Qasim

Senior DevOps Enginner

GoSaaS Incs • Freelance

Aug 2022 - Present • 3 yrs 10 mos

Migration & Orchestration: Led the strategic migration of 5+ major enterprise products from legacy EC2-based deployments to Kubernetes (EKS & LKE), enhancing scalability and fault tolerance. GitOps Implementation: Engineered a robust GitOps workflow using ArgoCD for continuous deployment and Jenkins for continuous integration, achieving fully automated, zero-downtime releases. Monitoring & Observability: Implemented the Kube-Prometheus-Stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) across 5+ enterprise products on LKE, replacing managed services and reducing costs by 50%. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provisioned and managed secure, multi-region cloud infrastructure on AWS and Oracle Cloud (OCI) using Terraform, ensuring environment consistency across Dev, Stage, and Prod. CI/CD Automation: Designed end-to-end pipelines to build and push Docker images to AWS ECR, reducing manual intervention by 90% and accelerating the software delivery lifecycle. Security & Compliance: Hardened infrastructure security by implementing CIS Benchmarks and deploying Teleport and Wazuh for centralized access control and endpoint threat detection. Configuration Management: Streamlined server provisioning and configuration using Ansible playbooks and Bash/Python scripting, eliminating manual configuration drift. Database Management: Managed AWS RDS high availability, implementing automated backup strategies and point-in-time restoration to ensure business continuity.