AANU AKINYERA

Brampton, ON · 647.425.8272 · aanuoluwapoakinyera@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/aanuoluwapoakinyera/

Cloud, Security & DevOps Specialist with over 10 years of technical and leadership experience in IT infrastructure. Certified in Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Scrum, and IT Service Delivery. Specializing in orchestrating seamless integration between development and operations in Agile teams.

Experience

Technical Consultant – Cloud Security, Identity Access and Automation

CIBC, Toronto ON

July 2024 – Present

  • Rebuilt and optimized HashiCorp Vault infrastructure (primary, performance, DR clusters) improving performance and resilience.
  • Automated software updates with Ansible across multiple servers, reducing manual intervention and ensuring compliance.
  • Acted as HashiCorp Vault champion for secrets management, SSH key management, and privileged access management on Azure servers.
  • Collaborated with Security Engineering to enforce least-privilege policies and provision access through SailPoint integrations.

DevOps Manager

National Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON

April 2023 – May 2024

  • Designed and executed cloud infrastructure plans, optimized CI/CD pipelines, and led a DevOps team focused on automation and monitoring.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible; migrated secrets to HashiCorp Vault and cloud KMS solutions.
  • Reduced production deployment time and improved turnaround for cloud implementation requests through process improvements.

Lead DevOps Engineer

AAT Technologies, Toronto, ON

February 2019 – April 2023

  • Built end-to-end CI/CD automation and deployed containerized applications to AWS EKS using Terraform, Ansible and ECR.
  • Migrated application secrets from Kubernetes secrets to HashiCorp Vault and implemented robust monitoring to achieve 99.9% uptime.
  • Provided technical leadership, mentorship, and infrastructure improvements across teams.

Agile Project Manager

International Organisation for Migration

October 2017 – April 2020

  • Planned and coordinated large-scale projects, facilitated Scrum framework, and supervised containerization efforts.
  • Led a 400-member initiative with a $2M budget to deploy technology for tracking human mobility nationwide.

Senior Software Developer

(Various Organizations)

November 2014 – October 2017

  • Developed and deployed applications, mentored junior staff, and managed database and deployment tasks.
  • Led full lifecycle development efforts and data management for large-scale systems.

Previous Roles

Software Engineer, Systems Engineer

Software Engineer (NASENI) April 2012 – November 2014; Systems Engineer (MTN) January 2012 – April 2012

Education & Certifications

Master of Science, Information Systems Management

University of Liverpool

Bachelor of Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering

University of Ado-Ekiti

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Essentials

University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management

Data Privacy and Technology Certificate

Harvard Business School

Skills

Technology & Tools
  • Docker, Jenkins, AWS, GCP
  • Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, EKS
  • HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, Cloud KMS
  • Git/GitHub, GitLab, Github Actions, Bitbucket
  • CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)
  • Bash scripting, Python, Node.js, Java, Golang
  • Nginx, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Workflow & Practices
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring, Observability and Incident Management
  • Agile Project Management & Scrum

Interests & Volunteering

I lead volunteer teams for cloud infrastructure and web application projects and coach volunteers on best practices for DevOps and automation. Outside of work I enjoy staying current with cloud and security technologies, mentoring others, and contributing to community projects that improve service delivery through automation.

Service Delivery and Cloud Infrastructure Specialist | Winners Chapel International, Toronto (August 2021 - Present) — Led a volunteer team to develop and deploy web applications and coached the DevOps team on the latest tools and practices.

Certifications & Highlights

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) | PMI
  • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) | Scrum.org
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (AWS SAA)
  • ISC2 – Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Terraform Certified Associate; HashiCorp Vault Certified Associate
  • Kubernetes Specialty, Ansible Specialty, ITIL v4, AWS AI Practitioner