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Arinze Okeke

@arinzeokeke1

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I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on resilient, scalable Azure cloud delivery and CI/CD.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own Azure/AKS delivery end-to-end, build safe CI/CD and IaC, and drive reliability through strong observability, SLOs, and blameless incident practices—while mentoring engineers and improving security controls.

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of hands-on experience deploying highly available, scalable, and resilient applications across Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, AKS, and Docker. I own end-to-end design, deployment, and ongoing service of production and non-production environments, and I build CI/CD pipelines with automated rollback, environment promotion, and approval gates for safe releases.

I strengthen reliability and security by embedding ITIL-aligned incident response, root cause analysis, and ISO 27001 controls into my workflows, while using Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi and Terraform to standardize modular multi-environment provisioning. I also lead observability improvements with Azure Monitor/Application Insights/Log Analytics plus Prometheus/Grafana, and I mentor engineers through architecture reviews, code reviews, and pairing—so teams deliver dependable digital services faster.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

The D. E. Shaw Group

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Owned end-to-end Azure/AWS/hybrid environment design, deployment, and operations for highly available, resilient platforms. Built Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD with rollback and approval gates, implemented Pulumi/Terraform IaC for AKS and cloud services, and improved observability, incident response, and ISO 27001-aligned controls through automation and mentoring.

Azure Azure DevOps GitHub Actions AKS Pulumi Terraform CI CD Python PowerShell

Site Reliability Engineer

Google

Apr 2019 - Sep 2023 (4 years 5 months)

Contributed to Google’s global production control plane by designing and implementing automation and distributed reliability improvements at large scale. Developed Go/Python systems for rollout safety and reconciliation, improved observability with Borgmon/Stackdriver, and led incident response and blameless postmortems using SLI/SLO and error budget practices.

Go Python Reliability Engineering SLOs Error Budgets Incident Response Observability Borgmon Stackdriver Distributed Systems

Software Developer

InterSystems

Jul 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 9 months)

Improved backend performance, scalability, and reliability for the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform across enterprise transactional and healthcare workloads. Containerized services with Docker, supported early Kubernetes deployment patterns, enhanced CI/CD workflows, built REST APIs and automation tools, and troubleshot production issues involving MSSQL and PostgreSQL.