Ali M.
AWS Cloud and DevOps Engineer | Terraform | CI/CD | Agentic Solutions
🚀 Need AWS infrastructure that is reliable, automated, secure and cost-efficient? With 6+ years of experience, I help startups and SaaS teams design, build, automate and run secure production platforms on AWS using Terraform, AWS CDK, serverless and CI/CD. 🥇 Top Rated Plus | 100% Job Success | 700+ hours on Upwork My focus is simple: build cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, automated, observable, cost-efficient, and easy to maintain. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 ☁️ 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS infrastructure design and implementation ✅ EC2, ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront and Route 53 ✅ Highly available, multi-AZ architecture ✅ IAM roles, policies, access control, and AWS account security ✅ Multi-account deployments with cross-account roles 🌐 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS VPC architecture ✅ Public and private subnet configuration ✅ NAT Gateways, load balancers and route tables ✅ Security groups and private connectivity ✅ VPC endpoints (PrivateLink) 🧩 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Terraform modules and AWS CDK (TypeScript) ✅ CloudFormation templates ✅ Dev, staging, and production environment automation ✅ Infrastructure state management and version control ✅ Moving manual "click-ops" setups into code ✅ Review and clean-up of existing Terraform or CDK 🚀 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 & 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗣𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ GitHub Actions and Bitbucket Pipelines ✅ Automated build, test and deployment pipelines ✅ Release pipelines across many connected repositories ✅ Environment promotion and release approvals ✅ Secure pipeline access to AWS (OIDC, no long-lived keys) 📦 𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗥 & 𝗞𝗨𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Docker containerization and Docker Compose ✅ AWS ECS and Fargate deployments ✅ Kubernetes (AKS) cluster deployment with Terraform and Helm ⚡ 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 & 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Serverless APIs with Lambda and API Gateway ✅ Event-driven systems with EventBridge, SQS and SNS ✅ DynamoDB single-table design and Redis caching ✅ Node.js/TypeScript and Python backends ✅ Authentication with Cognito and JWT 🔐 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 & 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ IAM least-privilege access ✅ Secrets Manager and secure credential handling ✅ WAF and private networking ✅ CloudTrail, audit logging and change detection ✅ Technical groundwork for SOC 2 💰 𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 & 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS Budgets, cost allocation tags and anomaly alerts ✅ Cost reviews with Cost Explorer ✅ NAT Gateway, storage and compute savings ✅ CloudWatch dashboards, metrics and alarms 🤖 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Deploying LLM agents (LangGraph) on AWS ✅ Python AI services on ECS Fargate or Lambda ✅ Secure secrets, scaling and monitoring for AI workloads 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗦 • Cut AWS spend by about 30% for a production SaaS platform • Built APIs with responses under 100 ms using DynamoDB and Redis caching • Built and run CI/CD pipelines for 10+ interconnected robotics repositories, from device firmware to the cloud • Automated releases across dev, staging and production with Infrastructure as Code 🚀 If you need an AWS engineer to build, automate, secure or reduce the cost of your infrastructure, send me your current setup and the result you want.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $12k
Billed in all: $35,951$36k
$12k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 5% in AWS CloudTrail
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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