Farid Alam
Delhi
Summary
Farid Alam is an Associate L3, technology, I have 16+ years working experiences in different environments – Software development, Data Centre AEM Knowledge: Proficiency in AEM 6.x or AEM Cloud Service, including JCR (Java Content Repository) and Apache Felix. Kubernetes and Docker for orchestrating microservices and containerized applicationsAEM & Kubernetes with Docker professional with strong expertise in building, deploying, and managing scalable enterprise content platforms. Experienced in AEM administration, cloud-native architectures, containerization, CI/CD automation, and DevOps best practices. Passionate about delivering high-availability, secure, and performance-driven digital solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior AEM & Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Accion Labs Pvt
05.2022 - Current
- Experienced AEM and Kubernetes professional with strong hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-scale Adobe Experience Manager platforms in cloud-native environments.
- Responsible for installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining AEM Author, Publish, and Dispatcher environments, including AEM 6.1 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service.
- Proven experience in containerizing AEM applications using Docker and running them on Kubernetes platforms such as Azure AKS, to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Skilled in building and managing CI/CD pipelines for automated AEM deployments and infrastructure provisioning, enabling faster and more reliable releases.
- Experienced in Kubernetes cluster administration, resource optimization, auto-scaling, and troubleshooting production issues.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and collaborating with developers, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, and business-critical digital experience platforms.
- Vulnerability Issues, Gitlab pipe line, SSL/TLS, certificates and keystores, SSL certificate in JAVA in AEM 6.5, Environments design
AEM & Kubernetes Administrator
Sunera Technologies/Sutherland Global Services
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Hands-on experience in AEM installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching.
- Deployed and managed AEM workloads on Kubernetes with Docker containers.
- Supported AEM Author, Publish, and Dispatcher environments.
- Automated deployments and infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines.
- Performed performance tuning, log analysis, and troubleshooting for AEM applications.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters, namespaces, scaling, and resource optimization.
- Implemented monitoring and alerting for platform stability and uptime.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure smooth releases and production support.
V-Soft consulting (Wipro)
06.2021 - 12.2021
- Project Samsung SDSI :- and docker AEM 6.3 author, publish package deployment, user management, LDAP Jenkin integration with AEM, AEM maintains, dispatcher configuration, replication configuration, package management monitoring, Azure, Service now.
Unayur Marketing
07.2019 - 11.2020
- Azure M3 VM docker Gitlab, Kubernetes, Nginx, Sonic firewall, vault.
Associate L2
Sapient
03.2012 - 10.2018
- Project: Lord Abbett (investment management company) – Feb 2016 to 16 October 2018.
- Project tools & skills: Akamai (CDN), AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) – 6.x, Apache–2.4, MySQL-5.5, Tomcat-6, VSFTP, LDAP, Zabbix, Jenkins OS – RHEL (version – 6, 7).
- Environments design & setup – PROD, UAT and QA.
- Installation & configuration of project’s servers – AEM6.x, Apache-2.4, MySQL-5.5, Tomcat-6, Postfix, LDAP, Docker.
- Script writing – online/offline backups of AEM 6.x, logs rotation, AEM renders change, Workflows purge, cache clean.
- AEM upgradation – AEM 5.6.1 upgrade to 6.0 & AEM 6.0 upgrade to 6.3.
- Activity – deployment & release, patching (applications & OS), change management, incidents (site/service/server down, CPU/disk/RAM alerts, rights/permission issues, access/configurations issues etc.), backups (repository, logs, users/DB data, configuration files), troubleshooting of issues, continuous improvement work.
- Investment management company
Capella University
01.2013 - 02.2016
- Project tools & skills: AWS (Amazon Web cloud Service), AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), Apache 2.4, Jenkins.
- Environments design & setup – PROD, UAT and QA.
- AWS servers’ environments – Glacier, cloud front, EC2, S3.
- Installation & configuration of project’s servers – AEM-5.6.1, Apache, Jenkins.
- Activity – deployment & release, patching (application & OS), change management, incidents (site/service/server down, CPU/disk/RAM alerts, rights/permission issues, access/configurations issues etc.), backups (repository, logs, users data, configuration files) Jenkins, Troubleshooting of issues.
Chevron corporation
03.2011 - 10.2012
- Project tools & skills: Windows 2003 Apache 2.2, VSFTP, Jenkins OS – RHEL-6.
- Environments design & setup – PROD, UAT and QA.
- Uploading of new sites in Apache, Apache MySQL in Linux & Windows environment.
- Activity – deployment & release, patching (applications & OS), change management, incidents (site/service/server down, CPU/disk/RAM alerts, rights/permission issues, access/configurations issues etc.), backups (users data, logs, configuration files), troubleshooting of issue, continuous improvement work.
Education
BA -
Kanpur Univ
Kanpur, UP12th -
NOS Board
UP10th -
CBSE Board
Professional certificate - Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
Red Hat Certified Technician -
Skills
- CentOS
- RHEL
- Windows Server-2016
- Amazon Web Cloud Service
- AZURE
- IBM
- Nginx
- Apache
- Tomcat
- IIS
- Day CQ
- Adobe Experience Manager
- ACS adobe cloud services
- Nagios
- Zabbix
- AppDynamics
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Grafana
- Akamai
- FTP
- Mail Servers
- Iptables
- LDAP
- MySQL
- LAN
- WAN
- SonicWALL NSA 3600
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Certification
- Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
- Red Hat Certified Technician, 60501088653651
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- English
Email Addresses
- Faridinfo1@gmail.com
- Faridinfo@rediffmail.com
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Rahish Ahmed
- Date of Birth: 01/18/81
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior AEM & Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Accion Labs Pvt
05.2022 - Current
AEM & Kubernetes Administrator
Sunera Technologies/Sutherland Global Services
01.2022 - 05.2022
V-Soft consulting (Wipro)
06.2021 - 12.2021
Unayur Marketing
07.2019 - 11.2020
Capella University
01.2013 - 02.2016
Associate L2
Sapient
03.2012 - 10.2018
Chevron corporation
03.2011 - 10.2012
BA -
Kanpur Univ
12th -
NOS Board
10th -
CBSE Board