Umar Murtaza

With extensive experience spanning across the innovative realms of IT and cloud computing, I have developed a profound expertise in driving organizational success through the strategic implementation and management of cutting-edge technologies. I am a Certified Solutions Architect in both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in navigating the multifaceted cloud ecosystems to propel businesses towards operational excellence.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

- 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Leveraged the advanced capabilities of AWS, GCP, and various PaaS services to facilitate seamless migration and deployment of applications, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability.

- 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines, automated workflows, and optimized configurations to accelerate development cycles, enhance productivity, and reduce time-to-market.

- 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Orchestrated containerized applications with Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization, scalability, and reliability of diverse application ecosystems. Setup ML workloads on GKE with GPUs provisioned virtual machines for training and serving.

- 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 (𝗜𝗮𝗖) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Expert in automating the provisioning and management of infrastructure on AWS and GCP through Terraform, implementing code-driven approaches to ensure the consistent, reproducible, and scalable deployment of cloud resources. Leveraged modular and maintainable Terraform scripts to encapsulate infrastructure configurations, enabling rapid adaptations to evolving business and technology requirements. By integrating Terraform with CI/CD pipelines, I’ve optimized infrastructure updates and enhanced overall deployment strategies, ensuring seamless alignment between development and operations.

- 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Possess rich heritage in managing on-premises to data center transitions,maintaining a keen focus on infrastructure resilience, availability, and efficiency.

Certificatons

- Google Professional Cloud Architect by Google (2022)

- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate by AWS (2000)

Skills

- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure

- Configuration Management: Google Cloud Deployment Manager, AWS OpsWorks, Azure, Automation, Ansible

- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS)

- CI/CD Tools: Google Cloud Build, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Jenkins

- Version Control: GCP Source Repository, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket

- Scripting Languages: Bash, Python

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation

- Linux System Administration