Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years of technology expertise, including 5 years specialized in SRE and DevOps. Known for:
- 📈 Achieving 99.99% uptime for mission-critical production systems
- 🔄 Leading DevOps transformation initiatives across multiple teams
- 💰 Optimizing cloud infrastructure costs by 30%+ through efficient resource management
- 🛠️ Implementing robust CI/CD pipelines handling 1000+ deployments monthly
- 🎯 Reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) by 60% through automated incident response
- Platform Engineering: Architecture design, scalability planning, and infrastructure optimization
- Reliability Engineering: SLO/SLI definition, error budgets, and reliability improvement
- Incident Management: On-call leadership, post-mortem facilitation, and systematic problem-solving
- Team Leadership: Mentoring, technical guidance, and cross-functional collaboration
- Architected and implemented a multi-region Kubernetes platform supporting 100+ microservices
- Designed and executed cloud migration strategies resulting in 40% improved performance
- Established infrastructure-as-code practices reducing provisioning time from days to hours
- Implemented comprehensive observability solutions using Datadog and Prometheus
- Created custom dashboards and alerts reducing false positives by 75%
- Developed automated remediation workflows for common failure scenarios
- Built custom automation tools saving 200+ engineering hours monthly
- Standardized deployment processes across 20+ development teams
- Implemented security scanning and compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines
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Enterprise Monitoring Migration (NewRelic to Datadog)
- Led end-to-end migration of 300+ services to Datadog
- Implemented Terraform-based monitoring-as-code
- Achieved 100% monitoring coverage with zero downtime
- Reduced monitoring costs by 25%
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Kubernetes Resource Optimization
- Analyzed and optimized resource utilization across clusters
- Implemented horizontal pod autoscaling for 50+ services
- Reduced cloud costs by 35% while improving performance
- Created custom monitoring for resource usage patterns
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Incident Management Modernization
- Redesigned on-call processes using PagerDuty and Datadog
- Implemented automated incident routing and escalation
- Reduced average incident response time by 65%
- Created comprehensive runbooks and documentation
- GitLab 101
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Implement DevOps in Google Cloud (by Google)
- Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine (by Google)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Author of internal best practices guides for SRE and DevOps
- Regular contributor to team technical blog
- Mentor for junior SRE engineers
- Speaker at internal tech talks and knowledge sharing sessions
I'm passionate about building reliable, scalable systems and sharing knowledge with the community. Feel free to reach out for:
- 💡 SRE and DevOps best practices
- 🤝 Collaboration opportunities
- 📢 Speaking engagements
- 🎓 Mentoring
LinkedIn: aftabmd
Twitter: @saifi_aftab
Email: alam156@gmail.com