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AFOLABI BABALOLA

Greenhithe,Kent

Summary

Cloud Engineer with extensive experience securing high-stakes production environments within the AWS Dedicated Cloud (ADC). Specialized in AWS IAM, identity stacks and internal AWS security systems. Multi-cloud certified professional focused on building resilient, automated cloud architecture for sensitive regions

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Security Systems Engineer / ADC Engineer

Amazon Web Services
2022.07 - 2026.04
  • Managed and secured 40+ internal and customer-facing AWS services within a physically isolated AWS Dedicated Cloud (ADC) region designed for customers with stringent security requirements.
  • Acted as a subject matter expert for AWS IAM, overseeing 20 individual services/environments; managing additional critical identity components including LDAP stacks, internal MFA systems, and account creation services
  • Maintained 24/7 service availability for foundational region operations through a primary/secondary on-call rotation, lead incident response, and monitored service health via logs and metrics.
  • Architected and deployed production environments using CloudFormation, establishing fully automated CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and deployment for internal tools
  • Collaborated with the in-region Logical Security team (SIEM) to identify vulnerabilities and author custom detections; utilising GuardDuty and internal security systems to monitor high-sensitivity environments.
  • Partnered with US-based commercial service teams to align global security standards with specific UK sovereign requirements.

Note: I hold Developed Vetting (DV) clearance for this role; specific project details are restricted due to security protocols.

Associate Solutions Architect

Synamedia
2021.03 - 2022.06

Multi-Tenant SaaS - Synamedia GO

  • MT SaaS - For bringing Synamedia products into a tenanted way of selling direct to customers
  • Assisted with Researching Developer Portal options, working with potential PoCs (Kong, Auth0)
  • Defined architecture of tenant automation system for use in MT SaaS (sequence diagram, REST Based, OpenAPI spec definition), domain models ,documentation etc.
  • Developed PoCs of Tenant Automation within AWS environment, also created Log streaming POC with CloudWatch and EventBridge for SLA metrics, Grafana Dashboarding etc.

HyperScale

  • Provided extensive research (matrix) on edge computing resources
  • Product Owner of Wi-Fi Setup Application - coordinating dev teams and UX/UI developers for seamless user interaction
  • Provided architecture (flow chart, requirements, wireframes) for Wi-Fi setup application to replace previous Wi-Fi setup procedure

Grad Cloud Engineer / Associate Consultant

ECS/GlobalLogic
2019.09 - 2021.03
  • Led one of many groups involved with a AWS Customer Journey project spanning three months
  • Gained Experiences with various AWS Services Including, EC2, Lambda (Python), S3, Connect, Rekognition etc.
  • Gained experience with Amazon Connect for deploying cloud based call centre solutions and deploying CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins
  • Worked on projects for various clients including Nationwide, Natwest, Green Flag etc.

Assistant

Reboot Data Recovery, Australia
2017.07
  • Provided standard PC-related services for individuals and businesses
  • Gained experience with advanced data recovery tools, procedures and equipment
  • Assisted in complete setup of new GP office computer systems, including multiple computers, printers VOIP phone system & NAS centralized backup storage

Education

BEng - Computer Systems Engineering

Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
2015.09 - 2019.07

Certification

  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty (Active through Feb 2027)
  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (Active through June 2026)
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

Security Systems Engineer / ADC Engineer

Amazon Web Services
2022.07 - 2026.04

Associate Solutions Architect

Synamedia
2021.03 - 2022.06

Grad Cloud Engineer / Associate Consultant

ECS/GlobalLogic
2019.09 - 2021.03

Assistant

Reboot Data Recovery, Australia
2017.07

BEng - Computer Systems Engineering

Queen Mary University of London
2015.09 - 2019.07
AFOLABI BABALOLA