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Arian Ahmed

@arianahmed

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Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior role where I can lead multi-cloud infrastructure, advance CI/CD and GitOps practices, mentor teams, and drive secure, cost‑optimized automation and reliability.

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

I have delivered cloud modernization and automation projects for organizations including Microsoft, Adobe, and Accenture, built reusable Terraform modules, implemented GitOps with Argo CD, and led secure CI/CD and observability initiatives that improved deployment efficiency and uptime.

I mentor teams, apply SRE and DevSecOps practices, and focus on cost optimization, security automation, and engineering excellence to drive reliable, compliant multi-cloud operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Chef Software

May 2025 - Present (4 months)

Designing and managing production-grade GKE clusters and reusable Terraform modules; led GitOps adoption with Argo CD and standardized CI/CD using GitHub Actions and Cloud Build to improve deployment reliability and cost efficiency.

GKE Terraform Argo Helm GitHub Actions)Istio Cloud Build Cost Optimization

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

JFrog

Jan 2022 - Apr 2025 (3 years 3 months)

Built secure CI/CD pipelines and migrated on-prem apps to AWS EKS using Terraform, Docker, and Helm; automated vulnerability scanning and secrets management while improving observability with Prometheus and Grafana.

Terraform Docker Helm Prometheus Grafana CI CD Secrets Management

DevOps Engineer

BoxBoat Technologies

Mar 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 9 months)

Automated Azure infrastructure using ARM and Terraform and deployed microservices to AKS with pod-level security; designed multi-environment release pipelines in Azure DevOps and implemented monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insights.

Azure Arm Terraform AKS Azure DevOps Application Insights Monitoring Pod Security

DevOps Consultant

Revelry

Jul 2015 - Feb 2020 (4 years 7 months)

Delivered infrastructure automation using CloudFormation and Ansible, led containerization and migration from ECS to EKS, enforced policy-as-code and centralized logging to improve incident response and compliance.