IBRAHIM ABDULAI
Little Elm
Summary
Results-driven Cloud Engineer and DevOps Engineer with over 7+ years of expertise in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Skilled in automating complex processes using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling efficient, reliable, and repeatable deployments. Proficient in containerization, orchestration, and advanced cloud-native technologies to build and optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security. Extensive experience in multi-cloud environments ensures seamless integration, proactive monitoring, and high availability for mission-critical applications. Known for streamlining workflows, improving operational efficiency, and mentoring teams to adopt best practices in cloud engineering and DevOps.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Platform Engineer
Jack in the Box
01.2025 - Current
- Lead DevOps transformation for loT platforms serving 5M+ devices, reducing deployment cycles from 2 weeks to 4 hours through GitOps (ArgoCD + GitHub Actions)
- Designed zero-downtime blue/green deployments on AWS EKS, improving system availability to 99.99%
- Reduced cloud costs by 35% via autoscaling policies and spot instance optimization
- Implemented cross-cloud security controls using Open Policy Agent (OPA), eliminating 90% of container
vulnerabilities - Mentored 3 engineering teams on SRE practices, reducing incident resolution time by 60%
Senior Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer
Intel
11.2022 - 12.2024
- Architected and deployed multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform and Ansible, improving efficiency by 60%.
- Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI, achieving faster and error-free software releases.
- Deployed containerized microservices using Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), enhancing reliability and scalability.
- Established comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack, reducing downtime by 25%.
- Improved security posture by integrating IAM roles, security policies, and vulnerability scanning tools into cloud environments.
- Optimized cost management across multi-cloud platforms, leveraging tools such as AWS Budgets, Azure Cost Management, and GCP Billing.
- Provided technical leadership and mentoring, enabling team adoption of best practices in cloud engineering and DevOps.
Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer
Deloitte
02.2020 - 10.2022
- Migrated and modernized legacy applications by deploying them to Kubernetes clusters on Azure and GCP, enhancing scalability and performance.
- Automated infrastructure deployments using Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 70%.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, automating build and deployment processes across staging and production environments.
- Configured logging, monitoring, and alerting systems using ELK Stack and Datadog, ensuring proactive issue resolution.
- Conducted disaster recovery and backup operations, reducing recovery time by 40% using Azure Site Recovery and Google Cloud Storage.
- Implemented compliance and security standards, reducing vulnerabilities by integrating automated scanning into pipelines.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native solutions tailored to customer needs, achieving a 40% improvement in client satisfaction.
- Provided mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers, promoting continuous learning and adherence to best practices.
Site Reliability Engineer
Micron Technology
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Managed and optimized production workloads on AWS and GCP, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing manual interventions and improving deployment speed.
- Migrated monolithic applications to microservices architecture with Docker and Kubernetes, reducing maintenance overhead by 40%.
- Enhanced monitoring and observability using Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch, enabling real-time issue detection.
- Conducted root cause analysis for production incidents, implementing remediation strategies that improved system reliability.
- Built disaster recovery strategies, leveraging AWS S3 and GCP Snapshots, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO).
- Configured scalable storage solutions using AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage, optimizing resource utilization.
- Developed and maintained IaC scripts with Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable environment provisioning.
Education
HND - Building Technology
Takoradi Technical University
Diploma - Information Technology
IPMC College of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Building Technology
Accra Technical University
Accra01.2015
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), Azure (VM, App Services, Monitor), GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, ECS
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), CloudWatch, Datadog
- Version Control Systems: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Collaboration Tools: Slack, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
Certification
- Certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner
- CompTIA Security+
- CEH (in Progress)
Timeline
Senior Platform Engineer
Jack in the Box
01.2025 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer
Intel
11.2022 - 12.2024
Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer
Deloitte
02.2020 - 10.2022
Site Reliability Engineer
Micron Technology
09.2017 - 01.2020
HND - Building Technology
Takoradi Technical University
Diploma - Information Technology
IPMC College of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Building Technology
Accra Technical University