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khizar Muhammad

@khizarmuhammad

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Senior DevOps engineer driving cloud infrastructure automation, reliability, and cost optimization.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a cloud-native role where I can lead infrastructure automation, mentor teams, and deliver scalable, secure, cost-efficient systems in regulated environments.

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with five years of experience building scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure for FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS platforms. I specialize in Kubernetes orchestration, multi-cloud strategies, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code to deliver fast, reliable releases under strict regulatory requirements.

At Cipherlogic I managed large-scale Amazon EKS deployments, implemented blue/green upgrades with AWS Global Accelerator, and architected multi-cloud bursting to GKE for GPU workloads—achieving 99.9% uptime, large cost savings, and dramatically faster upgrade cycles. I also strengthened observability and led DevSecOps adoption across global teams.

I mentor engineers, define infrastructure best practices, and drive automation that improves deployment velocity and system resilience. I seek to apply my expertise in cloud-native architecture, SRE principles, and compliance-focused operations to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

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Cipherlogic

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Oversee DevOps roadmap for an AI-driven cloud SaaS platform, managing multiple EKS clusters (up to 700 nodes) to maintain 99.9% uptime and reduce upgrade cycles from 5 months to 5 days via blue/green deployments and AWS Global Accelerator.

Kubernetes CI CD Blue Green Deployment Cost Optimization Terraform Python

DevOps Engineer

Caylent

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Led infrastructure modernization for healthcare and SaaS clients on AWS, containerizing monoliths to Kubernetes and automating IaC and CI/CD to cut environment deployment time from 5 hours to 1 hour and enable zero-downtime releases.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation Prometheus Grafana

DevOps Engineer (Associate)

NETSOL Technologies

Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Spearheaded cloud enablement of NFS Ascent on Azure, implemented CI/CD with Terraform and Azure DevOps to enable one-click deployments and achieved the first cloud go-live for a UK bank with zero downtime.

Azure Terraform Azure DevOps CI CD Configuration Management Secrets Management PostgreSQL Docker