Hi, I’m Lodrique Forku Kamayi, a cloud and DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating secure, highly available platforms on AWS and Azure. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and CI/CD at enterprise scale across healthcare, finance, and telecom. I’m passionate about accelerating release velocity, hardening cloud security, reducing MTTR, and cutting cloud spend through FinOps practices. I’ve led multi-cloud migrations, built reusable IaC patterns, and championed GitOps to improve deployment reliability and auditability. I enjoy collaborating with product and security teams to deliver scalable platforms and measurable business value while keeping the user experience fast and secure.

Lodrique Forku Kamayi

Hi, I’m Lodrique Forku Kamayi, a cloud and DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating secure, highly available platforms on AWS and Azure. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and CI/CD at enterprise scale across healthcare, finance, and telecom. I’m passionate about accelerating release velocity, hardening cloud security, reducing MTTR, and cutting cloud spend through FinOps practices. I’ve led multi-cloud migrations, built reusable IaC patterns, and championed GitOps to improve deployment reliability and auditability. I enjoy collaborating with product and security teams to deliver scalable platforms and measurable business value while keeping the user experience fast and secure.

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Hi, I’m Lodrique Forku Kamayi, a cloud and DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating secure, highly available platforms on AWS and Azure. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and CI/CD at enterprise scale across healthcare, finance, and telecom. I’m passionate about accelerating release velocity, hardening cloud security, reducing MTTR, and cutting cloud spend through FinOps practices.

I’ve led multi-cloud migrations, built reusable IaC patterns, and championed GitOps to improve deployment reliability and auditability. I enjoy collaborating with product and security teams to deliver scalable platforms and measurable business value while keeping the user experience fast and secure.

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Work Experience

DevOps Engineer at AT&T
December 1, 2023 - November 11, 2025
Built and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, embedding automated SonarQube, Trivy, and Snyk scans to ensure secure deployments and reducing release times by 60% across multi-cloud environments. Managed Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) clusters using Helm and Kustomize, implementing RBAC, Pod Security Policies, and network segmentation to support scalable microservices handling millions of requests per day. Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and shell scripting, achieving consistent, auditable deployments while saving over 20 engineering hours weekly. Led migration of 50+ workloads from on-premises to Azure and AWS, achieving 25% cost savings, improved resiliency, and faster global accessibility. Enhanced observability and monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/Azure Monitor, establishing unified dashboards, SLO-driven alerting, and reducing MTTR by 40%. Partnered with development and p
Cloud Engineer at Verizon
October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2023
Designed and implemented secure cloud landing zones in Azure using Management Groups, RBAC, and Azure Policy, ensuring governance and alignment with enterprise security frameworks. Built and managed AKS clusters and Docker-based workloads, integrating GitOps practices (FluxCD, ArgoCD) to streamline automated deployments and improve release reliability. Implemented Kubernetes security hardening by configuring Azure Defender, NSGs, and image scanning (Trivy/Aqua), reducing security vulnerabilities by 40%. Developed CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps with automated rollback, code scanning, and approval workflows, decreasing failed deployments by 35% and improving deployment consistency. Engineered global-scale Azure networking using Application Gateway, Front Door, WAF, and Traffic Manager to enhance routing performance and resilience. Automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Datadog, incorporating 30+ automation runbooks for
Cloud Engineer at LIFE Healthcare Group
May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021
Designed and deployed secure Azure network infrastructures such as hub-and-spoke topologies, private endpoints, and App Service Environments (ASEs); centralized Key Vault and Managed Identities eliminated hard-coded secrets and enhanced compliance readiness. Authored reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) blueprints, YAML pipeline templates, and operational runbooks that standardized delivery across product teams accelerating new environment provisioning by 65% and improving delivery consistency. Migrated mission-critical healthcare APIs and analytics services to Microsoft Azure using Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps pipelines with canary releases and integration testing achieving 99.99% uptime during production cutovers. Implemented Docker, AKS, Helm, and ACR for containerized workloads; optimized image governance and vulnerability scanning, reducing build durations by 35% and cutting image CVEs by over 60% post-remediation. Developed and operationalized Azure Monitor, Applic
Systems Engineer (Cloud & Network Operations) at Cell C
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019
Managed and optimized an OpenStack private cloud integrated with AWS (VPN/Direct Connect), automating tenant provisioning, quotas, and scheduled backups through Ansible and Python, improving operational turnaround by 45%. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, and internal artifact repositories, introducing standardized versioning, changelog policies, and automated rollbacks that reduced deployment-related issues by 25%. Designed and implemented HAProxy and Nginx-based load balancing and TLS offloading for multi–data center applications handling over 900K requests per day, enhancing throughput efficiency and cutting response latency by 22%. Deployed and customized Zabbix and Grafana dashboards to monitor compute, storage, and network layers; established SLO-driven alerting policies and escalation paths that reduced false positives by 40%. Executed Linux system hardening using CIS benchmarks, automated patch management, and firewall policy optimization—minimizing c
Junior Systems Engineer (Intern → Associate) at Busy Internet
February 1, 2017 - February 1, 2017
Supported VMware vSphere cluster operations, including template management and golden image optimization, which improved provisioning efficiency and reduced deployment time by 30%. Authored Bash and Python scripts to automate log rotation, backup verification, and service health checks, eliminating repetitive manual tasks from the on-call queue and enhancing reliability. Assisted in integrating Git and Jenkins for internal tool management, introducing foundational source control and CI/CD practices that improved visibility and traceability of deployments. Collaborated in incident triage and root cause analysis, contributing to corrective measures that decreased recurring incidents by 25% across key production services. Documented SOPs, deployment guidelines, and change workflows, improving operational handoffs and overall process consistency within the IT team.

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Buea, Cameroon
October 1, 2011 - August 1, 2014

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 11, 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
January 11, 2030 - November 11, 2025
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 11, 2025
Docker Certified Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 11, 2025
LPIC-1
January 11, 2030 - November 11, 2025

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Software & Internet, Professional Services