Abdullah Ejaz

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Islamabad, PK.

About

Highly accomplished Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of expertise in designing, automating, and securing production-grade cloud infrastructure. Proven ability to implement highly scalable and available IaC solutions, manage mission-critical application deployments, and drive significant cost reductions. Specializes in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, ensuring robust, efficient, and resilient cloud environments.

Work

CarBee

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Summary

Led the entire DevOps landscape for an AI-driven, video-first car marketplace, building a business-critical production system on Amazon ECS with automated deployments, robust security, and scalability.

Highlights

Led the development and deployment of a business-critical, AI-driven car marketplace on Amazon ECS, supporting over 200K users with automated deployments and robust security.

Automated migration from manual EC2 deployments to an Amazon ECS Fargate microservices architecture, reducing manual engineering effort by 90% through Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Redesigned system architecture following AWS Well-Architected best practices, leveraging Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer to achieve a 30% reduction in cloud costs.

Architected and deployed AI-centric application components using Amazon SageMaker, Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB to optimize AI workflows and enhance system performance.

Directed infrastructure design and cloud deployment for AlBee, an AI Car Search Service, on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, integrating Dockerized FastAPI, LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock APIs, and MongoDB Atlas.

SkyOps

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Cloud DevOps Consultant

Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Summary

Managed the full end-to-end DevOps lifecycle across diverse projects, delivering tailored automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure optimizations for AWS Cloud, on-premises Linux-based data centers, and cloud-hosted mobile apps.

Highlights

Managed the full DevOps lifecycle across diverse projects, including AWS Cloud, on-premises data centers, and mobile apps, delivering bespoke automation and CI/CD solutions.

Implemented scalable enterprise developer tools and data platforms like Kestra, Coder, and Elasticsearch as Kubernetes workloads on AWS EKS.

Enhanced production stability and reduced outages by applying AWS Well-Architected principles, integrating robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.

Successfully migrated approximately 10 legacy applications to AWS ECS and EKS using GitOps workflows, significantly improving deployment reliability and system uptime.

Developed Python-based AWS validator and Lambda-based cleanup tools, automating the detection and decommissioning of idle resources in development environments.

Designed and implemented a cross-account, cross-region AWS Backup architecture adopted by over 10 customers, enhancing data resilience and recovery capabilities.

Xgrid

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Software Systems & DevOps Engineer III

Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Summary

Led a team of DevOps engineers to maintain reliability and stability for a NASDAQ-listed company's production environments, specializing in advanced cloud automation for enterprise clients.

Highlights

Led a DevOps team in maintaining critical production environments for a NASDAQ-listed company, minimizing downtime and ensuring operational stability.

Managed high-priority production incidents, implementing RCA processes that improved system resilience and uptime by 30%.

Enhanced monitoring, alerting, and automation systems to proactively detect failures, reducing incident frequency and ensuring seamless operations.

Created and maintained over 40 reusable Terraform and CloudFormation modules, automating multi-environment deployments and AWS account setups for numerous enterprise clients.

Designed and managed secure AWS environments for multiple clients, aligning IaaC architectures with AWS best practices for automated provisioning.

Engineered and validated a Hub-and-Spoke AWS architecture with Fortinet FortiGate AMI, streamlining network traffic flow and resource sharing across security and customer accounts using Terraform and AWS RAM.

Eurus Technologies

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DevOps Engineer

Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Summary

Contributed to the advancement of the company's official website by integrating new services, automating infrastructure provisioning, and establishing robust CI/CD pipelines.

Highlights

Integrated a new service into the Dockerized AWS ECS environment, enhancing the company's official website and automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform.

Developed an AWS SAM solution for CloudWatch alarms, enabling automated Slack alerts for memory and CPU utilization anomalies.

Authored Python and Bash automation scripts for containerized applications, streamlining testing and deployment processes on AWS.

Established and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring robust documentation and architectural clarity.

Education

Center For Advanced Studies in Engineering

Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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BSc Electrical Computer Engineering

Languages

English

Certificates

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

AWS

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS

Skills

Cloud & Virtualization

AWS, Azure/GCP (Intermediate), Oracle, Hetzner, Oracle Virtual Box.

Amazon Web Services

Billing, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, Batch, WAF, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route53, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, SageMaker, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, Budgets, EKS, Resource Access Manager.

Source Control & CI/CD

GitHub, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD.

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Helm, Karpenter.

Infra as Code

Terraform, CloudFormation, CloudFormation Stacksets, AWS CDK, Terragrunt.

Programming Languages & Scripting

Python, Bash, YAML.

DevOps Practices

GitOps, Deployment Strategies, Disaster Recovery, Cost Optimization, Scalability, Observability.

Monitoring & Logging

Datadog, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana.

Documentation

Technical Project Documentation, Technical Blog Writing.

AI Services

Amazon Bedrock APIs.

Databases

MongoDB Atlas.

Security

Fortinet FortiGate AMI, AWS WAF, Shield Protection.

Projects

Centralized AWS Firewall Configuration for more than 70 Customer AWS Accounts using CloudFormation Stacksets

Summary

Implemented a centralized AWS Firewall Management service solution, including AWS WAF & Shield Protection for more than 70 accounts using an automated infrastructure as code solution.

Automated AWS Batch Job Execution with Dynamic Team-Based CI/CD Pipelines Eliminating Manual Deployment

Summary

Developed a dynamic AWS Batch framework where job definitions, compute environments, and Docker images are automatically created based on team names defined in Terraform variables.

Automated GitLab Pipeline based Kubernetes Deployment using AWS Serverless Stack

Summary

Developed an end-to-end GitLab pipeline automation framework for Kubernetes deployments using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.