Eugene Emuze

About Eugene Emuze

As an experienced Azure Cloud Administrator and DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of progressive experience designing, deploying, and managing secure, highly available, and cost-optimized Microsoft Azure environments. Expert in Azure Active Directory, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Infrastructure as Code (ARM templates, Terraform), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Networking, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, and PowerShell automation to drive reliability, regulatory compliance (GDPR/SOC/ISO), and measurable cost savings. Proven track record of delivering enterprise migrations, implementing role-based access controls (RBAC), hardening cloud security posture, and building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps to accelerate releases while minimizing downtime. Strong communicator who documents runbooks, performs capacity/cost forecasting, and partners cross-functionally to align cloud operations with business goals. Reduced monthly Azure spend by 30% through rightsizing, reserved instances, and policy-driven tagging while improving SLA uptime to 99.9% via automated deployments and proactive monitoring.

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   Neighborly®

   Apr 2022 — Present

   Led the design and implementation of enterprise-grade infrastructure CI/CD pipelines for a complex microservices architecture, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment lead time. Designed, improved and maintained CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerized applications to production on AKS, achieving a 60% improvement in deployment frequency. Defined and implemented IaC strategies using Terraform, ARM templates and Bicep for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration for AKS clusters. Utilized Helm charts for efficient package management and deployment of containerized applications on AKS. Proactively monitored cluster health, identified performance bottlenecks, and implemented optimizations for efficient resource utilization. Streamlined deployment processes by developing reusable Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, reducing provisioning time by 40%. Successfully reduced Azure infrastructure costs by 20% through strategic resource allocation and optimization techniques. Proficient with build automation, orchestration and dependency management tools such as Ant and Maven. Enhanced team efficiency by 30% through automation of routine administrative tasks using PowerShell and Azure CLI scripts.

Education

• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2012 — 2016