Summary

A dedicated IT professional with over 9 Years of professional experience in Information Technology industry serving as Help-Desk Support, Server (2008/2012) Support, System Administration, Linux Administration with different flavors including Debian, Ubuntu etc, DevOPS Engineering with different tools like Docker, Jenkins with AWS, Cloud computing with Microsoft Azure and AWS, using Automation / Deployment tools like Azure DevOPS (formerly VSTS) Jenkins etc. Monitoring whole eco-system with Application Insights, Azure Log Analytics, New Relic, PaperTrail, Cloudflare and more with APM or SIEM tools.

Projects

Automate URLs
Program Management

Experience

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Senior DevOPS Engineer
Cloud Enterprise Business Solutions
Jul 2020 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

1. Source code management with GitHub and Azure Repos.
2. Build and Release Management with CICD tools such as Azure DevOPS, Jenkins, Git, VSTS, Maven, ANT, Gradle etc 3. Creating and managing CICD pipelines / processes for different integrations and other projects.
4. Automating Infrastructure / Resources deployments on Microsoft Azure with PowerShell scripting and ARM templates. 5. IaC with ARM templates to provision infrastructure on Azure.
6. Config Management / Orchestration with Ansible to deploy Web / Application server using Playbooks. 7. Using Ansible vault to encrypt sensitive information in group/host variables.
8. Infrastructure Monitoring with Application Insights and Log Analytics Workspace.
9. Assisting to upgrade, install, and configure monitoring solutions for Microsoft Azure.
10. Monitoring Azure FaaS, PaaS and SaaS resources for different systems of app using Azure Monitor. 11. Alert Management on Slack/Email and Microsoft Teams for deployed systems on Azure.
12. Using Azure Log Analytics Queries to detect and examine DDOS/Brute force attacks and monitoring key metrics. 13. Building Dashboards and charts on Microsoft Azure to monitor whole eco-system.


14. Integration of security for Mobile and web-based applications with WAF, Azure Firewall, NSGs and VNET.
15. Containerization and Orchestration using Docker with custom images and Kubernetes with managed clusters on AKS. 16. Architecting HA/DR solutions on Azure for medium to enterprise size business with Application Gateway, VMSS etc
17. Implementing and ensuring security for whole eco-system on Azure using Azure Firewall, NSGs, Application Gateway etc. 18. Configuration, Management and Backup of Azure SQL and NoSQL DBs like Sql Server, Cosmos DB on Azure.
19. End-to-End SSL/TLS integration for Java application.
20. Virtualization experience with VMware, Virtual Box, Hypervisor etc.
21. Working with .Net, Java, Mobile Apps Engineering team to accomplish their day-to-day projects. 22. Documentation around the existing and new solutions.
23. Architecting and achieving 99.9% uptime by following best practices on Azure.

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DevOPS Engineer
Cooperative Computing
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020 | Karachi, Pakistan

1. Automated Infrastructure / Resources deployments on Microsoft Azure with PowerShell scripting using ARM templates.
2. IaC with Terraform and ARM templates along with config management with Ansible playbooks.
3. Assisting to upgrade, install, and configure monitoring solutions for Microsoft Azure and AWS.
4. Configured and maintaining APM, SIEM Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, PaperTrail, NewRelic, Application Insights, Splunk.
5. Using Azure Log Analytics Queries to detect and examine ddos/brute force attacks and monitoring key metrics.
6. Building Dashboards and charts on Microsoft Azure and AWS for OPS team to monitor whole eco-system.
7. Integration of security for Mobile and web based applications with WAF, CloudFlare, APIM, NSGs and VPC for Cloud Security.
8. Monitoring Azure FaaS, PaaS and SaaS resources for different regions including US, CA and DE etc.
9. Build and Release Management with CICD tools such as Azure DevOPS, Jenkins, Git, VSTS, Maven, ANT, Gradle etc
10. Source code management with Git, GitLab and AWS code commit.
11. Alert Management on Slack/Email for deployed systems on Azure and AWS.
12. Containerization and Orchestration using Docker with custom images and Kubernetes with Pods and clusters.
13. Architecting HA/DR solutions on AWS for medium to enterprise size business with VPC, EC2, ELB, Traffic Manager, API Gateways, Cloudfront etc
14. Deployment and Configuration of Cpanel on CentOS to provide hosting services.
15. Working with .Net, ROR, Mobile Apps Engineering team to accomplish their day to day projects.
16. Working as Lead role to meet SLAs and Client requirement for successful completion of Project.
17. Managing Infra on Heruko for Mobile/Web Application of Grocery Chain Super Store at KSA.
18. Configuration, Management and Backup of SQL and NoSQL DBs like Sql Server, MySql, PostgreSql, Cosmos DB and MongoDB.
19. Virtualization experience with VMware, Virtual Box, Hypervisor etc.

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Support Engineer - L2 Support
IBEX Global
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018 | Karachi, Pakistan

1. Working knowledge on Linux distro(s) Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu.
2. Architecting ecommerce solution on AWS with (EC2, ELB policies, S3 bucket management and separate client setup with VPC)
3. Deployment, configuration, and monitoring of call center business applications on Microsoft Azure.
4. Automation of Call Center Process.
5. Shell / Bash scripting for automated deployment of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
6. Build and Release Management with standalone TFS server.
7. Configuration of LAMP & LEMP stack for ecommerce websites like cake ordering system.
8. Configuration and maintenance for Mail Exchange on Linux like Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcubemail.
9. Web Based FTP client integration on Linux like pureFTP, Net2FTP.
10. Configuration and management of webservers like Apache, Ngnix and IIS.
11. Creating Environment for staging and dev testing using Docker custom images.
12. Configuring DHCP, DNS, TMG, ADDC along with some roles and features.
13. Monitor existing systems with Nagios, NMS and Solarwinds to ensure structural integrity.
14. Provide Level 2 support to the different production teams such as Software development team, CRM team and other Departments of an organization.
15. Responsible for supporting: Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows Server Backup products, LAN and WAN, Remote access, Anti-Virus products, DNS/DHCP, TCP/IP, Ethernet, wireless router and switches.
16. Configuration of Hard phones and Soft phone such as SJ Phones, Eye Beam, Avaya/CISCO/Polycom/MiTel hard phones.

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Support Analyst
Faizan Production
Mar 2010 - Sep 2017 | Karachi, Pakistan

L1/L2 Support
Server 2008, Creating and Managing AD and User/Groups DHCP, DNS, ADC, GPO, AD Backup
Data Entry,Content search /write (About different programs airing on Channel)

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IT Instructor (Corel Draw)
Moazafonline.com
Jan 2012 - May 2012 | Karachi, Pakistan

Self made Video Tutorials for Corel Draw (Graphic Designing Software) and posted on Social media websites and moazafonline.com website.

Education

Virtual University of Pakistan
Masters, Masters in Science, MCS‎
Computer Science, Mathematics
CGPA 3.2/4
2017

Skills

Expert Amazon Web Services (
Intermediate Automation Languages Command
Intermediate Bash Scripting
Beginner C#
Expert Cloud Computing IaaS
Intermediate Computer Networks Command
Expert Corporate IT
Intermediate DHCP
Expert DNS
Intermediate Domain Specific Languages
Beginner Javascript
Intermediate Linux
Expert Microsoft Azure
Beginner MySQL
Expert PAAS
Expert PostgreSQL
Intermediate SQL Azure
Expert System Support

Languages

Expert Urdu
Intermediate English
Intermediate Arabic