Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan
Lead Cloud and DevOps Engineer with nearly 4 years of experience designing, operating, and scaling production infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and on-prem environments. I work across the full platform lifecycle, including Kubernetes-based workloads, GitLab CI/CD, cloud networking, observability, and secure infrastructure design. I have contributed to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA readiness initiatives by aligning infrastructure, deployment workflows, and operational practices with security and compliance requirements. My background includes hands-on Linux system administration and virtualization, which informs my approach to building resilient and well-understood cloud platforms. Currently, I focus on architecture, reliability, automation, and mentoring teams, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, and easy to operate while enabling engineers to move fast with confidence.
• Lead cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and platform reliability across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments supporting 4 environments and 25+ applications/services. • Design, deploy, and maintain 3 Kubernetes clusters across AWS EKS and GKE for production, development, demo, and cloud migration workloads, while supporting multi-region architecture planning. • Design ingress, DNS, TLS, and edge security architecture across AWS and GCP, including NGINX Ingress, Cloudflare, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Gateway API, Google Certificate Manager, and planned migration to AWS WAF, Route 53, and CloudFront. • Build and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines across 15+ repositories for secure deployments across cloud and on-premises environments, accelerating release cycles by 45%. • Implement observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager, improving incident visibility and reducing troubleshooting time by 30%. • Own and support Vanta compliance operations for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA readiness, covering evidence collection, infrastructure controls, vulnerability remediation, and operational security improvements.
• Coordinate DevOps and IT team activities for a 5+ member team, including task planning, technical guidance, troubleshooting, infrastructure operations, and client project oversight. • Mentor 7+ engineers and interns on DevOps practices, containerization, cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, and production support. • Manage internal infrastructure across 3 HP ProLiant servers, 1 additional Proxmox host, and 50+ VMs/containers in an internally managed server room environment. • Implement and maintain internal infrastructure services including self-hosted GitLab, Nextcloud, FreeIPA, NetBox, internal DNS/domain-based access, and secure service exposure. • Migrated repositories, tickets, CI/CD pipelines, and runners from Bitbucket/Atlassian services to self-hosted GitLab, centralizing DevOps workflows and reducing recurring tooling overhead. • Oversee 10+ client and internal projects managed by the DevOps/IT team, providing technical direction and hands-on support when required. • Awarded “Employee of the Year” in 2024 and “Star Performer of the Year” in 2022 for outstanding contributions and leadership.
• Supported Linux administration, deployment automation, CI/CD workflows, monitoring, and infrastructure troubleshooting across internal and client environments. • Assisted with cloud, DevOps, and system administration tasks while contributing to production support, application deployments, and infrastructure operations.
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