Imran Ismail Rehman
@imranismailrehman
Sr. Cloud Operations and Automation Engineer delivering scalable DevOps, cloud architecture, and zero-downtime automation.
What I'm looking for
I leverage extensive experience and passion for cloud architecture, DevOps, and automation to deliver innovative, scalable solutions for clients across industries. At Upwork, I architect and automate global, fault-tolerant infrastructure, deploy multi-region services on AWS, Azure, and GCP, and build GitOps pipelines for zero-downtime delivery.
I specialize in containerized workloads and lifecycle automation—using Helm Charts, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Argo workflow, Jenkins, Docker, and Rancher—to improve reliability and reduce manual, hands-on work. I also build observability and self-healing frameworks with Prometheus and ELK, enforce security with policy-as-code and IaC drift controls, and use intelligent agents for operational triage to reduce MTTR and support toil.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
• Architected and automated global, fault-tolerant infrastructure via Terraform and Packer, deploying multi-region services on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Built scalable GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, and Jenkins to enable zero-downtime delivery and rapid iteration.
• Deployed and managed containerized workloads on EKS, ECS, and Kubernetes clusters using Docker and Rancher for orchestration.
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Engineered lifecycle automation solutions using Helm Charts, Kubernetes, and Argo workflows, improving deployment speed and consistency across environments. Deployed and managed cloud-based resources across AWS, Azure, and VMware, enhancing system availability and enabling faster provisioning across hybrid platforms. Automated manual processes using scalable tools, reducing operational overhead by
Delivered lifecycle automation solutions using Helm, Kubernetes, Argo workflows, Chef, and Docker, and deployed/managed cloud resources on AWS, Azure, and VMware. Implemented automation scripts and GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) to reduce manual operations and improve production engineering practices.
- Utilized modern automation/orchestration technologies and tools such as Helm Charts, Kubernetes, Argo workflow, Chef, and Docker to engineer and deliver lifecycle automation solutions.
- Deployed, configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based resources on IaaS and PaaS platforms, leveraging tools like Docker, AWS, Azure, VMware, and Vagrant.
- Identified and eliminated manual, hands-on processe
Co-founded and served as Tech Lead, working with cloud computing capabilities including AWS services and monitoring.
Led the containerization of a monolithic application, enabling scalable deployment in response to varying traffic requirements.
Developed a comprehensive architecture allowing deployment across multiple cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud environments.
Implemented Jenkins pipelines to automate and streamline the deployment process, enhancing operational efficiency and re
Experience in Linux Administration Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades of Linux
Implemented features on AWS which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation AWS Config, Autoscalling, CloudFront, IAM, S3, Route 53.
Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
Experience in CloudFormation to autom
Development and demonstration of multi-cloud solution architectures ( AWS, Azure, OpenStack) for customer purpose.
Architecture of new cloud products and ensuring the integrations with current products.
Technical description and presentation of functional and non-functional requirements to prepare the solution implementation of multi-cloud projects
Technical piloting of our T-Systems multi-cloud s
Planned and deployed VNFs in both testbed and production environments, ensuring high availability and effective failover strategies. Integrated Open Source MANO (OSM) with OpenStack and SDN solutions, enabling lifecycle management of cloud-native network services. Deployed Cloud Foundry on AWS and OpenStack, supporting development of scalable cloud applications and services. Automated patch manage
Planning and Deploying VNF’s on testbed and production while ensuring and testing failover scenarios.
Integration open source mano to existing infrastructure (OpenStack) and Software Define Network to enable deployment and life cycle management of standalone services.
Designing and Deploying Cloud Foundry on AWS and OpenStack.
Working with automation tools such as (Puppet, Chef, Ansible) to automa
Cloud architecture management and Orchestration.
Private cloud architecture for scale out & integration to public cloud.
Designing and developing network architecture for SDN/NFV environment while ensuring all design and information security aspects.
Responsible for moving the Solutions/Services from an architecture phase to execution to deliver Network Transformation ambitions.
Working with vendo
Implementing Cloud Infrastructure architecture, using automation for deployment and managing web applications hosted on public and private cloud.
Virtualising infrastructure (using VMWare KVM, and MAAS) and combining it with OpenStack (Ubuntu, Mirantis, and Red Hat) to provide Infrastructure as a Service as required by clients.
Exploring OpenStack automation deployment tools, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
The University of Lahore
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electronics and Communications, Electronics and Communications
2011 - 2015
Bachelors of Science Electronics and Communications
It covers Electronics, Electrical, Power Systems, Computer Systems and Microwave all under one umbrella, which provides a lot of opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction both in terms of academia and field work.
The field of Electronics and Electrical Systems encompasses many exciting technologies such as Programming, Microelectronics, C
Yanbu International School
High School Diploma, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program
1996 - 2007
American High School Diploma
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