Results-Driven DevOps Engineer with Cloud Expertise

DevOps Engineer

Name:Rameez Syed

Email: *************@*****.***

Phone No: 774-***-****

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/syedrameez0515/details/skills/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience automating, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications using CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, CloudFormation), AWS (IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, DynamoDB, Route53, SQS, SNS), Azure (Data Factory, Blob storage), GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub), scripting (Python, Bash, Shell, JavaScript, Go, Perl, Ruby, Groovy), DevSecOps (Snyk, Trivy, HashiCorp Vault), Docker, Kubeflow, monitoring tools (ELK Stack, Nagios, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana), and configuration management/automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack) to deliver scalable, secure, and fully automated cloud solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, CloudFormation), Azure (VM, AKS, DevOps, ARM), GCP (GKE, Cloud Functions)

Configuration Management Tools

Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt

Scripting/Programming languages

Shell scripting, Python, Ruby, Golang, Groovy, Java, C, C++, Dot Net.

Monitoring Tools

Splunk, New Relic, Nagios, AWS Cloud Watch, Data Dog, App Dynamics, ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana).

Source code Management Tools

GitHub, Bitbucket, SVN.

Security & DevSecOps

HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Trivy, Aqua, IAM

Build Tools & Artifactory Tools

Maven, Ant, Gradle, Nexus, Jfrog.

CI/CD Tools

Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure Devops, Gitlab CI

IaaC

Cloud Formation, Terraform, Pulumi, ARM Templates, Chef.

Containerization Tools

Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Istio, Calico.

Databases

Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Capital One, McLean, VA Jul 2025- Till Date

Role: DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities.

Designed and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using YAML for build, test, and deployment automation.

Created and managed Azure DevOps projects, including Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, and access controls.

Automated infrastructure provisioning on Azure using Terraform and ARM templates, ensuring consistency across environments.

Supported on-prem to Azure cloud migrations, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security.

Integrated DevSecOps tools such as Checkmarx, SonarQube, and HashiCorp Vault into ADO pipelines.

Deployed and managed containerized applications on AKS and Red Hat OpenShift.

Integrated Azure Bicep deployments with AzureDevOps Pipelines / GitHub Actions for automated infrastructure provisioning.

Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for controlled and auditable deployments.

Configured Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for observability and alerting.

Collaborated with development and QA teams to streamline release processes and reduce deployment failures.

Integrated Airflow with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / Jenkins / GitHub Actions) for automated DAG deployments.

Created and managed Azure DevOps (ADO) projects, including repositories, pipelines, boards, and access controls.

Secured cloud workloads using IAM, security groups, HashiCorp Vault, ensuring compliance with SOC 2/NIST.

Worked on DevOps essential tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, PAM, Pega, Git, GitHub, Gitlab, SVN, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Junit, Selenium, Bamboo, Hudson, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Nagios.

Provisioned and configured AKS infrastructure using Bicep, including node pools, networking, and role assignments.

Configured and utilized monitoring and logging tools including Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and the EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) to ensure comprehensive observability and performance management.

Designed and customized Agile templates in Azure DevOps (Scrum/Kanban), including work item types, workflows, states, and fields.

Implemented GitOps using ArgoCD for application deployments and environment drift detection.

Improved the performance of SQL Scripts by using Object Role Modelling methodology.

Experience in working with DevOps tool like SonarQube, Veracode, JFROG Artifactory and Jira.

Used Docker in build automation pipeline and production deployment & implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins. Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.

Environment:Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines – YAML, Boards, Artifacts), Azure VMs, App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Functions, Azure AD, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Terraform, ARM Templates, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x), Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Checkmarx, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Git, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Linux (RHEL), Agile/Scrum

Client:UHG, Dallas TX. Jun 2024-Jul 2025

Role: AWS DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Manage and maintain Cloud Services using AWS Cloud Formation, helping developers and businesses an easy way with provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Managing Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.

Manage and handle the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Configured Argo CD for continuous integration, fast feedback, and Argo CD Pipeline to support implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines in Jenkins.

Developed Terraform scripts for infrastructure provisioning, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline deployment processes and improve scalability.

Managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS) with Helm charts and service mesh integrations (Istio) for microservice scalability.

Integrated Snyk and Aqua Security into pipelines ensuring secure container image scanning and compliance checks.

Deployed robust monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, ELK stack, and Datadog AI.

Wrote AWS Lambda functions in python for AWS's Lambda which invokes python scripts to perform various transformations and analytics on large data sets in EMR clusters.

Experienced working with Ansible tower. Integrating Ansible tower with Jenkins to deploy code to different servers.

Creating Ansible roles using YAML such as tasks, variables, files, handlers, templates and writing playbook for that role.

Managed secrets and access policies securely using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager with least privilege access principles.

Implemented sub modules in the GIT and educated users working with sub modules in GIT.

Developed and scheduled bash shell scripts for various activities (deployed environment verification, running database scripts, file manipulations, Subversion (SVN) etc.).

Build high performance web services, using languages such as Python and Ruby.

Worked with different bug tools like JIRA, IBM Clear Quest.

Environment: Dockers, ECS, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, Cloud Watch, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Auto scaling, EBS, RDS, Jenkins, GIT, Linux, LAMP, Nagios, Maven, Apache Tomcat, Shell, Perl, and Python.

Client: HCA Healthcare, Hyderabad India Jan 2022-June 2023

Role: Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Skilled in automation using Ansible, PowerShell, Bash scripting for streamlined deployments and configuration management.

Confidential Azure cloud environment and introduced best practices for remediation.

Understand the latest features like (Azure DevOps, OMS, NSG Rules, etc..,) introduced by Microsoft Azure andutilized it for existing business applications.

Proven experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Virtual Machines, Load Balancers, Traffic Manager for scalable and resilient architectures.

Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, and Bicep for automated and repeatable cloud deployments.

Creating, validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimate of converting existing workloads from classic toARM based Azure Cloud Environment.

Worked on implementing backup methodologies by Power Shell Scripts for Azure Services like Azure SQL Database, Key Vault, Storage blobs, App Services etc.

Created Azure services using ARM templates (JSON) and ensured no changes in the present infrastructurewhile doing incremental deployment.

Managed EKS node groups, nodes with upgrades, decommission them from active participation by evacuating the nodes and upgrading them.

Automated Nagios alerts and email notifications using python scripts and executed them using Chef.

Hands-on experience in CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ensuring automated and reliable application deployments.

Expertise in cloud security best practices, implementing Azure Key Vault, RBAC, IAM policies, NSG, Defender for Cloud for secure access management.

Extensive knowledge in monitoring & logging using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk, Prometheus for proactive incident detection.

Wrote power shell scripts to create the parameter files automatically for all the services in Azure ResourceManager

Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery

Deploying windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and

Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and OctopusDeploy.

Backup MySQL database by creating script to run the MySQL dump and package it in a zip file.

Environment: Azure, Office 365, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Azure ARM, Azure AD, Azure Site, Kubernetes, Python, Ruby, XML, Shell Scripting, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DevSecOps, PowerShell, UI and CICD pipelines, JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Git, Jira, GitHub, Ansible, Docker, Windows Server, TFS, VS Code.

Client:CAST Software India Pvt Ltd, India Aug 2020-Dec 2021

Role: DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Worked on variety of Linux Platforms Red Hat Linux includes installation, configuring and maintenance of applications on different environments Development, Test, Production.

Attached ELK stack with EC2 and ELB to store logs and metrics by using AWS lambda function

Designed and worked on a CI/CD pipeline supporting workflows for application deployments using Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Responsible for managing the GCP services such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, Load Balancing, Big Query, Firewalls, and Stack Driver.

Worked on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine and Docker Registry.

Incorporated Amazon Ops works, which is a configuration management tool that uses Chef to automate the servers that are configured and deployed across Amazon EC2 instances.

Configured Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch.

Create and Managing the VPC, Subnets and route table to connection between different zones.

Worked on Ansible playbooks, roles, include statements, vars, modules, check mode (dry run) and to automate the installation of docker-engine, docker swarm cluster.

Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins for continuous inspection of code quality and analysis with SonarQube scanner for Maven.

Supported multi-tier application provisioning in Open Stack cloud, integrating it with Jenkins.

Extensively used JIRA as a ticketing tool for creating sprints, bug tracking, issue tracking, project management functions, and releases.

Implemented GitOps practices using ArgoCD and Flux CD for automated, version-controlled deployments.

Environment:Ansible, Puppet, AWS, Jenkins, GIT, Git Hub, Atlassian Stash, Maven, Nagios, Nexus, Cloud Watch, Bash Shell, Perl Scripting, Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE, Solaris, Middleware Application Servers, VMware Virtual Center, vSphere 5/6.

Education:

Rivier university. Master (CS) 2023-2025

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