molokofi
Dev Ops Engineer
Seasoned DevOps / Platform Engineer with 5+ years of multi-region experience (UK, EU, US, Africa) designing reliable delivery platforms and production-safe infrastructure at scale. Specializes in CI/CD architecture, platform engineering, observability, and AI-assisted operational systems, with a focus on improving system diagnosability, reducing operational risk, and enabling structured, scalable incident response. As well as a strong background in cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. Proven track record of standardizing delivery, building reusable platform patterns, and driving cross-team technical alignment across cloud-native and legacy environments.
Experience: 7 years
Yearly salary: $0
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Mercedez-Benz, Germany 2024 - 2024
Secured CI/CD across AWS regions using IAM roles, GitLab runner tokenization and KMS-backed AMI distribution. Modernized Helm charts and GitLab pipelines, with validation stages, improved release reliability. Optimized Kubernetes scheduling (taints/affinity), improving cluster utilization and workload placement. Established build infrastructure observability by instrumenting GitLab runners with Datadog dashboards.
Senior DevOps Engineer
xGeeks-Synvert, Portugal 2023 - 2024
Designed and built an Internal Developer Platform on AKS enabling standardized, self-service infrastructure provisioning. Integrated Crossplane, ArgoCD, Backstage, and Keycloak for unified provisioning, delivery, and identity management. Contributed to hiring and technical evaluation for DevOps, shared platform practices internally and externally. Established GitOps-driven platform patterns across multiple client environments.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Vocable AI 2023 - 2023
Led CI/CD migration from Bitbucket to GitHub Actions, standardizing workflows and reducing operational friction. Delivered zero-downtime migration of on-prem workloads to Microsoft Azure. Improved release confidence by simplifying and hardening delivery pipelines. Reduced operational risk by eliminating legacy CI/CD dependencies. Served as sole DevOps owner for infrastructure transition during company growth phase.
Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
Farfetch, Portugal 2022 - 2023
Delivered GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Backstage) supporting 2,000+ engineers across high-traffic systems. Enforced release governance using OPA policies, improving production safety during peak traffic periods. Led Azure FinOps automation, reducing infrastructure costs by ~20%. Expanded observability coverage across ~70% of infrastructure through dashboards and telemetry.
Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer - Contract
Kinship Inc., San Francisco, USA 2022 - 2022
Owned availability and incident response, reducing downtime by ~40% using PagerDuty and Sentry. Maintained 99.9% uptime during peak traffic through on-call rotation and proactive monitoring. Built IaC using Pulumi (TypeScript) and Terraform, reducing provisioning time by ~40%. Migrated legacy Bamboo workflows to modern IaC-driven pipelines. Improved system observability by ~50% using New Relic dashboards and alerts.
Skills
devops
english