KAYODE OLANREWAJU
Atlanta, GA *****
470-***-**** - ***.***@*****************.*** - WWW: Bold Profile
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Seasoned DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience automating cloud-native infrastructure and driving secure, scalable Kubernetes operations in AWS environments. Proven track record in architecting CI/CD pipelines, leading cloud migrations, and optimizing costs through automation and observability. Passionate about GitOps, security-first infrastructure, and enabling developer velocity at scale. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Reduced AWS cloud spend by 22% via resource scheduling, rightsizing, and automation with Python and Lambda.
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Eliminated 95% of manual deployment steps, introducing full CI/CD automation across 3 environments.
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Mitigated 100% of critical container CVEs in high-risk services within 30 days through automated scanning and enforcement policies.
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Enabled SOC 2 readiness by designing secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and enforcing least-privilege IAM roles.
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Improved incident resolution time by 60%, introducing SLO dashboards and runbooks.
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SKILLS
Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, containerd, Docker, RBAC, Pod Security
Policies, Network Policies
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): EC2, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Route53, VPC, ALB/NLB,
CloudFront, WAF, Auto Scaling
Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform (modular design, state backends), Ansible, Python (boto3), Bash
CI/CD & Release Engineering: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Canary Deployments, Feature Flagging,
Blue/Green
Security & Compliance: Trivy, Aqua Security, image signing, CVE remediation automation, IAM least
privilege, SOC 2 readiness
Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch Logs, Falco
Networking & Resilience: VPC Peering, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, DNS, Chaos Engineering,
DR/HA planning
Methodologies & Practices: GitOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Incident Response, Agile (Scrum),
Documentation-as-Code
WORK HISTORY
01/2021 to Current Senior DevOps Engineer
FedEx Dataworks · Contract – Memphis, TN
· Built and maintained multiple production-grade EKS clusters supporting 60+ microservices, implementing Pod Security Admission, RBAC, and network segmentation, reducing security incidents by 75%.
· Engineered reusable Terraform modules with remote state and policy enforcement, cutting provisioning time by 70%.
· Developed container hardening pipelines integrating Trivy and Aqua, eliminating 90% of critical CVEs and enabling SOC 2 compliance.
· Automated infrastructure operations with Python and Lambda, improving SLA adherence by 35% and reducing manual tasks by 80%.
· Architected multi-region AWS networking including VPC peering, PrivateLink, NAT gateways, CloudFront CDN, and Route53 failover, achieving 99.999% uptime.
· Designed observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, reducing MTTR by 60% and detection-to-recovery time to under 5 minutes.
· Led GitOps adoption across five squads with ArgoCD and Helm, standardizing deployments and reducing release issues by 80%.
· Mentored junior engineers, delivering weekly training and IaC workshops, reducing onboarding time by 50%.
11/2016 to 12/2020 DevOps Engineer
Develo - Magento ECommerce Agency – Birmingham, UK
· Built and maintained Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines, reducing build times by 45% and enabling automated zero-touch deployments.
· Provisioned AWS infrastructure via Terraform modules (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) for 12+ teams.
· Led Kubernetes cluster adoption and Helm chart implementation for container orchestration.
· Partnered with Agile teams to increase release cadence to bi-weekly with automated deployment health checks.
· Delivered Terraform training promoting DRY practices and improving deployment velocity.
03/2014 to 11/2016 Junior Linux System Administrator Develo - Magento ECommerce Agency – Birmingham,UK
· Managed 200+ Linux servers achieving 99.99% uptime through monitoring and automation.
· Automated 30+ maintenance tasks with Bash and Python, saving 30+ hours monthly.
· Configured VPCs, firewalls, and load balancers for secure hybrid cloud migration.
· Standardized configurations with Puppet, improving audit compliance by 85%.
· Led L2/L3 outage response and root cause analysis. CERTIFICATIONS
· Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024
· Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2025
· Terraform Associate – HashiCorp 2025
· AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 2023
· Certified Jenkins Engineer 2025