Anwar Faisal
Katy,TX
Summary
Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Passionate about AWS, containerization, automation, and CICD. Experienced in INFRA automation and configuration management. I have a track record of success in designing, developing, and implementing tools and frameworks in multiple technologies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
DTNA
01.2023 - Current
- Provisioned and maintained INFRA as code IaC using Terraform.
- Manage, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications.
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools.
- Enhanced application performance by optimizing infrastructure configurations based on usage patterns.
- Collaborated with development teams to streamline software releases, resulting in faster time to market.
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, improving resource utilization and management.
- Optimized resources configuration and server maintenance using Ansible.
- Actively managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudWatch and RDS, including backups.
- Developed Linux/UNIX scripts to accomplish redundant tasks to simplify in distributed administration.
- Reduced application downtime with proactive identification and resolution of potential issues through comprehensive performance testing and monitoring.
Sr. SDET
Socure
11.2021 - 01.2023
- Enhanced software quality by designing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases.
- Boosted product efficiency with meticulous performance testing, identifying areas for improvement.
- · Implemented and maintained a framework from scratch for API testing using SuperTest with Jest, PactumJS.
- · Implemented and maintained a framework from scratch for automating E2E with Cypress.
- Improved overall software stability by troubleshooting issues and providing technical expertise to developers.
- Reduced regression testing timeframes by implementing efficient automated test scripts.
- Wrote and executed tests and diagnostics designed to validate products and software applications.
- Participated in Agile development processes to support continual improvements in overall delivery efforts.
DevOps Engineer
Wells Fargo
09.2017 - 11.2021
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools using different tools, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, prometheus.
- Experienced with Git source code control, Infrastructure as Code IaC, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experienced on Load Balancing, Controlling Flow of Traffic by using AWS ELB, ALB, NLB.
- Wrote and tested Ansible playbooks to configure and perform tasks on remote nodes.
- Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices.
- Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
- Provisioned AWS resources via AWS CLI/API - this includes defining VPCs, ECS clusters, Auto-Scaling Policies/Groups, and Security Group.
QA Test Engineer
AT&T
03.2013 - 08.2017
- Enhanced software quality by developing comprehensive test plans and executing various test cases.
- Improved team efficiency by collaborating with developers to review and refine code throughout the development process.
- Streamlined testing processes by implementing automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration.
- Utilized Jenkins for Continuous Integration(CI) of the automation framework and Bitbucket as Version Control.
- Performed Back End Testing by writing Javascript scripts to validate data against db.
- Developed reusable test scripts using scripting languages, reducing manual testing efforts significantly over multiple projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Process Engineering
University of Tripoli
Tripoli10.2010
Skills
Containerization : Docker, Kubernetes
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Scripting/Programming: Python, Javascript, Bash
Cloud: AWS (ALB, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, VPS, Cloudformation, DynamoDB, RDS, EBS, EFS, S3, EC2etc)
Automation : Terraform, Ansible, Cypress
Monitoring/Logging: Datadog, ELK, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
PROJECTS
- Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform on AWS.
- Jenkins Deployment via Helm, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Three Tier Application on AWS via Terraform.
Certification
AWS Cloud Certified.
HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certified.
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
DTNA
01.2023 - Current
Sr. SDET
Socure
11.2021 - 01.2023
DevOps Engineer
Wells Fargo
09.2017 - 11.2021
QA Test Engineer
AT&T
03.2013 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Process Engineering
University of Tripoli
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