Ahsan Nawaz

Ahsan Nawaz

$35/hr
Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Part-time (20 hrs/wk)
Location:
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Experience:
4 years
AHSAN NAWAZ CLOUD & DEVOPS ENGINEER Karachi, Pakistan linkedin.com/in/ahsannz | ahsan2000.github.io/portfolio/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of production experience in digital banking, AI infrastructure, and application delivery. Experience operating Kubernetes clusters spanning 150+ nodes, designing primary and disaster-recovery infrastructure, and automating mobile, web, and backend releases. Core strengths include AWS, Azure, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Linux, and observability. TECHNICAL SKILLS Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP; EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda; AKS, App Service, virtual machines Containers: Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE, Docker, Docker Swarm, container registries Delivery & automation: Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Git, Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, CloudFormation Operations: Linux, Windows Server, networking, disaster recovery, Grafana, ELK/EFK, centralized logging Scripting & quality: Bash, PowerShell, Batch, Python, SonarQube, Playwright Data services: MongoDB, Redis PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Bank AL Habib Limited | DevOps Engineer Karachi, Pakistan | May 2025 - Present - Design and operate primary and disaster-recovery infrastructure to support high availability and dependable digital banking services. - Optimized Kubernetes resources and application infrastructure during the transition from the legacy banking app to AL Habib Digital, improving backend responsiveness and supporting smoother banking operations. - Operate Azure infrastructure for the DigiMate AI assistant, including AKS, App Service, virtual machines, registries, MongoDB, and Redis. - Implemented automated deployment pipelines, reducing manual release steps and deployment time; configure EFK logging and Grafana monitoring for production troubleshooting. TekRevol | DevOps Engineer Karachi, Pakistan | May 2024 - May 2025 - Managed multiple AWS production accounts using IAM roles and least-privilege access. - Built Jenkins and Bitbucket pipelines for Android, iOS, web, and backend applications, automating builds, tests, and deployments. - Replaced manual delivery steps with Docker staging environments and Ansible deployments; integrated SonarQube checks into release workflows. - Automated AWS releases and hotfix delivery for customer-facing workloads, including Rise Up Kings. 1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) Teresol Pvt. Ltd. | DevOps Engineer Karachi, Pakistan | Aug 2023 - May 2024 - Operated multiple Kubernetes clusters spanning 150+ nodes at Teresol, a vendor supporting Bank AL Habib, handling application deployments and production troubleshooting. - Deployed and maintained Docker Swarm applications and automated microservice deployments with Ansible. - Investigated incidents using ELK/EFK logs and monitored workload and deployment health with Grafana. Q-Solutions | DevOps Engineer Karachi, Pakistan | Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 - Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments with Ansible, and integrated SonarQube and Playwright checks. - Managed Linux and Windows servers; deployed Node.js, Next.js, and .NET applications on AWS EC2 and IIS. - Managed EC2, RDS, Route 53, and CloudFront resources and contributed to infrastructure automation with AWS CDK. - Developed a Python bot for Jenkins build notifications and troubleshot deployment and infrastructure failures. TrioTech Systems | Automation Engineer Karachi, Pakistan (Remote) | Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 - Built Jenkins pipelines to automate delivery from source control to servers and AWS environments. - Automated AWS provisioning with CloudFormation and AWS CDK, and cross-platform operations with Bash, Batch, and PowerShell. - Automated .NET builds, NuGet dependency restoration, Docker image creation, and Amazon ECS deployments. - Configured load balancers, target groups, security groups, and subnets; investigated pipeline failures and documented delivery procedures. SELECTED PROJECT OneView | Investment Tracking App & Website oneviewportfolio.com | Independent product - Built and launched an investment-tracking app and product website covering stocks, mutual funds, and pension investments. - Implemented on-device statement import, portfolio tracking, private local storage, biometric protection, backup, and restore. - Managed domain configuration, hosting, DNS, SSL, deployment, and launch. EDUCATION Master of Science, Data Engineering and Information Management NED University of Engineering and Technology | Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering Hamdard University | Oct 2018 - Feb 2023 COURSE CERTIFICATES Golang | KodeKloud | Oct 2023 DevOps Beginners to Advanced with Projects - 2023 | Udemy | Sep 2023 2
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