Ade Talabi

Senior DevOps Consultant at Bookings.com

Engineered scalable DevOps tooling platforms with GitHub Actions, enabling high-availability pipelines in hybrid cloud environments (EKS, Docker-based workloads). Established reproducible CI/CD pipelines, integrated cloud-native alerting with Prometheus, and created dashboards in Grafana. Implemented self-hosted Kubernetes cluster using Istio and Helm on Kops (EC2), migrated platform to Docker/Kubernetes on AWS, and led re-platforming of legacy applications to a resilient AWS infrastructure, delivering cost savings and faster deployments.

Senior DevOps Engineer at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)

Led GPU-enabled AWS projects with IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and Shell scripting; built production images in GitHub, ECR, and Artifact Registry; established observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic/ELK) and service mesh with Istio; defined data security and governance in AWS; mentored peers on Terraform modularisation; implemented IaC to accelerate provisioning and enable GDPR-aligned logging with privacy controls.

DevOps Consultant at DWP - Department Of Works and Pensions

Designed and deployed large applications on AWS (EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS) with Terraform; automated Kubernetes and VM deployments with Jenkins, Ansible; implemented GitHub Actions workflows across AWS and Azure; managed multi-account environments with AWS Organizations; implemented cross-account IAM auditing and cost controls.

DevOps Consultant at BBC

Managed multi-region production workloads on AWS; provisioned infrastructure using Terraform; administrated Kubernetes clusters (AWS ECS); built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; automated tasks with scripting; developed service mesh and monitoring pipelines; implemented Istio-based traffic management and observability enhancements.

DevOps Consultant at BBC

Led improvements in CI/CD, IaC, and cloud infrastructure; designed and maintained monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic/ELK; migrated workloads to Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms; implemented Terraform CloudInfra provisioning across multiple regions.

DevOps Consultant at Natwest Markets

Configured and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for Azure and GCP; implemented ELK stack and Logstash pipelines; automated data pipelines via Python; integrated with Vault for secure secrets management; led migration and modernization initiatives on cloud.

DevOps Consultant at Indigo Lighthouse

Automated Kubernetes deployments for Java microservices using Helm and Jenkins/Terraform; optimized APM server token setup for GCP deployments; motivated team through automation and monitoring improvements.