Adekunle Babalola

About Adekunle Babalola

Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and scaling mission critical cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms for enterprise organizations across healthcare, media, and technology sectors.Specialized in building resilient cloud platforms that enable high velocity engineering teams to deploy reliably at scale. Proven ability to architect end to end DevOps ecosystems including CI/CD platforms, container orchestration systems, infrastructure as code frameworks, and observability stacks.Extensive hands on expertise across cloud architecture, Kubernetes platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and reliability engineering. Known for driving DevOps transformation initiatives that improve deployment velocity, reduce operational risk, and significantly increase system reliability.Key strengths include designing scalable microservices infrastructure, building automated delivery pipelines, implementing infrastructure as code, and leading cloud modernization initiatives.Technical expertise spans AWS cloud platforms, Kubernetes orchestration, containerized workloads, CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring platforms, and distributed system reliability.Passionate about automation, platform engineering, and building highly reliable systems that enable development teams to move faster while maintaining production stability.

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer

   Warner Bros. Discovery

   Feb 2023 — Present

   Leading cloud infrastructure and DevOps platform engineering initiatives supporting large scale digital media platforms and streaming services with high availability and global user traffic.Responsible for designing scalable cloud native infrastructure, implementing automated deployment platforms, and improving reliability of production systems across multiple environments.Key ContributionsArchitected Kubernetes based infrastructure platform using AWS EKS to support microservices driven applications handling large scale streaming workloads.Designed and implemented enterprise grade CI/CD pipelines enabling automated build, test, and deployment workflows for multiple engineering teams.Developed Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform to manage complex multi environment cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production systems.Improved deployment speed and reliability by implementing container based delivery pipelines using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes orchestration.Implemented comprehensive observability platform integrating Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging solutions to provide real time system visibility.Led infrastructure optimization initiatives improving system reliability and reducing service interruptions across production environments.Partnered with software engineering teams to improve application deployment architecture and enforce DevOps best practices across development lifecycles.

Education

• Monash University

  Postgraduate Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

• Southern New Hampshire University

  Master of Science - MS, Information Technology

• University of Ilorin, Nigeria

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance, General