Syed Iqbal Ahmed

Certified Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with over 10 years of expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Azure cloud platforms. Passionate about automation, Devops, IaC and leveraging cloud technologies to improve the agility and efficiency of businesses. 

Key Achievement: Implemented scalable architectures, reserved instance and AWS RAM for infrastructure optimization, achieving a 70% cost savings through strategic infrastructure management. 

Nextbase - Senior Cloud Engineer, Cardiff, United Kingdom 

May 2022 - Current

• Implemented monitoring and logging solutions with AWS CloudWatch and integrated with Grafana & Prometheus for real-time data analytics dashboards.
• Implementedscalable architectures, reserved instance and AWS RAM for infrastructure optimization, achieving a 70% cost savings.
• Collaborated with developers and teams to improve deployment methods, reducing failures by 45% and increasing system stability by 15%.
• Used AWS Batch, Lambda, and Kinesis Video with AI in Docker to better understand and detect traffic patterns for advanced road AI.
• Implemented EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) with infrastructure backed by Terraform and used Gitlab ci for deployment of application.
• Designed a robust disaster recovery system using Terraform for high data accuracy, multi-location RDS backups, ECR for stable updates, and S3 for data redundancy, ensuring continuous service availability.
• Managed 10 AWS accounts using AWS Organization, Terraform & Ansible including setup and configuration of Fargate Cluster & Services, RDS databases, VPCs, Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Lambda, ACM, MSK, IoT Core, Route53 hosted zones & health checks.
• Led the implementation of a DataOps strategy using AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda) to automate data pipelines, achieving a 30% increase in data processing efficiency.
• Offered on-call DevOps and infrastructure support, while also empowering the team through targeted training.
• Streamlined the cloud infrastructure development process by designing and automating deployment pipelines which removed manual process.
• Enhanced data and environmental security by using OpenVPN, AWS Secret Manager and private certificates, and facilitated seamless database migrations using DBup.
   

L&T Infotech - Senior DevOps Engineer, Belfast, United Kingdom 

August 2019 - April 2022

• Worked as part of the Central DevOps and Center of Excellence (COE) Team, active contributions were made towards the enhancement and improvement of technology solutions.
• Implemented & Drafted Solutions for multiple RFPs by interacting with clients for understanding requirements.
• Worked on Azure Devops, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) & Azure Release Pipeline with GitOps via Argo CD and streamlined delivery with Argo Rollouts.
• Worked with 50+ internal stakeholder, engineers, data scientists and other technologists across business.
• Architected an automated monitoring setup using Prometheus and Grafana on OpenShift, resulting in a 90% improvement in incident detection.
• Integrated SonarQube and JMeter into CI/CD for Quality Assurance, leading to enhancement in code and performance metrics.
• Automated ServiceNow Change Management integration with Jenkins, reducing processing time by 50%.
   

Citi Solution Warehousing, Mumbai, India 

January 2018 - November 2019

• Java Developer, handled multiple projects across various business domains, ensuring that implementations were aligned with application requirements.
• Migrated legacy systems to cloud-based infrastructure, reducing system downtime by 50%.
• Developed and maintained system backup and recovery plans, leading to 40% reduction in data loss and 20% improvement in system resilience.
• Implemented JIB tool along with CI process to create Source to Image(S2I) solution, this optimizes Docker Images for Java application with Dockerfile.
• Demonstrated expertise in shell and Python scripting, adept in resolving system issues and deploying containerized applications.
• Orchestrated GitLab branching strategy that enhanced team collaboration and automated Docker image tagging, along with ECR replication.
• Led internal workshops to promote knowledge sharing, significantly reducing team interdependence.
• Implemented JIRA and Agile methodologies to enhance team collaboration and transparency, optimizing development process.
   

Degenxsoft - Software Developer, Mumbai, India 

June 2013 - August 2016

• Worked on the AWS Cloud infrastructure along with development, management, and monitoring of cloud services.
• Assessment of Application architecture and Identifying areas of improvements in application design and recommending future course of action along with implementing proper design patterns

Participated in Functional & Architectural discussion.

Mumbai University 

Bachelor of Science : I.T. (2013)