Ikotka S

I’m a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure. I focus on Kubernetes operations, CI/CD automation, and dependable observability to keep platforms stable and fast.

At my current role, I administer a Kubernetes cluster for platform microservices, setting up namespaces and network policies for environment isolation. I author Helm charts with per-environment values, configure HorizontalPodAutoscaler, and build GitLab CI pipelines for Docker builds, automated checks, and Helm-based deployments, including Postman/Newman API tests as a pre-deploy gate.

I also deliver full monitoring and incident readiness by deploying Prometheus + Grafana and centralizing logs with Promtail + Loki, with alerting for availability and performance. I’ve complemented this with Nginx ingress-nginx configuration (TLS termination via cert-manager), Ansible-driven server automation, and practical reliability work like log rotation and retention to resolve disk exhaustion.