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Muhammad Sajjad Anwar

Muhammad Sajjad Anwar

Senior DevOps | SysOps | Cloud Engineer
Karachi

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Idenfo-Global
1 2023 - Current
  • Creating Dev, UAT and PROD Environments
  • Containerized microservices
  • Configured CI/CD pipelines using GITHUB Actions workflows
  • Setup Container Orchestration using Kubernetes
  • Configured Prometheus Monitoring using Helm Charts
  • Setup Node.js microservices using pm2
  • Increased system reliability, minimizing downtime and service disruptions through proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Working on AWS, Azure
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Setup and configure Nginx as a reverse proxy
  • Configure MongoDB for Database and link microservices with it
  • Configure MongoDB (Parent & Slave) replication on Docker Containers with TLS/SSL authentication
  • Automate Deployments via Jenkins Pipelines.
  • Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure

DevOps | SysOps Engineer

Starzplay
03.2022 - 12.2022
  • Working on microservices architecture
  • Linux based environment (Bash script, cron jobs)
  • Using AWS infrastructure
  • Working on ECS, EC2, VPC, DynamoDB, RDS, Cloudwatch, Load balancers
  • Automation CI/CD using Jenkins
  • Creating Docker images via using base image for microservice
  • Using RabbitMQ for monitoring queues
  • Using Redis for caching layouts and carousels
  • Working with Nginx and HTTPD
  • Set up private and public gateways to communicate between services
  • For logs monitoring of each service using ELK stack
  • For Instances health monitoring using Icinga tool.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
  • Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.

Cloud Operations Engineer | System Administrator

Cloudways
05.2019 - 03.2022
  • Hands-on experience on Linux (Bash scripts, Cron Jobs)
  • Working on different Cloud servers (Digital Ocean, Linode, AWS, GCE, Vultr)
  • Configured and working on (Nginx + Varnish + Apache + PHP-FPM + MySQL)
  • Manage different types of Applications (WordPress + PHP Stack etc)
  • Dealing with customers concerns related to (SSL, DNS, GIT, SSH, SFTP, Emails)
  • Experience to set up CloudFlare DNS and protect customers' websites, using their traffic block rules.

Education

BS(SE) - Software EngineeringSoftware Requirement EngineeringSoftware Project ManagementAgile Project ManagementSoftware Testing

MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH UNIVERSITY
08.2014 - 05.2018

Skills

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    AWS

    Jenkins

    Linux

    CloudFlare

    Nginx

    HTTPD

    Ansible

    GitHub Actions/ GIT/ GIT CLI

    GITLAB

    BitBucket

    MySQL

    MongoDB

    Grafana

    Prometheus

Projects

Idenfo Global Projects:

Website: Idenfo |  https://idenfo.com/

  • Different Regions Customers login Dashboard: Qatar [https://eltizamqatar.idenfo.com] | UK [https://ukdirect.idenfo.com] | UAE [https://uaedirect.idenfo.com] and PK [https://pkdirect.idenfo.com]
  • Stack for UK, UAE and Qatar: Azure Cloud, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Node.js services, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as reverse proxy.
  • Automation: Bitbucket Pipelines for creating and push images on DockerHub, Deployment done by Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
  • Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Promtail and Loki.
  • Stack for PK: Microservices Architecture, Node.js services running on PM2, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as reverse proxy.


Website: Pingup | https://letspingup.com/ 

  • Customers login Dashboard: https://dashboard.letspingup.com/
  • Stack: Rapid Cloud, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Node.js services, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as a reverse proxy.
  • Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Promtail and Loki.
  • Automation: Created GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, Docker Images pushed or fetch from AWS ECR repository.


Website: Fikrnat | https://www.fikrnat.com/

  • Customers login Dashboard: https://app.fikrnat.com/
  • Stack: Rapid Cloud, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Node.js services, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as a reverse proxy.
  • Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Promtail and Loki.
  • Automation: Created GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, Docker Images pushed or fetch from DockerHub


Starzplay Projects:

Website: Starzplay | https://starzplay.com/

  • Stack: AWS Cloud, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Java and Python based services, Mesos for Orchestration, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as a reverse proxy, ALBs, VPCs (Public and Private) Subnets, Route 53, S3 buckets, ECR Repositories, Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Automation: Vast Jenkins Pipelines for CI/CD, Ansible for Configurations, Docker images pushed and fetched from ECR.


Website: Shoq |  https://shoq.com.pk/

  • Stack: AWS Cloud, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Java and Python based services, Mesos for Orchestration, Frontend serves from Nginx configured as a reverse proxy, ALBs, VPCs (Public and Private) Subnets, Route 53, S3 buckets, ECR Repositories, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS container service.
  • Automation: Vast Jenkins Pipelines for CI/CD, Ansible for Configurations, Docker images pushed and fetched from ECR.

Timeline

DevOps | SysOps Engineer

Starzplay
03.2022 - 12.2022

Cloud Operations Engineer | System Administrator

Cloudways
05.2019 - 03.2022

BS(SE) - Software EngineeringSoftware Requirement EngineeringSoftware Project ManagementAgile Project ManagementSoftware Testing

MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH UNIVERSITY
08.2014 - 05.2018

Senior DevOps Engineer

Idenfo-Global
1 2023 - Current
Muhammad Sajjad AnwarSenior DevOps | SysOps | Cloud Engineer