Sajid Qureshi
DevOps/SRE
Summary
Seeking a challenging role as a DevOps/SRE engineer within a dynamic corporate environment, leveraging 4+ years of experience in Linux server environments, Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation. Committed to contributing valuable skills in a competitive setting, fostering continuous learning, and implementing emerging technologies to drive innovation. Holds a B.Tech. Degree in Computer Science from Rajasthan Technical University (2018), with proficiency in swiftly adapting to new technologies and integrating them into production environments. Demonstrates a passion for knowledge sharing through authoring technical tutorials on system administration for diverse companies.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
Yellow.ai
07.2022 - Current
- Reduced downtime for critical applications by proactively addressing potential issues through regular maintenance and updates.
- Ensured high availability of services by developing comprehensive disaster recovery plans and backup procedures.
- Ensured compliance with relevant industry regulations regarding data privacy standards by actively participating in audits assessments.
- Increased efficiency in incident response processes through implementation of automated alerting systems and streamlined communication protocols.
- Conducted root-cause analyses after major incidents to identify areas for process improvement or technical enhancement opportunities.
- Spearheaded bug resolution and vulnerability fixes ensuring timely delivery and system security adherence.
- Collaborated seamlessly on project takeovers and disaster recovery drills, fostering teamwork and smooth transitions.
Cloud Engineer
CILA Incubator Pvt. Ltd.
12.2020 - 07.2022
- Worked in innovative company and global remote team
- Discussed and designed highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for rolling deployments and upgrades
- Setup monitoring & alerting of applications using Prometheus and Grafana, Created relevant dashboards to visualize state and performance of infrastructure
- Dockerized and deployed microservice applications to kubernetes for easier maintenance and scalability
- Created base infrastructure for new projects and templatized scripts to be reused
- Setup workload identity to securely impersonate services accounts to access GCP services.
DevOps Engineer
Samcom Technobrains Pvt. Ltd.
12.2019 - 12.2020
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for rolling deployments and upgrades
- Helped development team to migrate monolithic application to micro services
- Maintained AWS infrastructure and created compute resources for projects
- Dockerized and deployed applications to cloud infrastructure.
Technical Tutorial Author
Vultr, HostPresto, and Alibaba Cloud
12.2016 - 01.2018
- Wrote many technical tutorials related to installing and configuring open source applications.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Govt. College of Engineering And Technology
Bikaner, Rajasthan 04.2014 - 08.2018
Skills
Managed Cloud infrastructure and configuration using Ansible, GCP, Terraform, Helm, Istio etcProficient with various tools like - Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes etcDeploying containerized applications in kubernetes and VM instancesLinux Server Administration - CentOS and Ubuntu
Languages - Python and bash, Go scripting to automate repetitive tasks
Determined to learn with practical approachGood communication skillsEnthusiastic and can produce results under deadline constraintsReady to undergo any kind of training and transformation to enhance professional skillsCDevOps toolsContainerization Technologies
Infrastructure Automation
Security best practices
Certification
CNCF - Certified Kubernetes Administrator, 08/01/21
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
Yellow.ai
07.2022 - Current
Cloud Engineer
CILA Incubator Pvt. Ltd.
12.2020 - 07.2022
DevOps Engineer
Samcom Technobrains Pvt. Ltd.
12.2019 - 12.2020
Technical Tutorial Author
Vultr, HostPresto, and Alibaba Cloud
12.2016 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Govt. College of Engineering And Technology
04.2014 - 08.2018