YEMI DOKUN
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Results-oriented DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in
cloud infrastructure, production support, and observability. Specialized in Azure with a strong focus on system reliability, incident management, and automation. Proven ability to improve system uptime to 99.9% and reduce deployment times by 40% through IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-on expertise with monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK Stack, LogicMonitor), scripting (PowerShell, Python), and automation of operational workflows using ServiceNow and PagerDuty. Adept at optimizing infrastructure performance, managing secrets via Azure Key Vault, and building scalable solutions with Terraform, ARM, and Bicep.
WORK HISTORY
DevOps Engineer/Operational, 09/2022 to Current
Healthcare Support
* Oversaw the complete lifecycle of Drupal hosting environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability.
* Administered and maintained the Azure DevOps platform, managing CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, optimizing workflows across development, test, stage, and production environments.
* Led the management of production releases, using Kubernetes for deploying applications, APIs, and content, and automating environment provisioning as required.
* Collaborated with a diverse team of developers, designers, and project managers to address technical issues, troubleshoot complex problems, and ensure minimal operational impact.
* Secured application secrets and credentials using Azure Key Vault (AKV), reducing manual secret exposure risks by 100% and automating secure access control with Managed Identities and RBAC.
* Implemented and maintained Azure Container Registry (ACR) for containerized application storage and deployment, improving image retrieval performance by 35% and enforcing container security best practices.
* Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates, enhancing resource provisioning efficiency by 60% and ensuring environment consistency.
CONTACT
Address: Staten Island, New York
10303
Phone: 732-***-****
Email: ***********@*****.***
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yem
i-dokun-18a109367
SKILLS
● Developing IT solutions
● Offering server support
● Prioritizing tasks efficiently
● Strategizing project
development
● Communicating clearly and
effectively
● Encouraging team
collaboration
● Analyzing problems
effectively
● Thinking critically and
sharply
● Allocating time effectively
● Adapting approaches flexibly
● Solving problems
innovatively
● Demonstrating leadership
qualities
● Exhibiting resilience and
persistence
TECHNICAL SKILLS
●Monitoring & Observability:
Dynatrace, ELK Stack,
LogicMonitor, Prometheus,
Grafana, Splunk, Datadog.
●Incident Response & Automation:
PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Azure
Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft
Defender for Cloud
●Scripting & Automation:
PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML,
Ansible.
●CI/CD & Workflow Orchestration:
Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub
Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD,
ArgoCD
* Integrated automated monitoring, logging, and alerting for ADO Pipelines using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, reducing deployment failures by 30%.
* Optimized DevOps workflows by implementing security and compliance automation, ensuring adherence to NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 standards, reducing compliance violations by 25%.
* Collaborated with development, security, and operations teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices, embedding security scans (SAST, DAST) and vulnerability management into CI/CD workflows.
* Utilized PagerDuty and ServiceNow to streamline incident response, reducing issue resolution time by 40% and minimizing system downtime. Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer, 06/2019 to 07/2022
Department of Defence, DOD
* Played a crucial role in building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, facilitating efficient and reliable software delivery.
* Collaborated with development teams to integrate administrative features for logging, monitoring, and runtime configuration, enhancing application visibility and control.
* Designed and developed scalable and automated Azure cloud environments, optimizing performance and resource utilization.
* Designed and automated Azure DevOps (ADO) CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 50% and improving release velocity for critical healthcare applications.
* Configured and optimized ADO Agents, ensuring 99.9% uptime for build and deployment workflows, leading to seamless application rollouts across development, staging, and production environments.
* Managed ADO Repos, implementing Git branching strategies, code review policies, and access controls, increasing developer efficiency by 40% while enforcing compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST.3
* Identified and addressed productivity barriers between development and operations, streamlining workflows and improving efficiency.
* Standardized development, change, validation, and deployment processes to reduce complexity and improve consistency.
* Implemented automation strategies to streamline service development and delivery, leveraging tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
* Provided on-call support outside of regular hours, ensuring continuous operation and quick resolution of critical issues. Site Reliability Engineer, 09/2017 to 03/2019
CIMLIFY Inc.
* Migrated Repository complete with CI/CD from Bitbucket to AWS CodeCommit, increased productivity by 250% and saved cost
* Leveraged Azure CI and Docker for Automated deployments, cutting deployment times by 75%, reducing rollback incidents, and enhancing team agility.
●Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep,
Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation
●Containerization & Orchestration:
Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, ACR,
Helm, Istio
●Secrets & Identity Management:
Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault,
AWS Secrets Manager, AAD, RBAC,
OAuth
●Version Control & SCM: Git, ADO
Repos, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitFlow,
Trunk-Based Development
●DevSecOps & Compliance:
SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx,
OWASP ZAP, Prisma Cloud, CIS,
NIST, ISO 27001
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree: Healthcare
Informatics Grand Canyon
University, Arizona, 2023
Bachelor’s: Information Systems and
Technology University of Ibadan,
Nigeria, 2010
LANGUAGES
English
Fluent
* Implemented backup and disaster recovery solutions, reducing data recovery time from 24 hours to 4 hours and ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
* Designed and implemented serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, enhancing system scalability and reducing operational cost by 20%.
* Configured and optimized AWS security services including AWS IAM, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield to protect applications against threats and ensure compliance with industry standards.
* Conducted regular security assessment and vulnerability scans using tools like AWS inspector and AWS trusted Advisor, leading to a 40% reduction in security risks.
* Implemented Continuous testing strategies with AWS Codepipelines and AWS CodeBuild, integrating automated tests to ensure high quality codes and faster delivery cycles.
Software Engineer, 06/2015 to 08/2017
Twill
* Implemented Debezium, Kafka and Elasticsearch to enable swift access to critical information, resulting in 50% faster querying.
* Maximized search engine accuracy by 90% through the execution of data indexing and query optimization practices, enhancing user trust and loyalty
* Ensured software quality and stability via meticulous testing, debugging, and proactive participation in code reviews. Nurtured a culture of excellence, maintaining code consistencies
* Automated build and deployment processes using Jekins and GitHub Actions, reducing manual intervention and deployment errors by 35%
* Created and maintained Dockerized environment for local development and production, ensuring consistency and scalability of application across different stages.
* Implemented security best practices, including OAuth2 and JWT for authentication and authorization, ensuring secure access to APIs and services.