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MOHAMMED SAIFULLAH KHAN

Plano,TX

Summary

Skilled engineer with over 5 years of Industry experience in designing, automating, and optimizing infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD and devops processes.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Verizon Wireless
09.2020 - 05.2023
  • Designed, built, and configured various applications to align with business and application requirements across On-Prem and Cloud environments
  • Implemented a wide range of AWS Cloud services, including EC2 servers, S3, ALB, Auto-Scaling Groups, Security Groups, Cloud Formation, KMS, EFS and MSK
  • Implemented DevOps model practices to automate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and config-as-code approach using Ansible, resulting in a 50% reduction in time spent on manual infrastructure configuration
  • Developed and Supported release and deployment pipelines for Java Springboot applications in Production and lower environments along with monthly on-call rotations
  • Maintained the CI/CD pipeline for Kubernetes using Helm to deploy various services onto the K8s cluster using Jenkins and built various jobs for K8s operations
  • Installed and configured Kafka for sending large amounts of data streaming and processing by various applications
  • Implemented various logging and monitoring tools like New Relic, Logstash, fluentd and exported logs to view them in Elasticsearch/Opensearch and Grafana, to create alerts and monitor Infra during outages
  • Implemented open-source web servers like Apache, Tomcat and possess good understanding of web-based protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, REST, and networking protocols such as IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/IP Stack
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve application issues, achieving a 50% decrease in downtime
  • Committed to comprehending the architecture of various applications to effectively troubleshoot any issues that may arise.

DevOps Engineer

Verizon Wireless
09.2019 - 01.2020
  • Built the CloudFormation scripts to provision resources like EC2, EBS, S3 buckets, Network Interfaces, VPCs and subnets as per the requirement
  • Configured manifest files in Kubernetes like the deployment, horizontal pod autoscaler, secrets, service, configmaps and ingress which helped deploy various services on to the K8s cluster
  • Utilized Helm for k8s deployments which helps maintain the versioning and package managing for Kubernetes
  • Automated various jobs in Jenkins and developed playbooks in Ansible to perform various tasks like installing packages, services, Apache and Tomcat deployments, monitoring scripts, Infrastructure setup
  • Created Dashboards in Grafana to monitor metrics like CPU and memory utilization for our servers using CloudWatch as data source
  • Maintained the source code in GitLab repos to have centralized access and documented tasks in Confluence.

DevOps Engineer

Sysgain, Inc
01.2019 - 08.2019
  • Designed and Deployed resources using various Cloud Computing providers like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Authored configurations and modules to implement Infra-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision resources in Cloud
  • Designed and configured secure Networks in OCI and created various subnets, security lists, routing table and internet gateways for virtual servers
  • Worked with OCI IAM Service to provide different levels of access to various teams and worked on defining various resource policies that were needed by various labs in our platform
  • Authored various Ansible playbooks for various tasks to pave a way for automation and integrated with Jenkins
  • Monitored the server performance, CPU Utilization and disk usage using Datadog and Grafana to raise alarm in case of any emergency
  • Created Load tests using JMeter scripts to test various microservice endpoints and various APIs used in building the platform, to analyze performance of the underlying infrastructure
  • Lead the Support Team which handled requests from various users/customers using our platform resulting in a 60% increase in efficiency of the team
  • Catered to a wide variety of issues/complaints by providing a solution to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Worked on writing Dockerfiles for our services within Docker to create containers and to report any errors within the services
  • Developed and automated QA tests (Functional, Smoke, Unit) leveraging Blazemeter, Rainforest QA and Full Story
  • Created the images and fleets for remote desktop image using Appstream 2.0 hosted in AWS
  • Raised the service requests with Oracle Support to ensure enough resources are running in the OCI Tenants which eliminates any hindrance caused to the Infra Team and the QA Team
  • Responsible for taking care of any issues faced by the customers using our Product/Application
  • Lead the Support Team handling requests from various users/customers using our platform and catering to a wide variety of issues/complaints and providing a solution to ensure customer satisfaction.

Cloud Engineer Intern

Sysgain, Inc
05.2017 - 12.2018
  • Designed and learned to build solutions in OCI using Terraform
  • Built JMeter Scripts to test the API endpoints building our platform
  • Utilized the Managed Application service in Azure to build a deployable version of an application like Chef, Docker, and Jenkins for users.

Education

M. S. Computer Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology
05.2016

B.TECH. Electronics and Communication Engineering -

GITAM Institute of Technology
05.2014

Skills

  • Bash
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Verizon Wireless
09.2020 - 05.2023

DevOps Engineer

Verizon Wireless
09.2019 - 01.2020

DevOps Engineer

Sysgain, Inc
01.2019 - 08.2019

Cloud Engineer Intern

Sysgain, Inc
05.2017 - 12.2018

M. S. Computer Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology

B.TECH. Electronics and Communication Engineering -

GITAM Institute of Technology
MOHAMMED SAIFULLAH KHAN