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Education
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Achievements Contributions
Certification
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ABDUL MUNAIM DAR

Lahore

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience in cloud computing, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation. Experienced in designing and managing secure, scalable cloud environments, implementing security controls, and optimizing monitoring and incident response processes. Passionate about automating workflows, enhancing security, and ensuring high availability of applications.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Devops Consultant

Allsorter.com
01.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Working with allsorter.com, its is a Dublin, Ireland-based data science company providing dynamic SaaS product for recruiters which uses Artificial Intelligence to streamline the internal process of CV reformatting. This project embodies a microservices architecture, featuring an Angular frontend, Java Spring Boot backend, and leveraging Python for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Designed and managed AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring scalability and security.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins, improving deployment efficiency.
  • Automated cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation, optimizing resource management.
  • Implemented container orchestration with Amazon ECS, ensuring high availability.
  • Configured and managed monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch for proactive alerting.
  • Strengthened security posture by implementing ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus standards.
  • Managed web servers (Nginx, Traefik) for efficient service discovery and traffic management.
  • Developed review environments for automation testing, which are triggered on pull requests to streamline testing and deployment.
  • I have developed Lambda functions to automate backup processes and handle various scheduled tasks.
  • For relational database leveraging RDS Postgres and for persistent file storage using AWS EFS.
  • Configured Amazon Athena and QuickSight to analyze and troubleshoot ELB access logs.
  • Worked on Cost optimization of AWS services, converting our workload from on demand to reserved instances resulting in 40% reduction of cost.
  • Ensured code quality by implementing SonarQube for quality gate checks.
  • Managed artifact hosting and version control using Nexus Repository.
  • Configured incident management framework leveraging custom CloudWatch metrics and AWS Eventbridge and Atlassian Status Page, enabling real-time uptime tracking and ensuring to meet 99.8% SLAs.
  • Working with allsorter.com, its is a Dublin, Ireland-based data science company providing dynamic SaaS product for recruiters which uses Artificial Intelligence to streamline the internal process of CV reformatting. This project embodies a microservices architecture, featuring an Angular frontend, Java Spring Boot backend, and leveraging Python for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Environment: ECS, ALB, S3, Cloudfront, Prometheous, Grafana, Athena, Bitbucket pipelines, Cognito, Traefik, RDS, SonarQube, Nexus, EFS, Route53, Lambda, Elasticache Redis etc.

Devops Engineer

Simplerishta.com (Khired Networks)
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Company Overview: Simplerishta is a matrimonial sites in Pakistan, serving as global platform for online rishta search.
  • Designed and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, optimizing performance and security.
  • Deployed and maintained Amazon EKS for container orchestration, ensuring high availability and scalability.
  • Managed relational databases using Amazon RDS, implementing backups and monitoring for optimal performance.
  • Integrated Amazon Elasticsearch for efficient logging and searching capabilities.
  • Configured AWS CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and alerting, improving system reliability.
  • Utilized AWS CloudFront with S3 to serve frontend applications efficiently, reducing latency.
  • Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines, streamlining deployment processes.
  • Simplerishta is a matrimonial sites in Pakistan, serving as global platform for online rishta search.

Devops Engineer

Smartworkforce (Khired Networks)
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: Worked with Smart workforce, It's a workforce management software, it is a comprehensive solution that gives employers complete control over their staff and helps them effectively utilize their resources to achieve their desired objectives.
  • Designed and managed a hybrid cloud environment, running production workloads on GCP while staging environments on on-premises servers.
  • Built and deployed serverless applications using Google Cloud Run, optimizing scalability and minimizing maintenance overhead.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build for production and Jenkins for staging environments.
  • Configured Graylog for the on premises deployed services to manage the logs centrally.
  • Firebase Authentication to secure user access and authentication within the application.
  • Worked with Smart workforce, It's a workforce management software, it is a comprehensive solution that gives employers complete control over their staff and helps them effectively utilize their resources to achieve their desired objectives.
  • Stack Used: Cloud Run, Cloud Build, App Engine, Cloud SQL Jenkins, Nginx, Bitbucket.

Education

BSCS - Computer Science

NUCES (FAST)
07-2020

Skills

  • CI/CD: Bitbucket pipelines and Jenkins
  • Languages: Bash and Python
  • Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki stack and CloudWatch
  • Security controls: ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, Penetration Testing
  • Build/release tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines, Docker, SonarQube, and Nexus repository
  • Web servers: Apache, Nginx, and Traefik
  • AWS services: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, RDS, EFS, GuardDuty, KMS, Athena, SNS, Route 53, IAM, Cognito, and ElastiCache
  • Operating systems: Ubuntu, CentOS, and Windows
  • Incident management frameworks

Languages

  • English
  • URDU

Achievements Contributions

Achieved ISO 27001 certification by implementing security best practices, secured Cyber Essentials Plus certification with no risks at all, and ensured low-risk results in penetration testing, enhancing security

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Sr. Devops Consultant

Allsorter.com
01.2022 - Current

Devops Engineer

Simplerishta.com (Khired Networks)
01.2021 - 01.2022

Devops Engineer

Smartworkforce (Khired Networks)
01.2020 - 01.2021

BSCS - Computer Science

NUCES (FAST)
ABDUL MUNAIM DAR