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
