Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps Lead
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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.
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Experience Summary
SRE/DevOps Lead
UK-based financial tech company • Managing multi-region AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
US-based remote consultancy • Driving IaC, GitOps, ML-enabled autoscaling
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%
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