Dede Awani-Mayaki
Ontario,Canada
Summary
Dedicated and highly skilled DevSecOps Engineer with expertise in mitigating cybersecurity incidents, digital forensic investigations, Platform engineering, Cloud security, and CI/CD. Experienced in developing and implementing auto-remediation processes of security incidents and DevOps tools. Seeking a challenging role to utilize my knowledge in security, compute, networking, and storage domain. My goal is to help build a robust and secured cloud infrastructure while optimizing resources to save cost.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
1NCE
01.2024 - 07.2024
- Led migration of critical applications to highly available Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS, reducing EC2 monthly billing by over 70%.
- Implemented and integrated DevSecOps practice in IaC and container image scanning, championing best security practices for infrastructure development. Through this implementation, over 50 thousand Critical and High vulnerabilities were detected and eradicated.
DevOps Engineer
Genius Sports
11.2021 - 12.2023
- Built, deployed, and managed multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud accounts to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of microservices.
- Implemented a strategic approach to enhance application logging and observability, enhancing visibility on critical metrics, and ensuring prompt generation of notifications for threshold breaches. This led to a reduction of 65% in reported production incidents.
DevOps Engineer
IBM
03.2021 - 11.2021
- Architected and provisioned cloud infrastructure resources required to host software application, ensuring an effective use of Infrastructure-as-a-Code with the use of Terraform.
- Developed and maintained build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and implemented Terratest integration to promote security best practices.
DevOps Engineer
LUMINOR GROUP
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Building and supporting development and testing environments for teams working on digital projects within the Banking and Insurance sector.
- Collaborated with a Cloud Architects and Project Managers to deliver highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure components to host business-critical applications.
Cloud Security Engineer
Thanos Consulting
01.2015 - 09.2021
- Proactively identified security threats and collaborated with InfoSec to respond to reported violations, while analyzing root causes and recommending corrective actions for data security.
- Conduct cloud security posture management and educate customers on strategies to improve and uplift their cloud security posture, to ensure excellent rating in Cloud Audit and compliance.
Education
Post-Graduate Diploma - Information Technology - Cybersecurity
Conestoga College
Canada12-2024
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences
Estonia01-2022
Skills
- System Administration
- Continuous deployment
- Linux Operating System
- Strategic project planning
- Configuration Management
- Incident Management
- Containerization Technologies
- Version control systems
- Continuous integration
- Scripting Languages
- Software Development
- Infrastructure development
- Penetration Testing
- Application security
- Firewall configuration
- Cloud Computing
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Performance Optimization
- Cost Optimization
- Network configuration
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
1NCE
01.2024 - 07.2024
DevOps Engineer
Genius Sports
11.2021 - 12.2023
DevOps Engineer
IBM
03.2021 - 11.2021
DevOps Engineer
LUMINOR GROUP
10.2020 - 03.2021
Cloud Security Engineer
Thanos Consulting
01.2015 - 09.2021
Post-Graduate Diploma - Information Technology - Cybersecurity
Conestoga College
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences
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