Maxwell Igbinoba
Grande Prairie,Canada
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in designing, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure. Adept in containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible). Reducing deployment times by 40% and optimizing cloud costs by up to 35% through automation, right-sizing, and auto-scaling strategies.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
WemaDevops
06.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable Kubernetes clusters, optimizing auto-scaling and load balancing for high availability.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual deployment tasks by 40%.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, cutting software delivery times by 10%.
- Integrated Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack for real-time monitoring and centralized logging.
- Implemented right-sizing and auto-scaling strategies, lowering AWS EC2 costs by 35%.
- Introduced GitOps practices using ArgoCD, streamlining application deployment into Kubernetes.
- Managed private Docker Hub and JFrog Artifactory repositories, ensuring secure access for teams.
- Developed standard operating procedures and compliance standards for infrastructure governance.
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
AITECH Technology
04.2020 - 05.2022
- Migrated multiple client infrastructures from on-premises to AWS and Azure with minimal downtime.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks for consistent environment provisioning.
- Deployed high-availability cloud environments with disaster recovery strategies, improving reliability.
- Implemented cost optimization methods, reducing cloud spend by up to 25%.
- Mentored and showed best practices guidance to junior engineers on cloud automation and DevOps tools.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical/Computer Engineering
Federal University of Technology
High School Diploma - undefined
Greater Tomorrow Secondary School
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
- CI/CD & DevOps Tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring & Logging: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK
- Scripting & Automation: Bash, PowerShell
- Version Control: Git, GitHub
- Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Windows
Affiliations
- Council for Regulation of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN R.22, 346)
- Engineer Australia (EA ID 298533)
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Languages
English
Professional Working
Timeline
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
WemaDevops
06.2023 - Current
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
AITECH Technology
04.2020 - 05.2022
High School Diploma - undefined
Greater Tomorrow Secondary School
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical/Computer Engineering
Federal University of Technology