Mehfoozali shaikh

Worked as senior devops engineer to look after azure kubernetes environment.

Managed azure environment as well as Cicd pipelines

Working as sole devops engineer to ensure services were up

Assisted with iso27001 accreditation

Working as the sole devops engineer in a senior position.
Infrastructure is deployed in Azure.
Using GitHub as repo, issue tracking and workflows to deploy to environments.
GitHub workflows hook into Azure devops, utilizing YAML pipelines.
Responsible for AKS – running across various locations, with considerable nodepools.
Deployed ELK cloud via Azure, deployed, metricbeat, elastic-agents and directed system and app logs to ELK.
Set up Azure monitoring and alerting, migrating to ELK.
Set up Azure backup and restore – restores via terraform.
Using Helm charts to ensure consistency across environments.
Comfortable with command line tools such as Kubectl, helm, AZ cli.
Looking to implement terraform, and import current infrastructure.
Assisted with work towards ISO27001, 9001 accreditation.

Working within the SSO (Single Sign On) dept.
Working as a sole devops engineer, changing the strategy for future CICD pipelines and workflows.
Role is working with On-prem – Windows environment, IIS.
Use of Atlassian suite of tools.
Heavy use of PowerShell to test and discover environment.
Previous method for CICD process consisted of only Teamcity.
Responsible for business justification to split the previous CICD process from Teamcity to include Octopus.
Move away from building multiple times to build once and deploy many times.
Standardize deployment process across all environments.
Built Octopus deployment process from ground up, with various considerations such as security, environmental factors, and load balancing.
Introduced deployment processes within Octopus to offer better transparency and cleaner deployment process.
Improved the CICD pipelines by at least 75% in terms of time to delivery.
Introduced control of AVI load balancer via API to help automate the management of machines during deployments with PowerShell script.
Updating of Confluence pages via API using PowerShell during deployment.
Working with Artifactory to manage artifacts and pull from, as well as SonarQube to ensure efficient testing of code.
Liaising with other parts of the company to ensure correct standards and procedures are being followed.
Looking to turn the current deployment scripts into code to ensure version control of deployment pipelines.
Helped to test move repositories to GitLab and investigate into GitLab pipelines as code.
Worked to ensure good documentation to follow and training provided.

Working with Azure & AWS.
Using full Atlassian suite including Jira, Confluence Bitbucket.
Interacting with cloud providers using Terraform – using workspaces and expanding upon terraforms extensive capability to create as well import resources.
Built azure front doors, DNS requirements and various resources and dependencies using terraform.
Using PowerShell to dig deeper into Azure and understand the environments.
Interacting with various team members and wider company members to ensure needs are being met.
Cleaned up environments which had been set up with cross environmental access for ease.
Ensured AWS environment was running without issues - Linux.
Liaised with 3rd party companies to set up required external connections such as site-to-site vpn.
CICD tools include Jenkins and Azure Devops.
Worked with the team to provide support where needed.

Being the sole devops engineer, my role has been to implement one click automation for the development team.
Move from TFS to Bitbucket & adopt the Gitflow method.
Bring about a culture of build once, deploy many times.
Bring confidence to the devs of the automated deployment procedure.
Split apart Teamcity Build and deploy configuration for Teamcity to be a build only tool.
Adding additional Teamcity agents and ensuring optimal functionality.
Implemented Octopus for deployments including Channels, Lifecycles, and template sets.
Created pipeline which allows tracking of code, build and deployments through Jira integrations.
Improved deployment pipelines by reducing times to deploy by approx. 80%.
Implement controls with correct permissions being assigned to relevant stakeholders.
Integrated Jira and slack with CI CD, ensuring notifications.
Worked to migrate domains, which involved working with change, infrastructure and the devs to bring about a new environment to ensure complicity with security.
Supporting Testers with Browserstack issues.
Work closely with infrastructure to ensure environments are as required and up to date.
Troubleshooting pipeline issues as and when they arise.
Currently working on POC to move hosting to the cloud – this is Azure.
Currently looking into Webapps, Static websites through storage, API managements and Virtual Machines.
Looking to build out cloud infrastructure using Terraform, build via Teamcity and deployments via Octopus.

Working closely with devs to resolve issues and assisting with any deployments.
Teamcity and Octopus deploy for on prem stack and azure PAAS services.
Migrated on prem services to Kubernetes, build and release pipelines in Azure devops.
Work closely with devs to resolve issues when deploying to Kubernetes, especially where code has gone from .NET framework to .NET core.
Hosting on Azure however managed through IAAC and deployment processes - terraform.
Azure devops to deploy to Kubernetes deployed on AKS, using pipelines with terraform.
Monitoring with Prometheus, with dashboards via Grafana – not involved in the setup.
Troubleshoot build and deployment issues as and when they would arise.

Provide training and guidance to team on various platforms including AWS and Azure.
Working closely with Jira and Atlassian suite of tools to work in an agile method, these included Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket including administration.
AWS CloudFormation and later progressed to Hashicorp Terraform for IAC.
Hashicorp Packer used alongside PowerShell to ensure images are current and relevant.
TeamCity alongside Klondike and Octopus Deploy used to deploy new code to various sites, especially auto scaling infrastructure, ensuring sites are always up and load balanced.
Working closely with dev teams to ensure deployments are smooth and environments are visible to deploy to.
Live deployments using Octopus to 50% of estate testing then continuing once tested.
Contributed to sensitive projects migrating from on premise to AWS, and from AWS to Azure.
Used Hashicorp Vault where required as well as AWS-Vault to ensure security is maintained at all times.
Implement Microsoft GPOs in Windows environments as per best practice.
Understand the importance of an audit trail, and understand the importance of change management coupled with ITIL practices.
My projects are supported by myself, and should they have downtime or require investigation I am able to provide this to the highest manner for which I have had recognition by the KPMG CloudOps Management team.