Zeeshan Ali

ZEESHAN ALI PROFILE Terraform Hashicorp Certified experienced DevOps Engineer with strong background in creating and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline with azure DevOps, Jenkins and ansible, with 4 plus years of experience in software industry. Experienced in managing development and production environments along with bridging the gap between development and operations teams. CONTACT EMAIL:- ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS Learning Football Movies Cricket Travelling Reading SKILLS • • • • • • • • • • • Experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool Terraform Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and Azure DevOps Proficient in using Ansible to automate the deployment of infrastructure and applications. Skilled in writing playbooks using Ansible Tower for automation. Experience in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, and bash Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker Familiarity with orchestration tool such as Kubernetes Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Stack Familiar with Azure and AWS Cloud Platform Strong understanding of Software Development lifecycle along with experience in development Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills Good communication and teamwork skills WORK EXPERIENCE Senior DevOps Engineer Contour Software May- • • • • • • • • • Designing solution for automation using ansible Containerize development environment from Cloud VMs to developers laptops to remove the VM cost using Docker. Implementation Nginx HA using Nginx Plus Provisioning of cloud resources using Terraform and Ansible Implementation of shared libraries in Jenkins pipelines for better code reusability Automating deployment and other processes using ansible Designing and implementing high availability services such as Postgres failover, Redis failover and other nginx based dynamic routing. Working on the integration of Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with azure services Add azure cloud services integration to .net based API DevOps Engineer Contour Software Oct 2019–Present • • • • • • • • Working at Contour Software as DevOps Engineer managing code management tools like bitbucket and Azure DevOps, writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ansible for quick and better feedback mechanism for developers in an agile environment. Leading DevOps Team with a mindset of automating as much as possible to create a CI cycle for Dotnet-Core based APIs and React based UI components in Pull Request verifications and Auto-Deployments in lower testing an environments Integrating issue tracking service to better visibility of developers and speeding up the feedback processes like integrating Jira with bitbucket for issue tracking on new code development, bitbucket with Jenkins for automating CI and Sonar-cloud for displaying static code analysis on PR ELK Stack pipelines development and management Writing yaml based ansible playbooks to automate routine task and deployment processes Development of customized deployment tools like console application using C# Developing & Updating PowerShell Scripts for deployments and uploading different artifacts to cloud platforms Software Engineer Enigma 10 June 2019–October 2019 • • • • Designing database diagram and other software development diagrams Developing .net core-based Web Application for online Quizzes Developing .net core-based APIs Managed GitHub flow MAJOR PROJECTS • • • • • • • Elastic Stack setup for monitoring VM resources and API’s log using customized Logstash scripts High-availability services design and implementation Nginx automation using ansible vSphere Infrastructure automation using terraform CI\CD pipeline using Azure DevOps CI\CD pipeline using Jenkins Parallel deployment for monolithic application using ansible script and customized dotnet core application CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING o o o o o o o o o o o o o Terraform Hashicorp Certified Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (KodeKloud) Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CloudGuru) Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners (KodeKloud) Docker For the Absolute Beginner (KodeKloud) Azure Automation Diving Deeper Configuring a Deployment Environment in Microsoft Azure Continuous Delivery and DevOps with Azure DevOps Managing Builds Build Azure Continuous Integration Pipeline Automation with Windows PowerShell Scripts Centralized Logging with Elastic stack Designing Schema for Elastic Search Automating Jenkins with Groovy EDUCATION Bachelor of Software Engineering 2015 - 2019 Bahira University CGPA: 3.58 References to be furnished upon request