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Izhar Yousaf

@izharyousaf

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DevOps specialist and cloud architect driving scalable, secure systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior DevOps/cloud role where I can lead automation, design secure scalable infrastructure, mentor engineers, and drive cost-optimized, highly available deployments in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

I am a DevOps specialist and cloud architect with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments on AWS and GCP. I specialize in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud security, and I bridge development and operations to deliver high-performing systems.

I have led teams to accelerate delivery—achieving 50% faster deployments—implemented blockchain deployment frameworks with automated security and compliance checks, and built monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to reduce incident response times.

My work emphasizes cost optimization, high availability, and automation: migrating legacy systems to the cloud to reduce costs, implementing HA/DR strategies, and provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation to improve reliability and scalability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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DevOps Specialist & Cloud Architect

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Dev & Mark

Jun 2022 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Designed and deployed enterprise-grade AWS architectures and led a team of 5+ DevOps engineers, achieving 50% faster deployments and 99.9% system reliability through automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.

AWS Terraform Kubernetes CI CD Prometheus Grafana ArgoCD CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code

Senior DevOps Engineer

Vital Steer Technologies Ltd.

Apr 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Established HA/DR solutions and migrated legacy on-prem systems to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 20% and cutting deployment time by 40% via automated CI/CD pipelines.

AWS High Availability Disaster Recovery CI CD Jenkins Cloud Build Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

Euphoria XR

Oct 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 5 months)

Migrated 5+ legacy systems to AWS reducing costs by 30%, deployed .NET Core on Elastic Beanstalk and containerized ML workloads on GPU EC2, and implemented serverless components to improve scalability and security.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk EC2 Lambda Containerization GPU Workloads AWS WAF Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

Approsoft

Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 3 months)

Automated WordPress and enterprise deployments using CloudFormation and Lambda, implemented resource scheduling with Lambda & DynamoDB, and improved infrastructure performance with VPC and Systems Manager.