Riaz Syed

About Riaz Syed

Overall, 9+ years of extensive experience in Automating, configuring and deploying instances on cloud environments and Data centers. Experience in the areas of Platform Engineer Practices, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, SRE and Build and release management. • Experience working on various technologies/ tools like: GIT, SVN, Maven, Gradle, ANT, Jenkins, Bamboo, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. • Hands on experience in creating pods and managing on the cluster environment on Kubernetes. • Expertise in, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure Automation tools like Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, TeamCity, Chef, Spinnaker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace, Docker, Kubernetes, Nagios and ELK. • Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins, Team City and Bamboo for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments. • Hands-on experience on Web Application Servers, IBM WebSphere, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, and WebLogic including configuration, administration and documentation. • Experience in understanding and using NoSQL databases MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couch DB, and Redis. • Experience in building real time data pipelines with Kafka connect and spark streaming. • Strong knowledge of storage technologies integrated with python and interfacing with virtual environments. • Expertise in working with different databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. • Hands of experience on application server maintenance and J2EE application deployment in application servers like Apache, Tomcat, IBM Web Sphere, and Oracle Web logic. • Experience in using virtualization tools like Virtual Box, VMware and provisioning virtual machines using Vagrant. • Operational experience with multiple OpenStack distributions like Mirante’s OpenStack, Red Hat, OpenStack, and OpenStack Ansible project. • Extensive experience in setting up the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, CHEF, Terraform and AWS. • Experience in using Nexus Artifactory Repository Managers for ANT, Maven and Gradle Builds. • Experience in designing end to end automation of infrastructure and continuous delivery of the applications by integrating cloud formation scripts, Jenkins, AWS and Chef. • Configured Chef Infrastructure. Setup chef infrastructure for various environments. Used open-source chef, chef-solo and chef-zero. Also, written various cookbooks for infrastructure automation. • Experience in working on modern MEAN Stack MongoDB, Express JS, AngularJS, ReactJS and NodeJS.

Experience

1. Sre Devops Engineer

   Apple

   Apr 2021 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Education

• University of Kashmir, Srinagar

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2008 — 2012