Solutions Architect Devops Engineer

GBOLAHAN BALOGUN

Columbia, MD ***** 404-***-**** *******************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbolahan-balog20/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Cloud & Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade systems across AWS and Azure ecosystems,with a strategic mindset and focus on client satisfaction. Adept in translating business requirements into high-performance cloud-native architectures with embedded scalability, security, and resilience. Proven hands-on leadership in DevOps practices, microservices strategies, infrastructure automation, and cross-functional team collaboration. Passionate about shaping digital transformation through architecture alignment and agile delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, Lambda, MSK, RDS, CloudFront), Azure (VMs, DevOps), GCP (basic exposure)

Solution Architecture: Multi-tier deployments, distributed systems, microservices, serverless, container orchestration

DevOps & Automation: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab), GitOps, Pulumi, CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates

Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Ruby, Go, Java, C++

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, AKS

Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK Stack

Security & Compliance: IAM, Vault, RBAC, OWASP, NIST, SOX

Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Azure Board

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Cloud/DevOps/Security Engineer

Chamco Digital Dec 2022 – Present

• Architected distributed, scalable AWS infrastructure for multi-tier web platforms; improved uptime to 99.99% with autoscaling groups

•Led cross-functional collaboration on infrastructure modernization for critical systems involving EC2, EKS, Lambda, and MSK

•Defined and deployed infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform and Pulumi, reducing provisioning time by 35%

•Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, enhancing release throughput by 40%

•Implemented microservices deployment strategies with Kubernetes and Helm across hybrid environments

•Integrated ELK and Prometheus monitoring stack, reducing incident detection time by 50%

•Delivered ML inference optimization pipelines leveraging AWS Bedrock and SageMaker, experience in using Salesforce

•Authored reusable Terraform modules and operational documentation for production support teams

•Participated in capacity planning and performance tuning initiatives across dynamic workloads

•Provided architectural feedback to engineering teams and supported seamless release cycles with great analytical and problem-solving skills to reduce finance cost

•Authored reusable Terraform modules supporting multi-environment architecture

•Spearheaded production support and ticket triage for DevOps incidents; introduced process fixes, reducing weekly backlog by 20%

Luomo creatives LLC –

Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer Jan 2020 – Dec 2022

• Designed and deployed high-availability, cloud-native solutions across Azure VMs and Kubernetes clusters

•Migrated enterprise systems from monolithic to microservices-based architecture using Docker and Helm

•Developed automated CI/CD delivery pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, boosting deployment reliability

•Created real-time monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana for proactive resource planning

•Defined secure pipeline workflows with RBAC and Azure Key Vault, reducing risk exposure by 60%

•Partnered with data engineers and product managers to ensure architectural and sprint alignment

•Authored implementation playbooks and runbooks adopted across cloud and DevOps teams

•Enabled GitOps workflow via Azure Boards + GitHub, accelerating sprint planning and release readiness

•Integrated secure pipelines and RBAC to limit cloud access risk

•Virtualized environments using RedHat and Docker, reducing hardware costs by 25%

Basespo Energy

AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer Jan 2016 – Dec 2020

Managed scalable and fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure using EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation

Automated AMI backups with Boto3, reducing manual tasks by 90%

Developed Code Pipeline stacks integrating Jenkins and ELK for centralized logging

Engineered resilient cloud infrastructure using EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation templates

Automated build and deployment pipelines via CodePipeline and Jenkins, increasing deployment consistency by 45%

Designed centralized logging architecture with Lambda, ElasticCache, and ELK Stack

Optimized Kubernetes clusters with horizontal autoscaling and SSL-secured load balancing

Implemented IAM policies and scripted EC2 provisioning using Bash and Python

Spearheaded migration of legacy workloads to AWS; reduced operating costs by 20%

Optimize having a degree in pharmacy to provide solid health care IT perspective to the organisation

Supported cross-platform DevSecOps integrations with Vault, NIST compliance practices

EDUCATION:

University of Lagos Bachelor of Pharmacy

CERTIFICATIONS:

•AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

•AWS Certified Security – Specialty

•Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

•AWS Certified DevOps Engineer,

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