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Kayode Akintade

@kayodeakintade1

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Dynamic Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with over 9 years of expertise.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior DevOps/SRE role focused on cloud-native automation, observability, and mentoring, in a collaborative Agile environment that values reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

Dynamic Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with over 9 years of expertise.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Current

Deloitte Consulting LLC

Jun 2020 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Led migrations and SRE/observability efforts, designing and managing AWS Kubernetes clusters, Terraform/CDK IaC, and automated CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce operational overhead. Mentored junior engineers, enforced security controls, and drove monitoring/incident response with Splunk, Datadog, and Dynatrace.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform AWS CDK Jenkins Splunk Datadog)CI CD Python Datadog

Senior DevOps Engineer

Merck

Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 (2 years)

Implemented enterprise monitoring and observability with Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk, automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and increased automation via reusable Terraform modules to improve reliability and reduce manual provisioning. Participated in on-call rotations and supported production incident response.

Dynatrace Datadog)Splunk AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Nginx Linux Datadog

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Power Secure

Feb 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 10 months)

Built and automated cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tooling using CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, PowerShell and Python, improved reliability through monitoring (Datadog/Splunk) and led data center consolidation and disaster recovery initiatives. Provided Tier-3 support and mentored engineering staff.