Kashif N.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert & DevOps Engineer
I’m a certified Azure Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, deploying, securing, and automating cloud infrastructure, enterprise networks, and high-performance IT systems across Azure, AWS, and other platforms. ✅ Certifications: ✅ AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions ✅ AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert ✅ AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate ✅ Azure DevOps Assessment (Score: 18473) ☁️ Cloud Expertise ✅ Microsoft Azure Networking & Security: Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VNet, NSG, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints, DNS Compute & Containers: Azure VMs, AKS, ACI, Azure Functions App Services: Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, API Management, DevOps CI/CD Data & AI: Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Azure AI Services Identity: Entra ID, B2B/B2C, Hybrid AD, RBAC Governance: Azure Policies, Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics ✅ AWS Cloud Compute & Containers: EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, Lightsail Networking & Security: VPC, IAM, SES, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront Storage & DevOps: S3, ECR, Backups, Serverless ✅ Other Cloud Platforms Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, OVH, Hetzner: Cloud infrastructure, DNS, firewalls, Linux hosting ☁️ Advanced Networking & Security ✅ Cisco & MikroTik: CCR Routers, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, NAT, PCC, Policy Routing, Switching ✅ VPN & Firewalls: WireGuard, IPsec, OPNsense, Multi-WAN, Failover, Load Balancing ✅ MPTCP/OpenMPTCProuter: Multi-WAN Bonding, Traffic Aggregation, Throughput Optimization ✅ Network Troubleshooting: Routing, Tunnels, Packet Loss, Connectivity, Performance ☁️ DevOps, IaC & Automation ✅ IaC: Terraform, ARM Templates, Ansible, Puppet, Chef ✅ Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python, GitHub Actions, Azure Automation ✅ CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions ✅ Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, LXC ✅ Server Administration: Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, Security Hardening ☁️ Open Source App Hosting ✅ Matrix Synapse, Element, LiveKit, Jitsi, Keycloak SSO/OIDC ✅ Applications: Odoo, Nextcloud, n8n, Vikunja, OwnTracks ✅ AI Infrastructure: Ollama, Self-Hosted AI Integration ✅ Web Hosting: Apache, Nginx, Plesk, cPanel, Webmin ✅ Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis ✅ DNS & Security: Cloudflare, BIND, SSL/TLS, Let's Encrypt Looking for a reliable engineer for Azure, DevOps, advanced networking, or complex infrastructure troubleshooting? Let's connect and build secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $40k
Billed in all: $208,366$208k
$13k in the last 6 months
Across 98 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 0.90% in Windows Administration
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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