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Hi, I’m Mehdi Azhar, a Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and DevSecOps. I have a software engineering background and 6+ years of industry experience, focusing on AWS DevOps and security. I design and automate SDLC processes to improve infrastructure efficiency and security, deploying microservices and managing multi-region web services while applying security best practices. I enjoy leveraging cloud technologies to build robust and secure infrastructures. Hi, I thrive in collaborative environments, leading initiatives to modernize CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and implement observability and governance across cloud-native architectures. I’m actively expanding my Kubernetes skills and pursuing CKAD certification to further enhance production-grade deployments.…Hi, I’m Mehdi Azhar, a Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and DevSecOps. I have a software engineering background and 6+ years of industry experience, focusing on AWS DevOps and security. I design and automate SDLC processes to improve infrastructure efficiency and security, deploying microservices and managing multi-region web services while applying security best practices. I enjoy leveraging cloud technologies to build robust and secure infrastructures. Hi, I thrive in collaborative environments, leading initiatives to modernize CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and implement observability and governance across cloud-native architectures. I’m actively expanding my Kubernetes skills and pursuing CKAD certification to further enhance production-grade deployments.

Mehdi Azhar

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Mehdi Azhar, a Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and DevSecOps. I have a software engineering background and 6+ years of industry experience, focusing on AWS DevOps and security. I design and automate SDLC processes to improve infrastructure efficiency and security, deploying microservices and managing multi-region web services while applying security best practices. I enjoy leveraging cloud technologies to build robust and secure infrastructures. Hi, I thrive in collaborative environments, leading initiatives to modernize CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and implement observability and governance across cloud-native architectures. I’m actively expanding my Kubernetes skills and pursuing CKAD certification to further enhance production-grade deployments.…Hi, I’m Mehdi Azhar, a Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and DevSecOps. I have a software engineering background and 6+ years of industry experience, focusing on AWS DevOps and security. I design and automate SDLC processes to improve infrastructure efficiency and security, deploying microservices and managing multi-region web services while applying security best practices. I enjoy leveraging cloud technologies to build robust and secure infrastructures. Hi, I thrive in collaborative environments, leading initiatives to modernize CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and implement observability and governance across cloud-native architectures. I’m actively expanding my Kubernetes skills and pursuing CKAD certification to further enhance production-grade deployments.

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Hi, I’m Mehdi Azhar, a Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and DevSecOps. I have a software engineering background and 6+ years of industry experience, focusing on AWS DevOps and security. I design and automate SDLC processes to improve infrastructure efficiency and security, deploying microservices and managing multi-region web services while applying security best practices. I enjoy leveraging cloud technologies to build robust and secure infrastructures.

Hi, I thrive in collaborative environments, leading initiatives to modernize CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and implement observability and governance across cloud-native architectures. I’m actively expanding my Kubernetes skills and pursuing CKAD certification to further enhance production-grade deployments.

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DevOps Engineer at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

March 1, 2023 - Present

Using Python for AWS CDK, AWS Fargate ECS for deployment of microservices, Docker for containerization, Bamboo and GitLab for CI/CD, AWS CloudWatch & DataDog for monitoring, Splunk and CW logs for logging. Migrated legacy PHP - Symfony based app running on EC2, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and RDS setup via Ansible, CloudFormation and manual Bamboo pipeline to docker containers for local dev, ECS Fargate using CDK and Bamboo Specs YAML. Migrating Bamboo specs to GitLab. Training for CKAD and leadership/Expertship. Developed production-ready event-driven microservices architecture in AWS including SNS, SQS and Lambdas.

AWS DevSecOps Engineer at Liftango

February 21, 2022 - March 1, 2023

Develop, deploy and manage multi-region web services using AWS ECS and Elastic Beanstalk via Terraform. Jenkins and Bitbucket pipelines for automated deployments. Dockerization and deployments of microservices on AWS ECS via Terraform. Implementing and managing security best practices. Scaling and fool-proofing processes on AWS according to AWS's Well Architected Framework.

AWS DevSecOps Engineer at Teradata Global

February 8, 2021 - February 19, 2022

Responsible for development and automation of Cloud Infrastructure provisioning. Global Cloud Enablement Project – working mainly on AWS CloudFormation, Lambdas (Boto3 - Python), Bash scripting, AWS IAM, CodeBuild, Git and TaskCat for CICD. BitBox (Visual Forensics Automation Project) - Developing architecture involving AWS Cognito, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, AutoScaling, SQS and of course, VPC. Developed Bash script to scrape data from McDonald’s Website. Developed CloudFormation template and Terraform script (Remote state VPC) to automate infrastructure for EC2 hosted website and DB instance. ( AWS ALB/CLB, AWS AutoScaling, CloudFormation Nested Stacks ). Automated custom - built Docker images using Docker Compose . Deployed Python Flask app on AWS ECS.

Software Engineer – Cloud DevOps at Teradata Global Project I

August 1, 2017 - May 31, 2019

Base role involved SAAS and IAAS provisioning and automation. Developed Python script to generate automated CloudFormation template for Teradata Ecosystem (Boto3). Deployed Teradata Ecosystem on AWS for multiple global market leading clients like Sony Pictures Entertainment, IKEA, Concho etc. Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins to test ServiceNow - Kanban/GitHub integration with TDD approach. Developed Ansible playbook to install MySQL database on an instance created using Terraform. Azure VNet setup and managed deployment of VMs.

Intern Software Developer at Teradata

August 1, 2017 - September 15, 2017

Designed and developed a custom data visualization dashboard for a map to display analytical data (MicroStrategy, BI). Developed lite version of Teradata PROFIT Tool (Excel VBA). Designed and developed a dashboard for charts based on statistics (AngularJs, Covalent UI platform).