Kayode Olajide

Senior DevOps Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure

Salary / Daily rate

London, UK

Mobility: London

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

TerraformGitLabKubernetesAnsibleMicroservicesDockerGitHubCybersecurity

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Senior DevOps Engineer with 4+ years specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation at major enterprises like Emirates and HSBC. Expert in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitLab with proven success in multi-region deployments and infrastructure automation. Ready to streamline your DevOps processes and accelerate deployment efficiency.

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Work experience

Senior Technical DevOps Engineer

Emirates

Jun 2024 - Present

2 years 5 months

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Engineered the CI/CD infrastructure on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitLab while enforcing governance policies, synchronizing platform roadmaps, and providing support for the DevOps tooling.

DevOps Engineer

Home Office

Jun 2023 - Jul 2024

1 year 2 months

London, UK

Managed multi-region Kubernetes operations with IaC-managed environments, built a greenfield project using Terraform and AWS, and optimized container orchestration with ECS and ECR.

DevOps Engineer

Mastek

Jun 2022 - Jul 2023

1 year 2 months

London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Implemented developer self-service portals for infrastructure provisioning, established incident automation systems, monitored platform reliability, and leveraged GitLab for the DevOps lifecycle management.

DevOps Engineer

HSBC

Dec 2021 - Jul 2022

8 months

London, UK

Automated firmware ISO builds with Ansible, deployed Terraform modules for AWS resources, established CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins CI, and developed Chef repositories to strengthen system reliability.

DevOps Engineer

IMM

Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

6 months

London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Deployed MV Viewer applications using Kubernetes clusters, automated configuration management with Ansible, developed CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket and GitLab CI, and utilized Terraform for GCP resources.

Infrastructure Architect

Proximie

Jan 2020 - Jul 2021

1 year 7 months

London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Voip Engineer

GLOBILITY LIMITED

Jan 2010 - Jan 2020

10 years 1 month

London, UK

Automated network equipment configuration processes, developed Python APIs for third-party integration, migrated SIP-based solutions to a microservices architecture in EKS, and created CI/CD pipelines.

Voip Engineer

Talia

Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

2 years 1 month

London, UK

Deployed and troubleshot VoIP systems and Linux servers, providing essential support for on-premises infrastructure and system administration tasks.


Education

University of Greenwich

Master of Science - MS

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science - BS

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