Nathaniel Bakare

Supported the reduction of cloud infrastructure costs by 70% by designing and maintaining a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform, enabling multiple engineering teams to securely share underlying cluster resources while maintaining workload isolation and operational flexibility. Hardened security posture for 500+ airport and airline applications across production and development environments through engineering Prometheus and Grafana enabled monitoring solutions. Integrated scalable, secure, and repeatable infrastructure using Terraform for IaC; embedding security best practices and standardized configurations.

Associate Cloud Engineer (promoted from Graduate) - SITA - Reading

(2024-09)

• Supported the reduction of cloud infrastructure costs by 70% by designing and maintaining a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform, enabling multiple engineering teams to securely share underlying cluster resources while maintaining workload isolation and operational flexibility.
• Hardened security posture for 500+ airport and airline applications across production and development environments through engineering Prometheus and Grafana enabled monitoring solutions.
• Integrated scalable, secure, and repeatable infrastructure using Terraform for IaC; embedding security best practices and standardized configurations.
• Optimized cloud storage costs through developing a Docker containerized disk management tool in Golang to handle idle resources in Azure.
• Minimized application downtime through applying a Git-Ops deployment framework using ArgoCD and Helm.
• Leveraged AI-assisted analysis to troubleshoot issues across internal developer platforms, accelerating root-cause investigation and improving platform reliability
• Supported up-skilling of graduate engineers through weekly mentoring sessions, offering guidance on technical challenges, project delivery, and career progression while fostering knowledge sharing and continuous learning across engineering teams.
• Participated actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies,including leading stand-ups on a rotating basis to improve team communication and delivery cadance.

DevOps Engineer Intern - STONEX - London

(2023-06 - 2023-08)

• Saved up to 12,000 USD on Azure container storage, through developing an automated clean up process using the Azure API and Powershell scripting.
• Engaged in one-to-one training on Azure platform and Linux environments

BEng - Electronic Engineering - King's College London (2021-09 - 2024-05)