Paragraph 1: Platform-agnostic DevOps / Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Paragraph 2: Hands-on expertise in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps); Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation); configuration management (Ansible); containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS); and microservices delivery. Proven track record improving release velocity, reducing deployment risk with blue/green and canary strategies; strengthening observability and incident response (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK/Splunk), and driving reliability, performance, and cost optimization across the SDLC.

John Ugbebor

Paragraph 1: Platform-agnostic DevOps / Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Paragraph 2: Hands-on expertise in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps); Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation); configuration management (Ansible); containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS); and microservices delivery. Proven track record improving release velocity, reducing deployment risk with blue/green and canary strategies; strengthening observability and incident response (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK/Splunk), and driving reliability, performance, and cost optimization across the SDLC.

Available to hire

Paragraph 1: Platform-agnostic DevOps / Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Paragraph 2: Hands-on expertise in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps); Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation); configuration management (Ansible); containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS); and microservices delivery. Proven track record improving release velocity, reducing deployment risk with blue/green and canary strategies; strengthening observability and incident response (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK/Splunk), and driving reliability, performance, and cost optimization across the SDLC.

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Experience Level

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Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps / Cloud Engineer at Kored Consult
February 1, 2024 - Present
Led modernization from a distributed monolith to a microservices-based platform on AWS, improving scalability and fault isolation while enabling independent deployments. Built reusable IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation across multi-environment modules, standardizing tagging and baseline networking to cut provisioning and deployment lead time by ~30%. Engineered CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline to automate testing and promotion gates, increasing deployment frequency by ~25%. Implemented container and Kubernetes delivery workflows using Docker, Helm, and ArgoCD for EK S/EKS services, improving reliability with repeatable rollouts and fast rollback paths. Established observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, and Splunk, creating actionable dashboards and alerts to detect issues early and reduce MTTR. Owned platform networking and data ingestion reliability patterns (AWS VPC, ALB, DNS, Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, RabbitMQ) to support stab
Cloud Platform Engineer at FedEx
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Delivered production-grade CI/CD pipelines for microservices and container workloads; integrated SonarQube, Trivy, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes to accelerate time-to-market. Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform/Terragrunt across environments, reducing deployment time by ~30% and improving consistency. Provisions and maintains Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and GKE, tuning workload placement and scaling to meet availability requirements. Participated in on-call rotations for a 24/7 production environment; troubleshot incidents via logs/metrics (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk) and drove root-cause fixes. Implemented security controls and hardening practices including RBAC, IAM roles/policies, key rotation, security groups/NACLs, and storage access controls aligned to SOC 2 expectations.
Dev Ops Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer at Polaris Bank
February 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Implemented multi-tier cloud architecture for web applications on AWS, ensuring secure routing patterns and environment segregation. Introduced Ansible for consistent configuration management, improving deployment efficiency by ~20% and reducing manual toil. Built disaster recovery capabilities including multi-region routing/failover strategies and recovery objective improvements (RTO/RPO). Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting using DataDog, CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana to improve visibility and incident response. Managed and improved cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates, maintaining secure baselines and patch posture.
DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer at Polaris Bank
February 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Implemented multi-tier cloud architecture for web applications on AWS, ensuring secure routing patterns and environment segregation. Introduced Ansible for consistent configuration management, improving deployment efficiency by ~20% and reducing manual toil. Built disaster recovery capabilities including multi-region routing/failover strategies and recovery objectives improvements (RTO/RPO). Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting using Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana to improve visibility and incident response. Managed and improved cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates, maintaining secure baselines and patch posture.

Education

BSc in Information Management at Lead City University, Nigeria
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2020
MBA at University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2023
MBA at University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023
BSc - Information Management at Lead City University (Nigeria)
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
AWS Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
AWS Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Financial Services, Transportation & Logistics, Other

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate