Hello! I'm Hafeez Ur Rehman, a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 12 years of IT experience, including 7 years in DevOps/SysOps and 5 years in Network Systems. I lead agile teams in deploying and managing multi-cloud applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with expertise in IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture. I also design and implement MLOps pipelines for model training, versioning, and deployment, and I focus on security hardening, disaster recovery, and cost optimization to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. I thrive in fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and gaming environments across Europe, the United States, and Canada, collaborating with cross-functional teams via Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence, and GitHub/GitLab. Passionate about building scalable, secure, and observable distributed systems, I continuously pursue excellence in automation, testing, and performance tuning to reduce latency and costs while improving reliability.

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Hello! I'm Hafeez Ur Rehman, a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 12 years of IT experience, including 7 years in DevOps/SysOps and 5 years in Network Systems. I lead agile teams in deploying and managing multi-cloud applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with expertise in IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture. I also design and implement MLOps pipelines for model training, versioning, and deployment, and I focus on security hardening, disaster recovery, and cost optimization to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. I thrive in fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and gaming environments across Europe, the United States, and Canada, collaborating with cross-functional teams via Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence, and GitHub/GitLab. Passionate about building scalable, secure, and observable distributed systems, I continuously pursue excellence in automation, testing, and performance tuning to reduce latency and costs while improving reliability.

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Hello! I’m Hafeez Ur Rehman, a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 12 years of IT experience, including 7 years in DevOps/SysOps and 5 years in Network Systems. I lead agile teams in deploying and managing multi-cloud applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with expertise in IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture. I also design and implement MLOps pipelines for model training, versioning, and deployment, and I focus on security hardening, disaster recovery, and cost optimization to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. I thrive in fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and gaming environments across Europe, the United States, and Canada, collaborating with cross-functional teams via Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence, and GitHub/GitLab.

Passionate about building scalable, secure, and observable distributed systems, I continuously pursue excellence in automation, testing, and performance tuning to reduce latency and costs while improving reliability.

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Language

English
Advanced
Panjabi, Punjabi
Fluent
Urdu
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps Lead at SymTrain.ai
November 1, 2024 - September 1, 2025
Led AWS-based multi-account DevOps initiatives using AWS Control Tower for authentication and governance. Architected and deployed infrastructure on EKS and ECS with RDS MySQL, Lambda, SQS, S3, and AWS Bedrock AI integration. Implemented infrastructure as code with Terraform and Jenkins for EKS, and Bitbucket for ECS environments. Designed CI/CD pipelines with Blue/Green deployments enabling zero-downtime releases. Implemented automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) within deployment pipelines. Collaborated with development teams via Slack and Jira to ensure streamlined communication and delivery.
GCP Cloud Engineer at HomeLife Media
March 1, 2023 - October 1, 2025
Migrated eCommerce projects from Nexus Cloud to Google Cloud Platform, achieving 99.9% uptime. Architected deployments on GKE with Cloud SQL and Filestore for scalability and performance. Implemented disaster recovery with scheduled snapshots and point-in-time recovery. Achieved 40% infrastructure cost reduction through optimized resource allocation and right-sizing. Improved application response time by 60% with GKE auto-scaling and Cloud SQL tuning. Processed 50,000+ daily transactions with sub-second latency using Cloud Run Functions. Established comprehensive monitoring dashboards and alerts using GCP Monitoring integrated with PagerDuty.
DevOps Engineer at InvoZone
August 1, 2022 - Present
Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, EBS, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, CloudFront, IAM). Implemented CI/CD automation using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, and GCP CloudBuild. Deployed blockchain applications via Docker containers based on Substrate framework and Polkadot network. Implemented security hardening (OS firewalling, vulnerability scanning, compliance checks). Integrated SonarQube with GitLab for code quality and SAST/DAST security scanning. Performed stress and load testing of Web/App APIs using HMeter, K6.io, and Loader.io. Migrated GitLab deployment from cloud to on-premises; established on-demand feature environment deployment for Rails applications via GCP CloudBuild on GKE.
Network Systems Engineer at Nextbridge Ltd.
March 1, 2013 - August 1, 2022
Administered AWS infrastructure: EC2, VPC, ALB/ELB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM. Deployed LAMP/XAMPP servers with PaaS and WordPress; migrated VMs from on-premises to cloud environments. Designed Nginx web servers with Virtual Hosts, HTTPS redirects, Reverse Proxy, and load balancing. Monitored servers and infrastructure using Nagios and Zabbix NMS with automated alerting. Maintained data center operations and virtual infrastructure: ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V, and KVM (Proxmox VE). Enforced server security using iptables, UFW, ClamAV, Maldet, and OS hardening practices.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Studies at University of the Punjab
July 1, 2011 - January 1, 2013
B.Sc. Computer Studies at University of the Punjab
July 1, 2011 - January 1, 2013

Qualifications

GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026
GCP Cloud Architect
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Architect
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - February 5, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Gaming, Software & Internet, Retail, Media & Entertainment
    paper Phynd-TV - Cloud-Native Game Streaming Platform

    Architected enterprise-grade game streaming platform on AWS EKS with 18 microservices and GPU node integration
    • Designed complete AWS infrastructure using Terraform: VPC with multi-AZ deployment, EKS 1.34 cluster with GPU nodes (g4dn.xlarge)
    • Implemented ML-powered semantic search with vector embeddings (MiniLM-L6-v2) on dedicated GPU nodes with Apache Cassandra 5.0
    • Built observability stack with Grafana, Loki, Promtail, and CloudWatch alarms integrated with PagerDuty
    • Created passwordless authentication with OTP via email/SMS using AWS SES/SNS, QR code Pulse handshake for TV devices