Faisal Hussian Shah
Kupwara
Summary
Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with five years of experience building and operating automated, cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, service mesh, Terraform, and automation. Designed and scaled systems handling millions of requests per second, with a focus on availability, security, disaster recovery, observability, and cost efficiency. Experienced in multi-cloud architectures and GenAI platform enablement.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Axelerant
Remote
01.2025 - Current
- Designed and deployed multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS regions, ensuring high availability and zero-downtime deployments.
- Replaced NGINX ingress with Istio service mesh, enabling mTLS, advanced L7 traffic routing, traffic shifting, and service-level observability.
- Engineered GitOps-oriented CI/CD pipelines employing GitHub Actions, Helm, and ArgoCD, enabling blue-green and canary deployments alongside automated rollback mechanisms.
- Implemented centralized observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and SigNoz for metrics, logs, and tracing.
- Established incident response and alerting workflows using PagerDuty, AWS SNS, and Slack, improving MTTR and SLO adherence.
- Orchestrated AWS cost reduction strategies by leveraging Savings Plans, karpeneter, rightsizing Spot Instances, KEDA, and Compute Optimizer.
- Strengthened platform security through implementation of IAM, RBAC, pod security standards, and secrets management utilizing AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault..
- Performed RCA and postmortems, promoting continuous improvements in reliability.
DevOps Engineer
Meesho
bangalore
03.2022 - 01.2025
- Scaled and secured Azure OpenAI models, implementing secure access controls and private connectivity for production workloads.
- Established private connectivity between GCP workloads and Azure OpenAI services using NAT and controlled egress, ensuring secure, low-latency cross-cloud communication.
- Deployed and integrated AI voice platforms including Deepgram and Smallest.ai, supporting real-time speech-to-text and voice-driven applications.
- Designed, operated, and scaled 20+ production Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP, supporting business-critical workloads.
- CDN migration from Cloudflare to Akamai, optimizing caching strategies, WAF rules, and edge performance to reduce latency and improve reliability.
- Engineered infrastructure supporting millions of requests per second, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and multi-region disaster recovery.
- Orchestrated transition of 300+ microservices from VM-based infrastructure to Kubernetes, boosting scalability and deployment velocity.
- Executed large-scale AWS → GCP migration using Terraform with zero downtime.
- Designed and implemented multi-region DR strategies, including backups, failover testing, and recovery runbooks.
- Built and maintained end-to-end monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and centralized logging.
- Designed secure cloud networking, including site-to-site VPNs, VPC peering, private connectivity, and controlled east-west traffic.
- Implemented node pool–level and workload-level cost optimization, autoscaling strategies, and capacity planning.
- Designed and enforced resource tagging strategies across AWS and GCP, enabling accurate cost attribution, chargebacks, and governance.
- Reduced overall infrastructure cost by ~30% through tagging automation, rightsizing, reporting, and savings strategies.
- Managed production databases and messaging systems (RDS, backups, DR, Kafka/MSK) with performance tuning and reliability controls.
- Collaborated with security and platform teams to enforce IAM, RBAC, and network security best practices.
- Played a key role in IPO readiness, ensuring infrastructure scalability, compliance, reliability, and cost visibility.
DevOps Engineer
SpeakX
Gurugram
08.2021 - 03.2022
- Managed AWS infrastructure including EC2, RDS, IAM, and networking components.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker.
- Implemented centralized logging and monitoring (ELK, metrics, alerts).
- Worked closely with developers to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
CloudOps Engineer Intern
vpods.ai
Remote
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Assisted in cloud infrastructure setup including IAM policies, load balancers, and networking.
- Monitored system performance and supported operational reliability initiatives.
- Helped track engineering expenses and evaluate infrastructure trade-offs.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer Engineering
Lovely Professional University
Jalandhar Punjab07-2021
Bachelor of Computer - Computer Engineering
University of Kashmir
Jammu And Kashmir01-2019
High School Diploma -
Jammu And Kashmir State Board of Education,
Jammu And KashmirHigh School Diploma -
Jammu And Kashmir State Board
Jammu And KashmirSkills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
- GitOps & Service Mesh: ArgoCD, Istio
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Atlantis
- Observability & Monitoring: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, SigNoz, CloudWatch
- Networking & Security: VPC, Load Balancers, VPN (Site-to-Site), VPC Peering, IAM, RBAC, mTLS, WAF
- CDN & Edge: Akamai, Cloudflare
- Databases & Messaging: Amazon RDS, Redis, Kafka (MSK)
- Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash
- Engineering Practices: SRE, GitOps, Blue-Green & Canary Deployments, Disaster Recovery (DR), Cost Optimization
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Axelerant
01.2025 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Meesho
03.2022 - 01.2025
DevOps Engineer
SpeakX
08.2021 - 03.2022
CloudOps Engineer Intern
vpods.ai
01.2021 - 08.2021
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer Engineering
Lovely Professional University
Bachelor of Computer - Computer Engineering
University of Kashmir
High School Diploma -
Jammu And Kashmir State Board of Education,
High School Diploma -
Jammu And Kashmir State Board