Nadeem Dilawar

Dedicated DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Proficient in leveraging tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins to automate deployment, orchestration, and monitoring processes. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize development pipelines and enhance system reliability.

Sr. DevOps Engineer - CINNOVA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

(2017-01)

• Integrated AWS IAM with your organization's existing identity providers (IdPs) using AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), SAML, or OpenID Connect (OIDC) federation.
• Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning processes using AWS IAM, AWS Lambda, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Utilize IAM policy conditions, such as time-based access and IP-based restrictions, to enforce additional security controls.
• Implement AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) to manage permissions at the AWS Organization level and enforce security and compliance requirements across member accounts.
• Designed, implemented, and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure, reducing deployment time by 25% through automation.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage resources, resulting in improved scalability and consistent infrastructure across environments.
• Automated configuration management using Ansible, reducing manual errors and ensuring uniform server configurations across the infrastructure.
• Orchestrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling rapid and reliable application deployment.
• Collaborated with development teams to improve release processes, resulting in a 15% reduction in production incidents.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using watchdog, resulting in a decrease in downtime.
• Conducted regular security audits and implemented best practices to enhance system security and compliance.
• Managed AWS resources including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases, optimizing cost and performance.
• Implemented Azure solutions such as Azure Virtual Machines and Azure App Service, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Collaborated with development teams to containerize applications using Docker, streamlining development-to-production consistency.
• Automated repetitive tasks using Bash scripting, resulting in increased team productivity.
• Implemented version control using Git, improving code management and collaboration among team members.
• Participated in on-call rotations, providing rapid response to incidents and ensuring system uptime.
• Received "Recognition Award" for existing IT infrastructure upgrade & Enhancing Strategies for Client Communication.

Network Engineer - CINNOVA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

(2014-01 - 2017-12)

• Ensuring information security compliance as per ISO-27001 standards including ISO/IEC 27001 Compliance, Risk Assessment, and Management, Security Policy Development, Security Awareness Training & Internal Audits.
• Proficient in configuration management tools such as Git, SVN, or Mercurial.
• Experience with version control, branching, merging, and conflict resolution.
• Expertise in implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Improved efficiency for many businesses by setting up secure VPN connectivity
• Performed disaster recovery and security planning and setup for many area businesses
• Responsible for successful backups of systems configurations applications network data

MS - Project Management - Riphah International University (RIU) Lahore, Pakistan

BSc - Electrical Engineering (Computer) - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)