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Certification
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Rizwan Javid

Rizwan Javid

Dubai,UAE

Summary

Over 12+ years of experience in DevSecOps and Cloud Automation. Expertise in implementing end to end DevSecOps and Observability Stack.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certification

Work History

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Vision Bank
Dubai , UAE
2022.06 - Current
  • DevOps technologies and tooling selection and implementation.
  • Leading GitOps implementation for applications using Argo CD.
  • Leading Observability implementation using Dynatrace, Grafana Stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Promtail, Loki, Tempo ).
  • Shifting security left : implemented security checks such as SAST and SCA in applications pipelines using Checkmarx, Synk and Gitlab SAST.
  • Working closely with our development team to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continues delivery (CD).
  • Infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
  • Patching/upgrading tools and packages with latest versions.
  • Working closely with Cyber to apply the security requirements in applications and tools.
  • Training and enabling new joiners in Platform and DevSecOps areas.

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Emirates NBD
Dubai , UAE
2020.08 - 2024.07


  • Worked in Platform Team to contribute for product implementation of DevSecOps tools like OpenShift, Jenkins, Checkmarx, Azure DevOps, Intunes, 3Scale , Vault and Ansible.

Senior DevOps Consultant

Emirates Group
Dubai , UAE
2019.08 - 2020.07
  • Designed CD frame-work based on Jenkins-MPL-Libraries and Ansible. which supports CD for both monolithic and micro-services applications.
  • Automated CI CD for Jenkins and Openshift
  • Observability: Implemented APM using AppDynamics

DevOps Consultant

Delphix
Noida , India
2019.02 - 2019.08


  • Worked on Python, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible.
  • Vmware tools:- Vmware ESXi hypervisor, vRealize Orchestrator, vCenter/vRealize,vSAN and NSX. Troubleshooting of Vm on ESXi related to network and vSAN.
  • Automated VM provisioning via Jenkins and VRO- using VRO-templates and Jenkins-vro-plugin for Dynamic deployment and only fly vm creation and destroy.
  • Data Pipelines for multiple clouds like GCP AWS and Azure

DevOps Consultant and Atos Automation Expert

Atos
Pune , India
2017.06 - 2019.01
  • Worked on different Cloud platforms. Proprietary private cloud based on VMware , AWS, Azure.
  • Responsible for design and restructure the cloud infra and DevOps pipelines for Dev and QA.
  • Implementing GitOps, Configuration management and CI CD.
  • Working closely with the Chief DevOps Architect to redesign and implement DevOps governance across verticals.
  • Involvement in different phases of DevOps implementation like requirement gathering, assessment and analysis, DevOps blueprint and training /Establishment.
  • Managed a team of 10-12 DevOps Engineers.

Associate DevOps Consultant

Barclays Investment Bank
Pune , India
2016.06 - 2017.06
  • Worked on Investment Banking Project.
  • CI and CD using Jenkins and OpenShift.
  • Responsible for the whole DevOps implementation on the project.

Software Engineer

MSys Technologies LLC
Pune , India
2015.11 - 2016.06
  • Docker Swarm and UCP
  • Configuration Automation using CHEF
  • Knife Chef plugin Development for azure resource manager.
  • Implemented Git SCM strategy with Git-Gerrit.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Chennai , India
2014.03 - 2015.11
  • Infrastructure Automation, CI, CD, RA using Open-Source tools – Chef, Jenkins, CA-Nolio
  • Written (Chef) cookbooks for package installation and configuration on (slave) nodes
  • Worked on CI using tools like Jenkins, Git, Jfrog Artifactory, Nexus, Sonar, CA-Noilo
  • Trained on Java-J2EE, Maven, Ant

Intern

ST-ERICSSON
Bangaluru , India
2012.08 - 2013.02


  • Uniform Memory Management System in Android Camera HAL

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering

Chitkara School of Engineering and Technology , India
2009.08 - 2013.08

Post Graduate Diploma - Human Resource Management

IGNOU, India
2018.03 - 2019.09

Skills

  • Observability: Dynatrace, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus, ELK, AppDynamics.
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
  • GitOps: Pipeline templating, Gitlab, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
  • Registry: Jfrog, Nexus, Harbor.
  • Secret Management: Hashicorp Vault.
  • Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
  • Cloud: OCI, GCP, AWS, Azure.






Languages

English
Fluent

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions AZ-400
  • Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Cloud Management
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
  • Delivery Specialist - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Development

Timeline

Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Vision Bank
2022.06 - Current
Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Emirates NBD
2020.08 - 2024.07
Senior DevOps Consultant - Emirates Group
2019.08 - 2020.07
DevOps Consultant - Delphix
2019.02 - 2019.08
IGNOU - Post Graduate Diploma , Human Resource Management
2018.03 - 2019.09
DevOps Consultant and Atos Automation Expert - Atos
2017.06 - 2019.01
Associate DevOps Consultant - Barclays Investment Bank
2016.06 - 2017.06
Software Engineer - MSys Technologies LLC
2015.11 - 2016.06
Programmer Analyst - Cognizant Technologies Solutions
2014.03 - 2015.11
Intern - ST-ERICSSON
2012.08 - 2013.02
Chitkara School of Engineering and Technology - Bachelor of Technology, Engineering
2009.08 - 2013.08

Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Cloud Management

Delivery Specialist - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Development

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions AZ-400

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

Rizwan Javid