OLUWADARE TOBI JAYEOLA

Junior DevOps Engineer | AWS Cloud Infrastructure | CI/CD & Automation | Observability

Remote, NG.

About

Highly skilled Junior DevOps Engineer with proven experience in building CI/CD pipelines and automating AWS cloud infrastructure across diverse environments. Successfully reduced Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by over 40% through full observability stack implementation and decreased manual operational tasks by 80% using Terraform, Bash, and Python automation. Committed to driving reliability engineering and continuous improvement with a strong foundation in Linux administration, IaC, and cloud security.

Work

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AI Data Contributor

Remote

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Contract

Summary

Execute structured evaluation and data collection tasks to support frontier AI model training pipelines.

Highlights

Execute high-complexity AI training tasks for frontier model pipelines, delivering consistent, rubric-aligned outputs with high attention to detail.

Perform structured AI evaluations and data collection to systematically improve model reasoning capabilities and alignment.

Document technical reasoning and evaluation workflows to ensure reproducible, high-quality training inputs.

DevOps & Open-Source Project Engineering

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Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer (Self-Directed)

Remote

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Contract

Summary

Architected, developed, and automated production-grade open-source DevOps utilities and cloud architectures, implementing advanced IaC, custom deployment orchestrators, and AI-optimized routing layers.

Highlights

Nexus AI Gateway: Engineered a high-performance routing and failover gateway for OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock; implemented token-bucket rate-limiting and Redis caching, reducing repeat latency by 50%.

Flow Pilot: Built an automated GitOps promotion and deployment engine interfacing with GitHub Webhooks, reducing manual environment propagation and integrating real-time Slack/notification webhooks.

DARE (DevOps Automation & Resource Engineering): Designed modular Terraform blueprints for secure, multi-tier AWS environments (VPC, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch); implemented GitHub Actions pipelines with Trivy/Tfsec security scans.

Ekiti MSME ICT Hub

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Junior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer Trainee

Remote, Nigeria, Nigeria

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Summary

Managed the full lifecycle of DevOps practices across development, staging, and production environments, supporting 5+ microservices for an 8-member cross-functional team.

Highlights

Designed and maintained 4 automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, reducing deployment inconsistencies by 30% and improving release speed by 25% across cloud-based applications.

Automated multi-tier AWS environment provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation, decreasing infrastructure provisioning time from hours to under 15 minutes with zero configuration drift.

Implemented a comprehensive observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and AWS CloudWatch, achieving 40%+ MTTR reduction and reducing alert noise by 35%.

Containerized and orchestrated 5+ microservices with Docker and Kubernetes (ECS/EKS), maintaining 99.9% container uptime and managing image builds, rolling deployments, and autoscaling.

Administered Ubuntu servers across 3 environments, ensuring 99.99% system reliability through user management, security hardening, patching, and performance monitoring.

Education

National Open University of Nigeria

Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria
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Bachelor of Science Entrepreneurship & Business Management Grade:

Ekiti MSME ICT Hub

Ekiti, Nigeria, Nigeria
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Certification Cloud Computing Grade:

Languages

English

Certificates

AWS Cloud Essentials | AWS Billing and Cost Management

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

Amazon Web Services

AWS Educate: Introduction to Generative AI

Amazon Web Services

3MTT Data Science / Machine Learning

Federal Government of Nigeria

Skills

CI/CD

GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, GitOps, Argo CD, Git-based deployment workflows, Helm chart management.

Containers

Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Helm.

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Datadog, SRE practices, SLI/SLO/error budgets.

Scripting

Python, Bash, Deployment & Ops Automation.

Cloud Security

IAM, VPC, Security Groups, ACLS, WAF, AWS Secrets Manager.

Artifact Registries

Amazon ECR, DockerHub.

Cloud Platforms

AWS (primary), GCP, Azure.

IaC & Automation

Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.

Linux

Ubuntu, Hardening, Patching, User Mgmt, Cron, Performance.

Databases

MySQL, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB.

Collaboration

Jira, Git, GitHub, Agile/Scrum, Async Documentation.

Projects

Nexus AI Gateway

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Summary

A collaborative, high-performance API gateway engineered for routing, load-balancing, and failover management across multiple Generative AI LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock).

Flow Pilot

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Summary

An intelligent automated deployment and pipeline orchestrator designed to streamline GitOps workflows, manage environment promotions, and provide unified visibility into pipeline runs.

DARE (DevOps Automation & Resource Engineering)

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Summary

A comprehensive repository featuring modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for deploying secure, highly available multi-tier AWS environments (VPC, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch) with CI/CD.