Saad Minhas

I’m a DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience across AWS and Azure, focused on infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and cost optimization. I’m currently working remotely for a US-based company, managing real-world deployments and governance at scale.

At NextGen Technologies, I manage Azure infrastructure and delivery workflows—Azure VMs, VMSS, Key Vaults, Managed SQL, and Azure DevOps Classic pipelines. I lead Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) migration to Microsoft 365, and I’ve implemented canary release strategies for AKS workloads with traffic splitting and fast rollback paths.

I’ve also set up RBAC governance and automated secret rotation across Azure resources, improving security-incident response time by 30%. By tuning resource usage and scaling policies, I reduced monthly cloud spend by 18% while maintaining performance SLAs.

Earlier, I built and maintained AWS infrastructure for .NET and MSSQL applications using Terraform and AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and ECS. I also gained practical automation experience through an internship and freelance work, including Infrastructure-as-Code, Ansible configuration, multi-stage CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and Kubernetes cluster operations.