Mohammed Faraz Ahmed
Chicago,IL
Summary
DevOps Engineer with over 3 years of experience in designing and managing scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proficient in developing CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation, and utilizing container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker. Expertise in automation with Ansible and Jenkins, leading to reduced deployment times and enhanced system reliability. Committed to optimizing workflows and integrating DevSecOps practices to foster innovation in cloud-native environments.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Cloudsphere Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
02.2023 - 01.2025
Led migration of monolithic applications to microservices architecture on AWS EKS, increasing deployment frequency by 40%.
Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-region infrastructure on AWS, decreasing provisioning errors by 70%.
Integrated SonarQube, Trivy, and OWASP ZAP into CI/CD pipelines for automated security checks.
Junior DevOps Engineer
Nexus Innovations
New York, NY
03.2022 - 11.2022
Built containerized environments with Docker and deployed. GCP GKE using Helm charts.
Maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, reducing build failures through automated test gates.
Wrote Ansible playbooks for automating server provisioning and application deployments across development and staging environments.
Configured GCP IAM roles and firewall rules while managing Compute Engine instances for custom workloads.
Participated in daily stand-ups and sprint planning to align infrastructure changes with product updates.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN05-2023
Skills
- AWS management
- Azure management
- Terraform automation
- Kubernetes orchestration
- CI/CD pipeline development
- Containerization
- Monitoring and logging
- Infrastructure as code
- Agile methodologies
- Security integration
- Microservices architecture
- Programming
- Python
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Cloudsphere Technologies
02.2023 - 01.2025
Junior DevOps Engineer
Nexus Innovations
03.2022 - 11.2022
Master of Science - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
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