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Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

I make production infrastructure feel boring.

I design and operate secure Kubernetes and AWS platforms that absorb load, recover cleanly, and give engineers a paved road from commit to production.

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Accra, GhanaRemote-first · Full EMEA overlap6+ years in production
production topologyeks-platform / eu-west-1
healthy
99.9%platform uptime
-60%deployment errors
-70%infrastructure spend
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RECRUITER BRIEF / 30-SECOND SCAN

Senior ownership across the platform lifecycle.

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Target rolesSenior Platform · Infrastructure · SRE
Production depth6+ years · regulated and customer-facing systems
Core stackAWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Python · Go
Working modelAccra · GMT · full EMEA overlap · remote-first
01 / APPROACH

Platform work should reduce cognitive load.

I have spent 6+ years running cloud infrastructure where a bad deploy becomes a customer-visible incident. My job is to make the safe path the easy path—then make that path observable, repeatable, and fast.

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01

Reliability is designed in

SLO-shaped alerting, rehearsed rollback paths, tested recovery, and capacity that handles the spike before it pages someone.

02

Infrastructure is a product

Reusable modules, internal tooling, clear defaults, and self-service workflows reduce queues and cognitive load for engineers.

03

Security belongs in the path

Policy, secrets, container, and IaC checks live inside delivery—not in a document teams discover after release.

02 / CAPABILITIES

From cloud foundation to developer workflow.

Broad enough to trace a production issue end-to-end. Deep where platform teams need it most.

01

Kubernetes & orchestration

Production EKS and AKS, cluster lifecycle, Helm releases, autoscaling, multi-tenant workloads, and safe upgrades.

EKSAKSHelmKarpenterDocker
02

Cloud & infrastructure as code

Module-first cloud foundations with secure networking, identity, encryption, and repeatable environment provisioning.

AWSTerraformCloudFormationAnsibleAzure
03

Delivery & GitOps

CI/CD systems with tested rollback, staged rollouts, environment promotion, and self-hosted execution where needed.

GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CIArgo CD
04

Observability & reliability

Signal-led alerting, metrics, traces, incident response, postmortems, capacity planning, and practical SLOs.

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaELKOpenTelemetry
05

Platform tooling

Internal CLIs, provisioning automation, microservices, and APIs that turn operational knowledge into usable workflows.

PythonGoTypeScriptFastAPIBash
06

Infrastructure security

Security checks and policy-as-code embedded across source, images, dependencies, Terraform, and clusters.

OPAKyvernoTrivySnykVault
03 / PRODUCTION EVIDENCE

Decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.

Selected, NDA-safe case studies showing how I frame platform problems—not just which tools I use to solve them.

01 / CASE STUDY production outcome
REGULATED FINTECH · AWS / EKS

Turning a fragile delivery path into a production platform.

A customer-facing B2B fintech platform needed to move core workloads from on-premises infrastructure to Kubernetes without trading delivery speed for reliability or compliance.

THE MANDATE
  • Create a repeatable path from commit to production
  • Keep controls compatible with SOC 2 and PCI DSS expectations
  • Make rollback, recovery, and operational signals part of the platform
01Standardise

Reusable infrastructure and hardened delivery workflows replaced environment-by-environment setup.

02Protect

Security controls moved into the delivery path so the compliant route became the default route.

03Operate

Autoscaling, resource tuning, observability, and recovery procedures were treated as launch requirements.

01COMMIT→
02POLICY + CI→
03IMAGE→
04EKS→
05SIGNALS
99.9%platform uptime
−60%deployment errors
−65%deployment time
−80%environment setup
Architecture and operational details are intentionally generalised to protect employer and customer information.
02 / CASE STUDY production outcome
FINOPS · RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

Reducing cloud cost without borrowing from reliability.

Infrastructure cost and recovery performance were treated as engineering constraints: measure the estate, remove waste, automate the correction, then verify that reliability remained intact.

THE MANDATE
  • Find structural cost reduction rather than one-off cleanup
  • Improve the speed and consistency of incident response
  • Shorten disaster-recovery objectives through repeatable automation
01Observe

Usage, requests, capacity, and operational signals established a defensible baseline.

02Right-size

Workloads and scaling behaviour were tuned around measured demand instead of static assumptions.

03Rehearse

Runbooks and recovery paths turned restoration into a practiced system behaviour.

01MEASURE→
02RIGHT-SIZE→
03AUTOMATE→
04REHEARSE→
05VERIFY
−70%infrastructure spend
−80%incident response time
−50%recovery time objective
99.9%availability maintained
Outcomes summarise production work described in the professional experience section.
HOW I OPERATE

Technical leadership is a system, too.

  • Architecture through operations—not a hand-off after provisioning
  • Cross-functional delivery across engineering, security, product, and compliance
  • Incident learning converted into reusable tooling, defaults, and runbooks
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04 / EXPERIENCE

Production ownership, not just provisioning.

My work spans the complete platform lifecycle: architecture, delivery, operations, incident learning, economics, and the engineer experience around it.

APR 2023 — PRESENT active role

Standard Chartered Solv

Senior DevSecOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Day-to-day ownership of a regulated B2B fintech platform across AWS and EKS.

  • Held 99.9% uptime while tuning autoscaling and resource requests for production load spikes.
  • Cut deployment errors 60%, deployment time 65%, and environment setup time 80% through hardened CI/CD and reusable infrastructure.
  • Reduced infrastructure spend 70%, incident response time 80%, and disaster-recovery RTO 50%.
  • Led core applications from on-premises to EKS and embedded security controls under SOC 2 and PCI DSS.
JAN 2022 — 2025 · PART-TIME

Techieszon

Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Solutions Architect

Client-facing architecture and delivery across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  • Operated multi-cloud platforms at 99.9% uptime and removed 70% of manual deployment steps.
  • Designed Python, Go, and .NET microservices that improved response times by 60%.
  • Translated stakeholder needs into secure, supportable architecture while cutting delivery time 60%.
SEP 2020 — APR 2023

Turntabl

DevOps Software Engineer III

Infrastructure automation, delivery systems, observability, and backend engineering.

  • Designed GitLab CI/CD that reduced deployment times 40% and cut failed releases.
  • Automated Terraform and Helm provisioning, saving 20+ engineering hours each week.
  • Built Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog monitoring that reduced downtime 35%.
05 / CREDENTIALS & MILESTONES

Certified depth. Measurable outcomes.

Formal cloud-native credentials backed by practical production ownership, continuous learning, and work that changed reliability and cost curves.

Certifications08 certifications + Kubestronaut
AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional

Professional-level cloud architecture credential

CNCF

CNCF Kubestronaut

Recognised for holding the complete Kubernetes certification set

K8S

CKA · CKAD · CKS

Kubernetes administration, application development, and security

K8S

KCNA · KCSA

Kubernetes, cloud-native, and security associate credentials

ISC2

Certified in Cybersecurity

Security principles, risk, access control, and operations

Education

BTech, Information & Communication Technology

Software Engineering & DevOps

Ho Technical University, Ghana

HND, Information & Communication Technology

Software Engineering

Ho Technical University, Ghana
99.9%production platform uptime
70%infrastructure spend reduced
80%faster incident response
20+engineering hours saved weekly
Building & publishing

Infra365 founder — productised DevOps and cloud engineering for early-stage teams.

Technical writing & video — scripts and explainers on DevOps and platform engineering.

Cloud-native community — active contributor to Kubernetes and cloud-native meetups in Accra.

06 / SELECTED WORK

Infrastructure you can inspect.

A focused selection from my public GitHub: reusable foundations, delivery automation, and an application architecture that keeps platform work grounded.

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01
KUBERNETES · DELIVERY

Kubernetes ingress delivery system

A repeatable path for installing and operating NGINX Ingress Controller through Terraform, Helm values, and Jenkins automation.

WHY IT MATTERSTurns cluster ingress setup into a versioned, reviewable release workflow.
TerraformHelmJenkinsNGINXKubernetes
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AWS · SECURE BASELINE

Terraform AWS EC2 module

A reusable EC2 foundation with configurable security groups, gp3 storage, user data, and enforced IMDSv2 metadata options.

WHY IT MATTERSPackages secure compute defaults behind a concise, reusable module interface.
TerraformEC2IMDSv2EBSIAM
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03
AWS · APPLICATION PLATFORM

Spring Boot delivery on ECS

Terraform automation that containerises a Spring Boot service, creates its ECR and ECS resources, and handles environment artefact delivery through S3.

WHY IT MATTERSConnects application packaging and cloud provisioning in one reproducible workflow.
TerraformECSECRS3Docker
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04
DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE · SERVICES

gRPC + REST service platform

A two-service FastAPI system with REST at the edge, gRPC service-to-service calls, isolated PostgreSQL persistence, and Docker Compose orchestration.

WHY IT MATTERSDemonstrates the application-side constraints a useful platform must support.
PythonFastAPIgRPCPostgreSQLDocker
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COMPLETE CATALOG

Project archive

Every project from the previous portfolio—searchable, filtered, and intentionally secondary to the strongest evidence above.

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01
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS API Gateway Module

TerraformAPI GatewayLambdaCloudWatch
Open repository
02
Backend & Data

gRPC + REST FastAPI CRUD Microservices

PythonFastAPIgRPCPostgreSQL
Open repository
03
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS Aurora Module

TerraformAuroraRDSVPC
Open repository
04
Backend & Data

End-to-End House Pricing Model

PythonFastAPIMachine LearningAWS ECS
Open repository
05
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS CloudFront Module

TerraformCloudFrontS3ACM
Open repository
06
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS Cognito Pool Module

TerraformCognitoIAMMFA
Open repository
07
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS Complete Static Hosting Module

TerraformS3CloudFrontRoute53
Open repository
08
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS DocumentDB Module

TerraformDocumentDBKMSCloudWatch
Open repository
09
Cloud & Terraform

Terraform AWS DynamoDB Module

TerraformDynamoDBKMSIAM
Open repository
07 / CONTACT

Let's build a platform engineers trust.

I'm open to senior infrastructure, platform engineering, and cloud architecture conversations—especially teams treating internal platforms as real products.

vincentgtetteh@gmail.com
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