# Abdul Khadar Shaikh

Abdul Khadar Shaikh is a remote worker on Himalayas, Devops and SRE Engineer at UBS, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@abdulkhadarshaikh

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I build reliable, observable cloud platforms for enterprise banking and payments.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 150k+ INR |
| Job categories | DevOps Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer, Observability Engineer |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, SLI Monitoring, SLO Monitoring, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, Production Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Availability Engineering, Golden Signals, Synthetic Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, Monitoring And Debugging Distributed Systems, Log Aggregation, Dashboarding, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, azure monitor, Azure Application Insights, Power BI, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, VMSS, Azure App Services, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Functions, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Shell Scripting, Python, Infrastructure Automation, CI CD, Kubernetes, IBM MQ, Microservices, API Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure, Release Management, Environment Management |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to improve reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence for mission-critical cloud platforms, particularly in enterprise banking and payment environments.
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## About

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At UBS, I design observability and monitoring for Data & Governance applications on Azure and AKS, while automating cloud provisioning and CI/CD workflows with Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Python, and Shell scripting.

I've supported reliability for Mastercard's Open Banking and payment platforms and led Dynatrace implementations at Virtusa. Across 10+ years in production engineering, I reduce operational toil, improve incident response, and strengthen availability for critical enterprise systems.
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## Experience

### Devops and SRE Engineer (current)

UBS. Dec 2024 - Present

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Designed and implemented observability and monitoring solutions for enterprise Data & Governance applications on Azure and AKS. Supported production reliability, incident troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for distributed microservices platforms.
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Skills: Azure, AKS, Terraform, Azure-DevOps, Gitlab, Python, Shell-Scripting, Observability, Monitoring, Incident-Management, RCA, CI-CD

### Site Reliability Engineer

[Mastercard](https://himalayas.app/companies/mastercard). Mar 2022 - Dec 2024

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Designed and supported enterprise observability and monitoring solutions for distributed microservices-based Open Banking and payment platforms. Implemented end-to-end monitoring, SLOs, synthetic monitoring, and proactive alerting to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
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Skills: Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, azure-monitor, SLOs, Synthetic-Monitoring, Incident-Management, RCA, Open-Banking, Microservices, Automation

### Senior Consultant

[Virtusa](https://himalayas.app/companies/virtusa). Nov 2018 - Mar 2022

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Led onboarding and implementation of Dynatrace observability solutions for enterprise applications. Managed incident response, production support, and root cause analysis for critical business applications, and led IBM MQ migration initiatives to cloud environments.
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Skills: Dynatrace, A-PM, Synthetic-Monitoring, Incident-Management, RCA, IBM-MQ, Cloud-Migration, Automation, Monitoring

### System Engineer

[Harman International](https://himalayas.app/companies/harman-international). Nov 2013 - Nov 2018

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Supported production operations, release management, and environment stability for enterprise applications. Developed Shell and Python automation scripts to monitor performance and automate routine operational activities.
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Skills: Shell-Scripting, Python, Automation, Monitoring, Release-Management, Incident-Management, RCA, Production-Support

## Education

### DY Patil Pune

Master's, Information Technology

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Master's degree in Information Technology from DY Patil Pune, completed in 2026.
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### Karnataka University

Bachelor's, Computer Application

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Bachelor's degree in Computer Application from Karnataka University, completed in 2012.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- Python
- Loki
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Functions
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Blob Storage
- Dynatrace
- Power BI

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