Alex Okezie
@alexokezie
DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer driving cloud automation, security, and resilient infrastructure.
What I'm looking for
I am a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with over six years of cloud infrastructure experience and a decade in Occupational Health and Safety leadership, focused on building secure, automated, and scalable systems.
I have delivered measurable reliability and efficiency gains by automating Kubernetes deployments, implementing GitOps, centralizing observability, and improving CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure environments.
I combine hands-on infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and security expertise with leadership in compliance and incident response to reduce risk, lower costs, and accelerate delivery for production systems.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
QHSE Manager | DevOps | Cloud Engineer
Saratoga Energy Resources Limited
May 2019 - May 2025 (6 years)
Digitized safety performance tracking and applied data-driven risk assessment to improve operational reliability; automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible reducing manual errors by 25% and improved CI/CD workflows by 40%.
DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer
Silicon Hills News
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025 (5 months)
Managed multi-cloud AWS and Azure infrastructure to achieve 99.99% uptime, automated secure EKS deployments reducing deployment time by 40% and release failures by 30%, and centralized observability to improve MTTR by 35%.
Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer
ACADA Learning
Nov 2019 - May 2021 (1 year 6 months)
Designed and automated AWS and Azure infrastructure provisioning to improve deployment reliability by 25%, integrated alerting with PagerDuty/Slack/Jira to reduce MTTR by 30%, and implemented fault tolerance and load balancing for high availability.
DevSecOps Engineer
Freelance
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019 (3 years 1 month)
Integrated security scans into CI/CD pipelines, orchestrated containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, automated deployments with GitLab CI and Ansible reducing lead time by 35%, and built Prometheus/Grafana observability to speed incident resolution.
System Administrator
Fortune Global Shipping
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015 (2 years 1 month)
Assisted in installation, configuration, and maintenance of physical and virtual servers to ensure stability and uptime, performed system patching and user account management, and supported basic security controls.
IT Support
Xerox HS Nig Ltd
Jun 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 2 months)
Provided day-to-day technical support, installed and maintained desktops, printers and office IT equipment, managed LANs and user accounts, and performed backups and antivirus management to ensure system reliability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Abia State University
Bachelor of Science, Economics
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Economics at Abia State University.
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