M. Awais

DevOps Engineer

ShellShift

Dec 2023 - Dec 2025 • 2 yrs

✅ Worked with 30+ developers to design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, reducing deployment time by 60%. ✅ Led the migration of a monolith application to a microservices architecture on ECS, resulting in a 30% reduction in operational costs and 99.99% uptime. ✅ Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS) for microservices architecture in a high-traffic production environment. ✅ Cut CI/CD costs by up to 90% using EKS Auto Mode with Spot capacity.

Cloud Engineer

LearnTech • Full-time

Dec 2020 - Dec 2023 • 3 yrs

✅ Reduced CI/CD deployment time by 40% through pipeline automation with Jenkins, integrating security checks at every stage. ✅ Implement security tools (Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Shield, Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF) to detect and mitigate threats in real-time. ✅ Improved cloud cost efficiency by 40% via optimised resource utilisation using AWS Trusted Advisor and CloudWatch. ✅ Worked with development teams to containerise applications and deploy them via ECS. ✅ Configure and manage IAM policies, roles and permissions to ensure least privilege access.