A L I A K B A R

About

Senior DevOps Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience in building, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Naver Cloud. Skilled in designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, GCP Cloud Build, and Jenkins, with strong expertise in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

Experience

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Doaz

April 2023 - Present

Current

- Managed and optimized AWS cloud infrastructure including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, IAM policies, VPC networking, and Route 53 DNS configurations to ensure high availability and security. - Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline, automating build, test, and deployment workflows that reduced release cycle times by 40%. - Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters for microservices deployments, configured Helm charts, Ingress controllers, and horizontal pod autoscaling to handle production traffic efficiently. - Designed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to provision and manage multi-environment setups (dev, staging, production), ensuring consistency and reproducibility. - Configured Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring of application performance, resource utilization, and alerting on critical thresholds. - Automated server configuration and application deployments using Ansible playbooks across Ubuntu-based Linux servers. - Integrated AWS CloudWatch for centralized log management and set up ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) for advanced log analysis and troubleshooting. - Mentored junior DevOps engineers, conducted code reviews on Terraform modules and pipeline configurations, and improved overall team delivery speed. - Deployed and managed containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), handling cluster provisioning, scaling policies, and rolling update strategies for production applications. - Built and deployed custom Microsoft Teams applications, setting up full CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and seamless deployment to the Teams platform. - Configured and managed Azure Static Web Apps with automated deployment workflows, integrating GitHub Actions for continuous delivery of frontend applications. - Managed EKS clusters on Naver Cloud (Korean government cloud), handling Kubernetes deployments, networking, and security configurations in compliance with regional cloud requirements.

DevOps Engineer

Meissa Soft Inc

October 2019 - March 2023

- Built and maintained Docker-based containerized environments and managed deployments on Kubernetes clusters using Helm charts for multiple client projects. - Developed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD, automating the full software delivery lifecycle from code commit to production deployment. - Engineered data pipelines for real-time data flow from client-facing applications to AWS S3, improving data accessibility and system responsiveness. - Automated deployment log management by integrating AWS CloudWatch, enabling centralized tracking and storage of logs for faster issue resolution. - Managed Linux (Ubuntu) server environments including Apache/Nginx configuration, SSH hardening, file permissions, crontab automation, and system monitoring. - Wrote automation scripts in Python and Bash for infrastructure provisioning, health checks, and routine operational tasks. - Configured Nginx reverse proxy, SSL/TLS certificates via AWS Certificate Manager, and Load Balancers for secure and scalable application delivery. - Deployed and managed microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), configuring workloads, namespaces, and service mesh across multiple client projects. - Leveraged Google Cloud Run for serverless container deployments, optimizing cost and scaling for event-driven and lightweight application workloads. - Set up CI/CD pipelines using GCP Cloud Build, automating container image builds, vulnerability scanning, and deployments to GKE and Cloud Run environments.

Education

BS

University of Central Punjab

January 2015 - January 2019

Field: Computer Science

F.Sc

Punjab Group of Colleges

January 2014 - January 2016

Field: Pre-Engineering

Skills

Advanced

Cloud Platforms Container Orchestration DevOps & CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Linux Administration Monitoring & Logging Scripting & Programming