Olumide Akinbinu
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevSecOps Developer
Washington, DC, United States
Toptal member since July 31, 2024
Olumide is a DevSecOps professional proficient in utilizing IaC with Terraform to automate, deploy, and oversee cloud resources on AWS and Azure. He establishes consistent infrastructure configurations and scalability, accelerating deployment speed by 70%. He implements SCA, SAST, and DAST remediation to fortify CI/CD pipeline security and manages AWS Security Hub. Olumide is well-versed in configuring key AWS services and collaborates effectively with teams to enhance security.
Portfolio
Experience
- Identity & Access Management (IAM) - 7 years
- Security - 6 years
- Terraform - 6 years
- Cloud - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Snyk - 4 years
- Wiz Cloud Security Platform - 4 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is automate the deployment and management of AWS and Azure resources with Terraform and CloudFormation, boosting deployment speed by 70%.
Work Experience
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Northrop Grumman
- Deployed CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps for automated build processes, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Designed, implemented, and oversaw AWS infrastructure and cloud-based solutions using Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, EKS, IAM, and DynamoDB. Prioritized high availability, fault tolerance, auto-scaling, cloud security, and DevOps practices.
- Designed optimal VPC architecture by applying industry best practices on subnets, routing tables, network access control lists (ACLs), and security groups. Enforced optimal network performance and minimized public access to increase security.
DevSecOps Engineer
BAE Systems
- Automated deployment and management of AWS and Azure resources with Terraform and CloudFormation, enhancing infrastructure uniformity and boosting deployment speed by 70%.
- Implemented software composition analysis (SCA), static application security testing (SAST), and dynamic application security testing (DAST) using Snyk and ZAP, aligning with OWASP 2023 standards, and secured CI/CD pipelines.
- Implemented and managed Prisma Cloud and Wiz as the principal cloud security posture management (CSPM) platform, ensuring strict adherence to PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, NIST Special Publication 800-53, and best industry practices.
- Collaborated with application teams to orchestrate the creation of custom Cloudflare WAF rules, which prevented unauthorized access and enhanced the organization's security posture.
Cloud Support
General Electric
- Utilized a wide range of AWS technologies, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch for various tasks and applications.
- Configured AWS IAM Identity Center and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) identity providers to allow cross-platform usage, access, and single sign-on (SSO) authentication of devices and users.
- Supported infrastructure security initiatives using AWS technologies that aligned with best cybersecurity practices.
Experience
Secuirty Automation into Pipelines
Education
Master's Degree in Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Morgan State University - Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
CompTIA Security +
CompTIA
Skills
Tools
Terraform
Paradigms
DevSecOps
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon
Languages
Python
Other
Security, Snyk, Wiz Cloud Security Platform, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud
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