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Ali Fareed

@alifareed

Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer with 5+ years in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, SRE, CI/CD, and global production systems.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking a senior remote DevOps, Platform, Cloud, or SRE role where I can build and operate scalable AWS/Azure platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and automation. Open to global full-time and international contract opportunities.

I’m a Senior DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience building, automating, and operating production infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

My core expertise includes Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, CI/CD, cloud networking, DevSecOps, observability, automation, and Site Reliability Engineering. I have supported 20+ Kubernetes clusters and approximately 150 microservices within larger enterprise environments, including platforms serving 1M+ users with up to 99.99% availability.

Throughout my career, I have worked on cloud landing zones, infrastructure as code, Internal Developer Platforms, deployment automation, monitoring and observability, incident response, SRE practices, security controls, and cost optimization. I have helped reduce deployment time from 240 to 50 minutes, infrastructure provisioning time by up to 90%, and MTTR by up to 65%.

I enjoy solving complex infrastructure and reliability challenges, improving developer experience, and building scalable and secure cloud platforms. I’m interested in Senior DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering opportunities with global remote teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

TekDex

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Delivering hands-on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and AWS/Azure cloud architecture solutions for enterprise platforms serving 1M+ users with up to 99.99% availability. Supporting 20+ EKS/AKS clusters and approximately 150 microservices while leading cloud foundations, Kubernetes platform, GitOps, observability, and Internal Developer Platform initiatives.

AWS Azure Kubernetes AKS Terraform Helm Backstage GitOps DevSecOps SRE Prometheus Grafana ELK Datadog OpenTelemetry FinOps IAM RBAC CI CD Amazon EKS ArgoCD

Compute Service Specialist

XTIUM

Oct 2022 - Jun 2025 (2 years 8 months)

Built and standardized multi-region Kubernetes platforms across AWS and Azure using EKS, AKS, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and GitOps. Re-engineered CI/CD and observability workflows, reducing deployment time from 240 to 50 minutes and MTTR by 64%, while supporting SRE, incident response, automation, security, and platform reliability initiatives.

Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform Helm ArgoCD Jenkins Gitlab CI Prometheus OpenTelemetry

DevOps Engineer

National Education Foundation

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022 (10 months)

Automated AWS and Azure infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, and Ansible. Built CI/CD pipelines, supported Docker and Kubernetes workloads, and implemented monitoring and alerting across development, testing, and production environments.

Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins OpenTelemetry Ansible Docker Azure DevOps GitHub Actions

Cloud Engineer

National Education Foundation

Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 (7 months)

Provisioned and supported AWS and Azure infrastructure including compute, networking, storage, databases, IAM/RBAC, monitoring, backups, and security controls. Automated health checks, snapshots, tagging, backup validation, cleanup, and operational tasks using Python, Bash, and PowerShell.