servers
● Virtualization: VMware, VMware vsphere, and KVM.
● Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools: Terraform and ARM.
● Clustering: Kubernetes
● Scripting: Python and Bash Shell scripting.
● AWS Cloud: User accounts, EC2, VM, VPC, SG, S3, Templates, AMI, patching, cloud watch
● Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
● Automation tools: Ansible, Chef, and Terraform.
● DEVOPS: Git , GitHub, Gitlab and Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Selenium, Docker, and Slack.
● Monitoring tool: Splunk, Nagios, New Relic, and Dynatrace
● New system builds, software, applications, and infrastructure upgrades.
● Linux, Windows, Splunk, maintenance, patching, and upgrades.
● Containerization: Docker and Singularity.
● Web Services: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, and Nginx
● Database Servers: MySQL
● Networking tools: TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, DNS, FTP, SSH, SCP, NTP, WinSCP, Ethernet config
● Diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues with (ping, arp, nslookup, and tracert) tools.
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● Secuirty tools: Disa STIGs, McAfee, Splunk, Aide, Tenable Nessus, and Wazuh

EXPERIENCE
Cloud Operations Engineer
Innova Solutions May 2021 – Present
● Interacted with the Microsoft Azure Partner for technical support and architecture.
● Participated to decide the best way to implement new features leveraging Azure Cloud.
● Produced detailed documentation and step-by-step processes to troubleshoot the infrastrure issues
● Web Services, API Gateways and application integration development and design
● Agile development, Scrum and Application Lifecycle Management
● Linux operating system administration and patching.
● Bash shell scripting and Python.
● Implemented a REST API Service designed for packaging operating system images for cloud operations
● Install and configure Dynatrace one agents
● Developed tools, services, processes, and workflows to ensure DevOps pipelines are available.
● Used of CI/CD tools to build, evaluate, test, and deploy services in Azure cloud.
● Applied several policies to resources and subscriptions.
● Deployed and managed virtual machines in the cloud environment.
● Optimized data exchange between mainframe systems and external partners using RESTful APIs and
Azure SQL databases.
● Help application teams troubleshoot problems using Dynatrace.
● Implemented and managed storage. Ensured data backups for restoration.
● Managed public and private IP addresses concerning virtual machines and Azure resources.
● Configured firewalls and load balancers
● Used Azure Autoscaling, API management and REST APIs for deploying.
● Applying DISA Stigs to linux systems.
● Hardening security configuration files.
● Responsible for configuring and managing Dynatrace application.
● Managed storage accounts and file shares Administer, modify, created user accounts and troubleshoot
system issues.
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Azure DevOps Engineer

Peraton Apr 2017 – April 2021
● Development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds,
regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
● Building, and maintaining AWS services with infrastructure as code (IaC) on Azure and AWS platforms.
● Used configuration management tools including chef, Terraform, and Ansible.
● Experience in developing scripts using RESTful API models for the purposes of integrating workflows with
AWS.
● Worked with containerization tools, including Docker.
● Used Dynatrace as a monitoring tool to identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they affect
critical processes. And created email alerts and threshold values using Dynatrace for our tools.
● Used DevOps and CICD tools and automation, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions
● Network and server infrastructure monitoring and management
● Performed Linux systems administration, including patching, optimization, scripting and automation, and
other systems administration-related tasks
● Configure and setup Dynatrace alerts.
● Worked with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and Agile teams
● Created solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment
● Applying DISA Stigs to linux systems and webservers from results obtained from nexus scan.

Linux/Unix Systems Engineer

Knight Point Systems Jan 2015 to March 2017
● Installing, patching, configuring, and live upgrades on the Solaris, RHEL and Centos servers
● Bash shell scripting and C++ programing language
● User accounts and Security management in Solaris, Centos, and RHEL server systems
● Creating and expanding shares on file systems (Nfs, swap, ext4, Cifs, and Zfs)
● Modifying and changing files ACL, permission attributes, and failed login attempts.
● System inventory, package management, system processes, and OSI system modules
● Disk management; slicing and mounting disk on Solaris, RHEL and Centos servers.
● Volume management with Veritas, and LVM volume manager.
● Wide use of virtualization technologies such as VMware Esxi and Oracle Virtual box
● Installation and configuration of Samba servers, MySQL databases servers, and Apache web servers.
● Patching, backups, and server migration
● In depth understanding and application of TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, SCP, and WINSCP protocols.
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● Skillful in diagnosing, and troubleshooting network connectivity in a LAN, and WAN network environment
using tools such as (ping, Arp, Nslookup, and Tracert).
● Configuring file and print sharing in windows, mapping network drives, samba share, NFS, and CIFS shares
● Terraform, Git chef, and Ansible.
● Nagios configuration and infrastructure monitoring.
● Installation and configuration of security tools such as Splunk, McAfee, Tanium, and Aide.

EDUCATION
● Montgomery College. Takoma Park, MD – Associate's degree, Information Technology.

● Paint Branch High School. Burtonsville, MD, 2012. - High School Diploma

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

● Azure Cloud Administrator - Microsoft ● CCNA – Cisco
● CompTIA Security+ - CompTIA ● ITILv3 Certified – ITILv3 Foundation
● Splunk Enterprise Certified Security ● Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum
Administrator - Splunk Alliance