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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Achieved a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by strategically deploying workloads on Preemptible Virtual Machines.
• Engineered and maintained robust, scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP ecosystems, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Oversaw the architecture, deployment, and management of Kubernetes clusters on both AWS EKS and GCP GKE, ensuring optimal performance and resource allocation.
• Utilized Go (Golang) to automate repetitive tasks and develop custom services, enhancing operational efficiency and system reliability.
• Implemented and managed HashiCorp Vault for enterprise-level secrets management, reinforcing security and compliance protocols.
• Administered High Availability (HA) Prometheus and Thanos configurations for real-time metrics, data deduplication, and enhanced monitoring capabilities.

• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for cloud infrastructure automation
• Participate in the development of cloud infrastructure strategies in collaboration with the cross-functional stakeholders
• Build / Manage AWS Org immutable infrastructure with child accounts using Terraform
• Used Go (Golang) for AWS Org automation using AWS Lambda
• Deploy / Manage AWS services CodeBuild, EKS, EC2, SSM, Redis, TGW, S3, EFS, ALB, NLB, and ECR
• Deploy / Manage Consul, HashiCorp Vault, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, IBM MQ, and DataDog using Terraform

Carmel, Indiana, US

• Managed multiple AWS accounts for Serverless applications include EFS, RDS, S3, Redis, KMS, EC2, Kinesis, API GW, and VPC Peering
• Managed users and services access using AWS IAM
• Built a CI/CD pipeline for Serverless application (Lambda) using Jenkins Groovy DSL
• Implemented AWS SSM for dynamic properties for Artifacts
• Managed Docker containers to support Serverless application deployment
• Managed GitHub, Nexus, and JIRA/Confluence

Toronto, ON, CA

• Designed, build, and managed immutable infrastructure for SAAS based application on AWS (Multi-region)
• Build and Managed infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform for the build, changing, and versioning of infrastructure on AWS (EC2, IAM, Security Groups, NACLs, ALB, ELB, S3, Redis, Route 53, WAF, AMI's, ASG's and RDS)
• Build and managed AMI versioning using Packer and Ansible
• Build and managed EFK (ElasticSearch, Fluentd, and Kibana) for logging
• Build and managed Docker cluster (Nomad, Consul)
• Build and managed HashiCorp Vault cluster

Toronto, ON, CA

• Managed servers on RackSpace cloud
• Administration of Servers Linux servers (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu) & Server 2008, Virtualization (VMware ESX 5.x)
• Creating, managing Virtual Machines and performing Snapshots Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization)
• Administration of in-house Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, and Network drives
• Managed VPN access for employees working remotely
• Managed storage allocation

Lahore, Punjab, PK

• Administration of Servers Linux servers (CentOS, Ubuntu, Arch-based), Unix Servers (FreeBSD, Solaris), Windows Server 2008/2012, Virtualization (KVM, Xen, Vmware, HyperV, OpenVZ) SQL (MSSQL, MYSQL) that include.
• Evaluated, recommended, and executed new technologies and updated existing infrastructure to ensure optimal network performance
• Installed, configured, and maintain network services DNS server (Bind 9, MS DNS), mail (Exim, Postfix, Mail Enable), FTP server (PureFTPd, Microsoft FTP), firewall (CSF, Fail2Ban), web server (Apache, IIS, Nginx) SQL.
• Managed and optimized Database Servers MS SQL Server 2008/2012 and MYSQL 4/5
• Maintained and troubleshoot hosted email security (Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Content Control) and web security (ModSecurity, Anti-Virus, CXS, Bash Scripts)
• Installed, configured, and maintain the security of servers with OpenVAS, Rootkits ( RKHunter and CHKRootKit ), IDS ( Snort, PSAD), Linux Malware Detection, and DDoS ( Bash Script )