Olayinka Israel Popoola

Established CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab, integrating with GitHub and Bitbucket for version control, reducing deployment time from 4 hours to 30 minutes. Designed and implemented an enterprise-scale landing zone that optimized cloud resources, improved scalability, and ensured security compliance with industry standards. Spearheaded the development and deployment of AVD solutions for a team of developers, ensuring a secure and high performance environment for application development. Championed the adoption of FinOps practices, leveraging IBM Cloudability to monitor, analyse, and optimise multi-cloud expenditure—resulting in measurable cost savings, budget forecasting accuracy, and improved stakeholder visibility into cloud spend Built IaC pipelines (Terraform + GitLab CI) with configuration orchestration (Ansible) to provision VMs, managed services, networking and AKS clusters, reducing time‑to‑deploy by >70% Implemented Microsoft 365 Copilot for a targeted group of pilot users, establishing a secure testing and adoption framework through Microsoft Intune, Purview, Conditional Access policies, and the M365 Admin Center. Ensured a controlled rollout with compliance monitoring, data protection, and access governance aligned to organisational standards. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment of cloud strategies with business goals while providing continuous feedback on project progress, infrastructure stability, and system performance.

Designed and implemented end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines DevOps, GitLab for multi‑region deployments; reduced deployment time by 50%. Migrate enterprise-scale applications, databases, and storage solutions from On-Premises to the cloud using Azure and AWS service. Designed detailed migration plans for workloads to AWS and Azure. Created infrastructure templates using Terraform and CloudFormation, standardizing resource deployment across AWS and Azure.

Implemented containerization strategy using Azure and orchestrating 200+ containers with Argo CD for automated deployments.

Developed monitoring dashboards using Prometheus, and ServiceNow, improving incident response time by 50%.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams on security incidents, incident response, and disaster recovery plans. Implemented observability stacks (Prometheus + Grafana + Azure Monitor) and automated alerting integrated into OpsGenie/Teams for 24/7 support. Conducted security assessments and vulnerability scans, identifying and addressing critical vulnerabilities in the cloud, resulting in a 40% reduction in potential security risks. Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation, diagrams, and specifications for cloud solutions, reducing documentation time by 20% and ensuring consistent adherence to best practices. Monitored and analysed cloud security events and logs, identifying and responding to security incidents in real-time, resulting in a 50% reduction in potential security risks. Migrate enterprise-scale applications, databases, and storage solutions from On-Premises to the cloud using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery Vault, and AWS Application Migration service. Designed detailed migration plans for workloads to AWS and Azure.