Mukarram Syed

Highlights:

• Managed and mentored multiple DevOps Engineers in the US and India.
• Lead and partnered in recent critical projects such as OS Upgrade Projects, DNS Automation, Golden Image Automation and several Sec-Ops projects.
• Principal engineer for VMware and KVM Infrastructure, Access Management Services, Internal OS Repositories and Monitoring Infrastructure.
• Responsible for design and building of Infrastructure with Automation in the Cloud and for On-Premise Data centers.
• Primary engineer for Infrastructure Hardware (Servers, Storage and Network components) for On-Premise Data centers.
• Participated with Senior Managers for critical Infrastructure decision making processes and procedures.
• Worked closely with different levels of Engineering Teams, Engineering Managers, Database Engineers and Developers to facilitate and take care of their application needs.
• Lead Engineer for several POC Projects.

Skills:

• Experienced in Automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Bash and Python scripting.
• Implemented CI/CD Pipe-lines with Jenkins and maintained On-Premise Jenkins Infrastructure.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts for Infrastructure provisioning and tools in Code repositories like Github and GitLab.
• Familiar with GitOps Pipelines with Atlantis, Terragrunt, Terraform and Ansible.
• Installed and maintained On-Premise Data Centers systems (Dell/HP) and created automation for system provisioning with tools like Ansible and Cloud-Init.
• Implemented, Automated and maintained Access Management Platform tools like RedHat IDM, Teleport, StrongDM.
• Implemented, Automated and familiar with Monitoring tools like CheckMK, Nagios, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Kubernetes Certified - Implemented and maintained Kubernetes clusters.
• Worked on Docker Containers.