Ibukun – Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes

Enterprise Azure infrastructure and DevOps engineering for mission-critical production systems in a regulated financial services context. Covers end-to-end Infrastructure as Code delivery using Bicep and Ansible, automated CI/CD release pipelines via Azure DevOps, and full observability for Java applications running on RHEL 8 virtual machines.

• Build and operate mission-critical Azure infrastructure supporting production workloads;
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Bicep and Ansible;
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps YAML CI/CD pipelines for automated and repeatable releases;
• Implement logging, metrics, diagnostics, monitoring, and alerting for Java applications using Prometheus and Grafana;
• Administer and troubleshoot RHEL 8 virtual machine environments
• Monitor production systems and investigate infrastructure and application incidents;
• Perform root-cause analysis and contribute to production reliability improvements;
• Support highly available Azure environments in a regulated financial-services context.

Enterprise Azure and Databricks platform engineering for a global investment bank. Encompassed IaC-based cloud infrastructure delivery across 15+ Azure environments, Databricks governance with Unity Catalog, AKS orchestration, and CI/CD automation at scale. Introduced the bank's first Databricks Asset Bundles deployment pattern, which became an org-wide reference standard, and cut infrastructure provisioning time from 3+ hours to ~15 minutes while reducing Databricks costs by ~40%.

• Pioneered the bank's first adoption of Databricks Asset Bundles and created governed CI/CD deployment patterns;
• Established a Databricks deployment pattern adopted as a reference standard for subsequent programs;
• Built and managed Databricks platform infrastructure using Terraform
• Provisioned and managed Unity Catalog, storage credentials, workspace federation, and secret management;
• Developed reusable Terraform platform modules supporting 15+ Azure environments;
• Reduced infrastructure provisioning time from 3+ hours to ~15 minutes
• Reduced Databricks infrastructure costs by ~40% through automated cluster lifecycle governance;
• Implemented Databricks governance controls including cluster policies, IP access lists, and RBAC enforcement;
• Integrated Databricks with ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, PostgreSQL, and Power BI;
• Designed highly available Azure edge architecture using Azure Front Door and Application Gateway with WAF;
• Implemented AKS workload isolation and zero-downtime deployment strategies;
• Migrated CI/CD workflows from Azure DevOps to GitLab CI;
• Supported platform security and governance within a regulated banking environment.

Azure cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering for a payments and point-of-sale platform. Delivered a fully automated, security-hardened cloud environment covering Zero Trust network segmentation, AKS autoscaling, container vulnerability scanning, Managed Identity authentication, and blue/green deployment workflows for high-availability financial transaction processing.

• Designed and operated Azure cloud infrastructure for a payments and POS platform;
• Built reusable Terraform modules for repeatable infrastructure provisioning across environments;
• Deployed and managed production workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service with autoscaling configuration;
• Implemented container vulnerability scanning within the CI/CD delivery workflow;
• Introduced Zero Trust network segmentation across Azure environments;
• Secured workloads using WAF, NSGs, private endpoints, and Managed Identity authentication;
• Implemented blue/green deployment workflows to reduce release risk and downtime;
• Established monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor and New Relic;
• Automated application and infrastructure delivery through CI/CD pipelines.

Azure infrastructure and DevOps modernization for a financial services and insurance group. Focused on establishing IaC foundations with Terraform, containerizing .NET, Java, and Spring Boot applications, and building CI/CD workflows with Azure Pipelines and SonarQube quality gates. This engagement formed the DevOps and infrastructure provisioning foundation for the organization.

• Established DevOps and Infrastructure as Code foundations across Azure environments;
• Provisioned and automated VNets, AKS clusters, Azure App Services, MSSQL infrastructure, and Application Gateway deployments using Terraform;
• Supported containerization of .NET, Java, and Spring Boot applications using Docker;
• Deployed and operated containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service;
• Built and maintained CI/CD workflows using Azure Pipelines;
• Implemented SonarQube quality gates within CI/CD pipelines;
• Managed Linux infrastructure and operational processes using Ansible;
• Helped standardize application deployment and infrastructure provisioning practices org-wide.