Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Results-focused in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, container platforms, and DevSecOps, with a track record of improving deployment speed, reliability, and compliance. Experienced in building end-to-end automation for provisioning, security scanning, monitoring, and release pipelines for highly available enterprise systems. Strong collaborator in Agile teams, delivering measurable outcomes such as reduced manual effort, improved MTTR, and higher uptime for production workloads.

Dennis Akinbogun Allen

Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Results-focused in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, container platforms, and DevSecOps, with a track record of improving deployment speed, reliability, and compliance. Experienced in building end-to-end automation for provisioning, security scanning, monitoring, and release pipelines for highly available enterprise systems. Strong collaborator in Agile teams, delivering measurable outcomes such as reduced manual effort, improved MTTR, and higher uptime for production workloads.

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Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Results-focused in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, container platforms, and DevSecOps, with a track record of improving deployment speed, reliability, and compliance.

Experienced in building end-to-end automation for provisioning, security scanning, monitoring, and release pipelines for highly available enterprise systems. Strong collaborator in Agile teams, delivering measurable outcomes such as reduced manual effort, improved MTTR, and higher uptime for production workloads.

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Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Kemper
January 1, 2023 - Present
Designed and implemented IaC with Terraform and Ansible to automate AWS infrastructure provisioning, reducing deployment time by 75% and configuration drift by 90%. Built reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks for standardized deployments. Automated provisioning of EC2, VPC, RDS, ALB, S3, IAM, Route 53, ECS, and EKS, eliminating 30+ hours of manual work monthly. Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Nexus, and Artifactory, increasing deployment frequency by 60% and improving release stability. Implemented DevSecOps practices by integrating vulnerability scanning (SonarQube and JFrog Xray) and remediating 95% of critical CVEs before production. Set up centralized monitoring/alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and AppDynamics to reduce MTTR by 45%. Maintained AWS operational tooling (CloudFormation, SSM, Parameter Store, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cost Explorer) and supported highly available apps with 99.9% uptime.
Cloud DevOps Engineer at Insight Global
September 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Implemented scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 40%. Developed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency by 50% with less manual intervention. Established EKS monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing production incidents by 35% via proactive alerting. Standardized Git branching/tagging and release management across repositories for consistency and integrity. Integrated JFrog Xray vulnerability scanning into CI/CD to reduce security risks by 60%. Supported containerized workloads on OpenShift to improve scalability and availability. Automated build/release/deployment workflows, shortening release cycles from days to hours, collaborating with developers and QA to streamline SDLC delivery.
DevOps Engineer at Genpact
May 1, 2020 - August 1, 2022
Administered highly available Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters supporting production workloads with 99.9% platform availability. Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Sonatype Nexus, and Ansible, reducing deployment failures by 40%. Automated infrastructure provisioning and server configuration with Terraform and Ansible across cloud and hybrid environments. Managed Kubernetes networking components (Ingress Controllers, load balancers, DNS, NodePort, autoscaling) to support scalable applications. Integrated SonarQube quality gates and security controls into pipelines, increasing compliance by 35%. Automated server patching, user management, and configuration via Ansible playbooks, reducing admin workload by 70%. Supported cloud migration by modernizing pipelines and implementing IaC, troubleshooting issues to reduce production downtime by 30%.
DevOps Engineer at Bell
February 1, 2016 - April 1, 2020
Managed Azure infrastructure including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure Active Directory, Azure Virtual Networks, Cloud Services, and Azure SQL for mission-critical enterprise applications. Built automated CI/CD pipelines to accelerate releases by 50% while improving reliability. Led Azure migration initiatives, reducing infrastructure management overhead by 35%. Containerized applications using Docker and deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to improve scalability and portability. Implemented GitHub/Bitbucket version control workflows for Agile collaboration. Secured and optimized networking with load balancers, firewalls, HTTPS, DNS, and virtual networks. Automated Docker image creation and deployment, reducing release preparation time by 60%. Partnered with developers and infrastructure teams to improve performance and operational efficiency.
Java Developer at Walmart
February 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016
Developed responsive web applications using Java, Spring Boot, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, and JSON to improve user experience and performance. Designed and implemented RESTful APIs using Spring Boot and dependency injection for enterprise retail applications. Participated in SQL Server migration efforts ensuring data integrity and minimizing production downtime. Performed Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning for Red Hat environments. Configured TCP/IP, DNS, and SSH/network services for multi-server enterprise setups. Automated secure password-less SSH communication across Linux servers to improve deployment efficiency. Conducted routine maintenance and upgrades reducing application downtime by 25%, collaborating with Agile teams to deliver releases on schedule.

Education

Master in Software Engineering at University of Houston–Clear Lake (UHCL)
December 1, 2026 - December 1, 2026
Bachelor of Arts in English and Education at Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA)
March 1, 2013 - March 1, 2013

Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - August 19, 2026
AWS Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - August 19, 2026
AWS Solution Architect
January 11, 2030 - August 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Financial Services

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