cloud & devops engineer

Uzoamaka Ruth Alor

AWS · Terraform · CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes

Cloud and DevOps engineer with an MSc in Cybersecurity, focused on building reproducible AWS infrastructure with Terraform and automating delivery through CI/CD pipelines. Hands-on experience with containerised workloads, Kubernetes orchestration, and a security-first approach drawn from a background in threat modelling and vulnerability assessment.

DevOps Engineer

Darey.io — Internship

  • Designed and implemented 5 CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, cutting deployment time by over 20%.
  • Provisioned reproducible AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Deployed applications to Kubernetes clusters using Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps methodologies.

End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline on AWS EC2

Personal Project

  • Built an end-to-end pipeline automating deployment of a containerised web app on EC2 with Jenkins, Docker, and Nginx.
  • Created a declarative Jenkins pipeline that pulls from GitHub, builds an image, deploys the container, and pushes to Docker Hub.
  • Configured GitHub Webhooks to trigger builds on every push — fully automated deployment from commit to production.

AWS EC2, Jenkins, Docker, Docker Hub, Nginx, Shell, Ubuntu, Git

E-Commerce Platform Deployment with Git, Linux & AWS

Personal Project

  • Deployed a functional e-commerce site on AWS, managing the full pipeline from version control to live production.
  • Provisioned an EC2 instance on Amazon Linux 2023, configured Apache HTTP Server, and set up security groups for SSH and HTTP.
  • Managed the project with Git and deployed to Apache's document root, publicly accessible via the instance's public IP.

AWS EC2, Amazon Linux 2023, Apache, Git, Linux

AI-Based Phishing Detection

Northumbria University

  • Qualitative secondary research evaluating AI/ML models for phishing email detection — 25% accuracy improvement, 30% fewer false positives.
  • Applied thematic analysis across academic literature to identify phishing attack vectors and AI-driven defence mechanisms.
  • Delivered findings in a formal dissertation and viva presentation.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudFormation), Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines

Infrastructure

Linux Administration, Bash Scripting, Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN), Monitoring & Logging

Security

Vulnerability Assessment, Threat Modelling, SIEM, Incident Response, OWASP Top 10

Languages

Python, Bash, YAML, HCL (Terraform)

MSc Cybersecurity

Northumbria University

  • Dissertation: AI-Based Phishing Detection in the Banking Sector.
  • Coursework: Network Security, Digital Forensics, Ethical Hacking, Threat Intelligence.

BSc Computer Science

Imo State University

  • Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Software Engineering.