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Kayode Olanrewaju

Atlanta,GA

Summary

Seasoned DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience automating cloud-native infrastructure and driving secure, scalable Kubernetes operations in AWS environments. Proven track record in architecting CI/CD pipelines, leading cloud migrations, and optimizing costs through automation and observability. Passionate about GitOps, security-first infrastructure, and enabling developer velocity at scale.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

FedEx
01.2021 - Current

· Built and maintained multiple production-grade EKS clusters supporting 60+ microservices, implementing Pod Security Admission, RBAC, and network segmentation, reducing security incidents by 75%.

· Engineered reusable Terraform modules with remote state and policy enforcement, cutting provisioning time by 70%.

· Developed container hardening pipelines integrating Trivy and Aqua, eliminating 90% of critical CVEs and enabling SOC 2 compliance.

· Automated infrastructure operations with Python and Lambda, improving SLA adherence by 35% and reducing manual tasks by 80%.

· Architected multi-region AWS networking including VPC peering, PrivateLink, NAT gateways, CloudFront CDN, and Route53 failover, achieving 99.999% uptime.

· Designed observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, reducing MTTR by 60% and detection-to-recovery time to under 5 minutes.

· Led GitOps adoption across five squads with ArgoCD and Helm, standardizing deployments and reducing release issues by 80%.

· Mentored junior engineers, delivering weekly training and IaC workshops, reducing onboarding time by 50%.

DevOps Engineer

Modelo Design
11.2016 - 12.2020

· Built and maintained Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines, reducing build times by 45% and enabling automated zero-touch deployments.

· Provisioned AWS infrastructure via Terraform modules (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) for 12+ teams.

· Led Kubernetes cluster adoption and Helm chart implementation for container orchestration.

· Partnered with Agile teams to increase release cadence to bi-weekly with automated deployment health checks.

· Delivered Terraform training promoting DRY practices and improving deployment velocity.

Junior Linux System Administrator

Develo Design
03.2014 - 11.2016

· Managed 200+ Linux servers achieving 99.99% uptime through monitoring and automation.

· Automated 30+ maintenance tasks with Bash and Python, saving 30+ hours monthly.

· Configured VPCs, firewalls, and load balancers for secure hybrid cloud migration.

· Standardized configurations with Puppet, improving audit compliance by 85%.

· Led L2/L3 outage response and root cause analysis.

Skills

    Containers & Orchestration:
    Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, containerd, Docker, RBAC, Pod Security Policies, Network Policies

    Cloud Infrastructure (AWS):
    EC2, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Route53, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, WAF, Auto Scaling

    Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
    Terraform (modular design, state backends), Ansible, Python (boto3), Bash

    CI/CD & Release Engineering:
    Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Canary Deployments, Feature Flagging, Blue/Green

    Security & Compliance:
    Trivy, Aqua Security, image signing, CVE remediation automation, IAM least privilege, SOC 2 readiness

    Monitoring & Observability:
    Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch Logs, Falco

    Networking & Resilience:
    VPC Peering, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, DNS, Chaos Engineering, DR/HA planning

    Methodologies & Practices:
    GitOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Incident Response, Agile (Scrum), Documentation-as-Code

Accomplishments

  • Reduced AWS cloud spend by 22% via resource scheduling, rightsizing, and automation with Python and Lambda.
  • Eliminated 95% of manual deployment steps, introducing full CI/CD automation across 3 environments.
  • Mitigated 100% of critical container CVEs in high-risk services within 30 days through automated scanning and enforcement policies.
  • Enabled SOC 2 readiness by designing secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and enforcing least-privilege IAM roles.
  • Improved incident resolution time by 60%, introducing SLO dashboards and runbooks.

Certification

· Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024

· Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2025

· Terraform Associate – HashiCorp 2025

· AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 2023

· Certified Jenkins Engineer 2025



Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

FedEx
01.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Modelo Design
11.2016 - 12.2020

Junior Linux System Administrator

Develo Design
03.2014 - 11.2016
Kayode Olanrewaju