Mohammed Vikar Hussain

Seeking a strong position as a Sr.

Cloud

Engineer, leveraging my expertise in IT operations and engineering Cloud, backup and storage administration, and security system optimization. I thrive in high-responsibility environments and am able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with strong problem-solving and technical acumen.

Cloud Consultant - DBS Bank (Client: VSTECS Pte Ltd) - Singapore

(2025-11)

Performed designing, implementation of Cloud infra, managing day-to-day BAU production cloud support tasks troubleshooting on Cloud and migrations.

• Operate, maintain and support workloads and infrastructure running on across AWS, Azure and/or GCP, ensuring availability, performance and resilience targets are met.
• Expertise in cloud architecture, native patterns, container management and cloud computing with security best practices.
• Provision and manage cloud resources through Cloud Service Provider (CSP) accounts, using the platform's automated account-vending and self-service capabilities.
• Enabled by a truly cloud native public adoption tool, called Evolve which offers a unique way to onboard public cloud through a directive approach to cloud architecture.
• Perform routine operational tasks: patching, backup and restore, capacity management, certificate and secrets rotation, and configuration management.
• Design, develop, and deploy systems in Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) and Commercial Cloud (CC), ensuring robust security controls and network boundary controls are integrated.
• Support landing-zone and network configuration (segmentation, connectivity, DNS, load balancing) in line with platform standards.
• Engineer, maintain, and optimize hybrid UNIX platforms across cloud (Azure/AWS) and onprem environments, ensuring reliability and performance of 12,000+ global RHEL hosts.
• Maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures and configuration documentation.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across infrastructure and applications using cloud-native and platform tooling.
• Utilize cloud security controls, network boundary controls, and related toolsets to ensure the security posture of cloud resources.
• Respond to incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs; perform triage, diagnosis, escalation and resolution, including participation in an on-call roster.
• Design and build automated systems to streamline deployment, monitoring, and operations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Deploy, configure, and upgrade cloud resources while adhering to stringent security requirements during project implementation.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and drive problem management to prevent recurrence; contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and integrate DevOps for all applications in GCC, including the necessary pipeline and integrations, with a focus on security automation and compliance.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, backup verification and recovery exercises (RPO/RTO objectives).
• Monitor and review all cloud resources, taking necessary actions to resolve security-related issues and optimize resource spending in alignment with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) guidelines.
• Build, maintain and version infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) and configuration-management tooling.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
• Develop automation scripts and pipelines to reduce manual effort, standardise deployments and improve consistency.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices, integrating with tools such as SHIP-HATS where applicable.
• Develop and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to enhance automation in testing and releases.
• Ensure all cloud activities comply with IM8, security policies and guardrails, including hardened baselines and CIS-aligned configurations.
• Set up new development tools and infrastructure in the CI/CD landscape, focusing on security automation and compliance.
• Support Policy-as-Code controls for continuous security compliance, remediating drift and non-compliant resources.
• Design and automate platform workflows include server builds, provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations using tools such as Ansible, AWX, Puppet, Python, and Agentic AI.
• Manage identity and access in line with least-privilege principles, using platform single-sign-on and approved access paths.
• Automate and improve development and release processes with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
• Support audit, vulnerability management and remediation activities, and maintain evidence for security reviews.
• Work with application teams, agency stakeholders, security teams and the cloud platform team to onboard, migrate and support workloads.
• Leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) APIs and services to architect scalable, fault-tolerant automation solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to agency users and junior engineers.
• Create proofs of concept and prototypes to demonstrate the value of proposed automation solutions within GCP.
• Troubleshoot complex security issues and document solutions in accordance with security best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues, resolve escalations, support bridge calls, and collaborate with global engineering teams to deliver stable and secure UNIX platform services.
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations to improve security workflows, processes, and technology.
• Performance tuning and cost optimisation, cloud governance and best practices.

VICE PRESIDENT - Seclusion Power Solutions Pte Ltd - Singapore

(2024-04 - 2025-10)

Performed day-to-day BAU production, cloud support tasks troubleshooting on cloud migrations.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation using Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.
• Design and automate using terraform, ansible IAC large‑scale platform services across on‑prem and cloud in GCC and CC.
• Hands on experience with Linux operating systems, modern server technologies, and cloud platforms.
• Build IAC, pipelines, and tooling (Python/Terraform) that power highly available systems, applying SRE best practices to deliver reliability, performance, and great developer experience.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
• Providing DevOps support for legacy, current, and emerging technologies.
• Implement security measures to protect cloud data and applications.
• Optimize cloud resource usage and cost management.
• Expertise in infrastrcture and operations, terraform, python, CI CD tools, AI, GENAI, design, build and maintain infra automation solutions using terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes/containers, including designing, deploying, and troubleshooting containerized workloads.
• Develop and manage IAC for cloud and on-prem environment, automate system provisioning, configuration, management, deployment and operational workflows.

Senior IT Storage Consultant - Matrix Process Automation Pte Ltd (Client: NCS MOE) - Singapore

(2020-08 - 2024-04)

Performed day-to-day BAU production support tasks troubleshooting on Cloud AWS, Azure, GCP.

• Design, configure, implement, and support enterprise Cloud solutions across multi-vendor platforms in GCC and CC.
• Modern DevOps, CI/CD, and SRE principles, with the ability to apply automation using terraform IAC, observability, and reliability engineering techniques.
• Build automation using Python, Ansible, or emerging Agentic AI frameworks to improve platform efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
• Implement security measures to protect cloud data and applications.
• Optimize cloud resource usage and cost management.

Storage Engineer - AIT Software Services Pte Ltd (Client: UOB) - Singapore

(2017-11 - 2020-07)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation using Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.
• Ability to provide and suggest cloud solutions based on best security practices and compliance requirements.
• Hands on experience in IAC, terraform Automation, and GEN AI enabled solutions.
• Good understanding of ITIL processes, including Service Desk, Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management.
• Proven experience engineering solutions in cloud environments (Azure, AWS), including compute, networking, and platform services.

Analyst - BlackRock Financial Advisors - Singapore