Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

Abdul Ahad Mohammed

Dallas, Tx, ***** +1-469-***-**** ************@*****.*** LinkedIn

SUMMARY

Cloud Platform Engineer with five years of experience specializing in AWS and Azure, with experience at F500 companies like Microsoft, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Led a team of eight engineers at Microsoft to design secure Azure landing zones, improving deployment efficiency by 75%. Founded ReferRoom, transforming twelve applications into containerized platforms and achieving $45K in annual cost savings through disciplined capacity allocation. Recognized for contributions to cloud architecture and governance compliance initiatives; promoted twice during tenure at Deloitte. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dallas, Tx

Azure DevOps Engineer November 2024 – Present

Operationalized eight enterprise Azure landing zones by defining subscription governance and network isolation, aligning with enterprise security policies.

Modernized release processes through YAML-centric pipelines and automated testing, slashing deployment times from four hours to thirty minutes and improving compliance score by 8 points.

Transitioned twelve production applications to containerized platforms by optimizing cluster configurations, fine tuning node pool allocation, and enhancing resource distribution strategies to ensure consistent transaction stability during peak processing windows.

Integrated container security validation and centralized secrets management into pipelines, reducing security vulnerabilities by 38%.

Consolidated observability across application and infrastructure layers, eliminating 4 recurring production defects and shortening recovery duration by 40 minutes per incident through refined alerting strategies and proactive monitoring improvements.

Delivered reusable and standardized infrastructure modules that streamlined provisioning workflows, shortening environment setup by 3 days per release cycle and eliminating 15 recurring operational hours per week.

Pioneered AI-based cloud tools for anomaly detection, slashing incident response time by 40% and leading to zero Severity 1 incidents in Q4 2024. Accenture Remote, USA

Cloud DevOps Engineer August 2023 – November 2024

Orchestrated a unified build system migration using Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing critical errors by 20% and improving focus on new products.

Devised a scheduled cluster scaling system attuned to real-time demand using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), curtailing infrastructure costs by 22%.

Revamped governance validation processes enforcing configuration and compliance standards with Terraform, reclaiming 12 engineering hours per week.

Embedded structured performance and security validation gates within release workflows, strengthening pre-production quality controls and reducing rollback occurrences by 29%.

Refined container orchestration practices by enhancing workload isolation and runtime resource allocation, resulting in 24% improvement in resource utilization under variable demand.

Automated security vulnerability remediation by integrating security scanning tools with Azure Security Center, resulting in 30% faster remediation. Deloitte Hyderabad, India

Associate Cloud Engineer June 2020 - December 2021

Designed and implemented a multi-account cloud architecture supporting 10 business-critical platforms, incorporating environment segregation, identity boundaries, and network isolation.

Standardized environment provisioning through reusable infrastructure blueprints, decreasing setup timelines by 4 business days and improving deployment consistency across lifecycle stages.

Revamped deployment process standardization across active production clusters by refining release sequencing and strengthening validation checkpoints, reducing release duration by 3 hours.

Enforced least privilege access controls through well-defined IAM policies and RBAC frameworks, ensuring 95% of users maintained appropriate access levels while strengthening overall security posture across cloud environments.

Enhanced monitoring and alerting pipelines to surface accurate operational signals, reducing incident triage time by 45 minutes and strengthening cross- team response coordination.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Hyderabad, India

Cloud engineer Intern June 2019- December 2019

Spearheaded implementation of encryption protocols securing 60 TB of patient data within a healthcare cloud foundation, decreasing potential data breach risk by 18% & upgraded five security controls across all layers.

Transformed infrastructure provisioning using reusable deployment templates, reducing manual configuration by 90%. This saved the team approximately 60 hours weekly and decreased infrastructure costs by 12% within the first quarter.

Automated production deployment pipelines for medical claims platform using Infrastructure as Code, mitigating configuration drift & accelerating recovery time by 30 minutes per incident.

Established centralized aggregation mechanisms to consolidate infrastructure & application telemetry, increasing visibility during ops troubleshooting.

Configured identity and access boundaries aligned with role-based principles, reducing unauthorized access exposure within non production environments. Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms and Services: Azure (Expert), AWS (Proficient), GCP (Proficient), Azure DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure App Service, Amazon EC2 Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform Cloud, Packer, Vagrant, SaltStack CI/CD and DevOps: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, CircleCI, Bamboo, YAML Pipelines, Blue Green Deployment Strategies, Canary Deployments

Security and Governance: Azure Policy, AWS IAM, Google Cloud IAM, Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS, RBAC, Network Security Groups, Azure Security Center, AWS Security Hub, Google Cloud Security Command Center Observability and Monitoring: Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Service Level Indicators

Containerization and Orchestration: Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, ECS, Docker, Helm, Docker Compose, Rancher, OpenShift, Container Registry, Istio EDUCATION

University of North Texas Denton, Tx

Masters in Computer Science January 2022 – December 2023

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