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Khizar Riaz

@khizarriaz

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Senior DevOps engineer driving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation, mentor teams, drive reliability and cost optimization, and work in regulated or enterprise environments with strong DevSecOps practices.

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with five years of experience designing scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, and CI/CD automation for FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS platforms. I focus on infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud strategies, and observability to deliver faster deployments, cost savings, and high availability.

At enterprise scale I've managed large Amazon EKS fleets, implemented blue/green and canary deployments for zero-downtime upgrades, and led cross-functional DevOps and SRE practices that improved deployment velocity and uptime while enforcing security and regulatory compliance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Cipherlogic

Feb 2024 - Present (1 year 11 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 cut Kubernetes upgrade cycles from 5 months to 5 days via blue/green deployments and AWS Global Accelerator.

Kubernetes Blue Green Deployment Cost Optimization Terraform

DevOps Engineer

Caylent

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

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

AWS Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation

DevOps Engineer (Associate)

Netsol Technologies

Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Spearheaded cloud enablement of NFS Ascent on Microsoft Azure, implemented CI/CD with Terraform and Azure DevOps, and delivered the first cloud-based deployment for a UK bank with zero downtime and 99% uptime.