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Olufolarin Martins

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Summary

Adept DevOps and AWS Cloud Engineer with a proven track record at King's College and Zaizi, enhancing productivity and system reliability through infrastructure automation and cloud solutions. Expert in leveraging technologies like Terraform, Ansible, and AWS, coupled with strong problem-solving skills. Achieved significant improvements in deployment speed and operational efficiency, demonstrating exceptional teamwork and technical prowess.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

King's College
09.2020 - 10.2024
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery using Jenkins and Octopus Deploy, reducing manual deployment efforts and improving release cycles by 40%
  • Deployed CI/CD solutions using Jenkins and GitLab CI, enhancing team productivity and delivery speed.
  • Optimized cloud resource usage, resulting in a 20% reduction in AWS costs by implementing best practices for instance sizing, S3 lifecycle policies, and autoscaling configurations
  • Utilized ·Blue/Green and Canary Deployments using AWS CodeDeploy which resulted in consistent and secure deployment in PROD environment
  • Utilized Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, improving system reliability and user experience.
  • Engineered automated deployment pipelines utilizing Terraform and Ansible, streamlining application releases.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning, reducing deployment time for development environments.
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines, accelerating software release cycles and improving code quality.
  • Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Established proactive monitoring systems, identifying and resolving issues before impacting users.
  • Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
  • Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
  • Deployment on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk)
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Zaizi
07.2018 - 08.2020
  • Automated daily backups of critical data using AWS S3, reducing the risk of data loss in case of system failures.
  • Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
  • Developed comprehensive strategies for leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency during periods of high demand.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, increasing deployment speed and reliability.
  • Coordinated disaster recovery efforts by developing comprehensive plans that outlined roles, responsibilities, and procedures during an event.
  • Captured and shared best-practice knowledge among AWS community and presented sessions at industry conferences.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design scalable and secure cloud solutions in line with business requirements.
  • Continuously updated knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in the AWS ecosystem, enabling informed decision-making and effective problemsolving.
  • Trained junior engineers on best practices for working within an AWS environment, promoting skill development across the team.
  • Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
  • Designed custom monitoring dashboards using Amazon CloudWatch for real-time insight into system health and performance metrics.
  • Implemented security best practices within the AWS environment, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
  • Optimized cloud resource usage through continuous monitoring and cost analysis.
  • Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
  • Decoupling Architecture using SQS for fault tolerance
  • SNS subscription for notification i.e email and sms
  • High availability by enabling Multi AZ’s for RDS, read replicas
  • Protecting against accidental deletion by enabling versioning in S3 or MFA
  • Cross replication and copying EBS Snapshot to another region in case of natural disaster
  • IAM Roles, encryption and resource policies for data protection and user access

Site Reliability Engineer

AKKODIS
06.2016 - 07.2018

• Engineered and automated highly available, scalable cloud platforms on AWS , ensuring optimal reliability and uptime for critical services.
• Implemented and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, reducing deployment times by 30% and enabling faster release cycles..
• Designed and implemented service-level objectives (SLOs) and service-level indicators (SLIs) to measure and improve system reliability and availability.
• Automated routine infrastructure tasks using AWS Lambda and Systems Manager, reducing manual intervention and improving operational efficiency.
• Led disaster recovery and high-availability strategies, implementing multi-AZ RDS, automated backups, and Glacier archiving to meet RPO and RTO targets.
• Architected and maintained monitoring and alerting systems using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and ELK Stack, ensuring proactive issue resolution.
• Worked with development teams to design and implement microservices architectures, improving scalability and fault tolerance using Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes.
• Led on-call support processes, performing root cause analysis and conducting postmortem reviews to improve system reliability and reduce downtime

  • Built monitoring dashboards with Prometheus, Grafana providing comprehensive system insights.
  • Improved incident management workflows by creating comprehensive documentation on troubleshooting procedures and common issues resolution steps.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions.
  • Designed load testing scenarios to validate application scalability under various traffic patterns and conditions.
  • Achieved significant cost reductions by optimizing resource allocation and eliminating wasteful practices.
  • Monitored and reported on test results and performance data to identify areas of opportunity for improvement.
  • Worked with stakeholders and team members on quality assurance efforts for hardware components.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Leeds
United Kingdom
04-2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Leeds
London
10-2013

Skills

  • Scripting languages (Bash, yaml, Python, GO)
  • GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Cloud Services & Architecture: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation),
  • CI/CD & DevOps Practices: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Ansible, Terraform, AWS CodePipeline
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS Cloudformation, Ansible
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes ( EKS, ), Helm, ECS,
  • Cloud Security & Compliance: IAM, AWS KMS, AWS WAF, AWS Shield
  • Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
  • Networking & Performance Tuning: VPC Peering, Direct Connect, Route 53, VPN, NACLs,
  • System Reliability & Performance: High availability, failover strategies, capacity planning, disaster recovery, chaos engineering

Accomplishments

  • Engineered platform solutions that improved application reliability, security, and availability, supporting millions of end-users.
  • Successfully integrated containerized applications into the AWS ecosystem using ECS and Kubernetes, streamlining platform operations.
  • Introduced automated monitoring and alerting systems that reduced downtime and operational overhead by 40%.

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

DevOps Essentials & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

King's College
09.2020 - 10.2024

AWS Cloud Engineer

Zaizi
07.2018 - 08.2020

Site Reliability Engineer

AKKODIS
06.2016 - 07.2018

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

DevOps Essentials & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Leeds

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Leeds
Olufolarin Martins