Anwar Faisal
Development
Texas, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
ANWAR FAISAL's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). ANWAR also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). ANWAR FAISAL has 11 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
DTNA
January 2023 - Present
- * Provisioned and maintained INFRA as code IaC using Terraform. * Managed, configured, and maintained Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications. * Managed Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments. * Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines. * Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools. * Built AWS images using Packer. * Managed multi-tier applications on AWS using Terraform. * Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, improving resource utilization and management. * Optimized resources configuration and server maintenance using Ansible. * Actively managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudWatch and RDS, including backups. * Developed Linux/UNIX scripts to accomplish redundant tasks to simplify in distributed administration. * Reduced application downtime with proactive identification and resolution of potential issues through comprehensive performance testing and monitoring. * Automated INFRA deployment for different environments Dev, QA, and Production. * Monitored Kubernetes environments by deploying tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
Devops/Automation Engineer
Socure
November 2021 - January 2023
- * Managed 3-tier applications on AWS using Terraform. * Managed, configured, and maintained Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications. * Managed Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments. * Developed and maintained scripts for system automation, reducing manual intervention by %50 and increased efficiency by %$40. * Provisioned and maintained INFRA as code IaC using Terraform, Ansible and AWS. * Configured AWS load balancer certificates for Elastic Beanstalk Prod environments when Release. * Identified and addressed performance bottlenecks, resulting in a 20% improvement in system performance. * Implemented and maintained a framework from scratch for backend API testing using Javascript/ Supertest with Jest. * Monitored Kubernetes environments by deploying tools like Grafana and Prometheus. * Implemented and maintained a framework from scratch for automating E2E with Cypress. * Set up and maintained staging, and QA environments, ensuring seamless application deployment and improving overall system reliability. * Reduced regression testing timeframes by implementing efficient automated test scripts. * Monitored system logs and identified potential issues, resulting in reduction in system downtime and improved system performance. * Wrote and executed tests and diagnostics designed to validate products and software applications. * Participated in Agile development processes to support continual improvements in overall delivery efforts. * Wrote and tested Ansible playbooks to configure and perform tasks on remote nodes. * Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices. * Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
DevOps Engineer
Wells Fargo
September 2017 - November 2021
- * Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines. * Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools using different tools, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, prometheus. * Experienced with Git source code control, Infrastructure as Code IaC, Docker, Kubernetes. * Experienced on Load Balancing, Controlling Flow of Traffic by using AWS ELB, ALB, NLB. * Wrote and tested Ansible playbooks to configure and perform tasks on remote nodes. * Managed Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments. * Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices. * Managed, configured, and maintained Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications. * Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging. * Managed 3-tier applications on AWS using Terraform. * Provisioned AWS resources via AWS CLI/API - this includes defining VPCs, ECS clusters, Auto-Scaling Policies/Groups, and Security Group. * Automated INFRA deployment using Terraform for different environments Dev, QA, and Production.
Automation Engineer
AT&T
March 2013 - August 2017
- * Enhanced software quality by developing comprehensive test plans and executing various test cases. * Improved team efficiency by collaborating with developers to review and refine code throughout the development process. * Streamlined testing processes by implementing automation tools and frameworks like Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Cypress. * Utilized Jenkins for Continuous Integration(CI) of the automation framework and Bitbucket as Version Control. * Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines. * Performed Back End Testing by writing Javascript scripts to validate data against db. * Developed reusable test scripts using scripting languages, reducing manual testing efforts significantly over multiple projects. * Reduced application downtime with proactive identification and resolution of potential issues through comprehensive performance testing and monitoring tools.
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