Emmanuel Awodi

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps

Salary / Daily rate

Lagos, Nigeria

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

TerraformDockerKubernetesAWSAzure

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Site Reliability Engineer with 4+ years specializing in cloud infrastructure and automation across AWS/Azure platforms. Proven track record reducing deployment time by 60% and leading incident response for high-impact outages. Expert in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

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Work experience

Site Reliability Engineer

TuringFreelance

Feb 2024 - Present

2 years 9 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

- Monitored Nagios alerts and delivered daily system health reports to ensure platform stability. - Automated routine tasks using Python and Bash, including artifact cleanup and cron scheduling. - Provisioned Grafana dashboards on AWS AMIs with Ansible and integrated monitoring with CloudWatch. - Collaborated cross-functionally to resolve application failures, reducing incident response time. - Closed Jira tickets consistently by updating packages and resolving deployment issues. - Executed secure Ansible playbooks with parameters passed from internal storage in an isolated environment. - Contributed to automation via Bitbucket and Bamboo CI/CD pipelines, improving delivery efficiency.

Scholarship

Andela

Apr 2025 - Jul 2025

4 months

Lagos · Remote

DevOps Engineer

Interswitch Group

Mar 2024 - May 2024

3 months

Lagos, Nigeria

- Built CI/CD pipelines for Python and Go apps using Jenkins and Azure Pipelines. - Dockerized applications and deployed on Kubernetes using Helm charts. - Implemented approval gates using PR reviews and Jira workflows for controlled releases. - Integrated AWS ALBs and Ingress controllers for seamless service discovery and traffic management. - Optimized Docker caching layers, containerized test environments, and managed secrets via Vault.

Cloud Engineer

Devtegrate Strategies

Jul 2023 - Mar 2024

9 months

Lagos, Nigeria

- Built real-time data ingestion pipelines from Azure SQL to Data Lake using Event Hubs. - Reduced deployment time by 60% by implementing Azure Data Factory and DevOps pipelines. - Managed Terraform and ARM templates for Azure IaC; maintained multiple subscriptions and RBAC roles. - Led incident responses and tracked SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability. - Resolved infrastructure tickets using Azure Support workflows and enhanced internal documentation.

Growth Capital Group

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

4 years

Lagos, Nigeria

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

4 years

Lagos, Nigeria

- Acted as Incident Commander and led war rooms during high-impact outages. - Designed and maintained Kubernetes clusters and implemented pod scaling strategies. - Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring and alerting. - Conducted root cause analysis and implemented long-term reliability fixes.

DevOps Engineer

Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

6 months

- Built and managed Jenkins pipelines integrated with Docker and Kubernetes. - Handled secrets with Kubernetes Secrets, Jenkins Credentials, and Ansible Vault. - Ensured secure and consistent multi-environment deployments.

Cloud Engineer

Digital Tribe LTD

Nov 2022 - Jul 2023

9 months

Lagos, Nigeria

DevOps Engineer

Novaji Introserve

Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

6 months

Lagos, Nigeria

Software Engineer

NoLimitBuzz

Nov 2020 - Jan 2021

3 months

Lagos, Nigeria

Software Programming Instructor

EduPoint Limited

Jan 2016 - Oct 2020

4 years 10 months

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria · On-site


Education

Nexford University

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

2023 - 2027

4 years 2 months

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