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Rayn Ahmed

@raynahmed

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I'm a DevOps and SRE leader driving multi-cloud automation, observability, and resilient infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking a senior SRE/DevOps role to architect and automate multi-cloud infrastructure, enhance observability and reliability, implement DevSecOps practices, mentor engineers, and drive measurable uptime and delivery improvements in a collaborative team.

I'm a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years designing and operating secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD), and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).

I built and scaled observability and incident-response pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty, embedded SLIs/SLOs into release workflows, and automated compliance with HashiCorp Vault, OPA, Checkov, and Trivy to reduce manual interventions and improve reliability.

I champion GitOps and multi-cloud architectures, lead chaos engineering and automation initiatives, and mentor engineers to deliver measurable improvements in uptime, security, and delivery speed—seeking to bring automation-first reliability practices to a collaborative, growth-oriented team.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Current

Cortex

Jul 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Led design and deployment of an internal developer portal to improve microservice ownership visibility and SLA compliance, increasing cross-team accountability. Architected real-time observability pipelines (Datadog, PagerDuty) and automated compliance/remediation APIs, reducing manual interventions and accelerating incident resolution.

Terraform Ansible ArgoCD Datadog)PagerDuty Kubernetes GitOps REST APIs Datadog

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Cycle.io

Apr 2017 - Jun 2021 (4 years 2 months)

Architected and implemented scalable infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Terraform to enable rapid, repeatable cloud-native deployments. Built observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) and integrated DevSecOps scanning (Trivy, OPA, Vault) to improve release velocity and compliance.

GitHub Actions)ArgoCD Terraform Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry Trivy GitHub Actions

DevOps Engineer

StormForge

Mar 2014 - Mar 2017 (3 years)

Developed Kubernetes resource optimization frameworks and reusable Terraform modules to reduce cloud costs and standardize provisioning. Automated CI/CD with Jenkins and GitLab CI and created Python/Bash tooling for maintenance and failover, improving uptime and operational efficiency.

Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Gitlab CI Python BASH CI CD Cost Optimization