I’m looking for Senior or Staff DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, DevSecOps, or AI Infrastructure roles. I’m interested in cloud-native, distributed, Web3, fintech, and AI products. Open to global remote opportunities, relocation, or visa sponsorship, with teams that value ownership, reliability, security, and strong engineering culture.
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Okpako Franklin
@okpakofranklin
Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SRE | Cloud, Blockchain & AI Infrastructure
NigeriaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 10+ years in technology and 7+ years focused on DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering.
I’ve designed and operated production cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, networking, and security. My experience includes owning highly available systems, improving deployment workflows, responding to production incidents, and building platforms that help engineering teams ship more reliably.
I also have several years of experience operating blockchain infrastructure across multiple networks, including node and RPC infrastructure.
More recently, I’ve been building open-source AI and infrastructure tooling through VoltageBots, with projects focused on agent security, observability, memory systems, and developer productivity.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Current
Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer owning cloud, Kubernetes and blockchain infrastructure serving millions of wallet users. Led the move from GitLab push deploys to GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, own five EKS clusters, multi-chain node/RPC operations, and built a Kubernetes operator for self-healing HA plus AI-assisted platform tooling.
Led DevOps and engineering initiatives across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, security, and production operations, while supporting architecture decisions and engineering delivery across the team.
Built and operated AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform-based multi-environment provisioning, observability, secrets management, and CI/CD. Improved application reliability by migrating workloads from Lambda to ECS Fargate and supported event-driven architectures using Lambda, SQS, and EventBridge.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
DN
Delta State University (NG)
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2011 - 2015
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Blockchain
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Cloudflare
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Node.js
Azure Stack
Terraform
Loki
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Crossplane
Linux
Windows
AWS X-Ray
Ansible
Keycloak
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS KMS
Cilium
Cloudflare Workers
Trivy
Ray
Wiz
OpenTofu
ArgoCD
Terragrunt
External Secrets Operator
Bash
Karpenter
Agentic
Claude Code
X++
Availability
Looking for a job
Location
NigeriaAuthorized to work in
Social media
Job categories
Skills
DevOpsPlatform EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetesAmazon EKSAzureHelmArgoCDArgoGitOpsTerraformOpenTofuTerragruntCloudFormationAnsiblePackerAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxGitHub ActionsGitlab CIJenkinsCircleCiPrometheusGrafanaLokiELKCloudwatchOpenTelemetryDevSecOpsCloud SecurityKubernetes SecuritySecrets ManagementRBACTrivyWizPythonGoTypeScriptNode.Js DevelopmentBASHCloudflareKarpenterCiliumCrossplaneBackstageRancherKeycloakBlockchain InfrastructureValidator OperationsAI InfrastructureLLMMulti Agent SystemsMCPGPUBlockchainGitlabNodeJSAzure StackWindowsAWS X RayGitHubAWS KMSCloudflare WorkersRayExternal Secrets OperatorAgentic AIClaude Code
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