Oluwasegun (John) Adebayo
Observability Specialist
Experience
Observability Specialist
ING GmbH
- Requirements analysis for the enterprise-wide observability platform.
- Creation of playbooks and pipelines for rolling out Envoy, OpenTelemetry Collectors, and OpenTelemetry Agents.
- Conducting load tests for capacity planning of metrics for the observability platform.
- Documentation and implementation of compliance standards for production readiness.
- Creation and design of RED metrics, spanmetrics, JBoss, and Tomcat dashboards for mission-critical applications.
- Setting up alerts for critical applications for proactive incident response.
- Integration of OpenShift applications into the enterprise-wide observability stack.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Jedox GmbH
- Leading, mentoring, and managing a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
- Developing and optimizing goals to improve the observability stack, incident management process, and configuration management.
- Heading initiatives to improve incident response as well as resolve customer issues and escalations to meet and exceed contractual SLAs.
- Conducting post-incident reviews and implementing improvements to prevent future incidents.
- Designing and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLO) and Service Level Indicators (SLI) for critical services.
- Evaluating and implementing best practices, as well as capacity planning to ensure system resilience.
- Researching, developing, and implementing new automation tools for deployment, monitoring, infrastructure, and application management.
- Ensuring compliance with security requirements and standards.
- Designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Regularly coordinating with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
- Operating secure and regulated OpenShift production platforms.
- Designing complete observability pipelines with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Sloth, ELK, and OpenTelemetry.
- Building CI/CD systems with Terraform, GitLab, Flux, and Helm.
- Implementing SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting.
- Conducting operational and production readiness reviews.
- Providing Vault-as-a-Service for Kubernetes secrets management.
App Eng Specialist Senior DevOps Engineer
Accenture GmbH
- Migrating on-premises legacy applications to a microservices-based Azure environment.
- Integrating CI/CD workflows while following DevSecOps best practices.
- Deploying Kubernetes workloads using IaC tools, including security scanning pipelines and an observability stack.
- Integrating security scans, quality gates, and license compliance for production workloads.
- Mentoring junior engineers during the onboarding phase.
DevOps / System Engineer
T-System Multimedia GmbH
- Migrating applications from on-premises environments to Azure and OpenStack environments (Open Telekom Cloud).
- Building CI/CD pipelines with IaC and automation tools, and creating reusable project standards.
- Implementing monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Graylog, and Rancher.
- Administering patches, change management, and critical operational tasks on Linux systems, web servers, and databases.
- Deploying blockchain platforms (Polkadot, Ethereum, Chainlink), including observability and operational responsibility.
Working Student (Linux Administrator)
Eledia GmbH
- Administered Debian/Ubuntu Linux servers.
- Managed the LAMP stack.
- Automated tasks with Ansible and Bash, and implemented Nagios monitoring.
Working Student (Check_mk Administrator)
Pierburg Pump Technology
- Implemented and maintained Check_MK monitoring.
- Built dashboards, alerting, and availability reports.
- Supported IT monitoring in industrial production.
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (5.5 years), Professional Services (2 years), Government and Administration (1.5 years), Banking and Finance (1 year), and Automotive (0.5 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (9 years) and Operations (3.5 years).
Summary
Lead Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience building, scaling, and securing mission-critical cloud and Kubernetes platforms. Proven track record in implementing observability transformations, SLO governance, and large-scale automation. Recognized for strong leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration in enterprise and regulated environments.
Skills
Cloud: Azure, Gcp
Containers: Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker, Podman
Observability: Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Prometheus, Thanos, Otel, Alloy, Sli, Slo, Sloth, Error Budget
Iac: Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Ansible, Ansible Awx
Ci/cd: Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins, Azure Devops, Argocd, Argo Workflow, Argo Events
Security: Hashicorp Vault, Azure Keyvault, Trivy, Tfsec, Tflint, Sonarqube, Fortify, Flextnet, Hadolint
It Service Management: Itil, Incident Response, Slo/sli, Error Budgets
Programming & Scripting: Python, Bash, Php
Others: Kasten, Traefik, Rancher, Powershell, Haproxy, Corosync, Mysql, Postgres, Postfix, Sap, Nextcloud
Cloud Architecture
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes Operations
Observability Strategy
Slo/sli Governance
Incident Management
Infrastructure Automation
Gitops
Enterprise Security
Languages
Education
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Msc in Information and Communications Systems · Information and Communications Systems · Chemnitz, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Azure
CKA
CKS
ITIL
KCNA
KCSA
PCA
Terraform Associate
Vault Associate
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