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Junaid Malik

@junaidmalik1

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Strategic DevOps and Platform Engineer with over 10 years of experience.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning in cloud technologies.

I am a strategic and results-oriented DevOps and Platform Engineer with over 10 years of progressive experience in building and optimizing cloud infrastructure. My expertise lies in ensuring site reliability and driving digital transformation across FinTech, eCommerce, and enterprise environments. I have a proven track record of architecting resilient systems and managing hybrid cloud deployments, particularly in Microsoft Azure and Apache Kafka.

Throughout my career, I have demonstrated success in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enhancing CI/CD automation, and leading platform modernization initiatives. My hands-on experience includes deploying and administering Kafka clusters, developing alerting and self-healing solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals. I am passionate about reducing operational toil and improving cloud spend visibility while maintaining high availability and performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer

Current

Grubhub

Jan 2019 - Present (6 years 5 months)

Orchestrated infrastructure transformation from monolith to microservices on Azure AKS, improving scalability and fault tolerance. Automated end-to-end CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Terraform, reducing deployment time by 75%. Deployed and administered Kafka clusters for streaming transactions, telemetry, and user events across multiple environments.

Azure DevOps Terraform Apache Kafka Prometheus Grafana PagerDuty CI CD Microservices

Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE)

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Feb 2018 - Jan 2019 (11 months)

Provisioned multi-region infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm for fintech and healthcare clients. Built custom CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, enabling blue-green and canary deployments. Engineered scalable, event-driven systems leveraging Confluent Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Azure Event Hubs.

Terraform Kubernetes Helm GitHub Actions Jenkins Confluent Kafka Streams Azure Event Hubs Golang

DevOps Engineer

i2c Inc.

Jan 2017 - Jun 2017 (5 months)

Managed infrastructure for a high-volume payment processing platform, supporting over 10 million daily transactions. Integrated Kafka producers and consumers for asynchronous processing of card events and fraud alerts. Hardened CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based staging environments to ensure secure deployments.

Apache Kafka Docker CI CD Payment Processing Unit Testing Integration Testing Deployment Gates Infrastructure Management

Software Consultant (Java & DevOps)

Freelancer.com

Jan 2016 - Jun 2016 (5 months)

Designed scalable back-end services in Java and Go for eCommerce and travel platforms deployed on Azure. Created Terraform templates and Azure Bicep scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and environment management. Supported API integrations, monitoring setup, and provided on-call support for incident remediation.