I'm a DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud migration, containerization, and infrastructure automation. I’ve led initiatives to move workloads from on-prem to cloud and modernize legacy applications using containers, building scalable, reliable platforms. I focus on reliability and observability with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling, embracing a GitOps mindset and collaborating with development and security teams to deliver secure, automated, and resilient systems.

Usman Imtiaz

I'm a DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud migration, containerization, and infrastructure automation. I’ve led initiatives to move workloads from on-prem to cloud and modernize legacy applications using containers, building scalable, reliable platforms. I focus on reliability and observability with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling, embracing a GitOps mindset and collaborating with development and security teams to deliver secure, automated, and resilient systems.

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I’m a DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud migration, containerization, and infrastructure automation. I’ve led initiatives to move workloads from on-prem to cloud and modernize legacy applications using containers, building scalable, reliable platforms.

I focus on reliability and observability with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling, embracing a GitOps mindset and collaborating with development and security teams to deliver secure, automated, and resilient systems.

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Work Experience

DevOps Engineer III at Vivid Seats
January 1, 2019 - Present
Modernized AWS infrastructure by migrating from legacy EC2 instances to containerized EKS environments, implemented Karpenter with Spot Instances to optimize compute costs, performed EKS cluster upgrades and node group migrations with rolling deployments and zero downtime, defined reliability metrics (SLI/SLO/SLA), integrated Argo CD and GitHub Actions to establish GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines, troubleshot recurring Jenkins pipeline failures, enhanced observability with Datadog dashboards and alerts, developed and maintained Helm charts, automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible, standardized container image scanning and secret management using Vault, and managed Akamai properties, WAF policies, and AWS WAF rules to improve security and performance.
DevOps Engineer at Fanxchange
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Ansible and Terraform; migrated to fully automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Rundeck; designed self-service environments using Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Ansible; automated AWS operations with Python (Boto3) for EC2 lifecycle management, backups, and inventory reporting; built Bash scripts integrated with Jenkins and Ansible to automate patching, configuration checks, and environment validation; managed AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudFront, ElastiCache, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch); improved system reliability and incident response; upgraded CentOS base images and implemented automated security patching.
System Administrator at Fanxchange
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018
Managed AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ALB, Route53, CloudFront, and Elasticsearch; conducted Datadog-based monitoring and capacity planning; oversaw on-prem IT infrastructure networks, laptops, and office systems; supported backup strategies, patch management, and incident response across hybrid environments; managed IT asset procurement and lifecycle; supported G Suite and Microsoft 365 user provisioning and access management; authored Bash scripts for system monitoring, log rotation, and automated provisioning tasks.
Field Technology & Client Support Specialist at Ticketmaster
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Supported 10+ Live Nation/Ticketmaster venues across Alberta, ensuring high availability and strong IT operations; installed, configured, and maintained network infrastructure including routers, switches, VPNs, wireless access points, and POS systems; monitored and optimized network performance, resolving connectivity and hardware issues to maintain uptime; provided end-user and client support, troubleshooting software, hardware, and performance issues; implemented Ticketmaster/Live Nation network infrastructure for large-scale events and trained clients on software/hardware; documented SOPs, upgrade reports, site surveys, and upgrade plans.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor: Business Studies at MacEwan University
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services