Olaitan Falolu

Platform & DevOps Engineer

Olaitan Falolu

Building scalable cloud infrastructure & automating workflows

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About Me

As a dedicated Platform/DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of professional experience, I specialize in bridging the gap between development and operations to deliver seamless, scalable, and secure IT solutions. My expertise spans cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS, where I’ve driven infrastructure provisioning, automation, and application performance optimization. In my current role as Lead DevOps Engineer , I manage a team of Eleven, overseeing production environments, CI/CD pipelines, and security integrations to ensure robust deployments and cost efficiency. With hands-on experience in tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and monitoring solutions such as Grafana and Dynatrace, I bring a comprehensive approach to system reliability and automation. Beyond technical excellence, I’m passionate about fostering team growth through mentorship and crafting innovative solutions to complex challenges. Whether deploying resilient cloud architectures or optimizing microservices, my goal is to enhance organizational efficiency while staying ahead of emerging technologies. Let’s connect to share insights on cloud engineering, DevOps innovations, and transformative IT strategies

Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Cloud Networking Cloud Security Automation Linux Scripting(Bash, PowerShell) VMWare Gitlab Dynatrace KQL Terraform Bicep

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How to Deploy Endpoints in Azure Machine Learning Studio

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How to Automate Azure App Service IP Whitelisting with Azure DevOps Pipelin

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Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

Ab-inbev(International Breweries PLC) • February 2023 - Present

  • Manage and maintain network configurations, iclusing vnets, subnet, and network security group
  • Provison Infrastructure using terraform through Azure DevOps pipelines
  • Monitor gateway performance and troubleshoot traffic routing issues
  • Debug and resolve issues with client applications running in the Kubernetes cluster
  • Respond to incidents or escalation related to application performance or cluster issue
  • Manage the subscription security scores
  • Make sure that all resources are compliant
  • Review and update security policies, including ingress and egress traffic rules.

Lead DevOps Engineer

Polaris Bank PLC • November 2021- February 2023

  • Led team of 8 DevOps engineers
  • Reduced cloud costs by 35% through optimization
  • Integration of security tools such as SNYK with Azure container registry, Azure Repos, and Azure pipeline to scan security vulnerabilities from commit to deployment of application on different environments such as Dev and production.
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Azure DevOps and PowerShell
  • Integration of security tools such as Sonarcube with Azure container registry, Azure Repos, and Azure pipeline to scan security vulnerabilities from commit to deployment of application on different environments such as Dev and production
  • Implemented security scanning in CI/CD pipelines
  • Setup training guide for the Team

DevOps Engineer / Linux System Administrator

Global Performance Index • October 2020 - November 2021

  • Proactively manage and maintain servers, network and firewall systems
  • Design, install and configure internal and customer facing servers, network devices and firewalls, Server software, platforms and application to support core infrastructure.
  • Provide after-hours support for infrastructure relates emergencies as well as occasional maintenance
  • Assist with hardware, firewall, telecom and software vendor evaluation, recommendations and negotiations
  • Build applications like C#, Golang, React, and .NET into different servers for each project.
  • Administer and support core Linux, Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, Parallel and VMware technologies
  • Active Directory/LDAP user and group administration

Azure Support Engineer

Microsoft • May 2019 - October 2020

  • Delivered comprehensive Technical Support to Developers, Cloud Architects, Network Engineers, Security Engineers and cloud Administrators in Europe, The Middle East, Africa and The Americas to ensure Site Reliability and Setup.
  • Provided support for production issues related to IIS, SQL and Azure related issues to different applications and acted as a point of contact for any deployment related issue in Productions deployments.
  • Performance tuning, troubleshooting of complex issues in Production environment and WVD’s
  • Deployed Web Apps using Legacy Microsoft azure portal and made changes to configurations, connection strings and settings to accommodate application change requests.
  • Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications (.net framework version)
  • Used deployment tools and PowerShell scripts to deploy multiple websites and performed troubleshooting to deliver working environment.
  • Resolved tickets from Development team related to changes in web.config, and IIS configurations
  • Managed load balancing using Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and enabled and disabled server nodes as per troubleshooting or testing requirements.
  • Troubleshooting all types of server and web site related issues in the IIS platform

Frontend Developer/System Administrator

Artee Group • April 2018 - May 2019

  • Developed Service desk tool for the use of Admin department and HR department.
  • Managed the company apps that was deployed on AWS
  • Collaborated with the marketing team and uploading new content to the website.
  • I handled the Active directory in adding new users to each domain and also setting policies
  • Responsible for Package management, Patch Management, Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, Kernel Tuning. Performance tuning, system and log monitoring
  • Automate routine tasks using shell Script.
  • Worked on Network Policies using Sophos XG

Projects Completed

Verraki Partners

  • Automate provisioning of Windows virtual Desktop for Developers while installing Visual Studio
  • Set up AKS (Azure kubernetes Cluster) and attached it to its container registry (ACR)
  • Used azure-pipelines for my build and release process for DEV, TEST, QA and PROD
  • Configured and build OcelotAPW for security
  • Troubleshoot connectivity and deployment issue of application hosted on Azure
  • Set up backup strategy for resources on production and disaster recovery for microservice architecture
    • Azure Docker Kubernetes

    Data2bot

  • Set up AKS (Azure kubernetes Cluster) and attached it to its container registry (ACR)
  • Used gitlab CI for my build and release process
  • Deploy resources using terraform
  • Write custom script for role assignmen
  • Configured security of the cluster using application gateway

    • Azure Terraform Kubernetes Gitlab

    Radaa Partners International Software

  • Create website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS and Vue.js practices
  • Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
  • Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
  • Create and maintain software documentation

    • React Vue.js Laravel Html/CSS

    Contact

    Let's connect and discuss cloud solutions!

    olaitan.falolu@outlook.com +234 706 384 2535