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Farooq Ahmed

@farooqahmed2

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Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer specializing in SRE, Kubernetes, and Terraform-driven reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can lead multi-cloud cloud/Kubernetes modernization and SRE practices—driving SLOs, observability, and DevSecOps—while optimizing cost and reliability. I want to mentor teams and ship automation that reduces operational overhead.

I’m a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years designing and operating scalable, secure, highly available cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. I specialize in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and cost optimization.

In my roles, I’ve led cloud architecture initiatives and implemented DevSecOps practices—strengthening security with Vault and automated scanning—while mentoring teams to accelerate delivery and reduce operational overhead. I’ve also driven measurable outcomes like improving uptime to 99.99%, reducing deployment time by 50%, cutting MTTR by 50%, and increasing deployment frequency by 45% through SLO/SLI adoption, GitOps workflows, and robust monitoring.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Cloud Architect

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NVIDIA

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Led architecture and implementation of scalable multi-cloud infrastructure for AI/ML and high-performance computing workloads, including a secure Kubernetes platform for GPU-intensive deployments. Built Terraform-based automation for hybrid environments, reducing deployment time by 50%, and implemented observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) plus DevSecOps controls using Vault and automated s

Multi Cloud Architecture Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana Datadog DevSecOps Observability GitOps

Site Reliability Engineer

Gremlin

Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Led reliability engineering for multi-cloud infrastructure, achieving 99.99% uptime and improving Kubernetes EKS platform reliability through scaling, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Increased CI/CD deployment frequency by 45% with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, reduced provisioning time and drift by 60% with Terraform, and cut MTTR by 50% using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Terraform GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana Loki

Senior DevOps & Cloud Eng

ChaosSearch

Jan 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 4 months)

Engineered scalable AWS infrastructure for distributed data platforms and high-throughput streaming systems, delivering multi-environment infrastructure standardization via reusable Terraform modules. Improved CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing release cycle time by 35%, centralized monitoring (ELK, Prometheus) to reduce incident response time by 50%, and optimized cloud costs by

IAM Governance AWS Infrastructure Terraform CI CD Jenkins Gitlab CI Kubernetes ELK Stack Prometheus Cloud Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

CareAxis Health Solutions

Aug 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 4 months)

Designed HIPAA-compliant AWS cloud infrastructure for healthcare platforms, including VPC architecture with encryption and strict IAM controls. Implemented Terraform and Ansible-based infrastructure as code, built secure CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, managed RDS backup and disaster recovery, and integrated DevSecOps tooling (Snyk, OWASP ZAP) with centralized logging and monitori