Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps Engineer

Hello,
I'm Oluwole.

I build cloud platforms that stay up — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps, end to end.

6+

Years in cloud & SRE

99.99%

Availability targets delivered

Abologbonrin Oluwole Williams

01 / About

Building platforms that stay up

Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of experience delivering scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Specialises in AWS-native architecture, Kubernetes platform engineering (EKS), and infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt. Proven track record of building resilient multi-region systems, automating CI/CD pipelines, and implementing GitOps practices to improve deployment speed, reliability, and governance.

Strong expertise in observability, incident response, and system performance optimisation using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana. Experienced in leading cloud transformation initiatives, improving platform reliability, and enabling engineering teams to deliver faster with confidence.

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$ role

Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps Engineer

$ location

London, Stoke, Manchester, UK

$ focus

AWS · EKS · Terraform · GitOps · Observability

6+

Years in cloud & SRE

99.99%

Availability targets delivered

25%

Contact-centre infra cost cut

4 → 9

AWS accounts scaled securely

02 / Toolkit

Skills & technologies

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Amazon Connect)AzureGCP

Containers & Orchestration

KubernetesDockerDocker SwarmHelmAmazon ECS / EKS

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformTerragruntCloudFormationAnsible

CI/CD & GitOps

JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgoCDFluxCD

Monitoring & Observability

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchELKOpenTelemetry

Networking & Security

VPC DesignTransit GatewayLoad BalancersWAFZero TrustmTLSSecrets Management

Languages & Backend

PythonFastAPIBashPowerShellYAMLJSON

Testing & Code Quality

SeleniumSonarQubePytestUnittestPostman

Servers

Apache TomcatNginxhttpd

Databases

MySQLMS AccessOracleSQL ServerMongoDBCassandraDynamoDB

Other

JiraLLMs (limited): Ollama, OpenAI, Claude

03 / Experience

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud Solution Architect

2020 – Present

Creative Minds LLC · Remote

  • Designed and delivered multi-region AWS and GCP architectures supporting high availability (99.9% – 99.99%) and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Built and maintained Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE), enabling scalable microservices deployments with zero-downtime releases.
  • Led infrastructure automation using Terraform and Terragrunt, reducing configuration drift and improving deployment consistency across environments.
  • Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and FluxCD, improving release traceability and reducing deployment cycles.
  • Designed and deployed a global Amazon Connect cloud contact centre, reducing infrastructure cost by 25%.
  • Enhanced observability by implementing Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana dashboards, reducing incident response times.

DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

2023 – 2025

Darey.io

  • Supported AWS multi-account environments, implementing scalable infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Improved CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, reducing deployment complexity.
  • Built observability dashboards integrating CloudWatch and Prometheus metrics.
  • Implemented AWS tagging and governance strategies to improve cost visibility and control.
  • Implemented a production-ready, load-balanced, highly available, fault-tolerant CI/CD pipeline with Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes.

Cloud & DevOps Lead

2019 – 2022

CM & Co Solutions Ltd

  • Designed a secure multi-account AWS architecture, scaling from 4 to 9 accounts.
  • Implemented centralised monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus, SNS), reducing MTTR significantly.
  • Standardised CI/CD pipelines across teams, enabling faster and more reliable deployments.
  • Set up monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, tuning PromQL queries and scraping custom logs by criteria.
  • Managed AWS infrastructure costs (£18k–£32k/month) with improved tracking and optimisation.

04 / Credentials

Certifications & education

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateCertified
  • HashiCorp Terraform AssociateIn progress
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)In progress

Education

  • MSc Computer Science2024

    Staffordshire University, UK

  • BSc Project Management2018

    Federal University of Technology, Nigeria

05 / Book a call

Pick a time that suits you

Book a 30-minute video call to talk about a role, a project or your platform. You'll receive a confirmation email with a Google Meet link.

Pick a time and you'll get a Google Meet link by email. Times are shown in your local time zone.

06 / Contact

Let's build something reliable

Open to senior SRE, DevOps and cloud architecture opportunities. Get in touch and let's talk about your platform.

London, Stoke, Manchester, UK