January 2025 →
CFI Senior DevOps Engineer · CFI — Lead DevSecOps across the SDLC — threat-modeling services and embedding SAST (SonarQube), SCA, and container image scanning into CI/CD, reducing high/critical vulnerabilities reaching production by 90% and auto-blocking insecure builds. · Centralized secrets and credentials across all applications with HashiCorp Vault, eliminating hard-coded secrets and enabling short-lived, dynamic credentials. · Secured internet-facing workloads with Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust access). · Operate business-critical, highly available Kubernetes clusters on self-managed AWS EC2, sustaining 99.95% uptime with zero-downtime upgrades. · Provision cloud and on-prem infrastructure as code with Terraform for repeatable, version-controlled deployments. · Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and deployment across all services. · Design, provision, and operate OpenSearch clusters on AWS alongside Prometheus and Grafana for proactive monitoring, alerting, and security visibility. · Implement New Relic APM to surface latency, errors, and bottlenecks across services. · Administer and secure on-prem MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, plus highly available RabbitMQ and Kafka on Kubernetes, with backup, replication, and HA strategies.
June 2024
NET Cloud Engineer · Network International — Managed 10+ Kubernetes clusters across Azure, AWS, OCI, and on-premises, ensuring scalability and high availability. · Architected and deployed high-availability Kubernetes clusters on-premises using Ansible, Kubeadm, MetalLB, and Longhorn. · Designed and implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform. · Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Python, and Bash scripting. · Automated the release process to a single click — Slack notifications and Confluence release notes. · Integrated SAST and SCA tools (Prisma Cloud, Veracode, SonarQube) into CI/CD to enforce application security and compliance.
March 2023
ASP DevOps Engineer · Aspire IT Services (Client: Network International) — Deployed and managed AWS resources including EC2 and EKS clusters using Terraform. · Deployed and managed containerized applications using EKS and Helm. · Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild. · Partnered with development and QA teams to containerize applications and automate EKS deployment pipelines, reducing release friction and environment drift.
September 2022
ELE DevOps / Linux System Administrator · Electronic Health Solutions (EHS - Hakeem) — Managed critical environments with zero downtime, ensuring continuous availability and reliability. · Managed on-premises Red Hat Linux servers for optimal performance and security. · Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. · Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for configuration and deployment automation. · Configured and managed monitoring tools: Nagios, Prometheus, and Grafana. · Configured and managed high-available load balancers using HAProxy and Keepalived.