Afzaal Ahmad

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Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Designed and managed multi-environment infrastructure (Dev, Stage, Prod) using Terraform workspaces and modular IaC across AWS, Azure, and GCP Automated VM provisioning on Proxmox using Terraform and cloud-init, integrating Ceph S3-compatible storage for backend and application data Architected and operated Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE) for microservices workloads Managed deployments using Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps), optimizing StatefulSets for high I/O applications Built and standardized CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins Integrated Terraform and Ansible for end-to-end infrastructure and configuration automation Managed and optimized Nextcloud-based platform (Apache, PHP-FPM, PostgreSQL, Redis) Led migrati

DevOps Architect

Vertrical

Aug 2023 - May 2025 (1 year 10 months)

Integrated ElasticSearch for efficient search and data retrieval functionalities. Designed and deployed highly available and scalable infrastructure using Terraform. I have utilized diverse AWS services like CloudWatch, MSK, ECR, AWS Secrets Manager, and OpenSearch for comprehensive monitoring and security. I have Implemented robust observability for EKS clusters (cluster, node, namespace, service, pod levels) with CloudWatch Container Insights and ADOT. Streamlined ML/Data Science workflows for medical apps on Sage-Maker by leveraging Canvas, Studio, and Server-less Inference pipelines. I managed Git-ops through Argo-CD, Helm Charts, and GitHub workflows to automate infrastructure deployments to EKS, achieving a 50% faster deployment cycle

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Nov 2021 - Jul 2023 (1 year 9 months)

• Managing a team of devops engineers and managing the two applications in the CICD environment, one application is a .net core application (on AWS) and the second one is a JAVA application (on GCP)
• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Asp .NET Core-based DevOps pipelines. designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks Run your Azure Databricks job with serverless compute for workflows.
• Tasks included Installation, development, management, and maintenance of ELK stack, configuring logs monitoring, dashboards, alerts
• deployment onto the AWS EKS through terraform
• Managing Git environment, branching, PRs, etc on bitbucket
• Manage Jenkins, Filebeat, Analyt

Cloud Architect

Zones, LLC

Dec 2020 - Oct 2021 (11 months)

• Designing and deploying the applications and infrastructure using Terraform to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, and compute Engines in public and private subnets with Auto/Scaler in Google Cloud Platform.
• Design, Architect, and implement scalable cloud-based web applications using AWS and GCP.
• Set up GCP Firewall rules to allow or deny traffic to and from the VM's instances based on specified configuration
• Deploy ELK and its components like Elastic search, Log stash, and Kibana. Handled installation, administration, and configuration of ELK stack on GCP.
• Provided highly available and fault-tolerant applications utilizing Orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Apache Mesos on the Google Clo

DevOps Engineer

PhishRod

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (3 years)

• Setup CI/CD environment with, Jenkins, Maven, and Nexus for different properties to automate application deployments . Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure Container Service, whenever a new TFS/GitHub branch gets started on Jenkins (Our Continuous Integration server) . Updating product releases to the latest sprints on all platforms, On-premises, and on to Azure. . Automated Build, test, and deployments of Java-based applications to on- premises servers, On VMs, AWS cloud, and Container services like ECS . SQL Server scripts to manage, and troubleshoot DB issues and apply new Patches Updating Product releases to the latest sprints on all platforms, On-premises, Azure and AWS . customize product deployment,

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Senior System Consultant

Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years 1 month)

• Use VMware update manager to create or edit baselines and baseline groups.
• Deploy DELL Custom Solutions to DELL Clients
• Prepare CLoud Solutions for the Customer using Private Cloud (VMWare) and AWS Services Like EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC etc
• Perform upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages (ie. VDI components, Windows services, or
• otIr enterprise apps) as necessary
• Design and configuration of OS, networking and storage on HP Servers like ProLiant G6, G7, G8, G9 , HP Storage
• MSA, Dell Power Edge, IBM DS, NetApp FAS Storage, etc.
• Tasks include set up or deployment of cloud technologies, User, data migration, Directory synch setup, AD federation services, Identity, and access M

System Administrator

Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group

Apr 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 10 months)

• Mange and Deploy Exchange Server 2010 DAG environment for 2 Sites over Point-To-Point Link.
• Mange Exchange 2010 users,Global Catalog, Outlook deployment and Issues with the email client.
• Manage Exchange Servers and their Databases.
• Managed windows server 2008 AD R2, Sites, Group Policies, GC, and Replication.
• Managing Site to Site VPN. Cisco ASA Firewall
• Windows clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.
• Managing and administering WINDOWS SERVER 2008 AD R2, DCs, Active Directory, Sites, Group Policies, GC, and Replication DNS, DHCP Servers
• Managing Hardware IBM x3850, IBM e-Server Xseries 330 and 205, DELL P

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System Engineer

Sep 2011 - Mar 2013 (1 year 7 months)

. Mware ESXI 5.5 Host Server Installation, Configuration Maintenance, VSphere Suite with P2P and P2V, Virtual Machines Installation, . Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production. . Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team. . Configuring High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS . Installed and configure maintenance of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP. . Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies. . Installed and Implemented VMware ESXI 5.0 host server with vSphere client

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System Engineer

Imunar corporation

Aug 2010 - Aug 2011 (1 year 1 month)

• Managing and maintaining Network and System monitor Software Systems like, Spiceworks.
• Managing the virtualization environment in the VMWARE, MS Hyper-V.
• Managing, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows 2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Hyper-V, Server Core Administration, RRAS and NAP, Application Server, Backup and Recovery, File Server, Group Policy Object, Security and High Avilablity.
• Managing and marinating the Symantec Antivirus Server 11 and McAfee AV.
• Managing and maintaining and troubleshooting Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 Environment.
• Managing and maintaining and troubleshooting Black Berry Enterprise Server.
• Managing and Marinating SQL Server 2005/ 2008 Environment.

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System Administrator

kabotintl

Sep 2008 - Jul 2010 (1 year 11 months)

• Managing and Maintaining the Windows 2003 Servers ( including Team Foundation Server, QA Servers, VOIP gateway Server, SharePoint Server, Windows Software Update Server (WINSUS), Symantec Antivirus Server, 2X Terminal Server, Microsoft Terminal Server Licensing (Licensing Server) located both within the Office and offshore
• Managing 3 Com, Link-Sys and Cisco Switches
• Managing Cisco ASA 5505 and Fortigate 60 B firewall through CLI and Web interface
• Hardware based RAID (Dell Proliant 360 Servers, Xeon Servers )
• Monthly Backups (Backup being Written on DVDs and On TAP Drive)
• Managing MS AD environment (user creation, deletion. Rights assignment, Replication, Backup of AD)
• Managing and Maintaining the

System Administrator

Macrosoft

Sep 2007 - Aug 2008 (1 year)

. Maintaining backup strategy and managing the Netback up 6.5.4 for enterprise backup solution. . Design and deploy SCCM 2007 and SCOM 2007 infrastructure . Managing, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows 2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Hyper-V, Server Core Administration, RRAS and NAP, . Application Server, Backup and Recovery, File Server, Group Policy Object, Security and High Availability. . Using SCCM 2007 to assesses, deploys,and updates servers, client computers, and devices-across physical, virtual, distributed, environments . Use SCCM 2007 (SCOM) to view Server states, health and performance information as well to generate alerts according to some availability, performance, configuration or security situation being identified.

Presales Engineer

Ultimus

Jan 2004 - Sep 2007 (3 years 9 months)

prepare RFPs and RFQs for the Prospects for Ultimus BPM Software. Reply to the queries related to Ultimus BPM software prospects Worked with Ultimus Sales team in the US and Middle East Preparing PreSales materials, Demos, and Proposals

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