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Obaro Emmanuel Olori.

Lead DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with eight years architecting, securing, and optimising large-scale cloud-native and hybrid platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-prem.

United Kingdom balori.emma@gmail.com
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Summary

Proven expertise in Linux systems administration, PostgreSQL HA, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. Adept at driving automation, disaster recovery strategies, and zero-downtime deployments to deliver resilient, cost-effective systems. Recognised for reducing provisioning times, improving incident resolution, and mentoring engineers while ensuring SOC2 and ISO compliance.

Core Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud
IaC & Config
Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, CloudFormation
Linux
Hardening, advanced networking, performance, automation
CI/CD
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab
Containers
Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GKE, Helm, Istio, ArgoCD, Flux
Web Infra
Nginx, Istio ingress, SSL automation, reverse proxies
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, Cloud Monitoring
Scripting
Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell
Security & Compliance
OPA Gatekeeper, Secret Manager, GHAS, SOC2, ISO
Networking
VPC, Hub-and-Spoke, NAT, IAP, Cloud Armor, NSGs
Experience

Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) — Kijiji Canada Ltd

Oct 2024 — Present
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  • Architected and managed 200+ Terraform modules for scalable GCP environments.
  • Deployed and maintained 12 GKE clusters with Istio and autoscaling node pools.
  • Designed multi-region CloudSQL (PostgreSQL) with replicas, PgBouncer, and backups.
  • Reduced infrastructure provisioning time from 3 hours to 12 minutes.
  • Implemented zero-trust networking with Identity-Aware Proxy and Cloud Armor.
  • Reduced incident response from 25 minutes to 4 minutes through automated alerting.
  • Achieved SOC2 compliance via policy enforcement and continuous vulnerability scanning.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure, GitHub Expert Services) — GitHub

Mar 2024 — Sep 2024
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  • Built reusable Terraform modules for 15+ clients supporting 500+ VMs and AKS clusters.
  • Reduced deployment time from 45 minutes to 8 minutes via parallel jobs and caching.
  • Managed GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux across staging and production.
  • Integrated GitHub Advanced Security for scanning, secret detection, and compliance.
  • Configured Azure SQL, CosmosDB, and Blob Storage with disaster recovery setups.
  • Achieved zero-downtime goals through blue/green release patterns.

Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer — Wolters Kluwer

Nov 2022 — Jul 2023
Andela
  • IaC with Terraform and Azure YAML pipelines; AKS, VMs, networking, storage automation.
  • CI/CD for .NET and container-based apps; Helm charts for K8s microservices.
  • Integrated Splunk and Azure Monitor for end-to-end log analytics.
  • Hardened infrastructure with NSGs, firewall rules, and private endpoints.
  • Achieved SLA targets with auto-scaling and rollback logic.

DevOps Engineer — Bitso

Dec 2021 — May 2022
  • AWS infra with Terraform and GitOps. On-call rotations on crypto services.
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Atlantis; managed K8s workloads and cluster upgrades.
  • Centralized logging with Elasticsearch, Datadog, Pganalyze.
  • Incident automation via Slack and PagerDuty; secure networking with Calico and OPA.

Senior Azure Consultant — Ernst & Young

Jul 2021 — Jan 2022
  • Multi-cloud architecture on Azure and GCP with Terraform; AKS and GKE via Helm.
  • End-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
  • Bicep and ARM templates for repeatable Azure builds.
  • Led proof-of-concept rollouts for cloud modernization.

Azure Subject Matter Expert — Tek Experts

Apr 2018 — Jul 2021
  • Led resolution of escalated infrastructure and DevOps cases.
  • Automated Azure resource deployment with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Migrated on-prem applications to Azure PaaS.
  • Mentored junior support engineers and authored DevOps team standards.
Education
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science
    Lagos State University, Nigeria · 2018 — 2020
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
    Lagos State University, Nigeria · 2011 — 2015
Certifications
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2024)
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (2023)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (2019)
  • All GitHub Certification Suite × 5 (2024)