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I'm Abdul Irfan Mohammed, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. I specialize in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. I thrive in healthcare, financial services, IT services, and software development settings, where I combine automation, security, and cloud-native design to enable fast, secure software delivery. I’m a collaborative problem solver who enjoys mentoring teams, driving continuous improvements, and adopting cutting-edge tools and practices to solve complex problems.…I'm Abdul Irfan Mohammed, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. I specialize in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. I thrive in healthcare, financial services, IT services, and software development settings, where I combine automation, security, and cloud-native design to enable fast, secure software delivery. I’m a collaborative problem solver who enjoys mentoring teams, driving continuous improvements, and adopting cutting-edge tools and practices to solve complex problems.

Abdul Irfan Mohammed

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I'm Abdul Irfan Mohammed, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. I specialize in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. I thrive in healthcare, financial services, IT services, and software development settings, where I combine automation, security, and cloud-native design to enable fast, secure software delivery. I’m a collaborative problem solver who enjoys mentoring teams, driving continuous improvements, and adopting cutting-edge tools and practices to solve complex problems.…I'm Abdul Irfan Mohammed, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. I specialize in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. I thrive in healthcare, financial services, IT services, and software development settings, where I combine automation, security, and cloud-native design to enable fast, secure software delivery. I’m a collaborative problem solver who enjoys mentoring teams, driving continuous improvements, and adopting cutting-edge tools and practices to solve complex problems.

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I’m Abdul Irfan Mohammed, a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. I specialize in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

I thrive in healthcare, financial services, IT services, and software development settings, where I combine automation, security, and cloud-native design to enable fast, secure software delivery. I’m a collaborative problem solver who enjoys mentoring teams, driving continuous improvements, and adopting cutting-edge tools and practices to solve complex problems.

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Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer / SRE Engineer at Northwestern Memorial

October 1, 2023 - Present

Implemented SRE principles to design and maintain highly available healthcare systems, achieving 99.99% uptime using Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry. Designed secure cloud infrastructure for PHI data across AWS, Azure, and GCP with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi, ensuring HIPAA/HITRUST compliance. Integrated JFrog Artifactory and Xray for secure artifact management and policy enforcement. Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, and ArgoCD; automated provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm. Containerized workloads with Docker and orchestrated on AKS/EKS; hardened security with image scanning (Trivy, Aqua, Snyk) and IAM least privilege. Implemented zero-trust security with Azure/AWS security tools, backups and DR across S3/Azure Backup/GCP Cloud Storage, and API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway). Led AKS/EKS deployments; automated observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana,

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Nelnet

February 1, 2020 - September 30, 2023

Designed and managed hybrid cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi); standardized deployments to reduce manual configurations. Deployed Zenoss monitoring across multi-cloud environments and designed containerized microservices with Docker/Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE). Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps). Strengthened security with RBAC, network policies, and ISO 27001 alignment; optimized cloud cost via FinOps, auto-scaling, and reserved instances. Led DR/HA strategies and migration of on-prem workloads to cloud-native architectures including serverless approaches.

Azure DevOps Engineer at Lexis Nexis

August 1, 2018 - January 31, 2020

Designed and implemented Azure Cloud infrastructure to host IaaS VMs and PaaS services for refactored applications. Automated provisioning with ARM templates, Terraform, and Azure CLI; configured VNets, NSGs, DNS, and ExpressRoute. Managed AKS and Docker-based containers with Helm and Kustomize. Automated provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps Pipelines; implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, including blue-green deployments. Configured load balancing and API management for high availability; integrated Jenkins with Azure DevOps Services for streamlined CI/CD workflows. Managed data services (Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Redis) and secrets with Azure Key Vault; monitored performance with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana.

DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer at Sallie Mae

April 1, 2016 - July 31, 2018

Defined release roadmaps for financial applications; developed and managed release plans for zero-downtime deployments. Implemented Artifactory integration with CI/CD pipelines and led mock deployments in staging prior to production. Managed multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for financial services; migrated from SVN/Perforce to Git with RBAC. Implemented IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated builds via Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Deployed microservices with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) and established robust monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Linux Administrator at Altera Digital Health

May 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016

Installed, configured, and maintained Linux servers; automated tasks with Bash, Python, and Ansible. Managed web services (Apache/Nginx/Tomcat), monitoring with Nagios and Prometheus, and storage with LVM/RAID. Deployed Linux-based servers on AWS and Azure; automated provisioning with Ansible. Implemented patch management and security hardening; maintained network security (firewalls, VPNs) and on-call support for critical environments.