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Olu Lawrence

Jacksonville, Florida (able to relocate)

T: +1 469 954 4898, oludolapo.lawrence@gmail.com

https://www.olawrence.tech/

PROFILE

An innovative information technology professional with more than 25 years' experience, supporting applications in the financial and telecommunications industry. Known for excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

CORE SKILLS

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure Administration, Google Cloud
  • DevOps: Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform, JWT, Git, GitHub
  • Programming Languages: Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript, C++, Perl, SQL, Solidity
  • Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
  • Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Networking: TCP/IP, UDP, SOAP, REST, SFTP, CURL
  • Monitoring Tools: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, Zenoss
  • Scripting: Linux Bash, PowerShell, Unix Shell
  • Batch processing and scheduling: Autosys, Crontab, Control-M
  • Additional Tools: Blockchain, Remix, MetaMask, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Kafka, Elasticsearch, SharePoint, Fix Protocol, Agile, Kanban

KEY INNOVATIONS

  • Access Control Automation: Built an access audit app using python 3.14, improving security and compliance.
  • Web3 Deployment: Deployed property management smart contract on Sepolia network.
  • Incident Correlation Tool: Developed a Bash script to correlate application outages with maintenance events, accelerating incident resolution.
  • Rigorous Configuration Validation: Developed a bash script to compare current and planned electronic trading configurations, ensuring smooth and secure deployments.
  • Knowledge Management Tool: Created a desktop application using Microsoft PowerApps to enable support engineers to document and share solutions of incident tickets.
  • Automated Data Extraction and Delivery: Developed a Perl script to extract data from vendor servers, format it, and deliver it to the audit team.
  • Website Health Monitoring and Auto-Healing: Implemented a script to continuously monitor the status of a website and automatically initiate recovery actions.
  • Automated Alarm Monitoring: Developed a bash script to extract alarm logs from vendor equipment and display them on a network management system.
  • Enhanced Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance: Implemented scripts to identify missing sequences in call data records and automatically trigger a text message to the appropriate team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Site Reliability and Production Support Engineer (consultant)

Fidelity Investments | Jacksonville, FL | 01/2024 – 04/2025

Fidelity Investments is one of North America's leading financial investment institutions

  • Supported more that 30 applications running on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) microservices, used for trading equities and digital assets.
  • Provisioned AWS cloud infrastructure such as EC2, S3, EKS, Route53, load balancers and virtual private networks, utilizing terraform and AWS console.
  • Utilized Datadog for configuring monitoring and observability of applications running on Kubernetes clusters and on-premises nodes, including the definition of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and the creation of custom dashboards for real-time insights and alerting.
  • Monitored, supported, and managed batch processes and job schedules using Control-M.
  • Proactively addressed alerts and resolved incidents, performing thorough root cause analysis.
  • Automated operational tasks and developed software solutions using Python and Bash to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
  • Conducted failover resiliency and business continuity tests to validate system robustness.
  • Leveraged Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and management.
  • Participated in on-call rotation.
  • Built an access audit application using python 3.14.

Senior Site Reliability and Production Support Engineer (consultant)

Fidelity Investments | Jacksonville, FL | 04/2021 – 06/2023

  • Designed and implemented monitoring solutions for investment banking applications.
  • Created SLOs/SLIs, alerts and dashboards using Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Implemented synthetic monitoring using Catchpoint and Datadog to ensure application reliability.
  • Utilized Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
  • Configured and monitored Kubernetes clusters supporting distributed applications.
  • Automated routine processes to reduce operational toil and improve team efficiency.
  • Collaborated across teams to identify and resolve systemic issues.
  • Developed knowledge management application in Microsoft PowerApps.
  • Created incident correlation tool using bash.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Masters in Business Administration, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos Business School, 2005
  • B. Eng. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Federal University of Technology Akure, 1995

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certificate in Blockchain: Disruptive Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CLF-C01, 2023
  • Canadian Securities Course (equivalent of US Series 7), 2017
  • Foundation in ITRS Geneos, 2017
  • IT Infrastructure Library (ITILv3), 2016

TRAINING

  • Infrastructure Automation with Terraform - Online, 2023
  • Running Containers on Amazon Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) - Online, 2022
  • Migrating to AWS - Online, 2022
  • Datadog 101: Site Reliability Engineer - Online, 2022
  • Grafana - Online, 2022
  • Prometheus Monitoring and Alerting - Online, 2022
  • Planning and Designing Databases on AWS - Online, 2021
  • Architecting on AWS - Online, 2021
  • Deep learning on AWS - Online, 2021
  • Developing on AWS - Online, 2021
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) - Online, 2021
  • Microsoft Azure Data Engineer (DP-203) - 2021
  • Microsoft Power Apps Essential Training - Online, 2021
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Online, 2018
  • C++ programming for C Programmers - HOTT, Austin, Texas, 2014
  • OSS RC System Administration - Ericsson, Dublin, 2005

LANGUAGES

Bilingual - English and French

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

  • The Salvation Army, volunteered by helping to serve food
  • Doctors without border, supporter