Hezekiah Umoh
DevOps Engineer · Cloud Infrastructure · CI/CD · Fintech
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Enthusiastic and delivery-focused DevOps Engineer with 2–3 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and automation — with a strong fintech background. Proficient in Bash scripting, Python automation, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins pipeline engineering on AWS. Deeply committed to agile delivery practices, test-driven workflows, and shipping code multiple times a day.
Eager to bring strong technical foundations, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for emerging technologies to a product-first engineering culture at Prophius.
Experience
DevOps Engineer - TechBridge Solutions Ltd - Lagos, NG
(2023-01)
Supporting a microservices-based fintech application — building automation, managing AWS infrastructure, and enabling daily deployments through CI/CD pipelines.
- CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: Designed and maintained Jenkins pipelines (written as Pipeline-as-Code in Groovy) that reduced deployment time by 40% and enabled 3× faster release cycles, supporting multiple daily deployments to dev, staging, and production environments.
- AWS Infrastructure Management: Provisioned and managed EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, ECR, and CloudWatch using Terraform modules with remote state on S3 and DynamoDB locking — reducing manual provisioning effort by 70%.
- Containerisation: Containerised 12+ legacy application services using Docker and Docker Compose, eliminating environment inconsistencies across all deployment stages.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Authored reusable Terraform modules for VPC, EC2, RDS, and IAM; leveraged Autoscaling Groups and Security Groups to support high-availability, scalable architectures.
- Automation Scripting: Wrote Bash and Python automation scripts for routine maintenance, log rotation, backup jobs, health checks, and server monitoring — improving operational efficiency by 30%.
- Monitoring & Alerting: Configured CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and escalation policies, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) by 50%; integrated Prometheus and Grafana for real-time observability.
- Security & Compliance: Integrated security scanning and automated testing into CI/CD workflows; applied IAM least-privilege principles, SSL/TLS configurations, and Security Group hardening across all AWS environments.
- Kubernetes Migration: Leading hands-on planning and lab work for migration of Docker Swarm workloads to a managed Kubernetes cluster, including pod design, service definitions, and ConfigMap management.
- Agile Collaboration: Worked in cross-functional agile squads with developers and QA engineers, contributing to sprint planning, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature delivery.
IT Operations Intern - Nexalink Technologies - Lagos, NG
(2022-06 - 2022-12)
- Maintained Linux-based servers (Ubuntu/CentOS), contributing to 99.5% uptime across internal systems through proactive monitoring and automation.
- Wrote Bash scripts for log rotation, backup automation, and server health checks, reducing manual operational overhead.
- Gained practical AWS experience (EC2, S3) supporting a cloud migration project for an internal HR platform.
- Authored infrastructure runbooks and deployment SOPs, improving team onboarding time and operational consistency.
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science - Institut Supérieur Saint Paul de Tarse (ISSPT) (2020 - 2023)



