Samuel Oyenekan
Fulshear, TX **********@*****.*** 346-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating highly available, secure, and scalable multi-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, observability, cloud security, and platform engineering. Proven track record of delivering 99.99% uptime, reducing cloud costs through FinOps initiatives, accelerating release cycles through automation, and modernizing enterprise platforms using SRE principles and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
SKILLS
Cloud Platforms & Architecture: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), multi-cloud design, high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.
Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates, Ansible, automated provisioning, configuration consistency, and environment standardization.
CI/CD & Release Engineering: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build, pipeline automation, GitOps workflows, and zero-downtime deployments.
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), container lifecycle management, orchestration, and microservices scalability.
Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK Stack, New Relic, Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, logging, metrics, tracing, and performance tuning.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): PagerDuty, Opsgenie, AppDynamics, Google Cloud Operations Suite, incident management, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability optimization.
Security & Identity Management: AWS IAM, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), GCP IAM, GuardDuty, Azure Security Center, access control, compliance, and cloud security best practices.
Networking & Hybrid Cloud: VPC, VNets, Subnets, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, GCP Interconnect, hybrid networking and secure connectivity.
Programming & Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, JSON, scripting, automation, and infrastructure tooling.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Amway Global
Mar 2022 – Present
Architected and operated highly available multi-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP supporting mission-critical distributed applications and cloud-native SaaS workloads.
Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Google Cloud Build, enabling zero-downtime deployments and increasing release velocity.
Led Kubernetes operations across EKS, AKS, and GKE, implementing cluster upgrades, autoscaling, security hardening, and resiliency engineering to maintain 99.99% platform availability.
Implemented observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, and New Relic, reducing incident detection and improving MTTR by up to 40%.
Led cloud modernization and FinOps initiatives, including log platform migrations and infrastructure optimization efforts that delivered more than $30K in annual cost savings.
Established SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, automated alerting, and blameless postmortems to improve operational maturity and platform reliability.
DevSecOps Engineer
Deloitte
Mar 2019 – Dec 2021
Architected secure multi-cloud solutions for enterprise and government environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP while maintaining compliance and security standards.
Standardized Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates, reducing provisioning time and improving deployment consistency.
Built enterprise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, integrating security scanning, policy enforcement, and automated release processes.
Managed containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker and implemented disaster recovery, observability, and security automation initiatives for resilient cloud platforms.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / Solutions Architect
Duke University Hospital
Dec 2017 – Feb 2019
Provisioned and managed scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP supporting high-availability production workloads.
Designed secure network architectures and automated configuration management using Ansible and PowerShell DSC, improving operational efficiency and consistency.
Implemented cloud monitoring, IAM frameworks, and migration solutions that strengthened reliability, visibility, and security posture.
DevOps Engineer
Power Secure
Feb2014 – Dec 2017
Engineered Infrastructure-as-Code deployments using Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing provisioning effort and improving deployment consistency.
Designed highly available cloud architectures using load balancing, Docker, and Kubernetes to support scalable microservices environments.
Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, reducing deployment cycles and improving software delivery efficiency.
Implemented observability, automation, and cost optimization initiatives that improved uptime, accelerated incident response, and reduced operational overhead.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Delivered and maintained platforms supporting up to 99.99% uptime through SRE, automation, and resiliency engineering practices.
Reduced incident response times by up to 40% through observability platforms and automated alerting workflows.
Generated measurable cloud cost savings through rightsizing, governance, and infrastructure optimization initiatives.
Enabled faster and safer software delivery through CI/CD automation and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) November 2014
Computer Science
Lagos State University