Farooq Hussain
SRE/DevOps Engineer
Sheikhpura,PB
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of hand-on experience in architecture, automation and optimization mission critical development over large infrastructure. Proficient with Kubernetes and other tools which help create a robust and fault tolerance system.
Overview
2
2
years of post-secondary education
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal DevOps Engineer
Sendoso (Pvt) Ltd.
Lahore, Punjab
01.2019 - Current
- Leading development and operations processes inside team
- Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing to the project
- Play a significant role in establishing operational processes for a fast-growing distributed cloud platform.
- Help scale our platform to 10x customers.
- Improve deployment process using Kubernetes Blue/Green deployment.
- AWS services administration: IAM, VPC, Route 53, EC2, S3, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Redshift, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
- VCS: GitHub
- Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, CircleCI
- Docker, Vagrant
- Scripting: Shell, Python
- Jira, Slack
- Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios.
- Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud hosted environments.
- Develop application performance management to measure and act upon performance data.
- Consult and contribute to system architecture.
- Develop application features and improvements.
- Write clean, well-documented, and resilient code.
- Install and configure Site to site VPN between AWS and Lahore Office
Principal DevOps Engineer
Arbisoft (Pvt) Ltd.
Lahore, Punjab
04.2017 - 01.2019
- Implementing and developing solutions enabling Development and Operations teams to build, deploy, monitor and test applications and environments for OpenEDX.
- Use of Packer to generate images to be used with Vagrant on VirtualBox and AMI.
- Deployments to multiple servers in testing and production environments using Jenkins, Git and Ansible.
- Development of Perl, Shell (Bash) scripts, Python and Ruby SysAdmin tasks and Autosys tools.
- Control of version and repository management with BitBucket and Git Hub.
- Deploying Open edX on Kubernetes.
DevOps Engineer
Nextbridge (Pvt) Ltd.
Lahore, Punjab
08.2016 - 04.2017
- Maintained SVN, Git repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration.
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools.
- Working closely with Architecture, Development, Test, Security and IT Services teams.
- Managing Proxmox Servers.
- Managing Production Pfsence Firewall.
DevOps Engineer
Makesbridge
Lahore, Punjab
07.2015 - 08.2016
- Actively works to ensure smooth and timely software builds, release management and software deployments on development, staging and production systems using Chef and Ansible.
- Monitors configurations and production systems with real time monitoring and alert systems to proactively predict, figure out and address impending problems with software systems.
- Managing KVM Servers.
- Facilitates in establishing and implementing configuration management processes and SCM best practice.
- Managing and SVN (Subversion) and Git.
- Installation, configuration & Managing Tomcat, Jboss, Apache, MySQL.
- Administration of MySQL database and Troubleshooting Replication Issue.
- Worked on high availability Apache clustering (Keep Alive, HA Proxy).
- Managing Production Fortigate Firewall.
Principal NOC Engineer
Vopium A/S (Pvt) Ltd.
Lahore, Punjab
07.2014 - 07.2015
- Designed and Implemented Amazon Cloud solution using EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, VPN, Cloudfornt, RDS, OpsWorks and CloudWatch for existing service migration to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Administration of Virtualization Solutions (VMWare).
- Leading System and Services Automation project.
- Introduced automation of monitoring system for 24/7 network systems, bolstering continuity of operations.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
Network Administrator
Nextbridge (Pvt) Ltd
Lahore, Punjab
11.2007 - 04.2012
- Performed day-to-day LAN and WAN administration, maintenance and support.
- Provided planning for annual budgets to fund IT projects and controlled spending within budget.
- Configure Nagios Server for network, servers and services monitoring.
- Implementation of TCP/IP & related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS.
- Configure and managing Linux Server (Bash Scripting, SVN, Apache for PHP, ASP and ROR, Bind, DHCP).
- Working experience Virtualization Technology (VMware ESXi and ESX, XEN, Virtual Box).
- Developed and refined build process and configurations, and contributed to network automation.
Education
Master - Computer Science
PIMSAT
01.2002 - 01.2004
Bachelor - Computer Science
Al-Khair University of Pakistan
Skills
EKS, Kubernets
undefinedTimeline
Principal DevOps Engineer
Sendoso (Pvt) Ltd.
01.2019 - Current
Principal DevOps Engineer
Arbisoft (Pvt) Ltd.
04.2017 - 01.2019
DevOps Engineer
Nextbridge (Pvt) Ltd.
08.2016 - 04.2017
DevOps Engineer
Makesbridge
07.2015 - 08.2016
Principal NOC Engineer
Vopium A/S (Pvt) Ltd.
07.2014 - 07.2015
Network Administrator
Nextbridge (Pvt) Ltd
11.2007 - 04.2012
Master - Computer Science
PIMSAT
01.2002 - 01.2004
Bachelor - Computer Science
Al-Khair University of Pakistan
Achievements
- Design and development of a robust and fault-tolerant environment, achieving 99.99% uptime, utilizing advanced tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and CircleCI.
- Full automation of deployments, eliminating the need for human intervention.
Achievements
Design and develop a robust and fault tolerance environment , currently providing 99.99% uptime to customers, using state-of-the-art tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and CircleCI. Fully automated deployments without any human intervention.
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