Mohammad Asif

Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Strong background in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and cloud security compliance (PCI-DSS, SOC2, HIPAA). Proven ability to modernize legacy systems, implement DevSecOps practices, optimize cloud spend, and maintain 24/7 production reliability.

Experienced in multi-region deployments, infrastructure as code, security automation, and enterprise-grade monitoring solutions.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Rough Copies

(2024-03)

• Architected and automated multi-region cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform, ensuring high availability and disaster resilience.
• Managed containerized workloads on EKS and AKS, implementing Helm-based deployments and GitOps workflows via ArgoCD.
• Deployed microservices on ECS Fargate and optimized compute scaling strategies across cloud platforms.
• Standardized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, reducing deployment failures and accelerating release velocity.
• Strengthened cloud security by enforcing IAM role segmentation, Azure RBAC controls, and centralized secrets management.
• Implemented centralized observability using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Prometheus, improving incident detection and reducing downtime by 30%.
• Introduced cost governance policies across AWS and Azure subscriptions through tagging, rightsizing, and reserved capacity planning.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Systems Limited

(2021-10 - 2024-02)

Led DevOps and cloud operations for fintech platforms deployed across AWS and Azure, ensuring 24/7 system availability.

• Designed and maintained Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS, and GKE to support microservices-based applications.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform for AWS VPCs, Azure VNets, and GCP networking components.
• Integrated DevSecOps practices by embedding SonarQube, Snyk, and OWASP ZAP into Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines.
• Implemented centralized logging and monitoring using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor.
• Managed cloud networking including VPC peering, subnets, security groups, Azure NSGs, load balancers, and CDN configurations.
• Administered managed database services including AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, and GCP Cloud SQL with automated backup strategies.
• Strengthened compliance posture aligned with PCI-DSS and SOC2 through automated vulnerability scanning and configuration audits.
• Led production incident response, performance tuning, and capacity planning across multi-cloud environments.

DevOps Engineer - Wadic Solution

(2020-07 - 2021-09)

• Configured and maintained MySQL InnoDB clusters on AWS EC2 and Azure VMs to ensure high availability.
• Deployed and optimized Odoo applications using Nginx reverse proxy across Linux-based cloud servers.
• Supported hybrid cloud setups including AWS infrastructure and Azure virtual networking.
• Improved CI/CD workflows and repository governance using Git-based automation practices.
• Provided DevOps support to engineering teams, assisting with infrastructure scaling, patching, and release coordination.

Associate DevOps Engineer - AdMaxim Inc.

(2018-03 - 2020-06)

• Managed cloud-hosted production environments on AWS and assisted with GCP compute and storage deployments.
• Automated server configuration and patch management using Ansible.
• Developed Bash scripts to automate backups, monitoring checks, and system maintenance.
• Integrated OWASP ZAP for continuous web application security validation within deployment workflows.
• Designed backup and disaster recovery strategies across AWS S3 and GCP storage services.
• Supported database administration including AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL environments.

Master's - computer science - Riphah International University – Lahore (2020-10 - 2022-02)

BS - Telecom & Networking - COMSATS University Islamabad (2014-07 - 2018-02)