Muhammad User
@muhammad-ahmar
Senior Lead DevOps and Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience across Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering, SQA and software development. Experienc
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior/Lead DevOps and Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience spanning DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Platform Engineering, SQA and software development. I specialize in designing, automating, securing and operating reliable production environments across AWS, Azure and GCP.
My technical background covers Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Docker, Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Azure DevOps. I have built CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, cloud architectures, automated deployment systems, observability solutions and security controls for production environments.
I also have strong hands-on programming experience with Python, Node.js/JavaScript, Bash and Go. I develop automation tools, backend services, APIs, integrations, scripts and internal engineering solutions and have experience contributing to and deploying full-stack applications. I am comfortable working directly with application code, debugging complex issues and connecting applications with cloud infrastructure and managed services.
My software quality background includes code reviews, peer reviews, bug detection, test case creation and review, functional and regression testing and application troubleshooting. I have experience with Cypress, Selenium and JMeter alongside Black Box, White Box and performance testing.
Currently, I work as a Lead DevOps Engineer managing 12+ engineers across multi-cloud production environments serving clients in the US, UK, EU and Middle East. I enjoy solving complex technical problems, improving engineering processes, mentoring teams and building scalable platforms that make software delivery faster, safer and more reliable.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead DevOps Engineer
Nixense Vixion
Apr 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)
Led a team of 12 Cloud DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers, providing technical leadership and architectural guidance. Delivered cloud-native solutions for international clients across Healthcare, Fintech, Real Estate, AI and Blockchain domains.
DevOps Engineer
InvoZone
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 9 months)
Led 4-6 engineers across multiple projects, owning 24x7 Site Reliability Engineering operations across AWS, GCP, Azure. Built and maintained cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.
DevOps Automation Engineer
MailMunch
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 (7 months)
Built, maintained and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline and implemented GitOps deployment practices. Managed highly available cloud infrastructure aligned with SLAs, SLIs and SLOs.
DevOps Engineer
Caramel Tech Studios
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 10 months)
Optimized AWS infrastructure with auto-scaling and multi-AZ failover, achieving 99.9% uptime. Led containerization of monolithic apps into microservices on Kubernetes with Helm, increasing deployment frequency 4x.
Senior Software QA Engineer
Caramel Tech Studios
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018 (2 years 10 months)
Designed automated test frameworks using Ansible, Cypress.io and JMeter, reducing regression test cycle time by 60%. Conducted load/stress testing on EMQX and RabbitMQ.
Software QA Engineer
Black Box Labz
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016 (4 months)
Performed functional, integration and performance testing for e-commerce and mobile applications, tracking defects in Jira/Asana to ensure on-time, high-quality releases.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Bradford
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Grade: First Class Honors
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with First Class Honors.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Blockchain
DigitalOcean
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SonarQube
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
AWS CodeBuild
Bitbucket Pipelines
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
Node.js
Redis
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
JFrog Artifactory
Logstash
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Istio
fastlane
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Ubuntu
CentOS
Linux
iOS
New Relic
Datadog
jFrog
gRPC
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
Checkmarx
Ansible
Serverless
OAuth2
NGINX
SQL
Xray
Snyk
Trivy
ArgoCD
Terragrunt
Black
Bash
Checkov
Karpenter
Loops
Kustomize
Android
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
github.com/rsync-cloudPortfolio
muhammad-ahmar.github.ioSocial media
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