SODIQ ALAGBO
Houston TX | - |-
Professional Summary
Strategic and impact-driven engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and automating cloud-native infrastructure
across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven success in building scalable systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD
pipelines. Adept at reducing cloud costs, improving uptime, and delivering secure, compliant, and high-performance
architectures. Passionate about automation, DevOps culture, and continuous improvement.
Professional Strength
Strategic and analytical problem solver
Strong communicator and collaborator across tech and business teams
Proactive in ownership and continuous learning
Fast-adapting in dynamic, high-scale environments
Core Skills And Tools
AWS (EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation), Azure (AKS, App Services), GCP (GKE), Terraform, CloudFormation,
Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, Python,
Bash, Go, JavaScript, IAM, Vault, KMS, Azure Key Vault, OPA, GitOps, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
Professional Experience
SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER | 06/2022 - Current
Entrusted Energy - Houston, TX
Reduced deployment time by 50% with fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
Eliminated 95% of manual cloud provisioning by implementing IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation
Migrated monolithic applications to Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), increasing reliability and scalability
Reduced AWS/Azure costs by 35% via serverless architectures and reserved instance planning
Built secure infra with Vault, KMS, automated secrets rotation, and IAM best practices
Established observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), cutting MTTR by 40%
IT SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT | 04/2018 - 05/2022
Hess - Philadelphia, PA
Migrated 15+ enterprise apps to AWS & Azure, cutting TCO by 30%
Designed microservices and serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and Azure Functions
Implemented Kafka/SQS event-driven systems and multi-region DR strategies
Led architecture governance board and internal DevOps training initiatives
CLOUD/SOFTWARE ENGINEER | 01/2016 - 03/2018
University of Pennsylvania Hospital - Philadelphia, PA
Developed and deployed cloud apps using AWS Elastic Beanstalk & Azure App Services
Built backend APIs in Python/Node.js with DynamoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL
Automated backups and disaster recovery with Boto3, shell scripts, AWS CLI
Monitored systems using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Azure Monitor
Education & Certifications
Temple University - Philadelphia, PA | Bachelor of Science
Public Health, 01/2019
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)