Devops Engineer Azure

Rameez Mohammed

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Professional Summary

Dynamic DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting cloud-native solutions and driving automation across AWS and Azure platforms. Skilled in optimizing CI/CD pipelines, enhancing system reliability, and delivering scalable infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. Proven success in reducing deployment times by 40%, achieving 99.9% uptime, and implementing security best practices. Passionate about leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC), mentoring teams, and excelling in Agile environments to deliver high-performance, mission-critical systems.

Core Competencies

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFormation), Azure (AKS, App Services, ARM, Key Vault, Data Factory)

•DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git/GitHub, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Maven, Helm

•Automation & Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy, YAML, JSON

•Monitoring & Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog

•Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB

•Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, IaC, SRE Practices

Certifications

•Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

•AWS Developer – Associate

•Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Professional Experience

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer

Prudential Financial New York, USA 10/2023 – Present

•Architected CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, and GitHub Actions, accelerating deployments by 35% with Kubernetes and Docker.

•Engineered scalable infrastructure on AWS ECS and Azure AKS using Terraform and ARM templates for hybrid cloud automation.

•Achieved 99.9% uptime with AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Grafana dashboards, cutting incident resolution time by 25%.

•Enhanced security with AWS IAM, Azure AD, and Key Vault, reducing vulnerabilities by 30% through RBAC and encryption.

•Implemented Trivy to automate Docker image vulnerability scanning, ensuring production security compliance.

•Designed Helm charts for Kubernetes microservices, reducing deployment times by 20%.

•Automated infrastructure with Terraform modules and integrated Azure Data Factory for hybrid data pipeline management.

•Guided teams in adopting DevOps practices, integrating Azure Repos and AWS CodeCommit for seamless collaboration.

•Authored Python scripts and runbooks, shortening new engineer onboarding by 20%.

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra India 09/2018 – 07/2022

•Led migration of ONM application to a private AWS EC2 cloud, cutting costs by 15% with Terraform automation.

•Optimized Jenkins pipelines with Docker and Kubernetes, reducing build times by 40% and enabling zero-downtime deployments.

•Automated system health checks with Python and Bash, integrating AWS CloudWatch and Grafana for real-time insights across 100+ servers.

•Managed production support for British Telecom’s mediation systems, resolving 95% of incidents within SLA using ServiceNow and JIRA.

•Streamlined deployments as change management SPOC with Azure DevOps, halving approval cycles.

•Developed SQL Server reports and preempted issues with Azure Monitor, boosting reliability by 20%.

•Integrated Ansible playbooks into CI/CD workflows, automating hybrid cloud server configurations.

•Designed Prometheus and Grafana dashboards to track SLOs/SLIs, improving incident response by 25%.

•Migrated PostgreSQL databases to AWS RDS using AWS DMS, ensuring minimal downtime.

Software Developer

Global Tech Hyderabad 08/2015 – 08/2018

•Developed Java applications with Spring Boot and RESTful APIs, integrating AWS S3 for scalable data handling.

•Pioneered CI/CD with Jenkins, increasing release frequency by 30% while ensuring code quality via Git workflows.

•Delivered scalable features in Agile sprints, cutting bugs by 20% with unit testing and SonarQube.

•Deployed and troubleshot solutions across Linux/Windows, maintaining 98% production uptime.

•Automated build and deployment scripts with Maven and Bash, streamlining environment transitions.

•Configured Apache Tomcat, optimizing performance and reducing latency by 15% with load balancing.

•Introduced Docker containers to development workflows, paving the way for microservices adoption.

•Created basic Ansible playbooks, reducing server provisioning effort by 20%.

Education

Master’s in Computer Science

Concordia University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering JNTU K India.

Technical Skills

•Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, RDS, CloudFormation), Azure (AKS, App Services, Key Vault, Data Factory)

•Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Maven

•Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy, YAML

•Monitoring: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

•Version Control: Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, AWS CodeCommit

•Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB.

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