Olusegun Nigel Inetianbor
Edmonton,AB
Summary
Experienced IT infrastructure engineer, technical support specialist and DevOps evangelist with a strong background in system administration, cloud infrastructure, and network operations. I have worked in both service provider and financial institution environments, troubleshooting complex issues, optimizing IT infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of critical systems. I bring hands-on expertise in Local and Wide Area Networks deployment and operations, Linux/Windows administration, virtualization, CDN management, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), VPNs, and security operations. A natural problem solver with excellent troubleshooting skills, I am committed to delivering high-quality IT support, maintaining secure and reliable infrastructure, and ensuring exceptional user experiences. My ability to work across different environments, from on-premises data centers to cloud deployments, makes me a strong asset in IT operations.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DATA CENTER & CORE NETWORK OPERATIONS
Fidelity Bank PLC
11.2024 - 01.2025
- Enhance System Reliability: Manage the cloud and colocation environment to achieve a 99.92% uptime, significantly reducing service disruptions and ensuring consistent operational performance for the bank's hosted systems and applications
- Optimize Network Performance: Operation of the bank's SD-WAN-controlled backbone network, delivering secure, high-performance connectivity across multiple locations and supporting mission-critical financial transactions with minimal latency
- Strengthen Security and Compliance: Collaborate with systems administration to streamline the management of Azure Entra ID, enabling efficient RBAC operations for users and groups, thereby enhancing security protocols and compliance across the organization
- Ensure Robust Site Connectivity: Partner with 20+ ISPs to maintain network availability for over 300 bank sites, consistently meeting a 97% uptime SLA and bolstering the reliability of essential banking services
- Secure Digital Assets: Work closely with the security engineering team to implement rigorous network access controls, effectively safeguarding the bank's digital resources and ensuring secure access for users, vendors, and customers
IBX CUSTOMER OPERATIONS / DATA CENTER NETWORK ENGINEER
Equinix Inc.
04.2022 - 10.2024
- As the project lead, I oversaw the racking, structured cabling and provisioning of high-availability internet and colocation infrastructure of a global leader in space exploration. Through efficient implementation, we successfully reduced the ETA of project delivery by approximately 30%
- Led the technical audit of the data center network infrastructure and colocation footprint for 4 months culminating in the integration of MDXI data center into the Equinix IBX fabric
- Developed a FinOps culture to optimize resource utilization and performance, encouraging visibility and collaboration of data center IT operations. This cut infrastructure spending and cost of operations by 30%
- Documented runbooks for technical support and service restoration of core nodes in the data center. This cut MTTR by 50%
- Collaborate with the product management and technical solutions team to develop customised IT solutions of varying complexity to enterprise customers
- Led the migration of 28 colocation customers from the West African Internet Exchange to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Also further collaborate with AMS-IX NOC on the management and operations of the Internet exchange
- Provide 3rd-level expert troubleshooting support to the Global Network Operations Center, resolving complex connectivity escalations of colocation customers riding on the MPLS fabric
- Utilized Helm charts and Karpenter to define Kubernetes cluster resources, automating the provisioning and scaling of cluster infrastructure
- Developed the Azure cloud-hybrid connectivity infrastructure failover solution of 3 Fintech Startups via Azure site-to-site VPNs
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Electro-Compute Ltd
12.2019 - 10.2021
- Collaborated with vendors and service providers to ensure strict compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) and to secure optimal technical support for our operations
- Managed the IT infrastructure of the head office, working with 3rd party vendors to ensure 100% uptime
- Executed the IT assessment management of the organization, providing a centralized repository for tracking and capacity management
- Handled the procurement and inventory of IT consumables critical to the facility's day-to-day operations
- Executed upgrades and patching of IT components (e.g, upgrade of application server cypher suite
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University of Benin
11-2019
Skills
- Routing and switching (Cisco, Huawei, Netgear, Arista)
- Cloud Administration & Networking (Azure, AWS)
- Software-defined networking (Huawei NCE)
- Infrastructure Monitoring & analytics (Solarwinds, NetBoss, Azure Monitor, SDWAN Controller)
- IT Service Management (BMC Remedy)
- CRM (Salesforce)
- Windows & Linux Administration
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Containerization/Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure Pipelines)
- Data analytics (Python, SQL, PowerBI)
- Scripting (Python, Bash)
- Version control (Git, GitHub)
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Expert, Microsoft, 09/2024
- Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate, Microsoft, 06/2024
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft
- Data Center Certified Associate, Schneider Electric, 10/2023
- Microsoft Certified Azure Network Engineer Associate, Microsoft, 08/2023
- Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco, 10/2022
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library V4, PeopleCert, 05/2022
Honours
CEO's year-end commendation for outstanding performance for FY 2023 at MainOne an Equinix company.
Timeline
DATA CENTER & CORE NETWORK OPERATIONS
Fidelity Bank PLC
11.2024 - 01.2025
IBX CUSTOMER OPERATIONS / DATA CENTER NETWORK ENGINEER
Equinix Inc.
04.2022 - 10.2024
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Electro-Compute Ltd
12.2019 - 10.2021
Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University of Benin
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