Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer
Resume:
MAYOWA ADEYEMO
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayowa-adeyemo-5a2b0697/ SUMMARY
Strategic DevOps and Platform Engineer with over 10 years of experience across cloud-native infrastructure, SRE, systems engineering, and internal developer platforms. Proven leader in managing production-grade Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, architecting self-service platform components, and enabling developer velocity through CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code. Skilled in building and maintaining scalable backend services, modern AWS and Azure services such as EC2, IAM, S3, SDK, AKS, ACI, Blob Storage, and enabling operational excellence at every level of SDLC. Trusted technical partner known for driving cross-functional collaboration, incident response leadership, and automation-first strategies. CORE COMPETENCIES
Cloud & Platform Engineering: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, IAM, S3, RDS, ECR), Azure (AKS, ACI, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, SDK), multi-AZ/HA architecture design, auto-scaling, backup & recovery.
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, Rancher, OpenShift) Cluster provisioning & upgrades, ingress/egress policies, blue/green & canary deployments
Kubernetes Provisioning & Management: Rancher cluster management, node group lifecycle, RBAC, namespaces, network policies, ingress controllers (NGINX)
IaC & Automation: Terraform (modules, remote state, workspace), CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS userdata, Helm, GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD/Flux).
Networking & Network Security: VPC Design, subnets, route tables, VPN, security groups, NACLs, TLS termination, firewall rules, DNS (Route53), zero-trust principles.
Web & API Gateways: NGINX (reverse proxy, ingress controller), API Gateway, SSL cert management, path-based routing, rewrite rules.
CI/CD Engineering: GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, container build/release automation, artifact management, automated testing, environment promotion strategies.
Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty, Azure Monitor, Application Insight, CloudWatch, SLOs/SLIs, log aggregation
Programming & Automation: Python, Bash, Groovy, automation frameworks, health checks, deployment tooling, system provisioning scripts.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lytx,Inc June 2022 – Present
Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)
• Deployed and maintained Kubernetes cluster on OpenShift, automating infrastructure deployment with Terraform.
• Designed and implemented highly available AWS Infrastructure leveraging multi-AZ architectures, auto scaling groups, ALB, and RDS for production workloads supporting customer-facing applications.
• Engineered and implemented modular Terraform configurations enabling reusable IaC, reduced provisioning time by 90% and enforced best practices in code reviews.
• Modernized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, integrated security gates and automated testing, artifact versioning, and branching strategies across multiple environments.
• Performed advanced troubleshooting of distributed services, analyzing logs and performance metrics.
• Built internal observability framework using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and New Relic, enhancing system health visibility and accelerating incident response.
• Partnered with InfoSec to strengthen IAM, RBAC, and audit logging, ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Supported internal developer workflows and platform services, focused on provisioning automation, CI/CD, and environment bootstrapping.
• Wrote Ansible Playbooks from scratch in YAML, installing, setting up & troubleshooting.
• Implemented network security controls, including security groups, NACLs, VPC peering, private subnets, VPN connectivity, and least-privilege IAM policies.
• Led platform reliability efforts by participating in on-call rotations, conducting blameless postmortems, and driving system hardening initiatives.
• Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill growth in cloud-native technologies and DevOps practices. Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri Nov. 2019 – May 2022 Senior Cloud Engineer – SRE (Remote)
• Deployed, maintained, an optimized Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS), Rancher, and vSphere, automating infrastructure deployment with Terraform and Helm while managing networking, scaling, and orchestration at enterprise scale including node group configuration, cluster upgrades, ingress, network policies, and workload rollout strategies.
• Created Python scripts to analyze Prometheus metrics and right-size clusters, improving performance and enabling intelligent autoscaling and cost savings of $500k annually.
• Implemented consistent Helm charts across environments, increasing deployment success rate and reducing manual toil.
• Built end-to-end CI/CD workflows in GitHub Actions for containerized services, including Docker image builds, vulnerability scanning, push to ECR, and automated deployment to EKS.
• Improved platform observability by integrating ELK stack and CloudWatch for centralized monitoring and logging.
• Led IaC code reviews and advanced troubleshooting sessions, improving reliability and uptime for mission-critical systems.
• Configured and managed NGINX as reverse proxy and ingress controller for Kubernetes applications, including TLS, blue/green routing, and custom rewrite rules.
VVL Systems and Consulting, Kansas City, Missouri April 2019 – Oct. 2019 AWS Cloud Engineer (Remote)
• Pioneered and delivered cloud migration strategies, working directly with client leadership to assess readiness and execute transitions to AWS.
• Acted as a trusted technical advisor for enterprise customers, architecting scalable and secure cloud solutions.
• Automated infrastructure deployments using BMC and AWS native tooling, reducing delivery timelines.
• Presented cloud adoption roadmaps to executives, translating technical capabilities into business value.
• Built and maintained documentation and work instructions around solutions, technologies, and client applications.
• Migrated legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS by setting up CICD pipelines on Azure DevOps
• Implemented AKS Cluster using Azure CLI
ECCO Select in Support of USDA, Kansas City, Missouri Dec. 2017 – April 2019 Snr. Linux Systems Administrator
• Managed high-availability Linux and Windows systems, ensuring maximum uptime and security compliance.
• Diagnosed and remediated system failures, improving incident resolution time by over 30%
• Collaborated with application support teams to implement system solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Optimized the functionality of systems and reallocate resources independently without error resulting in no impact to the infrastructure or systems availability.
• Utilized network monitoring tools to identify and correct network issues to minimize impact and increase availability in a LAN environment.
• Developed automation and tooling using Bash and Python, including health-check scripts, backup automation, log parsers, and deployment utilities.
EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL TRAINING
PARK UNIVERSITY, Parkville, MO Jan. 2015 – May 2019 BS Info Comp Science - Networking & Security
CENTRIQ TRAINING, Lea wood, KS April 2014 – Sept. 2014 Systems and Security Administrator
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