Kehinde Adetunji

Kehinde
Adetunji

Security analyst and DevOps engineer

I build cloud platforms on AWS and test whether they hold.

Open to security, DevOps and cloud support roles. Currently based in Russia. Open to remote work, or to relocating to Nigeria or the EU for the right role.

About

I started on carrier IP networks at Huawei, keeping national mobile networks running for operators in Ghana and South Africa. An outage there meant millions of people offline, and it taught me to care about how systems fail.

Now I work on both sides of that. At AzeniQ I run Kubernetes platforms on AWS: version upgrades on a production EKS cluster, an Istio service mesh with strict mutual TLS, and OPA and Kyverno policies. At PurpleIris I test a SIEM against real attack scenarios and write threat research.

I'm finishing an M.Sc. in Security and Network Engineering at Innopolis University on a full scholarship, and I'm sitting the AWS Solutions Architect and Security Specialty exams in early 2027.

Experience

Jul 2026 to
present

Security Analyst (Contract)

PurpleIris, remote

  • Test and validate the company's SIEM against attack scenarios: Windows logon failures, sudo abuse, Kubernetes audit events and Suricata IDS alerts.
  • Validated file integrity monitoring, CVE detection, CIS configuration assessment and active response. Defects I reported, including a poisonable FIM baseline, were fixed by the developers.
  • Benchmarking the product end to end against Wazuh and documenting every gap for the product team.
  • Debug a multi-service Docker stack (ingestion, detection engine, ClickHouse, Redis) from logs and REST API responses.

SIEM, Wazuh, Suricata, Docker, ClickHouse, Python

Oct 2025 to
present

DevOps Engineer

AzeniQ, United States, remote

  • Own Kubernetes version upgrades on the production EKS cluster (1.35 to 1.36), each rolled out through a reviewed merge request.
  • Rolled out an Istio service mesh in phases to strict mutual TLS, then added OPA request authorisation through Envoy and Kyverno admission policies.
  • Deliver cluster changes GitOps-style with Argo CD and Kustomize, with Karpenter autoscaling, and built GitHub Actions pipelines for ML training and serving.
  • Traced an IAM race condition and a KMS error that blocked daily infrastructure builds, fixed both, and wrote the incident reports.

AWS EKS, Terraform, Istio, OPA, Kyverno, Argo CD, Karpenter, GitLab CI

Mar 2024 to
Oct 2025

IP Network Engineer

Huawei Technologies, Lagos, Nigeria

  • First point of contact for AirtelTigo Ghana and Vodacom South Africa: triaged faults, escalated with evidence and closed cases within SLA.
  • Deployed and migrated carrier routing and led incident calls during outages and planned cutovers.
  • Automated network health checks with Python and Ansible.

BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS L3VPN, SR/SRv6, Huawei VRP, Ansible

Oct 2025 to
Sep 2026

AI Data Annotator and Evaluator (Contract)

Mercor, remote

Evaluated LLM outputs for accuracy and instruction-following across three AI training projects.

Apr to Sep 2020

Network Engineering Intern

Huawei Technologies

First hands-on work with carrier-grade routing and Huawei NE routers.

Full history on LinkedIn

Projects

AWS

AWS DevSecOps platform

A URL shortener on ECS Fargate and RDS, with secrets in Secrets Manager, SHA-tagged images and blue/green deploys through CodeDeploy, so a bad release can be rolled back without downtime.

ECS Fargate, RDS, Secrets Manager, CodeDeploy, CI/CD

Offensive security

Argus

An AI-assisted web vulnerability scanner that tests against the OWASP Top 10 and verifies each finding before reporting it, to cut false positives.

67 passing tests, validated on OWASP Juice Shop

Python, LLM, Docker

Blue team

Wazuh SOC lab

A full SOC stack that takes an alert to a case to an automated response: Wazuh SIEM, TheHive, Shuffle SOAR and ModSecurity, plus an offline Wazuh build over Active Directory on Proxmox.

Wazuh, TheHive, Shuffle, Active Directory

M.Sc. thesis

Anomaly detection for water treatment control systems

A Raspberry Pi screens plant data and escalates suspicious events to the cloud. I own the cloud autoencoder and the LLM-assisted stage that explains each anomaly to operators. In progress.

ICS/OT, SWaT, WADI, autoencoders, LLMs

Kubernetes

PolicyPulse

Kyverno policy enforcement with logs shipped by Fluent Bit to Elasticsearch and an LLM layer that explains each violation in plain language. Built in a team of three.

Kubernetes, Kyverno, Fluent Bit, Elasticsearch

Client work

Production SaaS security audit

A private end-to-end review of a live Firebase-backed SaaS, from auth rules to data exposure, delivered as a prioritised report with fixes.

47 findings reported
More on GitHub

Writing and video

Threat research on the PurpleIris blog

Security explainers I produced

More design work is on Behance.

Skills and education

Cloud and containers

AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, KMS, VPC, S3), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

Platform security

Istio, mutual TLS, OPA, Kyverno, Argo CD, Karpenter

Detection and response

Wazuh, SIEM validation, Suricata, TheHive, Shuffle SOAR

Networks and code

BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Python, Bash, Ansible

  • M.Sc. Security and Network Engineering, Innopolis University, GPA 4.75/5.02025 to Aug 2027
  • B.Eng. Computer Engineering, Bells University of Technology2018 to 2023
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AssociateExam February 2027
  • AWS Certified Security, SpecialtyExam April 2027
  • Huawei Certified, Datacom and Cloud ComputingNov 2021 to Nov 2024

Need someone who can build it and secure it?

I'm open to security analyst, DevOps and cloud support roles, remote or with relocation to Nigeria or the EU. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

Kehinde Adetunji, currently in Russia. Last updated November 2026.