Ejiogu Donald Somadina
DevOps Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure
Open to Work
Remote & Relocation
Profile
DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience building, securing, and operating production-grade CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automated systems within regulated financial environments and tier-1 banks across West and Central Africa and Europe. Expert in high-availability infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and comprehensive observability. Proven track record of eliminating configuration drift and managing seamless deployments under strict change management protocols. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Nasdaq Calypso Certified Technical Associate (V18).
Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWS (ECS, EKS, Fargate, EC2, ECR, VPC, ALB, Route 53, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, SNS, IAM, RDS, S3) · FinOps · Cost Optimization
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform · AWS CloudFormation · Ansible · GitOps
Containers & CI/CD
Docker · Docker Compose · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · AWS CodePipeline
Observability & Reliability
CloudWatch · Prometheus · Grafana · SNS · SLO/SLI Compliance
Scripting & Programming
Java · Python · Bash · SQL
Financial Compliance
Treasury & Capital Markets Platforms · FX/IRD Trade Lifecycle · STP Workflows · Kafka · FIX Protocol · Regulatory Reporting
Databases & OS
Oracle 19c · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Linux (RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu) · Windows
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Seaico Technologies Limited
January 2023 — Present
A financial technology company delivering treasury and capital markets platforms to tier-1 banks across Africa and Europe.
Key Responsibilities
- IaC Own and manage secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, provisioned with modular Terraform IaC and configured via Ansible, ensuring cost optimization across regulated financial environments.
- CI/CD Build and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple deployment environments using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and ECS.
- Observability Operate end-to-end observability across containerized workloads using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to monitor system health and guarantee strict SLO/SLI compliance.
- Reliability Architect and deploy high-availability AWS environments utilizing ECS Fargate, EKS, ALB, Route 53, and multi-AZ RDS to meet stringent banking-grade uptime and compliance requirements.
- Security Implement robust RBAC policies and IAM configurations to secure banking infrastructure and enforce least-privilege access across all deployment tiers.
- Deployments Lead environment deployments and platform upgrades for banking clients across Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Cameroon, and England; managing data migrations and go-live support under strict change management protocols.
- Incidents Resolve complex production incidents involving TCP mismatches, JMS queue faults, SSL certificate errors, and database schema inconsistencies to maintain high availability.
- Automation Develop Java-based automation modules for regulatory reporting, FX trade workflows, and back-office reconciliation across core client implementations; engineer system integrations via Kafka, FIX protocol, and microservices APIs.
Achievements
- Cut deployment time by 50% and reduced manual effort by 90% by building fully automated CI/CD pipelines, removing all manual steps from the release lifecycle.
- Reduced MTTR by 30% by rolling out comprehensive, end-to-end observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana across all containerized workloads.
- Eliminated configuration drift across all client environments by automating server provisioning with Ansible and enforcing modular, audit-ready Terraform IaC.
- Reduced batch processing time by 60% by refactoring system architecture to remove processing bottlenecks across multiple client environments.
- Cut manual trade adjustments by up to 70% by delivering Java automation modules for regulatory reporting, FX workflows, and back-office reconciliation.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services · 2025
Active
Nasdaq Calypso Certified Technical Associate – V18
Nasdaq · 2025
Active
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Foundations Associate
Oracle · 2023
Associate
Education
B.Eng. Computer Engineering
Bells University of Technology — Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
Graduation: July 2022