Samuel Orekoya

Service Support Engineer - DevOps III

📍 Ireland 🔧 Problem-solver 🚀 Future SRE

Professional Summary

Experienced engineer passionate about reliability and innovation

Service Support Engineer with 6+ years in the industry, specializing in incident management, application support, and DevOps practices. Passionate about problem-solving, communication, and continuous technical growth, with a clear trajectory toward Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Work Experience

Building reliable systems and solving complex problems

Service Support Engineer - DevOps III

Verizon Connect

Nov 2020 - Present

Providing customers with the best experience possible by resolving and investigating issues via Salesforce, managing incidents, and monitoring services across AWS and AppDynamics. Consistently ranked among the top case solvers in the team.

Technologies & Tools:
SQL AWS Jira Grafana Kibana RabbitMQ Salesforce AppDynamics New Relic CloudWatch Lambda EC2 Tableau

Application Support Engineer

Verizon Connect

Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

Supported internal and external systems using Azure, RabbitMQ, Grafana, and other monitoring tools. Assisted in system monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident escalation processes.

Technologies & Tools:
Azure RabbitMQ Grafana System Monitoring

Technical Skills

Comprehensive technical expertise across multiple domains

💻 Programming

Python, Java, SQL

🖥️ Operating Systems

Windows, Linux

🌐 Networking

TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, VPN

☁️ Cloud Platforms

AWS, Microsoft Azure

🗄️ Databases

SQL Server, MySQL

🔧 DevOps Tools

ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Grafana, RabbitMQ, AppDynamics

📊 Monitoring

New Relic, CloudWatch, Pingdom

🛡️ Security

Incident Management, Cybersecurity

Key Projects & Achievements

Delivering impactful solutions and driving operational excellence

🚀 AWS Migration Project

2021

Collaborated with development teams to migrate on-premises services to AWS infrastructure. Performed comprehensive testing across multiple environments to ensure seamless transition. This initiative resulted in multi-million-dollar cost savings and improved system scalability.

🔄 Internal Service Migrations

2020-2022

Led the migration of critical internal tools including IoT services, SMS platforms, Fleetcare systems, and FTP services. Conducted thorough pre- and post-migration testing to ensure operational stability and service reliability.

Education

Strong foundation in software engineering principles

B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Software Engineering

Institute of Technology, Carlow (SETU) | 2016-2020 | 2.2 Honours

Final Year Project: Developed a comprehensive fitness application for workout tracking and progress monitoring.

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