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Oluwasegun (John) Adebayo

Observability Specialist

Oluwasegun Adebayo
Eschborn, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Dec 2025
1 year 3 months

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.
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
9 months
On-site

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.
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
1 year 6 months

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.
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
2 years 1 month

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.
May 2018 - Jun 2020
2 years 2 months

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.
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
8 months

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.
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
8 months

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).

Information Technology
Professional Services
Government and Administration
Banking and Finance
Automotive

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (9 years) and Operations (3.5 years).

Information Technology
Operations

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

English
Native
German
Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - May 2018

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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Where is Oluwasegun based?

Oluwasegun is based in Eschborn, Germany.

What languages does Oluwasegun speak?

Oluwasegun speaks the following languages: English (Native), German (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Oluwasegun have?

Oluwasegun has at least 9 years of experience. During this time, Oluwasegun has worked in at least 7 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Oluwasegun may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Oluwasegun be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Oluwasegun would be well-suited for roles such as: Observability Specialist, Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Senior Site Reliability Engineer.

What is Oluwasegun's latest experience?

Oluwasegun's most recent position is Observability Specialist at ING GmbH.

What companies has Oluwasegun worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Oluwasegun has worked for ING GmbH, Jedox GmbH, Bundesdruckerei GmbH, and Accenture GmbH.

Which industries is Oluwasegun most experienced in?

Oluwasegun is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Professional Services, and Government and Public Administration. Oluwasegun also has some experience in Banking and Finance and Automotive.

Which business areas is Oluwasegun most experienced in?

Oluwasegun is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations.

Which industries has Oluwasegun worked in recently?

Oluwasegun has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Professional Services, and Government and Public Administration.

Which business areas has Oluwasegun worked in recently?

Oluwasegun has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations.

What is Oluwasegun's education?

Oluwasegun holds a Master in Information and Communications Systems from Technische Universität Chemnitz.

Does Oluwasegun have any certificates?

Oluwasegun has 9 certificates. Among them, these include: Azure, CKA, and CKS.

What is the availability of Oluwasegun?

Oluwasegun will be available from February 2026.

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