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Farooq Ahmed

@farooqahmed1

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Senior Site Reliability and DevOps engineer specializing in secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior SRE/DevOps roles focused on secure, observable cloud platforms, automation-first cultures, and opportunities to mentor and improve reliability.

I am a Senior Site Reliability and DevOps engineer with 10+ years designing, automating, and operating secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure for high-availability SaaS platforms.

I specialize in HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS architectures, Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps automation, and I have driven measurable improvements in reliability and cost.

At Gremlin and prior roles I implemented SLO/SLI frameworks, GitOps via ArgoCD, reusable Terraform modules, and chaos engineering, reducing incidents and MTTR while optimizing cloud spend.

I mentor engineers on incident response and reliability practices, integrate observability-driven engineering, and continuously seek to improve deployment velocity, security posture, and operational resilience.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Gremlin

Jun 2023 - Present (3 years)

Architected and maintained multi-region AWS & Azure infrastructure achieving 99.99% availability; implemented SLO/SLI frameworks that reduced incidents by 30% and MTTR by 40% while introducing GitOps, Terraform modules, chaos engineering, and FinOps controls.

AWS Azure Terraform ArgoCD Grafana Chaos Engineering FinOps

Senior DevOps Engineer

ChaosSearch

Jan 2020 - May 2023 (3 years 4 months)

Designed scalable AWS data infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines supporting petabyte-scale log ingestion, improving release velocity by 35% and reducing incident resolution time by 50% via centralized observability and Terraform-based provisioning.

AWS Terraform ELK Stack Prometheus CI CD Spark Kubernetes Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

CareAxis Health Solutions

Aug 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Designed HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure and automated CI/CD with Jenkins/GitHub Actions; implemented Terraform/Ansible provisioning, centralized ELK logging, and integrated Snyk/OWASP ZAP to strengthen DevSecOps and compliance.

AWS Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitHub Actions ELK Stack Snyk OWASP ZAP HIPAA compliance

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Vertex Digital Systems

Oct 2015 - Jul 2017 (1 year 9 months)

Provisioned and maintained AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, ASG, Load Balancers), automated operational workflows with Python/Bash, improved monitoring via CloudWatch, and supported cloud migration and disaster recovery efforts.

AWS VPC EC2 Load Balancers Python BASH Cloudwatch