Junior DevOps Engineer

Sherif
Otufowora.

Bridging quality assurance and cloud infrastructure.
Building reliable pipelines, one deployment at a time.

Quality-first thinking,
DevOps-driven execution.

With a foundation in software quality assurance, I transitioned into DevOps engineering — bringing a tester's mindset to infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD. I believe the most resilient systems are built by engineers who understand both how software breaks and how it deploys.

I'm passionate about cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and building automated pipelines that ship reliable software fast.

3+ Years in QA
AWS Cloud Practitioner
CI/CD Pipeline Automation
IaC Terraform & Ansible

A full-stack DevOps toolkit.

CI/CD & Automation

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • ArgoCD

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS)
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Nginx

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm

Monitoring & Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • ELK Stack

Scripting & Languages

  • Python
  • Bash / Shell
  • YAML
  • Git

QA Roots

  • Selenium / Pytest
  • Postman / REST API
  • JIRA / Agile
  • Test Automation

From testing software to
shipping infrastructure.

2021 – 2022

QA Engineer

Software Testing & Quality Assurance

Designed and executed manual and automated test plans for web applications. Built Selenium-based regression suites and integrated them into early CI pipelines — planting the seed for a DevOps career.

SeleniumPytestPostmanJIRA
2022 – 2023

QA Automation Engineer

Test Automation & Pipeline Integration

Expanded into automation frameworks and CI/CD integration. Started managing Jenkins pipelines to trigger test suites on every commit — discovering a passion for the deployment side of the stack.

JenkinsPythonCI/CDAPI Testing
2023 – 2024

DevOps Upskilling

Cloud & Infrastructure Training

Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. Studied Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible. Deployed personal projects on EC2 with Nginx reverse proxy — this very portfolio included.

AWSDockerTerraformKubernetes
2024 – Present

Junior DevOps Engineer

Building & Deploying in the Cloud

Actively building and deploying containerised applications on AWS. Automating infrastructure with Terraform, monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and continuously shipping via GitHub Actions pipelines.

GitHub ActionsNginxEC2Prometheus

Things I've built.

DevOps

Flask Portfolio on EC2 + Nginx

This portfolio site — a Python Flask app served by Gunicorn, reverse-proxied through Nginx on an AWS EC2 instance. Fully provisioned and deployed manually and via scripts.

FlaskNginxEC2PythonGunicorn
CI/CD

Automated Deployment Pipeline

GitHub Actions workflow that runs tests, builds a Docker image, pushes to ECR, and deploys to an EC2 instance on every push to main — zero-downtime rolling deploy.

GitHub ActionsDockerECREC2
IaC

Terraform AWS Infrastructure

Modular Terraform configuration that provisions a VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, and an RDS database — full environment spun up with a single terraform apply.

TerraformAWS VPCRDSIAM
Monitoring

Observability Stack

Docker Compose stack with Prometheus scraping application metrics, Grafana dashboards for visualisation, and alerting rules that fire Slack notifications on threshold breaches.

PrometheusGrafanaDocker ComposeAlerting
QA Automation

Selenium Test Framework

Page Object Model test framework in Python using Selenium and Pytest. Integrated into a Jenkins pipeline to run regression tests on every pull request with HTML reporting.

SeleniumPytestJenkinsPython
Container

Kubernetes Microservices Deploy

Multi-service application deployed on a local Kubernetes cluster using Helm charts. Includes horizontal pod autoscaling, ConfigMaps, Secrets management, and Ingress configuration.

KubernetesHelmHPAIngress

Credentials that matter.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Docker Fundamentals

Container Certification

Linux Command Line Proficiency

Shell Scripting & Administration

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Workflow Automation

Let's build something
together.

Open to Junior DevOps, Cloud Engineer, and Site Reliability roles.
Always happy to connect with engineers and teams doing meaningful work.