MOHAMMED AZEEM KHAN

• Developed modules using Terraform and Terragrunt for various Azure resources, including virtual networks, storage accounts, VM scale sets, and managed databases. Leveraged Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to ensure repeatable, consistent deployments across multiple environments and regions.
• Deployed the resources to cloud environments with CI/CD for Terraform using tools like GH Actions and Jenkins. Integrated automated testing and validation steps into the deployment pipeline, ensuring infrastructure changes were both consistent and reliable.
• Developed test cases for the terraform modules using Golang and terratest.
• Created and Managed EKS clusters from the scratch through terraform on AWS to support various applications deployed on it.
• Collaborated with the development and operations teams to define the deployment strategy for th Internal Health Watch application which involved understanding the application architecture, identifying deployment requirements, and designing an efficient and scalable deployment plan using Elastic Search, Python, Golang and Snowflake
• Leveraged Ansible's capabilities to automate the deployment and management processes of the internal HealthWatch application.
• Created Ansible playbooks to streamline tasks such as provisioning servers, configuring networking settings, installing dependencies, and deploying the application code
• Provisioned and configured almost 1200 remote servers required for the Health Watch application.
• Using Ansible, automated the server provisioning process, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors
• Set up automated build and release processes, allowing for frequent updates and releases of the Health Watch application while maintaining stability and minimizing downtime
• Implemented monitoring solutions to track the performance and health of the deployed application on all 1200 remote servers using kube-prometheus stack ( Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos ).
• Using Ansible, automated the installation and configuration of monitoring agents, enabling proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of issues.

Achievements:

• Successfully deployed and managed the Health Watch application on 1200 remote servers, ensuring high availability and performance across all environments
• Reduced deployment time by 50% by automating the provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using Ansible
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent and reliable updates to the Health Watch application while minimizing downtime
• Improved monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities, resulting in a significant reduction in mean time to repair (MTTR) for critical issues
• Received recognition for maintaining robust documentation and facilitating knowledge sharing within the team.

• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Load balancing, GCS, Cloud SQL, Stack driver Monitoring and Cloud Deployment Manager .
• Expertise in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing all the GCP stack (Compute
• Engine, Cloud DNS, Google cloud storage etc.) focusing on high-availability, fault-tolerance, and auto- scaling in Google Cloud Formation
• Created Kubernetes Cluster from the scratch and setup Bastion host to connect private instances inside the VPC and created NAT gateways for swift connection between the VM's
• Setup GCP Firewall rules to allow and deny traffic to and from the instances based on specified configurations
• Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes cluster, created pods, and managed using Kubernetes services, namespace's, deployment and ingress traffic manager with helm packages.
• Monitored pods health's and CPU resources using Prometheus and integrated with Grafana.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and deliver artifacts and troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process.
• Build automation using Jenkins server, Install and configuration of Jenkins, configure plugins, job setup, and build pipeline and delivery pipeline views.
• Implemented IaC by Using Terraform and deployed all applications supporting the microservices like Kubernetes, consul, vault, cert-manager, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Open search and all monitoring tools.
• Used Deployment Automation tool Atlantis in conjunction with Terraform to create a deployment along with the Pull request and also managed the resources through it.
• Deployed Monitoring tools in the GKE cluster like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger through community helm charts configured in Terraform as IaC.

• Migrated Linux/windows servers environment to GCP environment and used auto scaling features.
• Involved in remediation and patching of Linux servers.
• Launched AWS EC2 cloud instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu/RHEL) and configured launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 instance.
• Worked on dynamically adding and removing servers from AWS production environment, automating backups by shell for Linux/Unix to transferring data into AWS S3 buckets.
• Used AWS Route53 to route the traffic between different availability zones.
• Deployed and supported Mem-cache/AWS.
• Elastic Cache and then configured Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for routing traffic between zones.
• Implemented serverless applications on CloudFront, API gateway, AWS Lambda, SNS and
• Created AWS Lambda functions to run scripts in response to events in Amazon DynamoDB table and S3 bucket to HTTP requests using Amazon API gateway.
• Configured deployment env for web apps based on python using EKS Kubernetes services to deploy ECS container images in order to support production env.
• Automated the CI/CD process using AWS Code Pipeline and open-source Jenkins with Ansible plugins for server provisioning.
• Designed and Developed AWS Cloud infrastructure utilizing Ansible with AWS CloudFormation .
• Jenkins for Continuous Integration with high availability and secure multi-zones and automated end-to-end transit hub connectivity resource deployment in AWS via Terraform.
• Design, configure, troubleshoot and Implement Network Security policies in a timely fashion to meet customer service dates.
• Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes.
• Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes services, namespace's, deployment and ingress traffic manager with helm packages.
• Monitored pods health using Prometheus and integrated with Grafana.
• Maintained Kubernetes cluster using Terraform.
• Used Docker as a new level of simplicity to defining and creating applications by encapsulating them in containers
• Composed the Docker file to build the Docker image and configured the Build step – Docker Build and publish in Jenkins to execute the Docker Build step.
• Worked on Docker Container snapshots, attaching to a running container removing images, managing directory structures and managing Docker Volumes.
• Focused on Containerization and immutable infrastructure.
• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery Pipelines.
• Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks.

• Maintained and developed a production-level cloud-based architecture in AWS, including creatingmachine images like AMI and helped migrating and managing multiple applications from on premise tocloud using AWS services like S3, Glacier
• VPC, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, SES, IAM, EBS, ELB, SES, Security Group, Auto Scaling, ElasticCache
• CloudFront, CloudWatch
• Cloud Formation JSON templates
• Provisioning servers/instances using infrastructure as code such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Used Terraform in AWS Virtual Private Cloud to automatically setup and modify settings by interfacingwith control layer
• Build and configured Azure MySQL database and ensured database stability and performance efficiency
• This includes evaluation of databases and associated servers with configuration on improvingperformance, Maintenance and optimization of database operations
• Configured NSGs for two tiers and three tier applications
• Experience in integrating on premises servers to Azure
• Alignment of Azure blob storage and Azure file servers
• Array private and public facing Azure load Balancers
• Designed a Kubernetes cluster and install master and nodes, configure secure cluster communications
• Developed an opensource project with Kubernetes to manage a cluster of Linux containers, running
• Docker containers across multiple hosts
• Installed and Configured Docker Swarm for orchestrating Docker images and, docker compose, Dockervolume to share distributed volume across containers
• Wrote Docker files to create new images based on working environments for testing purposes beforedeployment
• Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container Snapshots, removing images,and managing
• Docker Volumes
• Focused on Containerization and immutable infrastructure
• Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation-using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs
• Installed, Configured and Administered Jenkins2.0 Continuous Integration Tools
• Responsible for defining branching & merging strategy, check in policies, improving code quality
• Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS Nodesand Test Playbooks on AWS instances using python.

• Creation of Release Plan, Definition, collection, analysis and presentation of Release Project Metrics onweekly basis
• Worked on performance issues, helped teams to identify entries in log files on server
• Automated Build and Deployment environment end -to-end using Jenkins, Gradle, plugins
• Experience in setting up Puppet master, Puppet agents for managing enterprise policies, configurations
• Configured Jenkins servers, Jenkins nodes, creating required Shell scripts and creating and configuring
• VMs (Windows/Linux)
• Worked on Tomcat Web Server for hosting web apps
• Worked on troubleshooting environment related issues on production
• Worked on Automated daily activities with Shell script
• Installed and configured Apache webserver.