Malik Faizan

DevOps engineer

Mediatiz foundation • Temps plein

Oct 2024 - Present • 1 yr 7 mos

DevOps Engineer | AWS & GCP Cloud Professional: Drive cloud infrastructure, automation, and release engineering across AWS and GCP to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available platforms. • Designed and operated AWS/GCP foundations (VPC/VPC peering, subnets, SGs/Firewalls, IAM, EC2/GCE, RDS/Cloud SQL, S3/Cloud Storage, ALB/Cloud Load Balancing, Route53/Cloud DNS). • Standardized infrastructure as code using Terraform and CloudFormation with reusable modules, environment workspaces, and drift detection; enforced policy-as-code checks (tfsec, OPA) in pipelines. • Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Jenkins: lint/test stages, Docker build/push to ECR/Artifact Registry, automated deploys to ECS/Fargate and GCE with approvals and safe rollbacks. • Containerized services with Docker (multi-stage builds, health checks, secrets) and implemented blue/green and canary strategies to minimize risk and downtime. • Implemented observability with ELK and CloudWatch: centralized logs, metrics, dashboards, and actionable alerts; codified SLOs/runbooks to reduce MTTR and improve service reliability. • Hardened security: IAM least-privilege roles, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager/SSM Parameter Store, VPC endpoints, baseline CIS benchmarks, and automated patch/AMI pipelines. • Improved resilience and backup/DR: multi-AZ architectures, Auto Scaling, scheduled/cross-region snapshots, S3 lifecycle and versioning, and periodic restore testing. • Drove cost optimization via rightsizing, instance scheduling, storage lifecycle policies, and usage reviews, aligning performance with budget. • Partnered with developers and QA to dockerize apps, standardize Makefiles, and codify dev/stage/prod parity; produced clear documentation and onboarding guides.

Communication Engineer

Special Communication organization • Temps plein

Dec 2019 - Oct 2024 • 4 yrs 10 mos

As a communication engineer, primary responsibility is to make communication smooth and provide uninterrupted Data & voice services and make a services intact while monitoring a scloud & aws . Primarily, SCO provides NGMS (3G,4G),broad band ,PSTN and GPON/FTTH(Fiber to the home)or triple play service (voice, data and IPtv)in AJ&K. Tasks: •Automated database/config backups to Amazon S3 with versioning and lifecycle policies; performed regular restore drills •Built CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) to lint/test, build Docker images, and deploy to EC2/containers with approvals and rollbacks Implemented observability with Amazon CloudWatch (dashboards/alarms) and ELK; created runbooks to speed incident response Enforced least-privilege security (AWS IAM), encryption (KMS), and secure config (Secrets Manager/SSM Parameter Store) •Optimized costs via instance right-sizing, EBS/S3 lifecycle policies, and instance scheduling Supported hybrid networking: VPC, routing, security groups, and VPN connectivity to on-prem • Making all transmission nodes (DWDM, OSN2500, OSN1500, OSN3500, and OTN) operational by avoiding any physical fault. • In case of any fault, taking traces of the fault by using ODTR , yokogawa AQ-1200 and viavi smart OTDR & rectify it on urgent basis if issue is physical(faulty patch cords , connector or low optical power levels) • Dispatching field teams accordingly and provide them technical support for immediate restoration.