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Muhammad Shahbaz

Summary

Seeking a challenging role to leverage my expertise in Azure and contribute to the success of innovative projects.

12+ years of professional IT experience with complete knowledge in SDLC in DevOps technologies with expertise in Cloud Automation, IT Security, IT Networking, Platform Support, Cloud Administration and Production Support. Installed, configured and maintained services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, Samba, SSH, RPM and YUM Repository. Expertise in creating solutions with typical AWS services like IAM, RAM, EC2, AMI, ENI, ELB, ASG, EBS, EFS, RDS, Aurora, Elastic Cache, Route53, S3, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, S3 Select, S3 Glacier, Athena, Cloud Front, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon FSx, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, Dynamo DB, API Gateway, AWS Cognito, Redshift, Neptune, Elastic Search, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS Cloud Trail, AWS Config, AWS Security, KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, WAF, CIDR, VPC, Egress, Elastic Beanstalk and familiar with blue/green deployment in AWS. implementing, and managing cloud solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. Proven track record of delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions that meet business objectives. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my expertise in Azure and contribute to the success of innovative projects. Monitored and maintained the disk space and backup systems, and implemented change controls, capacity planning and growth projections on the systems. Working with terraform for various infrastructure provisioning in AWS, made use of terraform code for S3 bucket access management, Security group update, wrote terratests, reviewing and debugging terraform code for any discrepancies. Spearheaded the implementation of Datadog monitoring solutions for comprehensive infrastructure and application visibility. Designed and configured custom dashboards in Datadog to provide real-time insights into key performance metrics. Established effective alerting mechanisms and anomaly detection in Datadog to ensure proactive issue identification. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to seamlessly integrate Datadog with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. Leveraged Datadog's log management capabilities for efficient log aggregation, correlation, and analysis. Implemented Datadog APM to trace and optimize application performance, contributing to improved response times. Led the adoption of Datadog synthetic monitoring for proactive identification of user experience issues.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Bank Of America
New York, NY
01.2022 - Current
  • Followed Agile Methodology to provide/take feedback on the features, suggest/implement optimal solutions
  • Implemented the Model View Control (MVC) structure Developing Code using Ansible, Python,Terraform and Splunk tools to deploy applications in AWS
  • Involved heavily in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible, Bitbucket, Sonarqube, Terraform and AWS and created notifications and alarms for EC2 instances using CloudWatch

Cloud Engineer

Nissan Motors
Franklin, TN
09.2017 - 01.2022
  • Lead the design and implementation of Azure-based cloud solutions for enterprise clients, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define cloud architecture, requirements, and best practices
  • Configure and Launch Azure Web Apps, Web Jobs, Create Topics/Queues in Service Bus kubernetes etc., and also automate them via bash scripts
  • Create gold build AMIs
  • Apply changes to remediate vulnerabilities identified by scans (either within the Windows build or in Active Directory GPOs)
  • Test the developed AMIs to ensure they are functional
  • Integrate into the AWS build process
  • Develop documented procedures on how to spin up instances using the AMI builds (procedures will be used by DevOps teams to spin-up their EC2 instances)
  • Publish gold image AMIs into AWS accounts
  • Keep Windows AMIs updated as needed to adhere to security standards
  • Execute same process for GCP (Build, integrate, publish and support at GCP)
  • Provide troubleshooting assistance to DevOps teams as they build Windows based EC2 instances
  • Implement patching for Windows EC2 instances utilizing Systems Manager and Cloud Formation
  • Assist in the design, engineering and migration of Windows based shared services from on premise to AWS and GCP
  • Examples may include: VDIs, Citrix, RightFax, Shared Drives, Vcenter (among others)
  • Develop, implement and optimize operational aspects of AWS and GCP as it relates to shared services Windows components
  • Provide L3/L4 support for current on-premise Windows servers/applications
  • Developing Code using Ansible, Python, Terraform and Splunk tools to deploy applications in AWS
  • Manage and optimize Azure resources, including virtual machines, storage accounts, and networking components to ensure efficient resource utilization
  • Implement Azure DevOps pipelines for automated deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of applications
  • Design and implement Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) solutions for identity and access management
  • Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform and written Terraform templates for configuring EC2 instances, security groups, subnets and Automated the infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform

DevOps Tech Lead

Barclays
New York, NY
03.2016 - 08.2017
  • Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the application like requirements gathering, Design, Analysis, Code development and Testing
  • Developed Use case diagrams, Class diagrams, and Sequence diagrams using UML
  • Created, configured and automated Amazon Web Services as well as involved in deploying the content to cloud platform using the services such as EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, Code Pipeline, Migration hub, ELB, SNS, SNI, Ops Works, Redshift and Cloud watch etc., Installed and configured AWS Cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, and EBS
  • Involved heavily in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible, Bitbucket, Sonarqube, Terraform and AWS and created notifications and alarms for EC2 instances using CloudWatch

Infrastructure Engineer

Value America
Pittsburgh, PA
10.2014 - 02.2016
  • Involved in the complete development, testing and maintenance of the application
  • Designed UI Screens using Servlets, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, XHTML and HTML
  • Designed use case diagrams, class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Microsoft Visio tool
  • Created Session Beans to handle the business logic associated with the Inspection
  • Developed and deployed various Entity EJBs and session EJBs
  • Involved in the Object-Oriented Requirement Analysis Phase of the project in order to gather business logic requirement
  • Coding of JSP Pages for External Application (EXA) using Custom Tag Library which create standard tag used in the application
  • Involved in designing application based on MVC Architecture
  • Developed Session beans to implement the core Business logic
  • Involved in coding the helper classes for better data exchange between different layers
  • Provided production support by fixing bugs
  • Performed unit testing, system testing and user acceptance test.

System Administrator

Infosys
India, India
05.2012 - 09.2014
  • Involved in the complete development, testing and maintenance of the application
  • Designed UI Screens using Servlets, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, XHTML and HTML
  • Designed use case diagrams, class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Microsoft Visio tool
  • Created Session Beans to handle the business logic associated with the Inspection
  • Developed and deployed various Entity EJBs and session EJBs
  • Involved in the Object-Oriented Requirement Analysis Phase of the project in order to gather business logic requirement
  • Coding of JSP Pages for External Application (EXA) using Custom Tag Library which create standard tag used in the application
  • Involved in designing application based on MVC Architecture
  • Developed Session beans to implement the core Business logic
  • Involved in coding the helper classes for better data exchange between different layers
  • Provided production support by fixing bugs
  • Performed unit testing, system testing and user acceptance test.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

UOG
05.2012

Skills

  • Linux (Red Hat)
  • Windows
  • UNIX - Sun Solaris
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • Subversion
  • CVS
  • Git
  • Bit Bucket
  • GitHub
  • Artifactory
  • Datadog
  • AWS EC2
  • S3
  • ELB
  • ASG
  • Route 53
  • Kinesis
  • Cloud Watch
  • IAM
  • Azure web app
  • Azure F5
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Azure APIM
  • Key Vault
  • App Insight
  • Databricks
  • ETL
  • Glue
  • Crawlers
  • Snowflake
  • Quicksight
  • Athena
  • Data lakes tool
  • Shell
  • Power Shell
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • NET
  • Go
  • Terraform
  • Cloud formation
  • VMware ESX/ESXi
  • VirtualBox
  • Hypervisor
  • Vagrant
  • Docker
  • Swarm
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Openstack
  • HTML
  • Java Script
  • XML
  • Servlets
  • JDBC
  • JSP
  • WebLogic
  • WebSphere
  • JBoss
  • Tomcat
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • Clear Quest
  • HPSM
  • Jira
  • Remedy
  • Oracle
  • DB2
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Mongo DB
  • Cassandra
  • Cosmos DB

Certification

Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-104 + AZ-900

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Bank Of America
01.2022 - Current

Cloud Engineer

Nissan Motors
09.2017 - 01.2022

DevOps Tech Lead

Barclays
03.2016 - 08.2017

Infrastructure Engineer

Value America
10.2014 - 02.2016

System Administrator

Infosys
05.2012 - 09.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

UOG
Muhammad Shahbaz