Saad Mansoor Minhas

• Manage and maintain Azure infrastructure, including classical DevOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows.
• Lead the migration of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to Microsoft 365, improving user access and reducing overhead.
• Oversee Azure licensing and subscriptions, ensuring compliance and cost efficiency.
• Administer and support Azure Virtual Machines, handling escalations and performance tuning.
• Contribute to infrastructure planning, providing input on scalability, modernization, and architecture design; implemented Canary release strategies with percentage-based traffic splitting for container applications, maintaining previous versions for rapid rollback capabilities.
• Mentored two junior engineers, delivering hands-on training in Azure DevOps, automation pipelines, and cloud-best-practice design, boosting team productivity by 22%.
• Support cross-functional teams with infrastructure needs, ensuring reliability and availability.
• Implemented governance and security protocols for Azure resources, establishing role-based access controls and automated secret rotation, which cut security-incident response time by 30%.
• Optimized resource usage and cost management across projects, reducing cloud spend by 18% while maintaining performance SLAs.
• Remote

• AWS infrastructure deployment for .NET and MSSQL applications, enhancing system scalability and reliability.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD, enabling automated builds, testing, and deployments across development and production environments.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and clients to evaluate, optimize, and modernize AWS architectures.
• Integrated AWS services into existing application ecosystems, ensuring seamless scalability, high availability, and rapid recovery times.
• Deployed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, standardizing configurations and enabling repeatable, scalable, and version-controlled infrastructure provisioning.
• Optimized resource usage with autoscaling configurations and cost-efficient storage solutions, resulting in improved performance and reduced expense; implemented Blue-Green deployment strategies with staged rollouts to minimize downtime and enable instant rollback to previous versions.
• Remote

• Automated cloud-native infrastructure deployment and management using Terraform, creating and managing AWS resources like EC2, VPCs, RDS databases, S3, and DynamoDB.
• Wrote and executed Ansible playbooks to automate system configurations, integrating community roles for efficient provisioning.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins to streamline application deployments, incorporating multi-stage workflows and encrypted secrets management.
• Built and managed Docker images and containers for application deployment, utilizing Docker Compose for multi-container setups.
• Designed and deployed container orchestration platforms using Kubernetes, managing container applications and scaling deployments with kubectl and YAML configurations.
• Configured network firewalls (iptables), set up load balancers with HAProxy and NGINX to ensure high availability and traffic management.
• Worked on optimizing cloud infrastructure and cost management on AWS, implementing best security practices across environments.
• Developed and tested automated deployment pipelines for Flask applications using Docker, Ansible, and Python.
• Hybrid

• Emergency On-Call AWS Support - Resolved urgent DNS issues, deployment failures, and auto-scaling misconfigurations for a client's production environment.
• Automated Scalable AWS Architecture with Terraform and Bitbucket CI/CD - Designed a scalable architecture using ECR, EC2, ASG, ALB, Route53; provisioned via Terraform and automated with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Infrastructure Setup for ECS (EC2 Launch Type) Using Terraform - Built AWS infrastructure deploying EC2 instances for ECS clusters, configured ALB and ASG for high availability, and ensured modular, reusable code.
• Remote

GPA: 3.56 / 4.0 CGPA