Nyarari Ejiofor
@nyarariejiofor
Senior Site Reliability & Cloud Platform Engineer optimizing scalable cloud-native systems.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Site Reliability and Cloud Platform Engineer with over five years designing, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud-native systems across hybrid and GCP environments. I specialize in Kubernetes cluster management, infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible, observability and self-healing infrastructure, and have a proven record optimizing infrastructure to reduce costs and deployment risk in fintech and SaaS settings.
I drive technical mentorship and cross-functional collaboration to raise team productivity and operational excellence, and I have led migrations, created reusable Terraform modules, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and improved observability to reduce MTTD and MTTR while increasing resource utilization and cost efficiency.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Nathan Digital
Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)
Redesigned cloud-native infrastructure on GKE to reduce GCP Compute Engine expenses by 45% and automated environment provisioning for HRMS/CRM/ERP applications, eliminating manual bottlenecks and enabling unlimited automated environments per engineer. Implemented observability (Prometheus, Grafana) reducing MTTD by 50% and developed reusable Terraform modules for GKE/EKS.
DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Atlancis Technologies
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 3 months)
Led migration of 41 enterprise applications to a hybrid cloud (GCP, AWS, OpenStack), improving application optimization by 32% and resource utilization by 46%, automated deployments with Ansible and built CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery. Implemented security/compliance (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001) and centralized logging/monitoring to reduce MTTR.
Backend Developer (Contract)
Optica Kenya
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (8 months)
Developed a delivery-tracking application, implemented RESTful APIs and managed databases to ensure accurate data storage and cross-browser compatibility. Delivered backend features across the contract period to support logistics workflows.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Moringa School
Software Development Program, Software Engineering
2020 - 2021
Completed a software engineering/software development program focusing on practical full-stack and cloud-native development skills.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Bachelor of Science, Actuarial Science
2016 - 2021
Grade: Upper Second-Class Honors
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science with Upper Second-Class Honors, covering actuarial mathematics, statistics, and risk modeling.
Busara Forest View Academy
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Secondary Education
2012 - 2015
Grade: A- (80/84)
Completed the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education with strong academic results (A-; 80/84).
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