Asharib Mazhar
DevOps Engineer
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
Meticulous DevOps Engineer maintaining highly functional digital systems for uninterrupted workflows and consistent productivity. Oversees routine maintenance checks and software update schedules to reduce network downtime and likelihood of security compromises. Loves collaborating with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
Jersey City, NJ
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Partnered with sales team to design solutions for customers and drive AWS adoption and revenue.
- Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
- Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
- Defined information models supporting data assets for complex data structures represented through relational and hierarchical databases.
- Experience in deploying, managing, and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, and IAM.
- Experience in setting up EKS clusters and configuring VPC, EC2 to host nodes and Kubectl to configure Kubernetes.
- Designed and maintained advanced monitoring dashboards using Grafana, integrated with Prometheus for real-time metric collection, ensuring visibility into system health and fostering data-driven decisions.
- Architect and deploy scalable and highly available production environments using Kubernetes, ensuring resilient system infrastructure and reduced downtime.
- Leverage Terraform to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC), managing and provisioning the technology stack for both public and private clouds, enabling rapid and reliable infrastructure changes.
- Use Ansible for configuration management to automate system configurations, ensuring consistency, reliability, and speed of deployment across varied environments.
- Leveraged Splunk for log analytics and SIEM, transforming raw logs into actionable insights and bolstering security measures.
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration & Delivery tools like Azure DevOps, Jules, and Jenkins.
- Understanding of AWS network and application load balancing solutions, including ELB and ALB with autoscaling groups as well as certificate management.
- Employ Python scripting to automate routine administrative tasks, such as log rotation, data backups, and server maintenance, resulting in a 50% reduction in manual effort and human errors.
- Write and maintain robust Ansible playbooks and roles for system administration tasks including patch management, user management, and system hardening.
- Utilized Wiz to perform cloud security posture management (CSPM) across various cloud platforms, ensuring robust security configurations and compliance with industry standards.
- Integrated Checkmarx into the CI/CD pipeline to automate code scanning for vulnerabilities, reducing risk and improving the overall security of applications.
- Deployed and maintained SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality, identifying bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells, contributing to the development of cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Adept at working with Oracle databases, expertly crafting efficient SQL queries and integrating REST API interfaces to enhance application functionality and user experience.
- Leveraged DataDog and CloudWatch for monitoring and optimizing AWS environments, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Collaborated with operations and engineering teams to implement and refine cloud-native security monitoring, utilizing tools such as wiz.io across multiple platforms.
- Developed threat models to systematically identify risks and prioritize improvements in architecture, enhancing overall security resilience.
- Worked diligently to maintain compliance across production, development, and corporate systems hosted in public clouds, utilizing CSPM tools and continuous monitoring.
DevOps Engineer
Prudential Financial
Newark, NJ
07.2020 - 05.2023
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Proficient in managing and deploying containerized applications using OpenShift, including creating Docker images, defining Kubernetes manifests, and utilizing Helm charts.
- Monitored the changes and history of your code, and quickly reverted to previous versions if necessary.
- Experience in creating and managing Kubernetes clusters on various cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of writing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules.
- Ran Ansible Adhoc commands, ran playbooks for migration and managed SSH keys using tower.
- Experienced in setting up CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automating Terraform deployments.
- Developed Terraform code for a Kubernetes infrastructure build. Managed it using Kubectl for Kubernetes.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies and working in a collaborative team environment.
Linux System Engineer
Prudential Financial
Newark, NJ
07.2018 - 06.2020
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Oversaw development and maintenance of organization computer systems and intranet.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
- Hands-on experience with deploying, managing, and scaling applications on AWS using Linux-based instances.
- Strong experience with Linux administration and maintenance, including installation, configuration, and management of Linux systems.
- Ability to monitor and optimize system performance using tools like top, ps, iostat, and vmstat.
- Created, managed, and troubleshot ssh keys for setting up password less access and resolving end user access issues between servers in various environments.
- Deployed virtual machines clones for redundancy and performed virtual machine restoration, rollbacks, from snapshots for production systems storing sensitive data.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
- Performed code refactoring and optimization to improve performance.
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 05.2001 -
Skills
Cloud services
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
05.2023 - 08.2023
DevOps Engineer
Prudential Financial
07.2020 - 05.2023
Linux System Engineer
Prudential Financial
07.2018 - 06.2020
Bachelor of Arts -
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
05.2001 -