Owen Eghaghe

Experienced Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructures across Azure and AWS platforms. Specializes in infrastructure automation (Terraform, Bash), Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud-native security. Adept at optimizing resource usage, enforcing compliance policies, and deploying highly available systems in hybrid and public cloud environments.

Strong background in containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, cost management, and operational monitoring. Seeking to contribute technical acumen and DevOps mindset to forward-thinking organizations driving digital transformation.

Azure Cloud Operations Engineer - Anywhere365

(2023-08)

• Architected and deployed unified contact center applications using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, accelerating delivery cycles and increasing deployment efficiency by 40%.
• Designed and provisioned scalable Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files solutions with secure access controls for application data management across global environments.
• Configured Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and integrated Grafana dashboards to enable real-time performance tracking and reduce MTTR by over 30%.
• Streamlined container management via Portainer, enhancing visibility and control over Docker and AKS workloads in development and production environments.
• Managed Terraform code repositories and implemented modular IaC designs, reducing duplication and promoting reusable cloud templates.
• Enforced role-based access controls (RBAC), Azure AD integration, and NSG/firewall rules to strengthen security posture and ensure least-privilege principles.
• Implemented traffic routing strategies using Azure Front Door and Application Gateway, improving global load balancing and fault tolerance.
• Participated in cost governance by implementing tagging strategies, cost alerts, and resource cleanup policies in Azure Cost Management.
• Collaborated with cross-functional DevOps teams to containerize microservices, improving deployment agility and horizontal scalability via AKS.

Azure Cloud Engineer - CareSource

(2022-01 - 2023-07)

• Migrated monolithic applications to Azure-based microservices architecture, improving reliability and scaling through AKS, App Services, and Azure Functions.
• Automated end-to-end infrastructure deployments using Terraform and Bash, reducing setup time and human error across multiple environments.
• Designed custom Azure Policies, enforced RBAC, and performed periodic security assessments to maintain compliance with HIPAA and internal governance standards.
• Integrated Azure Sentinel and third-party SIEM tools for proactive threat detection, logging, and forensic incident response.
• Built and maintained monitoring stacks with Azure Monitor, Grafana, and Log Analytics, providing real-time alerting and visibility into system health.
• Managed Key Vault, enabling secure credential and certificate storage and eliminating hardcoded secrets in pipelines and codebases.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, ensuring smooth application deployment and rollback capabilities across dev, test, and prod environments.
• Supported disaster recovery planning by configuring Azure Backup, Recovery Vaults, and validating restore procedures across mission-critical assets.
• Led internal cloud documentation and playbook development, enhancing onboarding speed and operational consistency across cloud teams.

AWS Cloud Support Engineer - Mizo LLC

(2019-01 - 2021-12)

• Supported the migration of legacy applications and systems to AWS, ensuring zero-downtime cutovers and maintaining system integrity across EC2, S3, and RDS services.
• Designed fault-tolerant architectures using Auto Scaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), and RDS Multi-AZ to achieve high availability targets.
• Hardened cloud environments through custom IAM policies, KMS key rotations, and secure network segmentation using VPC, NACLs, and Security Groups.
• Developed and deployed CloudFormation templates to standardize infrastructure provisioning and reduce manual configuration drift.
• Implemented monitoring and logging stacks using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and SNS, enabling faster incident detection and escalation workflows.
• Automated scheduled backups, lifecycle rules, and data retention policies on S3, reducing storage costs while ensuring compliance with data regulations.
• Built and maintained Jenkins pipelines and integrated CodePipeline for continuous delivery, supporting agile release cycles.
• Designed and tested Lambda functions to automate event-based workflows, such as EC2 state monitoring and resource tagging.
• Partnered with DevOps and security teams to support security reviews, access audits, and compliance controls within shared services environments.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Marine Engineering - Niger Delta University

Associate Degree - Automobile & Diesel Technology - Universal Technical Institute