Position: DevOps engineer
Category: DevOps
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CKA
- Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS
- UBA Collections Application For Nigerian Airport Protocols
- UBA DevOps and Git Workflow Recommendations
- Health ID Pharmacy Management Application
- TREM Church Automation Project
1. DevOps Engineer
Creative Advanced Technologies, Dubai, UAE
February 2022 - Present.

Responsibilities:
Orchestrating and managing CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Helm and AWS.
Providing 24/7 support for production and disaster recovery applications and servers.
Monitoring server health and managing incident resolution using the Atlassian stack(Jira, Bitbucket, JiraSM, Confluence, Opsgenie).

Achievements:
Streamlined business pipelines by migrating them to Jenkins.
Implemented canary deployments using argo-rollouts for safer and faster releases.
Configured automated database backups to AWS S3 for data protection and recovery.
Set up alerting systems for production components on Kubernetes, reducing response time to critical issues.
Ensured 100% monitoring of all external endpoints via BlackBox exporter.
Configured automated Kubernetes cluster backup on AWS S3 with Velero for disaster recovery.
Implemented log collection and aggregation using Fluent-bit and Loki.
Set up Atlantis pull request automation for team terraform infrastructure, ensuring 100% automation of AWS cloud infrastructure changes.
Configured Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes to visualize cluster metrics.
Maintained a 99% up-to-date fleet of servers for security updates and patches.

2. Software Engineer (Restacked to DevOps/SRE)
United Bank for Africa PLC, Lagos, Nigeria
December 2019 - November 2021

Responsibilities:

Build, test, deploy, and manage payment applications, microservices, and cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
CICD configuration for on-prem servers and databases with GitLab CICD, TravisCI, CircleCI, Codecov and Coveralls.

Achievements:

Contributed to developing a custom payment integration with the Nigerian Airport Protocols using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Express resulting in approximately $300,000 worth of successful transactions monthly.
Researched, documented and presented Git best practices and CI/CD workflows to bank stakeholders, leading to the adoption of GitLab as the primary CI/CD and code repository tool.
Led a team effort to develop a reporting portal for foreign exchange remittance transactions, enabling transaction review and reporting via graph metrics and various query parameters.
I hope to join an Engineering team with a clear vision of where they want to be, where I can play my role in creating and managing a DevOps culture within the team.