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Hafiz Syed

Vetted Talent

Hafiz Syed

Vetted Talent

A multi cloud certified Cloud expert with 9 years of experience into Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps and Terraform. Experienced across different verticals and industries involving migrating of applications, databases from on-premise or any other cloud (AWS & GCP). Building CICD pipelines and helping clients to adopt DevOps cultures. Refactoring, replatforming, and archetyping the infrastructure to adopt and leverage cloud capabilities. Leading the team of cloud engineers to deliver on business/client expectations.

  • Role

    DevOps Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    9 years

Skillsets

  • Ubuntu
  • Confluence
  • Windows
  • Gradle
  • Fedora
  • Jira
  • Azure DevOps
  • Go Lang
  • PowerShell
  • Bitbucket
  • Virtualization platforms - 1 Years
  • server infrastructure - 3 Years
  • Security Audits - 1 Years
  • Network Infrastructure - 6 Years
  • Disaster Recovery - 2 Years
  • Cloud Infrastructure - 6 Years
  • Python - 1 Years
  • Azure - 1 Years
  • Groovy
  • Maven
  • OpenShift
  • Shell
  • Cloudformation
  • ELK
  • Google Cloud
  • RedHat
  • Centos
  • Debian
  • Helm charts
  • Github action
  • Asana
  • Bicep
  • Technical design documents (tdd)
  • DevOps
  • Jenkins - 2 Years
  • Github
  • Docker
  • Terraform - 3 Years
  • Kubernetes - 4 Years
  • CI/CD - 4 Years
  • Nginx
  • AWS - 6 Years
  • Ansible
  • Git
  • Linux
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • DevOps
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Project management
  • IAAC
  • Data Engineering
  • Cloud migration
  • Cicd pipelines
  • AWS Services - 5 Years
  • IAC - 5 Years
  • Networking - 6 Years
  • Security - 2 Years
  • CLI - 6 Years
  • Cloud API - 1 Years
  • cloud computimg - 6 Years
  • Computer & Network Security - 5 Years
  • SOLID principles - 5 Years

Vetted For

11Skills
  • Roles & Skills
  • Results
  • Details
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    Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)AI Screening
  • 59%
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  • Skills assessed :Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, ISO 27001 Standards, Application Security, Cloud Infrastructure, HIPAA, Soc2, Terraform, AWS, Git, Linux
  • Score: 53/90

Professional Summary

9Years
  • Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months

    Consultant

    ATOS SYNTEL LTD.
  • Mar, 2020 - Dec, 2020 9 months

    Senior Consultant

    VIRTUSA CONSULTING PVT LTD
  • Mar, 2020 - Dec, 2020 9 months

    Senior Consultant

    VIRTUSA CONSULTING PVT LTD.

  • IT Tutor

    Aspire2 International
  • Jun, 2011 - Jul, 20154 yr 1 month

    Geo Content Reviewer

    SERCO
  • Mar, 2018 - Dec, 20191 yr 9 months

    Cloud Engineer

    SEARCE, INC.

  • Consultant

    Atos Syntel

  • Sr. Consultant

    Virtusa Consulting

  • Cloud Engineer

    Searce Cosourcing

  • Quality Engineer

    Serco

Applications & Tools Known

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    Git

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    AWS

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    Google Cloud Platform

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    AWS

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    Kubernetes

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    Docker

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    GitHub

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    GitHub Actions

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    Jenkins

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    Ansible

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    Terraform

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    Helm

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    BigQuery

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    Cloud Composer

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    Cloud SQL

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    OpenShift

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    VPC

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    Cloud Functions

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    Jira

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    Confluence

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    Bitbucket

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    ECS

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    GKE

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    RBAC

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    AWS

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    Azure

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    Google Cloud

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    Windows

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    Ubuntu

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    CentOS

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    Debian

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    Maven

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    Gradle

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    Groovy

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    ELK

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    Helm Charts

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    Azure DevOps

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    Github Action

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    Asana

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    Shell

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    PowerShell

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    Python

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    Terraform

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    CloudFormation

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    Bicep

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    Go lang

Work History

9Years

Consultant

ATOS SYNTEL LTD.
Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months

    Client: Health Corporation of America (HCA)

    Project Title: Migration of Teradata Warehouse to Google Cloud Big Query

    Role: Lead DevOps Engineer

    • Designing and deployment of QA, DEV and Prod projects in GCP environment
    • Collaborating with Data Engineering team to help them develop DMLs and DDLs.
    • Converted Teradata BTEQ scripts to Cloud BigQuery Compatible using translation
    • Created repo and configured required branching strategy to deploy DAGs
    • Developed Github Actions pipeline to deploy DAGs and Dataflows to Cloud Composer
    • Configuring Google Secret Manager to create secrets and secret versions to store source system passwords
    • Designed and developed CICD pipeline to automate deployment of DAGs in Cloud Composer

Senior Consultant

VIRTUSA CONSULTING PVT LTD
Mar, 2020 - Dec, 2020 9 months
    • Design and deployment of multi-tier architecture on AWS
    • Assessing of existing infrastructure on AWS for security and cost optimization
    • Creation of multi-tier network architecture, a vpc with multiple public and private subnets
    • Created IAM users, groups and roles with custom policies and permissions
    • Configured OpenShift Cluster and deployed Services.
    • Tagged and pushed docker images to OpenShift local docker registry
    • Deployed WSo2 application on OpenShift cluster
    • Built docker images, with latest updates on wso2 product
    • Deployed Wso2 applications on OpenShift
    • Created ConfigMaps, Services and Routes for the applications deployed

Senior Consultant

VIRTUSA CONSULTING PVT LTD.
Mar, 2020 - Dec, 2020 9 months
    Involved in designing multi-tier architecture on AWS, security assessments, and OpenShift application deployments.

Cloud Engineer

SEARCE, INC.
Mar, 2018 - Dec, 20191 yr 9 months

    Client: Chicagos leading Dental Support Organization (DSO), USA

    Project Title: Application and DB migration from VMware to GCP

    • Created an GCP project with a multi-tier network architecture
    • Created required IAM roles and responsibilities to team members. Configured security groups to security vulnerabilities.
    • Created the infrastructure and stack as in VMware, created regional GCS bucket to upload and download the encrypted application code
    • Deployed the application code on GCP VM and run tests like application and load testing as per client requirements.
    • Configured 24 site-to-site VPN connections from their dental locations to GCP
    • Configured openvpn server and users to connect from different locations
    • Disabled static and configured a Bastion server for connectivity

Geo Content Reviewer

SERCO
Jun, 2011 - Jul, 20154 yr 1 month
    • Worked as Geo Content Reviewer, where my role is to authenticate the information of standard
    • U.S businesses and put them live on Google maps
    • Worked on different international markets like Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
    • Continuous performance earned me to play a role of Quality analyst
    • Management assigned a new role as Acting Team lead, where I have managed the work assigned, process updates, policy training and assigning of projects to team members

IT Tutor

Aspire2 International
    Deliver engaging and interactive lectures, workshops, and tutorials to students, utilizing a variety of teaching methodologies to accommodate diverse learning styles. Develop and update course materials for Level 6 IT courses in accordance with industry standards and best practices. Design and administer assessments, including exams, projects, and presentations, to evaluate students' comprehension and skill proficiency. Provide personalized academic support and guidance to students, including one-on-one consultations, to address their learning needs and enhance their performance.

Consultant

Atos Syntel
    Led the design and implementation of a multi-cloud strategy utilizing AWS, and GCP, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. Developed a comprehensive automation framework using Terraform to deploy and manage resources across AWS, Azure and GCP. Implemented CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment process, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based platform for running microservices at scale. Utilized Helm for managing Kubernetes applications and ensured high availability and scalability with advanced Kubernetes features. Managed AWS infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, EKS, ECR and IAM, to support business-critical applications. Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, integrating development, testing, and deployment stages for faster releases. Containerized applications using Docker and orchestrated them with Kubernetes, improving deployment speed and reliability. Collaborated with developers to automate the process to build, deploy and release application for a mobile banking platform. Automated the builds in DEV, UAT, SIT and higher environments on Kubernetes using Helm charts and Jenkins pipeline. Defined and created Jira stories as sprint requirements and documented highly level designs on Confluence.

Sr. Consultant

Virtusa Consulting
    Assessing existing infrastructure on AWS to identify security vulnerabilities and cost optimization. Created IAM users, groups and roles with necessary permissions with least privileged access norms. Deployed WSO2 Application (API Manager) on OpenShift cluster on EC2. Developed and build custom docker images of WSO2 API Manager and pushed them to OpenShift container registry. Configured Deployments, ConfigMaps, Services and Route for services deployed on OpenShift. Configured and implemented Client-Side VPN connection to enable access to cross account AWS resource over a private network.

Cloud Engineer

Searce Cosourcing
    Designed, developed and implemented branching strategy, CICD pipelines to migrate Teradata warehouse to Google Cloud BigQuery. Collaborated with data engineering team to implement DevOps practice for data extraction, Modelling and Ingestion. Collaborated with developers to automate the process to build, deploy and release applications for a mobile banking platform. Defined and created Jira stories as sprint requirements and documented highly level designs on Confluence. Design and Deployment of landing zone for Al-Jazeera Media Network using Terraform. Developed custom Terraform modules to deploy NetApp ONTAP CVO cluster and storage solutions on AWS/Google Cloud. Developed Kubernetes manifests like Deployments, Services, Configmaps, HPA and Secrets. Converted monolith application to micro services and deployed it on Kubernetes. Configured and deployed Is to service mesh as sidecar container to act as a proxy, deployed virtual services and ingress gateway. Migrated applications from on-premise, IBM software to AWS. Migrated Mysql database from AWS RDS to CloudSQL. Configured site-to-site VPN connection from on premise to AWS. Part of presales team, demonstrated demos and POC to understand and implementation of latest technologies.

Quality Engineer

Serco
    Worked as Geo Content Reviewer, where my role is to authenticate the information of standard U.S businesses and put them live on Google maps. Worked on different international markets like Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Continuous performance earned me to play a role of Quality analyst. Management assigned a new role as Acting Team lead, where I have managed the work assigned, process updates, policy training and assigning of projects to team members.

Achievements

  • Received Gold Award for best performance and team player
  • Twice received Silver Award for reliable Backup lead, Mentor and team player
  • Gold Award: Received Gold award for best performance and team player
  • Silver Award: Received Silver twice for being reliable backup team lead and Mentor

Major Projects

10Projects

Landing zone design and deployment for Al-Jazeera using Cloud Fabric Fast (Terraform)

Al-Jazeera Media Network, Middle East
Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months

    Role: Lead Cloud Engineer

    • Designing and deployment of Landing zone in GCP using fabric fast
    • Creation folders, nested folder hierarchy for different Business units and departments
    • Creation of projects, service accounts and configuring of IAM permissions on organization level and the folder hierarchy
    • Creation of service accounts with IAM bindings, and all other dependent components
    • Creation of project factory resources, and configuration of Hub and spoke model using fabric fast
    • Deployment of virtual network appliance and created required network configuration
    • Configured Cloud DNS, VPN connections and routes
    • Creation of log sinks at organization, folder and project level with target as Pubsub and BigQuery

DataCenter Migration and Storage Solutions for Deutsche Bank on Google Cloud Platform using IAAC

Deutsche Bank
Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months

    Role: Lead Cloud Engineer

    Storage Solutions -

    • Designed and developed the terraform modules from scratch to deploy NetApp CVO cluster in GCP
    • Developed terraform modules to create prerequisites setup i.e., Network, Service Accounts, Cloud Storage for NetApp ONTAP CVO Cluster
    • Developed modules to deploy GCP-Connector for ONATP CVO
    • Developed modules to deploy NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Cluster -HA using terraform
    • Deployed CIFS volumes on top of CVO cluster using terraform

    Data Center Migration -

    • Leading the team of Cloud Engineers in migrating applications from data center to Google Cloud Platform
    • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from lowlevel information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
    • Created the Projects, users and enabled apis as required using terraform in application LZ (Landing Zone)
    • Developed TFE modules to deploy Infrastructure, Service Accounts, Storage buckets, Cloud Functions, Cloud KMS, Big Query and Cloud Composer
    • Developed modules to deploy Google Cloud Composer and Cloud Run using terraform
    • Created dataflow jobs and build pipelines to ingest data and store it on Cloud BigQuery
    • Building GitHub Action pipelines to build dataflow templates and Docker images in LZ
    • Created GitHub Action pipelines to build ssh keys and uploaded them to Google Secret Manager
    • Configuring Service Accounts, Custom Roles, KMS keys, Google Secret Manger using terraform
    • Worked on Jira tickets and created different confluence pages for documentation
    • Drafted detailed migration runbook for different environments as part of deliverables
    • Scheduling weekly cadence calls to update and monitor project status with project progression

Application and DB migration Soft Layer to GCP

Singapore based investment Company with F&B Portfolio
Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months
    • Migrate customers existing PHP application to Compute Engine
    • Hosted the applications using virtual hosts on Apache2
    • Configured SSL certificates on top of Apache2 for the applications
    • Configured CloudSQL-dev instances
    • Migrate mysql from in IBM - Soft layer to GCP CloudSQL by configuring Replication and importing Sql dumps.
    • Created a GCS bucket and granted access to bucket to upload Sql dumps
    • White listed the client network to grant access to CloudSQL
    • Setting up Multi AZ CloudSQL instances for High Availability

Platform Engineer | Lloyds Banking Group

    Application Build and Deployment on Kubernetes

DevOps Engineer | Health Corporation of America

    Teradata Migration to BigQuery

Lead Cloud Engineer | Google PSO

    Landing Zone Design, Automation and IAC

Cloud Engineer | Searce

    Application and Database Migrations

Migration of Teradata Warehouse to Google Cloud Big Query

Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months
    Lead DevOps Engineer for migration and BigQuery compatibility transformation.

Landing zone design and deployment for Al-Jazeera

Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months
    Lead Cloud Engineer for designing and deployment of Landing zone in GCP using fabric fast.

DataCenter Migration and Storage Solutions for Deutsche Bank on Google Cloud Platform

Jan, 2021 - Present3 yr 10 months
    Lead Cloud Engineer responsible for terraform modules and leading applications migration.

Education

  • Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science Engineer

    Shaaz College of Engineering and Technology (2010)

  • Diploma in Computing level-7

    NZSE

  • Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science Engineering

    JNTU

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

  • Google

    Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect

  • Aws certified solutions architect professional

  • Certified aws solutions architect professional

  • Google cloud certified professional cloud architect