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Pop Kwasau

@popkwasau

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DevOps engineer specializing in AWS, automation, and cloud reliability.

Nigeria

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on DevOps/cloud role focused on automation, reliability, and secure scalable systems, with collaborative teams and growth opportunities.

I am a DevOps engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient AWS and Linux-based infrastructures across oil & gas, aviation, and financial services. I specialize in automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability, and I have delivered measurable reliability, cost optimization, and recovery improvements—such as reducing MTTR by 32%, cutting idle costs by 15%, and improving deployment frequency by 45%.

My background includes systems and network engineering, disaster recovery design, and team mentoring; I hold an MSc in Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering that reinforces my systems-thinking approach. I prioritize cross-team collaboration, security and compliance (SOX, NIST), and continuous improvement to help organizations scale and operate mission-critical platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Network Technician

M.R.S. Oil & Gas

May 2012 - Sep 2024 (12 years 4 months)

Maintained refinery LAN/WAN and firewall controls, standardized network configurations to improve uptime by 20%, automated network health checks to reduce diagnostics time by 30%, and supported SCADA–IT integrations.

VLAN ACLs BASH VPN Visio

DevOps Engineer

The AA

May 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years 1 month)

Streamlined AWS-based CI/CD and IaC workflows, improving deployment frequency by 45% and achieving 99.9% uptime through autoscaling and resilient Kubernetes architectures while reducing MTTR by 32%.

AWS Terraform Kubernetes CI CD Python Cloudwatch Prometheus Grafana

Systems Engineer

Caverton Helicopters

Aug 2016 - Sep 2020 (4 years 1 month)

Administered enterprise Linux and VMware environments, automated provisioning and patching with Ansible and scripts, and implemented DRP and hybrid backups to reduce recovery times by 60% and accelerate deployments by 45%.