Faizan Sheikh

About Faizan Sheikh

I am a Red Hat and AWS Certified professional with nearly 6 years of experience in Linux infrastructure and AWS cloud environments. I specialize in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance systems across on-prem and cloud platforms.Profile Summary:AWS Expertise: Hands-on experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, CloudFront, Route53, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS, Certificate Manager, EKS, ECS, Lightsail, and Workspaces to architect and maintain robust cloud solutions.DevOps & Automation: Skilled in using Git, GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes for CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Created multiple Bash scripts to automate administrative tasks like backups, cron jobs, SFTP, and monitoring.Kafka Administration: Proficient in Kafka installation, configuration, and integrating with monitoring tools like Splunk for real-time logging and metrics analysis.Monitoring & Observability: Expertise in implementing tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to ensure system uptime, performance, and proactive issue detection.IT Operations: Experienced with ITIL-based incident/change management using JIRA and ServiceNow. Strong exposure to ManageEngine Patch Manager and Vulnerability Manager for system hardening and compliance.Linux & Virtualization: Strong Linux administration background across Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. Skilled in virtualization using Oracle VirtualBox, VMware, and KVM.Networking & Server Management: Proficient in configuring and managing services like DNS, SMTP, DHCP, FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, NGINX, SSH/SFTP, MariaDB, LVM, ACLs, and disk partitioning.

Experience

1. Cloud Operations Engineer

   EdgeVerve

   Sep 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  2013 — 2018