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Jamil Rafique Shaikh
Senior Site Reliability Engineer building reliable, scalable cloud-native platforms. Multi-cloud. Kubernetes. GitOps. Platform Engineering.
Verified Credentials
Certifications
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CKAD
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer — CNCF
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AZ-400
DevOps Engineer Expert — Microsoft
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AZ-104
Azure Administrator Associate — Microsoft
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Terraform Associate
Infrastructure as Code — HashiCorp
Technical Stack
Core Skills
Cloud
Containers
IaC
GitOps & CI/CD
Observability
Platform
Scripting
Career Path
Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sep 2024 — Present
InfraCloud Technologies
AWS · GCP · GKE · EKS · Terraform · Terragrunt · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · Crossplane · Talos Linux · Prometheus · Grafana · Velero · SOPS
- Led migration of 7+ microservices from Google App Engine to GKE, designing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated multi-environment deployments, reducing production rollback risks.
- Architected a production-grade on-premises Kubernetes platform using Talos Linux and Crossplane, enabling GitOps-driven hybrid cloud management from a single control plane.
- Deployed ArgoCD App-of-Apps pattern to orchestrate the full platform stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Velero, Ingress), establishing self-service developer deployments with centralized governance.
- Designed Grafana dashboards and integrated ManageEngine for automated incident ticketing, improving alert visibility and MTTD.
- Implemented Velero-based DR and SOPS secret management across hybrid environments, ensuring cluster-state restorability and compliance.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Oct 2022 — Sep 2024
Opcito Technologies
Azure · AKS · Terraform · Azure DevOps · Datadog · GitHub Actions · SAST/DAST
- Managed production Azure infrastructure (AKS, VMSS, Key Vault, CDN, DNS) and designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment consistency by 30%.
- Integrated Datadog APM and automated security scanning (SAST, SCA, DAST), reducing security incidents by 40% and cutting MTTR.
- Optimized cloud resources achieving 20% cost reduction while maintaining SLA targets through right-sizing and autoscaling policies.
Senior Engineer R&D DevOps
Aug 2021 — Oct 2022
Alepo Technologies
OpenShift · OpenStack · Jenkins · Helm · Kubernetes · 5G VNF · jMeter
- Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for 5G VNF container images and developed Helm charts with tracing, alerting, and routing for Kubernetes deployments.
- Led OpenShift platform deployment on OpenStack for Samsung Korea, improving infrastructure scalability and deployment agility.
Professional Services DevOps Engineer
Nov 2019 — Jul 2021
Allot Communications
OpenStack · Kubernetes HA · Ansible · Prometheus · Telecom (ePLDT, Airtel, Lycamobile, MTN Uganda)
- Deployed on-premises Kubernetes HA clusters on OpenStack for telecom clients across Philippines, India, and Uganda.
- Automated infrastructure deployments using Ansible and Bash, streamlining rollouts and reducing manual operations across client sites.
Linux Server Administrator
Jan 2015 — Apr 2019
Change Networks · Super Petroleum Products
Migrated on-prem LAMP infrastructure to AWS. Managed Linux/Windows servers, pfSense firewall, LDAP, and network infrastructure. Established foundational sysadmin and security practices.
Building Things
Projects
autofix-dojo
Kubernetes Operator for Automated Vulnerability Remediation
A Kubernetes operator that integrates DefectDojo with cluster infrastructure to automatically remediate container vulnerabilities. Performs automated image version bumps, creates PRs, and tracks SLO compliance for vulnerability remediation timelines. Designed CLI-first with full GitOps integration.
Go
Kubernetes
DefectDojo
GitOps
Operator SDK
View on GitHub →Homelab Platform ★ 117
Self-hosted Kubernetes Infrastructure
Multi-node homelab running Proxmox virtualization with Talos Kubernetes clusters. Deploys production-grade observability (Grafana, Prometheus, ArgoCD) and storage (NFS provisioner). Used as a proving ground for platform engineering patterns before applying to client infrastructure.
Proxmox
Talos Linux
Kubernetes
ArgoCD
Prometheus
NFS
View on GitHub →Academic Background
Education
B.Sc. in Information Technology
Pillai's College, Mumbai
2014 — 2018
Diploma in Computer Engineering
DY Patil Polytechnic, Mumbai
2007 — 2013