
Emmanuel Awodi
Senior Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps
Salary / Daily rate
Lagos, Nigeria
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
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.
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