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DENZEL OBIOHA

Houston

Summary

Innovative Lead DevOps Engineer, with expert skills as a Cloud Engineer and Network Engineer. Going on 9 years of experience in designing and managing multi-cloud solutions across industries. Expertise in integrating Azure and AWS with external systems, orchestrating Microservices, and deploying scalable cloud architectures. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Shell Scripts, and GoLang, with strong skills in automating cloud operations and optimizing DevOps processes. Committed to driving business success through technology solutions and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Lead

myNEXUS
Houston
02.2023 - Current
  • Accelerated Cloud Delivery at Scale: Led the standardization and automation of Azure cloud provisioning, reducing enterprise deployment cycles from 3 weeks to 1 week through reusable ARM templates and PowerShell-based pipelines.
  • Architected Cloud-Based IVR Platforms: Directed the design and delivery of cloud IVR solutions using Twilio, Pexip, and Asterisk, improving customer interaction efficiency by 25%, routing accuracy by 30%, and overall satisfaction through scalable, resilient architectures.
  • Optimized customer infrastructure through architecture simplification initiatives for 15+ customers, reducing unnecessary cloud resources by ~50% with Azure Logic Apps, JSON templates, and automation best practices.
  • Enterprise Observability & Reliability Leadership: Owned continuous monitoring and observability strategies across 50+ cloud projects, reducing downtime by 20% through the adoption of CloudWatch, Elastic Stack, Splunk, New Relic, and Prometheus-style monitoring.
  • Delivered 10+ advanced Power BI dashboards, reducing management decision-making time by 40% and providing real-time operational insights.
  • Distributed Microservices Architecture Design: Led design of highly distributed, multi-region microservices architectures using Azure Service Bus, improving platform scalability and performance by 50% for public cloud workloads.
  • Data Democratization & Analytics Enablement: Enabled cross-team data-driven decision-making by building ETL pipelines with Python and PySpark to extract, transform, and analyze data from diverse enterprise systems.
  • Enhanced cloud security posture across platforms through threat modeling, vulnerability management, and compliance efforts, ensuring robust protection and incident response.

Senior DevOps & Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Elevance Health
Houston
02.2021 - 02.2023
  • Led cloud networking and platform architecture, designing virtual networks, subnets, VPNs, routing, and security controls to enable enterprise-scale growth, high availability, and regulatory compliance.
  • Delivered scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, supporting secure hybrid connectivity and globally distributed ML workloads while improving availability, performance, and operational resilience.
  • Drove adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Azure ARM to standardize provisioning of networking, compute, and storage resources, reducing configuration time by 70%, minimizing manual errors, and accelerating delivery across environments.
  • Led migration of 50+ legacy systems to hybrid and cloud-native architectures, improving reliability, disaster recovery readiness, and service continuity using Azure Site Recovery, ExpressRoute, and optimized routing strategies.
  • Established CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure and networking deployments, reducing lead times, increasing deployment safety, and enabling rapid iteration.
  • Enabled scalable AI and ML platforms by orchestrating containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS, EKS) and Docker, ensuring secure ingress/egress, resilient service networking, and optimized data pipelines.
  • Improved operational reliability through observability and monitoring using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 50%.
  • Strengthened cloud security and compliance through Azure RBAC, NSGs, IAM policies, and centralized secrets management with Azure Key Vault and AWS KMS, meeting HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements.
  • Automated operational remediation and maintenance using Python and PowerShell, improving efficiency, stability, and response times across multi-cloud environments.

Cloud Engineer

Gartner
Dallas
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Built and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation and Azure Bicep to automate multi-environment cloud provisioning, reducing environment setup time by 70% and improving deployment consistency.
  • Led cloud migrations of legacy applications and databases to cloud-native architectures, improving performance and latency while reducing infrastructure costs by 20%.
  • Implemented and optimized observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Azure Log Analytics, and Grafana, enabling real-time monitoring, proactive alerting, and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).
  • Strengthened identity, access, and security controls using Azure Active Directory, AWS IAM, and RBAC, aligning cloud platforms with FDA and HIPAA compliance requirements.
  • Designed and scaled highly available cloud platforms on AWS and Azure to support mission-critical pharmaceutical research systems, achieving 99.99% platform availability.
  • Automated operational workflows and cloud housekeeping using Python and PowerShell, freeing over 100 engineer hours per quarter and enhancing platform reliability.
  • Partnered with security and compliance teams to design and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, achieving zero data loss and 100% recovery in failover simulations.

DevOps Engineer

Accenture
Dallas
03.2018 - 01.2020
  • Led cloud network troubleshooting and resilience initiatives using Azure Functions to diagnose and resolve 100+ complex issues across cloud networking, middleware, and storage layers, reducing system downtime by 30%.
  • Developed custom migration and automation solutions using .NET and Python to support the successful migration of 20+ enterprise platforms—including ERP, CMS, and data analytics systems—while maintaining 100% operational continuity.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD-driven migration pipelines, leading the migration of 10,000+ Exchange users to Microsoft 365, Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, and multiple critical workloads to Microsoft Azure, improving application performance and reducing infrastructure costs by 20%.
  • Implemented real-time event processing and observability using Azure Event Grid for event-driven workflows and Azure Application Insights to monitor 10,000+ daily user activities and error logs, enhancing user experience for 90% of users.
  • Championed serverless computing and automation with Azure Functions and PowerShell to automate routine operational tasks, increasing operational efficiency and reducing time spent on repetitive work by 50%.
  • Led implementation of Azure Synapse Analytics to enable scalable data warehousing and big data analytics, improving data accessibility for business intelligence platforms including Power BI and Totango.

Education

Master Of Science - Business Management

University of Manchester
UK

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of Manchester
TX, UK

Skills

Cloud Platforms and Tools: Azure Cloud
Infrastructure Services (Azure Functions,
Azure Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid, Azure
Service Bus), AWS, Google Cloud

Kubernetes, Terraform, ARM Templates

Software Development & Methodologies:
NET, Python, PySpark, Java, Go, Agile,
Waterfall, Lean

Monitoring & Security Compliance:
Continuous Monitoring, Security Policies, and
Procedures, GDPR, Azure Security Center

Monitoring Tools: Experience with
Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to ensure
continuous system monitoring and
troubleshooting

Deployment & Configuration Tools: Jenkins,
GitHub, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions

DevOps & CI/CD: Continuous
Integration/Continuous Deployment,
Microservices, Serverless Computing

Project & Program Management: Cross-
functional Team Leadership, Requirement
Gathering, Quality Control/Assurance

Certification

● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
● AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
● AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
● Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
● Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
● Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Timeline

DevOps Lead

myNEXUS
02.2023 - Current

Senior DevOps & Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Elevance Health
02.2021 - 02.2023

Cloud Engineer

Gartner
01.2020 - 01.2021

DevOps Engineer

Accenture
03.2018 - 01.2020

Master Of Science - Business Management

University of Manchester

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of Manchester
DENZEL OBIOHA