Zeeshan Riaz

Associate Devops Engineer @Dataquartz

Punjab, PK

Designed and managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and CircleCI to enable seamless code integration, testing, and deployment across environments.Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible, automating the provisioning of scalable, reproducible infrastructure.Deployed and managed containerized applications with Docker, and orchestrated them using Kubernetes, including setting up multi-node clusters and deploying services with ReplicaSets and Deployments.Automated application deployment processes using Helm charts for managing Kubernetes applications.Installed and configured observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Blackbox Exporter for proactive system and service monitoring.Set up and monitored Node Exporter, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Kafka on Kubernetes worker nodes to simulate production-like environments.Implemented centralized logging stack (ELK/EFK) for better observability and debugging.Configured and maintained Traefik as a reverse proxy with authentication for secure access to internal dashboards.Deployed and integrated GitLab Runners in Kubernetes with private Docker registries (Harbor) to secure container storage and CI pipelines.Enhanced GitLab pipelines by adding Playwright test automation to validate UI workflows in CI/CD.Troubleshot and resolved critical issues including SSH access, firewall configurations, DNS/hostname issues, and resource optimization (disk space, swap memory, CPU throttling) across multiple VMs.Ensured high availability and performance tuning of systems by monitoring with Grafana alerts and implementing incident response automation.Initiated infrastructure-wide monitoring and alerting setup for all VMs, covering system metrics, app health checks, and uptime monitoring.