Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps Lead

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8+
Years Experience
25%+
AWS Cost Savings
2x
Deployment Speed
35%
Resource Optimization

👤Professional Summary

Experienced SRE/DevOps Engineer with 8+ years delivering scalable, cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. Proven in cost optimisation (25%+ AWS savings), infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and observability. Combines deep technical capability with reliability engineering, FinOps awareness, and cross-team collaboration.

🛠️Core Skills & Tools

AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch)
Azure, GCP, Hybrid Cloud Environments
Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure Bicep
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Argo CD
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Tempo
Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash
Incident Response: SLIs, SLOs, Chaos Engineering
Cost & Security: FinOps, IAM, Encryption, GuardDuty

🏆Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
📚AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (In Progress)

💼Experience Summary

Current Role

SRE/DevOps Lead

UK-based financial tech company • Managing multi-region AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure

Previous Role

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

US-based remote consultancy • Driving IaC, GitOps, ML-enabled autoscaling

Earlier Experience

IT Support/Admin

Various companies • Growing infrastructure automation responsibilities

🌟Notable Achievements

💰

Reduced AWS spend by 25%+ via FinOps tools, RIs and anomaly detection

🤖

Built ML-driven autoscaling for EKS, improving resource use by 35%

🚀

Created GitOps workflows doubling deployment speed and confidence

☁️

Migrated legacy workloads to serverless, cutting costs by 60%

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Automated ChatOps with AWS Chatbot & Slack for real-time alerts

🎓Education

MSc in Technology & Data Analytics

UK University • 2022

BSc in Computer Science

West African University • 2017