Syed Muhammad Hassan Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

DevOps Specialist at Almosafer (Part Of Seera Group).AWS | Kubernetes | Salt | Terraform | Ansible | Cloudformation | Containers | Jenkins | Azure DevOps| Linux | Bash | ELK | Prometheus

Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Deploy and manage more than 40 Kubernetes cluster including Mirantis Docker EE and EKS.• Onboard teams to our platform.• Patching and maintenance.• Created Azure DevOps Pipelines.• Created jenkins pipeline to deploy and manage EKS clusters via Terraform.• Imported legacy infrastructure resources into Terraform state file.• Developed tool which gets IAM user credentials from secret manager and set profile for deploying resources on EKS clusters.• Help clients to onboard them to container platform.• Troubleshoot issues related to clusters.• Worked on different stories to improve and innovate container platform.• Developed python application on AWS Lambda which gets the rotated keys whenever keys are rotated by secret manager and updates relevant parameters in Azure Devops Parameters.• I consistently fulfilled on-call duties during my designated shifts.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

• End to end deployment of Microsoft ATP solution on AWS infrastructure.• Deployed Highly Available Elasticsearch Cluster with Data nodes, Client nodes and Kibana on Kubernetes• Hands on experience of AWS System Manager for automation.• Deployed Azure Automation to onboard Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Custom Script Extension andVulnerability assessment agent on AWS instances.• Write and deploy automation script which collects inventory from AWS instances and generate a CSV file to check and monitor instances ids, tag and hostnames, IPs, azure arc, log analytics and vulnerability agent status.• Deployed multiple docker containers for vanish cache, varnish-agent and configure Nginx as front-endreverse proxy.• Automation via bash and ansible to configure static routes and proxy settings for secured AWS VPC toonboard EC2 instances to Microsoft ATP solution.• Configure AWS config and cloud watch alert rules for auto onboarding of instances to ATP as soon as new instance is provisioned.• Create azure storage containers for automation which store csv files of containing multiple agent’s status using azure resource graph queries.• Implement DA on AWS with multiple dedicated accounts using AWS Control Tower.• Deployed terraform modules for IaaC.• Deployed CloudFormation stack to provision service catalogue products and portfolios.• Configuration Management using AWS System Manager and ansible.• Experience of building and managing Web Applications (Application and Web Servers)• Ability to create custom scripts for different automation needs for container platforms• Ensure CI/CD and DevOps best practices and compliance for application release and deployment.• Production experience in large environments using automation and configuration management tools likeTerraform, Ansible and CFT.• Experience with logging infrastructure and using tools such as Logstash, or Kibana.• Experience with networking load balancers such as Ngnix and HAProxy.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Design and implement squid proxy to provide internet access to some VMs.• Deployed open-source cloud management platform to manage private and public cloud.• Deployed Splunk Forwarder in THC.• Manage AWS platform.• Create Azure DevOps pipelines.• Kubernetes basic deployments.• End to end delivery of vWAP machines for software telco.• Complete plan and migration of voice over LTE from CBIS 17 to CBIS 18.• Deployed VOLTE-RBT proxy solution in THC 18.• Zabbix server deployment for monitoring vWAP.• Deployment of Virtualized Wireless Application Protocol in CBIS 18 for accessing information over amobile wireless network.• Use Jenkins CI/CD approach to deliver projects.• Create custom Docker images to deploy multiple VNFs.• Complete design and end to end deployment of FTP server in Telenor one Asia Cloud.• Planning and deployment of VNFs in Telenor Hybrid Cloud.• Vendor engagement to deploy SDN networks (Nokia NUAGE)• Planning and deployment of SRIOV based virtual gateway.• Deployed redundant VPN solution to access Fusion IT Data Center.• Configuration management via Ansible.• Migrations from Fusion IT Data Center to AWS.• Deployed open source VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution.• Configuring LDAP for implementing user authentication and authorization for VDI.• Deployed KVM hypervisor for VDI solution.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Figured out a method to check SQL query latency by analyzing packets in Wireshark and plotting latency in Excel by sorting requests and response of each consecutive OCI query.• Proposed the deployment of a public cloud for Nayatel based on Openstack which helped increaseddepartment revenue and enhanced efficiency in daily workings substantially.• Setup monitoring and alerting for all Nayatel business critical services. Also wrote multiple SOPs to ensure systems side security and workflow of systems related task.• Responsible for high availability and NAYAtel critical services data backups and their restoration in caseof failure.• Directly responsible individual for NAYAtel CRM, SAP, VOD and IP Camera solutions plus missioncritical services like DNS, DHCP, Emails, Radius and Databases based on MySQL and Oracle.• Responsible for providing infrastructure on VMware vSphere and VMware ESX / ESXi.Wrote multiple scripts for proactive monitoring of our 250+ servers.• Enabled WPA-2 and 802.1x authentication for Wi-Fi and LAN in our Enterprise Network to enhance overall security.• Worked on Cisco UCS B200M4 and Brocade Switches as well as EMC Unity and VNX storage Arrays(Fiber Channel).• Completely changed DNS architecture from Bind to PDNS which approximately saves $1058 per month.• Automation of DHCP service by bash scripting which ensures 99% uptime.• Development and production of complex documentation for installation, network topology, andtroubleshooting of communications hardware or software.• Automation of VPS provisioning by Ansible playbooks.• Deployment of SIEM solution for threat analysis, threat mitigation and anomaly detections.• Designed object storage service for our home and corporate clients using FREENAS and Next cloud.• Maintain and manage cross-site data centers.• Maintaining and monitoring more than 400+ servers by NMS server (Solar winds)• Collaborating with network architects to design and implement functional company networks.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, A+

Activities and Societies: Gold Medalist, Researcher, Class Representative

Intermediate, Pre-Engineering, A+

Intermediate, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, A+

Activities and Societies: Class Monitor, Position Holder

Matriculation, Science, A+

Activities and Societies: Class Monitor, Compere