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Raheel Masood

@raheelmasood

Senior DevOps Engineer automating AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability to deliver reliable cloud delivery.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead DevOps work that strengthens automation, reliability, and operational excellence—building CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes and cloud-native observability to support scalable, high-performance delivery in modern DevOps ecosystems.

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on automating cloud infrastructure and modern software delivery. I’ve led DevOps initiatives across e-commerce, automotive, fintech, and technology services, building end-to-end pipelines with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Kubernetes-based platforms. My work emphasizes cloud migration, containerization, and reliable operations with strong monitoring and observability.

Most recently, I led a major communication platform migration from paid Slack to self-hosted Mattermost, reducing messaging costs by over 90% while enabling autonomous AI agents in team workflows. During a regional security crisis, I executed an emergency AWS migration from UAE to Frankfurt—transferring database snapshots, provisioning ECS workloads, and restoring full business continuity with minimal downtime. I also designed a greenfield AWS landing zone using Control Tower and identity integrations, then implemented blue-green deployments for a Rails backend using AWS CDK.

I’ve built robust CI/CD and operational capabilities using GitHub Actions and release automation, and I’ve improved production visibility by setting up Sentry release tracking and replacing New Relic with CloudWatch dashboards. Earlier in my career, I scaled infrastructure automation on 20,000+ servers using Ansible roles, and I helped clients modernize systems (including Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, Kafka, EKS, and MongoDB) while strengthening compliance through organization-level configuration rules. I’m committed to continuously advancing automation, reliability, and operational excellence in modern DevOps ecosystems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead DevOps Engineer

Current

ZAR

Jul 2025 - Present (11 months)

Migrated company communication from paid Slack to self-hosted Mattermost, reducing messaging costs by over 90% and enabling AI agents to automate SDLC workflows. Led an emergency AWS region migration (UAE to Frankfurt), provisioning ECS applications from restored backups to maintain full business continuity with minimal downtime.

Amazon ECS AWS CDK AWS Control Tower AWS Identity Center

Senior DevOps Engineer

Digital Ocean

Feb 2025 - Jul 2025 (5 months)

Deployed a VictoriaMetrics cluster on Amazon EKS and built Grafana dashboards to monitor infrastructure and system performance. Created and maintained Ansible roles to automatically install Prometheus-compatible exporters across 20,000+ servers.

Amazon EKS Kubernetes VictoriaMetrics Grafana Ansible Prometheus Exporters Observability Infrastructure Automation

Senior DevOps Engineer

Rackspace Technology

Nov 2020 - Aug 2024 (3 years 9 months)

Delivered customized DevOps and infrastructure automation solutions for enterprise clients, building account provisioning workflows with AWS Step Functions integrated into Service Catalog and CloudFormation StackSets. Modernized a legacy ASP.NET shipment tracking system to cloud-native services (Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, Kafka, EKS, MongoDB) and implemented Kubernetes-based Prometheus/Grafana moni

AWS Step Functions AWS CloudFormation AWS Service Catalog AWS Lambda Backstage.Io Amazon EKS Grafana Amazon SQS API Gateway AWS Config

Software Engineer

Sell Any Car

Aug 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 2 months)

Helped transition a large monolith into smaller services using AWS EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, and ECS to improve scalability and reliability. Built a home-based car inspection service (Node.js, ECS, DynamoDB) and redesigned the payment system with Aurora, SQS, and Lambda for better performance and security.

Amazon EC2 AWS Lambda API Gateway Amazon ECS GraphQL Amazon DynamoDB Amazon SQS Microservices

Lead Software Engineer

Venture Dive

Oct 2018 - Aug 2019 (10 months)

Led the backend team of 4 developers (PHP, Node.js, Python), setting coding standards and implementing 12-Factor App principles to improve scalability and deployment efficiency. Built an admin dashboard (ReactJS) integrated with Java Spring Boot APIs and contributed a Python SDK for Apache Beam based on an existing Java SDK.

Team Leadership PHP Python SonarQube ReactJS Spring Boot API Integration Apache Beam

Software Engineer

Iprice Group

Jun 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Built web product features using PHP/Laravel and Elasticsearch, including dynamic product listing pages and Trusted Reviews integration. Developed a Python ETL pipeline (Pandas, FTP) to process ~2 million products nightly for Elasticsearch updates and optimized processing using Python multiprocessing.

PHP Laravel Elasticsearch Python Pandas FTP Automation Python Multiprocessing