Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

Muhammad Ali

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

************.*****@*****.*** Columbus, Ohio 43004

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly accomplished DevOps & Platform Engineer with 8+ years of progressive experience architecting, automating, and operating mission-critical, secure, and massively scalable infrastructure in cloud and hybrid environments. Expert in AWS and Azure cloud ecosystems, Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD at enterprise scale, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps automation. Extensive hands-on experience supporting highly regulated, high-availability, and high-transaction systems, emphasizing security-by-design, resiliency, cost governance, and operational excellence. Proven leader in modernizing legacy environments, enabling platform engineering practices, and driving measurable improvements in deployment velocity, system reliability, and cloud efficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior DevOps Engineer

Eastwall

•Architect and operate enterprise-grade AWS and Azure platforms supporting highly available, security-sensitive production workloads. 05/2022 – Present

•Design and maintain scalable CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, enabling frequent, reliable releases with automated testing and security controls.

•Lead Kubernetes platform engineering, including cluster lifecycle management, autoscaling strategies, and standardized Ilelm charts.

•Implement DevSecOps automation, embedding vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and policy enforcement into delivery pipelines.

•Build comprehensive observability platforms to improve system visibility, reduce MTTR, and support SRE objectives.

•Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives, leveraging rightsizing, reserved capacity, and automation to control spend.

•Partner with architecture, security, and development teams to define platform standards and operational best practices.

•Mentor engineers and promote DevOps maturity across the organization. DevOps Engineer

ITAdOn IT Solutions

•Supported large-scale cloud environments hosting customer-facing, high-traffic applications.

03/2019 – 05/2022

•Containerized and modernized legacy systems using Docker and Kubernetes.

•Built Infrastructure as Code solutions to standardize and automate environment provisioning.

•Implemented monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to strengthen production reliability.

•Automated deployment and rollback strategies to ensure zero-downtime releases.

Systems / Junior DevOps Engineer

DevOps Group

•Administered Linux and Windows systems in enterprise environments. 07/2017 – 03/2019

•Automated operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools.

•Assisted with cloud migrations and CI/CD adoption initiatives.

•Supported production incidents and participated in on-call rotations.

•Maintained system documentation and operational runbooks. EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

SKILLS

Cloud Architecture & Enterprise Platforms: AWS: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, EFS, FSX, VPC, Transit Gateway, IAM, Organizations, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, Route53, WAF, Shield, Control Tower Microsoft Azure: AKS, Azure DevOps, App Services, Functions, VM Scale Sets, Azure SQL., Cosmos DB, Storage Accounts, Azure AD, Key Vault, Application Gateway, Azure Monitor Hybrid & Multi-Cloud: Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, VPN, Identity Federation, On-Prem to Cloud Migration Strategies CI/CD, GitOps & Release Engineering: Jenkins (shared libraries), GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, CircleCI GitOps & Continuous Delivery: Argo CD, FluxCD Artifact Management: JFrog Artifactory, Nexus Repository

Containers, Kubernetes & Platform Engineering: Docker, Docker Compose, BuildKit Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, OpenShift): multi-cluster design, upgrades, autoscaling, network policies, pod security Helm, Kustomize, Ingress Controllers, Service Mesh (Istio foundational) Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform (enterprise modules, remote state, policy enforcement), CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Pulumi Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet Image Automation & Golden AMIS: Packer

DevSecOps, Security & Governance: Secrets Management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault Security & Quality Gates: Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube, Aqua Security, OPA / Policy as Code IAM, RBAC, MFA, Zero-Trust concepts, Encryption at Rest & In Transit, Audit Logging Observability, Reliability & Operations: Metrics & Visualization: Prometheus, Grafana Logging & Analytics: ELK / OpenSearch, Splunk APM & Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor Incident Response & SRE: PagerDuty, Opsgenie, SLO/SLI tracking, SRE practices Networking, Performance & Edge: Load Balancing (ALB, NLB, Azure Load Balancer), API Gateways, Ingress. DNS, CDN (CloudFront, Akamai), Caching Strategies Firewalls, Security Groups, NACLS, Network Segmentation

Data Platforms & Messaging: Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle (exposure) NoSQL & Caching: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis Streaming & Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, SNS Scripting, OS & Engineering Practices: Bash, Python, PowerShell, Groovy, YAML Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux), Windows Server Agile, Scrum, ITIL, SRE, Change & Release Management

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