Kunle Banjo
Cloud Kubernetes Architect | DevOps | Infrastructure as Code | AI & Machine Learning
Newark,DE
Summary
Experienced Cloud Kubernetes Architect seeking a challenging role to help organizations leverage Kubernetes to enhance their business operations and accelerate innovation.
Experienced Cloud Kubernetes Architect seeking a challenging role to help organizations leverage Kubernetes to enhance their business operations and accelerate innovation. I am an enthusiastic IT professional with over 20 years of experience, specializing in leadership and hands-on expertise in information systems and architecture design. As a Cloud Kubernetes Architect, I possess a solid understanding of DevOps practices and automation tools that enhance operational efficiency. I am dedicated to developing and deploying Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud platforms, optimizing containerized applications, and streamlining DevOps processes. My proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale Kubernetes clusters not only boosts application performance but also ensures reliability. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to effectively integrate Kubernetes solutions. With strong communication and leadership skills, I engage teams at all levels to foster a constructive, innovative environment. I look forward to connecting and exploring the exciting opportunities that lie ahead!
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Platform Engineer
Mastercard
New York, New York
07.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based platform on the OpenShift Container Service. Created a robust Kubernetes infrastructure that leverages the OpenShift Container Service to enable seamless container orchestration, ensuring efficient resource utilization and easy scalability of applications.
- Designed and deployed scalable, highly available Kubernetes clusters for enterprise-level applications across geo-locations and availability zones.
- Deployed and configured Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS to improve scalability and streamline application deployment. Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes, utilizing Dockerized microservices, which reduced deployment times by 45%.
- Collaborate to implement AI and Machine Learning on the Kubernetes platform. Provide data scientists and developers with a supported MLOps environment for quick development, training, testing, and deployment of intelligent applications on Cloud and On-Prem platforms.
- Deployed a cloud-based microservices architecture using Kubernetes, which improved application scalability by 30% and streamlined the containerization process, reducing application deployment times by 25%.
- Configured and managed multitenant Kubernetes clusters by integrating Argo CD, which serves as the backend for infrastructure management. This setup used the Argo CD Agent in GitOps to streamline and consolidate management of distributed Argo CD installations into a single, comprehensive dashboard, enabling operations teams to efficiently oversee application delivery and GitOps processes.
- Implemented automated monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure high availability and uptime of the cloud platform.
System Architect
WR Berkley
Wilmington, DE
03.2015 - 07.2023
- Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based platform on Azure and AWS for hosting microservices-based applications using Terraform.
- Migrated legacy applications to the cloud, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes to containerize and orchestrate them.
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, ADO, and GitHub for automated testing and deployment of applications.
- Worked with development teams to improve application performance and scalability using Kubernetes-based auto-scaling and load balancing.
- Led the implementation of a disaster recovery solution using Kubernetes-based geo-replication and multi-region deployments.
- Implemented automated monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure high availability and uptime of the cloud platform.
- Designed and implemented Kubernetes-based solutions in AWS and AZURE environments.
- Designed and managed large-scale Kubernetes clusters, optimized application performance and reliability using Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes-based workloads using Helm, Mirantis, and Kubernetes Federation.
- Worked collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop Kubernetes-based solutions and ensure seamless integration with legacy systems.
- Developed and delivered training sessions on cloud technologies and best practices.
- Conducted research and evaluated cutting-edge cloud technologies to enhance service offerings.
- Design and implement cloud architectures that meet business requirements and ensure scalability, availability, and security.
- Achieved 25% reduction in costs of delivering IT infrastructure by using an improved automated process, quick validation of business requirements, enforcing security compliance, and employing best practices for IT solutions in the Insurance industry.
- Collaborated with the infrastructure, network, database, application, and BI teams to ensure data quality and availability.
- Strong Azure experience in the implementation of containerized application solutions through the use of AKS, Data mart, Application gateways, API, and LoadBalancers.
- Delivered outstanding performance to business applications through server consolidation into a more robust Hardware and continuously monitored performance and growth increases.
Consultant
Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration
Annapolis Junction, Maryland
06.2012 - 02.2015
- Designed and implemented a highly available and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code.
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and GitLab for automated testing and deployment of applications.
- Worked with development teams to improve application performance and scalability using load balancing and auto-scaling techniques.
- Implemented automated monitoring and alerting using Nagios and Zabbix to ensure high availability and uptime of the cloud platform.
- Led the migration of legacy applications to the cloud, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes to containerize and orchestrate them.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Ansible.
- Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
- Worked closely with development teams to streamline the software development process and ensure code quality.
- Developed and maintained monitoring and logging systems using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fluentd.
Senior Unix Administrator
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service
Hyattsville, Maryland
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Provided technical support lead to IT infrastructure project within the Midrange Project Delivery team. Developed and designed recommendations for modernization and improvements to core IT infrastructure, as well as contributed to the provisioning of new Enterprise servers’ solution. Responsible for the implementation of Unix servers and the necessary components (hardware/software) to achieve project goals as defined. Work closely with project management technical services and support group, external vendor partners, and the client to ensure a smooth implementation and transition.
- Design and implement an enterprise IBM P770 system running AIX and UNIX Operating Systems. Design, analyze, develop, and enhance engineering workflow processes.
- Evaluates and remediates servers for security vulnerabilities. Translate the business requirements into a feasible technical solution. Implement system integration to build a unified information system from diverse components: purchase software, custom-built software, hardware, and networking.
- Provides support to Check Printing Application Infrastructures that assist businesses in meeting goals. Provides technical assistance to Payment System Infrastructure and mitigates all security risks and vulnerabilities during implementation. Implements system integration to build a unified information system from diverse components: purchase software, custom-built software, hardware, and networking. Mitigate risks to Check Printing and Payment System Infrastructures by providing technical assistance, identifying implementation vulnerabilities, and performing risk assessments.
- Design a Storage Area Network (SAN) solution that provides support to Check Printing Application Infrastructures that assist the Department of Treasury to meet their business goals.
- Developed and implemented system monitoring with the Tivoli Monitoring suite of products, such as Tivoli Storage Management, Tivoli Performance monitoring, and Tivoli Identity Management.
- Provided strong technical leadership in AIX systems designs that address complex hardware and software-related problems. Addresses the need for future IT infrastructure growth through collaboration with system owners and stakeholders. Designing, configuring, and testing of complex computer hardware, system software, and operating systems software. Implement data backup and disaster recovery operations to support mission-critical applications.
- Delivered outstanding performance to business applications through server consolidation into a more robust Hardware and continuously monitored performance and growth increases. Installed and configured SAN Volume Controller (SVC) attached to heterogeneous IBM storage. Applied firmware upgrade to SVC. Implement copy services that provide data replication within the SVC application and across IBM SAN storage.
- Conducting software and hardware evaluations, providing technical analysis, and implementing systems to meet the customer's IT goals. Maintaining, monitoring, analyzing system components, and making recommendations regarding system security, monitoring the network, and storage utilization. Developed project plans to migrate data and the operating system OS. Developed plans for server consolidation, identified tasks, resources, risks, and mitigation strategy. Creates Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and oversees the implementation of the AIX OS migration and SAN volume controller.
- Evaluate system performance to detect bottlenecks and performance degradation due to input and output on disks, memory, and CPU.
- Deployed and implemented AIX and Solaris operating systems for optimal utilization.
Education
MS - Information Assurance
Wilmington University
Wilmington, DE03.2010
Skills
- Kubernetes Architecture and Administration
- OpenShift Container Platform
- Cloud Computing Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Containerization and Container Orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
- Secret Management tools – Hashi Corp
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Programming: C, Java/J2EE, NET, Xml, Korn Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python, Groovy, PowerShell, PySpak, Hadoop, SQL, JavaScript, HTML
- OS Platforms: Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, AIX, Windows
- Database Technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
- Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, VPN, Firewalls
- Monitoring and Logging Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
Accomplishments
- Infrastructure Efficiency Boost
- Improved infrastructure efficiency by 30%, integrating Argo CD for OpenShift management.
- Deployment Time Reduction
- Reduced deployment time by 40% with Jenkins and GitHub CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Cloud Platform Uptime
- Enhanced cloud platform uptime to 99.9% using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
- Application Migration Success
- Successfully migrated 200+ applications to Kubernetes, ensuring seamless orchestration and scalability.
Certification
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
Timeline
Lead Platform Engineer
Mastercard
07.2023 - Current
System Architect
WR Berkley
03.2015 - 07.2023
Consultant
Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration
06.2012 - 02.2015
Senior Unix Administrator
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service
01.2005 - 01.2012
MS - Information Assurance
Wilmington University
Key Qualities
- Proven leadership, work efficiently to deliver exceptional solutions that meet and exceed customers’ expectations.
- Ability to translate business needs into feasible, cost-efficient technical solutions.
- Goal-focused, delivering quality products on time and within budget.
- Ability to analyze, develop, and enhance engineering workflow processes.