
Jordan Okafor
PLATFORM ENGINEERING · KUBERNETES · DEVSECOPS

Austin, TX · jordan.okafor@example.com · (555) 010-2233 · github.com/jokafor-example · linkedin.com/in/jordan-okafor-example

SUMMARY

Senior Platform Engineer

Platform engineer with 9 years of experience building secure cloud infrastructure and developer platforms on AWS and
Kubernetes. Built an EKS-based internal developer platform serving 40 product teams, cut deployment time from 45 to 8 minutes
with GitOps, and raised availability to 99.95% through SLO-driven reliability work. Brings shift-left security and cost discipline to
platform teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud & Containers: AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, Helm, Karpenter

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, AWS Config

CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins

Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs, On-call

Security & Compliance: Trivy, Checkov, HashiCorp Vault, SOC 2

Languages: Python, Go, Bash

Operating Systems: Linux

Cost Optimization: FinOps, Karpenter, Rightsizing

EXPERIENCE

Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Northwind Cloud Services
FULL-TIME · REMOTE MAR 2022 – PRESENT

• Built an internal developer platform on Amazon EKS that serves 40 product teams and 300+ microservices.
• Cut average deployment time from 45 to 8 minutes by moving Jenkins jobs to GitOps delivery with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.

• Shifted security left by embedding Trivy and Checkov scans in CI, blocking 1,200+ critical vulnerabilities before production in
2023.

• Reduced monthly AWS spend by $38K through Karpenter autoscaling and rightsizing.
• Automated SOC 2 evidence collection with Terraform and AWS Config, saving the compliance team about 20 hours per month.

Site Reliability Engineer
Brightline Health
FULL-TIME · AUSTIN, TX JUN 2019 – FEB 2022

• Raised platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% by introducing SLOs, Prometheus alerting and runbooks.
• Migrated 60 services from on-prem VMs to AWS with reusable Terraform modules adopted by 6 teams.
• Cut mean time to recovery by 35% while leading an 8-engineer on-call rotation.

• Implemented HashiCorp Vault for secrets management across all production workloads.

Systems Engineer
Keystone Systems
FULL-TIME · DALLAS, TX JUL 2016 – MAY 2019

• Automated provisioning for 500+ Linux hosts with Ansible, cutting build time from 2 days to 3 hours.

• Wrote Python tooling to audit patch compliance across data centers.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — CNCF, 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services, 2021

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Engineering
University of North Texas 2016


