Izhar A.
Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer | Terraform,Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipeline
Cloud issues slowing your team down? I help resolve AWS, Azure, and GCP failures, optimize infrastructure, and build reliable production environments. 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 2 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 3 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟗𝟓% 𝐭𝐨 𝟗𝟗.𝟗%, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 55%. I’m a 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟖+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 of hands-on experience designing, automating, securing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for startups, SaaS companies, and growing engineering teams. My expertise includes 𝐀𝐖𝐒, GCP, Azure, 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃, 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, AI Infrastructure, 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞, 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. I focus on building infrastructure that is easier to manage, deployments that are faster and more predictable, and production environments that can scale reliably. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝: ✦ 2 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 → 3 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬: Automated CI/CD workflows and streamlined deployment processes. ✦ 𝟗𝟓% → 𝟗𝟗.𝟗% 𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞: Improved production reliability using AWS EKS, automated health checks, autoscaling, and deployment improvements. ✦ ~55% 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬: Optimized infrastructure through rightsizing, Savings Plans, and automated management of non production environments. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: ☁️ 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 & 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: AWS: EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, CloudWatch. Microsoft Azure: AKS, Virtual Machines, App Service, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Virtual Network, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor. Google Cloud (GCP): Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, VPC, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Monitoring. ✔️ 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 & 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Terraform, reusable modules, CloudFormation, automated provisioning, environment management, infrastructure standardization, and configuration automation. ✔️ 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬: Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, containerized applications, microservices, ingress, autoscaling, secrets, and production troubleshooting. ✔️ 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃 & 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, automated testing and deployments, blue/green and canary releases, deployment automation, and release management. ✔️ 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, incident investigation, performance optimization, and production reliability. ✔️ 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐎𝐩𝐬: AWS IAM, least privilege, security hardening, vulnerability management, secrets management, secure networking, SSL/TLS, backups, and disaster recovery. ✔️ 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: AWS migrations, infrastructure modernization, workload optimization, EC2 rightsizing, Savings Plans, environment automation, and practical approaches to reducing unnecessary cloud spend. ʺ𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐂𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭.ʺ Whether you need to build AWS infrastructure from the ground up, migrate an existing environment, improve a Kubernetes platform, automate your delivery process, troubleshoot production issues, or optimize cloud costs, I bring a hands-on engineering approach from architecture through implementation. 📩 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐖𝐒, 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬, 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬. 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $4.1k
Billed in all: $47,821$48k
$1.4k in the last 6 months
Across 53 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 11% in AWS CloudFront
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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