Anthony A.
Team Lead Cloud Engineering
Experience
Sep 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsLagos, Nigeria
Team Lead Cloud Engineering
Moniepoint Inc
- Led a cross-functional team of cloud engineers to design and optimize highly available, cost-efficient architectures across GCP, Oracle Cloud, and DigitalOcean, improving scalability, performance, and resource utilization while ensuring industry best practices.
- Directed CI/CD modernization efforts, successfully migrating pipelines from Jenkins to Harness CI/CD, reducing operational overhead and accelerating software delivery with secure, automated workflows.
- Championed infrastructure automation with Terraform, cutting manual provisioning tasks by 30% and enabling consistent, reproducible, multi-cloud environments across development, staging, and production.
- Drove observability improvements by implementing Robusta for Kubernetes monitoring and adopting SigNoz for the Site Reliability team, strengthening system reliability and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for web and mobile applications.
- Oversaw enterprise-grade data streaming solutions, managing both self-hosted and Confluent Kafka clusters, and integrating critical systems (MySQL, ClickHouse, Bigtable, Spanner) via Kafka Connect to enable real-time, fault-tolerant data pipelines.
- Enhanced global security and availability by configuring Cloudflare services (DNS, WAF, caching, static site deployments), ensuring 99% uptime, improved threat protection, and seamless user experience worldwide.
- Implemented ArgoCD to manage GitOps-driven continuous deployment pipelines, allowing seamless integration with existing CI/CD workflows and ensuring fast, reliable application rollouts.
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 5 monthsLagos, Nigeria
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Moniepoint Inc
- Proactively monitor and support card payment transactions through Grafana, employing expertise in SQL queries to analyze and extract crucial data, guaranteeing a card payment transaction success rate of 96% across all processors.
- Leverage extensive New Relic and Kubernetes proficiency to oversee the health of all Kubernetes workloads, ensuring the uninterrupted operation of RabbitMQ nodes and other critical services.
- Collaborate effectively with third-party partners such as Interswitch, Nibss, and UPSL to troubleshoot and escalate card payment processor issues, ensuring speedy resolution and maintaining a seamless payment processing ecosystem.
- Demonstrate a proactive approach in identifying and resolving production application issues before they significantly impact customers, investigating and resolving various customer-related issues encountered during card payment transactions.
- Routinely inspect Kubernetes workloads to confirm the proper functioning of all pods and services, promptly addressing any that fail readiness probes to ensure high system reliability.
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 2 monthsLondon, United Kingdom
DevOps Engineer
Darey.io
- Design and deploy containerized microservice applications using AWS Fargate, Docker, EKS, GKE, and Kubernetes.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate pipeline scripts for GitHub and GitLab repositories and ansible-playbook execution using AWS CodeDeploy, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
- Develop Terraform configuration files and modules to support infrastructure as code in AWS, provisioning EKS, ASGs, S3, RDS, Route 53 records, VPCs, and security groups.
- Use AWS Budgets to set custom budgets for tracking costs and usage of resources, setting up email alerts when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed budgeted thresholds.
- Teach over 300 students on the platform about DevOps concepts and how to implement different projects.
- Implement AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage access to AWS services and resources securely, and set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to enhance account security.
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
1 year 8 monthsLagos, Nigeria
Technical Support Specialist
Ikeja Electric Distribution Company
- Manage and maintain Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, AWS instances, and Docker containers.
- Develop tools to automate common tasks in the DevOps pipeline, including building new code into Docker images, deploying those images to Kubernetes, and starting/stopping pods.
- Install, configure, and administer Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines.
- Assist in the planning, coordination, and implementation of projects and the creation of IT policies.
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
7 monthsLagos, Nigeria
Technical Support Engineer
NZ Pro Gaming Limited
- Install and configure gaming hardware, operating systems, and applications on slot machines.
- Monitor and maintain slot systems and internet networks across approximately 80 locations.
- Troubleshoot system and network problems, diagnosing and resolving hardware and software issues for various customers.
- Support the rollout of new gaming applications on slot machines.
- Test and evaluate new technologies on software used for payment and loading the slot machines.
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
6 monthsLagos, Nigeria
Network Field Service Engineer
Tizeti Network Limited
- Perform configurations on Cambium radios and MikroTik routers, and install and troubleshoot microwave radios such as Cambium and Ubiquiti for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless links.
- Install, configure, and troubleshoot customer premises equipment (CPE) such as optical network terminals (ONTs), wireless access points, extenders, and repeaters.
- Maintain inventory and manage network equipment at base stations or points of presence (POP) to investigate the cause of outages and ensure network availability.
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of progressive experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) specializing in building, deploying, and maintaining highly available, scalable cloud environments. I am experienced in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, SQL, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD and New Relic, with a proven track record in automating deployment pipelines, monitoring cloud-based applications, and implementing SRE best practices to maximize system reliability, skilled at creating Grafana dashboards, configuring alerting systems, and producing detailed documentation to support team efficiency and onboarding. Committed to operational excellence and innovation, I am passionate about leveraging DevOps and SRE methodologies to enhance infrastructure resilience and drive continuous improvement in cloud environments.
Languages
English
NativeEducation
Sep 2014 - Jul 2019
Federal University of Technology, Akure
Bachelor of Engineering · Electrical & Electronics Engineering · Akure, Nigeria
Certifications & licenses
ISO/IEC 20000 IT SERVICE
Certified Network Security Specialist
Aviatrix Certified Associate
GitOps At Scale Certificate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform
KCNA: Kubernetes And Cloud Certified Kubernetes
Native Associate Administrator Associate (003)
Oracle Certified Foundation Engineer Associate
SKILLFRONTMANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE™ Google Africa Developer Certified Calico Operator: Level Training Program 1, 2023
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