Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Cloud Infrastructure | Automation

📍 Lahore, Pakistan | 📧 sajjadtalib29@gmail.com | 💼 LinkedIn

DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructures for high-performance and large-scale systems.
Skilled in designing Kubernetes-based architectures, automating CI/CD pipelines, implementing observability, and ensuring secure, cost-efficient deployments.
Recognized for problem-solving, collaboration, and delivering scalable, resilient, and compliant systems across AWS and GCP environments.

🚀 Tkxel — Senior DevOps Engineer (Oct 2024 – Present)
DevOps Engineer (Jul 2024 – Sep 2024)

• Promoted within a year for leadership and technical excellence; managing a team of 6 DevOps engineers.
• Architected and optimized EKS clusters handling 3.5K+ RPS, improving scalability and cost efficiency.
• Collaborated with AWS Support to fix CoreDNS timeouts during peak traffic, boosting reliability.
• Implemented Datadog observability, custom dashboards, and alerts → reduced MTTR by 35%.
• Enhanced RDS & Aurora reliability with PITR and tuning → reduced RTO/RPO by 40%.
• Achieved 30% cloud cost savings through right-sizing and resource optimization.
• Led cross-functional delivery, CI/CD automation, and compliance with AWS security standards.

💡 Devsinc — DevOps Engineer (Mar 2023 – Jun 2024)
Associate DevOps Engineer (Mar 2022 – Mar 2023)

• Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins & ArgoCD → 75% faster deployments.
• Deployed Kubernetes + Helm Charts, achieving 90% zero-downtime releases.
• Automated infra provisioning using Terraform across AWS & GCP → 60% setup time reduction.
• Improved system reliability by 85% with proactive monitoring and SRE-driven observability.
• Enhanced application and infra performance by 50% using optimized resource utilization.
• Led Agile adoption and improved team efficiency by 70% through automation and collaboration.

⚙️ Programmers Force — DevOps Engineer (Jan 2021 – Feb 2022)

• Built CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and automation workflows.
• Configured Nginx & Apache reverse proxy and Cloudflare DNS → reduced latency.
• Managed on-prem servers with enhanced security and stability (+20% uptime).
• Implemented Prometheus + Grafana monitoring and alerting for system reliability.
• Developed HA configurations for PostgreSQL using bash-based disaster recovery scripts.

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EKS, ECS, RDS, Aurora, GuardDuty, WAF, Shield) • GCP • Terraform • Ansible

⚙️ DevOps & Automation
Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • GitHub Actions • Jenkins • ArgoCD • AWS CodePipeline

🧩 Monitoring & Reliability
Prometheus • Grafana • Datadog • ELK Stack • CloudWatch • AWS X-Ray • Graylog

🛡️ Security & Compliance
SonarQube • OWASP ZAP • Probely • SOC2 • PCI • HIPAA • Nginx ModSecurity

🗄️ Databases
PostgreSQL • MySQL • MongoDB Atlas • Redis

💻 Programming & Scripting
Python • Bash • Go • PowerShell • C++

🧪 Testing & Performance
Apache Bench • JMeter • BlazeMeter

🧭 Collaboration Tools
Git • GitHub • GitLab • Bitbucket • Jira • Confluence

Bachelor’s in Computer Science — University of Lahore (Silver Medalist)

“Automation doesn’t just save time — it scales trust, reliability, and innovation.”