I am Irfan Rafi, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Manager with 10+ years of experience transforming complex systems into fast, secure, and resilient cloud environments. I operate across GCP, Digital Ocean, and on-prem VMware setups, delivering seamless migrations and scalable infrastructures. I design infrastructure as code to scale, self-recover, and meet compliance standards. My toolkit includes Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Golden Images that slash release time by 80%. I have led cloud operations, service migrations, platform establishment, and service management, including web and email hosting, virtualization, microservices, security assessments, and optimizations.

Irfan Rafi

I am Irfan Rafi, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Manager with 10+ years of experience transforming complex systems into fast, secure, and resilient cloud environments. I operate across GCP, Digital Ocean, and on-prem VMware setups, delivering seamless migrations and scalable infrastructures. I design infrastructure as code to scale, self-recover, and meet compliance standards. My toolkit includes Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Golden Images that slash release time by 80%. I have led cloud operations, service migrations, platform establishment, and service management, including web and email hosting, virtualization, microservices, security assessments, and optimizations.

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I am Irfan Rafi, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Manager with 10+ years of experience transforming complex systems into fast, secure, and resilient cloud environments. I operate across GCP, Digital Ocean, and on-prem VMware setups, delivering seamless migrations and scalable infrastructures.

I design infrastructure as code to scale, self-recover, and meet compliance standards. My toolkit includes Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Golden Images that slash release time by 80%. I have led cloud operations, service migrations, platform establishment, and service management, including web and email hosting, virtualization, microservices, security assessments, and optimizations.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Manager DevOps, Cloud, Pre-Sales at National Telecom Corporation
March 1, 2023 - August 1, 2025
Managed VMware (ESXi, vCenter) based virtualized environment and led automation initiatives for NTC Cloud Services. Architected migration of services across multi-cloud platforms and on-prem to cloud transitions. Oversaw service automation and DevOps for hosted workloads and new deployments, improving management and security. Provided consultancy to Banking Data Centres, including gap analysis and solution design. Led Disaster Recovery expansion across national data centres, and drills for DR readiness (RTO 1 hr, RPO 15 mins). Monitored system performance with open-source tools and custom dashboards. Coordinated alliances with OEMs (Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Huawei) and planned capacity growth to achieve economies of scale.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer at National Data Centre
January 1, 2020 - February 1, 2023
Designed CI/CD pipelines for containerized and monolithic apps to maintain hardened golden images aligned with compliance standards. Implemented monitoring stacks (Nagios, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus) for real-time visibility, reducing incident response time. Automated patch management using Ansible and Red Hat Satellite. Led application migrations (monolithic and microservices) with minimal downtime. Ensured reliable backups and data recovery. Automated provisioning, patching, and configuration through Bash scripts and Ansible playbooks. Collaborated with managers to improve infrastructure efficiency and security posture.
System Administrator at National Data Centre
September 1, 2016 - December 1, 2019
Delivered Tier-2 support for Linux and Windows servers in virtualized and bare-metal environments. Automated SSL and vulnerability management using Terraform and Ansible. Implemented centralized Directory services for authentication and authorization. Managed Co-Located setups and SAN storage with data centre replications. Implemented monitoring stacks (Nagios, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus) for real-time monitoring, improving stability. Managed hosting environments on cPanel and Plesk, including DNS, SSL, FTP, and email. Configured SSL, reverse proxy, and firewall rules to secure access.

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Software & Internet, Government, Financial Services, Telecommunications