DAMI OLA
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure - DevOps Tooling - Monitoring & Reliability
Dallas, TX
Email: ola.damilola.e@gmail.com
Website: https://www.oladami.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ola-dammy
Summary
Cloud & DevOps Engineer with experience operating and automating production systems across cloud and hybrid environments. I work across Windows and Linux infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability to improve system reliability and reduce operational risk. My background includes troubleshooting live production issues, supporting deployments within change-controlled environments, and maintaining runbooks and operational documentation. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and Project Management Professional (PMP).
Core Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, CloudWatch), Terraform
DevOps & Automation
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash, PowerShell
Containers & Orchestration
Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
Monitoring & Observability
Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch
Systems & Platforms
Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory
Reporting & Analytics
Power BI
Experience
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Dominion Energy - Remote
August 2023 - Present
- Operate cloud-connected and on-prem infrastructure supporting internal engineering, electric utility operations, and enterprise business systems.
- Support Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift environments hosting containerized applications, including deployments, configuration changes, service troubleshooting, and workload health monitoring.
- Manage Windows Server and Linux environments, including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, service accounts, authentication, and access controls.
- Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for infrastructure automation and application deployments across development, test, and production environments within controlled change windows.
- Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Python and PowerShell to reduce repetitive work and improve consistency across environments.
- Investigate and resolve production issues through application logs, infrastructure metrics, and monitoring alerts, including service availability, authentication, integration, and container workload issues.
- Support integrations between utility operational applications and enterprise systems, troubleshooting issues across application, infrastructure, and data layers.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, deployment procedures, validation scripts, and troubleshooting documentation to improve reliability and repeatability of production support.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Scalyr - Remote
July 2021 - August 2023
- Worked on infrastructure and operational tooling supporting a high-throughput log management and observability platform used by engineering teams to investigate production issues and monitor distributed systems.
- Developed Python automation to validate log ingestion pipelines, detect ingestion delays, and ensure log processing consistency across distributed collectors and backend services.
- Built monitoring scripts and alerting checks to detect abnormal system states, ingestion bottlenecks, and delayed indexing affecting observability data pipelines.
- Investigated production incidents by analyzing large volumes of application logs, infrastructure metrics, and pipeline telemetry to identify root causes impacting platform reliability.
- Collaborated with platform and backend engineering teams during incident response and deployment windows to maintain stability of log ingestion and analytics services.
- Implemented automation improvements that reduced manual operational checks and improved detection of pipeline failures affecting observability workflows.
- Produced internal operational dashboards summarizing ingestion throughput, system health indicators, and recurring reliability issues impacting platform performance.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Equilog Technical Services - Lagos, Nigeria
August 2018 - July 2021
- Designed and provisioned AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including VPCs, subnets, IAM roles, EC2, S3, CloudFront, and Route 53, supporting internal and client-facing platforms.
- Built and operated CloudFront-backed delivery platforms, resolving issues related to access policies, DNS propagation, and TLS configuration.
- Implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration validation, and deployment workflows across environments.
- Containerized applications using Docker to standardize runtime environments and reduce configuration drift between development and production.
- Worked with Kubernetes (EKS) environments to support containerized application deployments and secure workload configuration.
- Integrated Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch to monitor infrastructure performance, resource utilization, and system behavior.
Monitoring & Reliability Engineer
Equilog Technical Services - Lagos, Nigeria
April 2017 - August 2018
- Built Power BI dashboards for operational reporting, visualizing system behavior trends and automation outcomes for engineering leadership.
- Aggregated observability data from Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch into executive-ready operational summaries.
- Analyzed system logs and metrics to identify recurring operational issues and quantify the impact of infrastructure and automation changes.
- Authored reporting standards and documentation supporting data-driven operational and reliability planning.
Education & Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute
Master of Science, Geoscience - Midwestern State University
Bachelor of Science, Geology - University of Ilorin
Technologies
AWS - Terraform - Jenkins - GitHub Actions - Docker - Kubernetes - Linux - Windows Server - Active Directory - Python - Bash - PowerShell - Grafana - Datadog - CloudWatch - Power BI
Last updated: 2025