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Usama M.

Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Terraform, Migration, Security

🚀 Are you facing AWS infrastructure issues, cloud migration risks, deployment failures, security vulnerabilities, or unstable production environments? I help businesses design, migrate, secure, automate, and maintain production-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS. MY 8+ years of hands-on experience, I work as a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Solutions Architect across SaaS platforms, web applications, databases, enterprise networks, and AI-powered systems. My focus is simple: build cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, automated, observable, cost-efficient, and easy to maintain. ☁️ 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS infrastructure design and implementation ✅ EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and Route 53 ✅ Highly available and fault-tolerant cloud architecture ✅ VPC design, public/private subnets, NAT Gateway, and load balancers ✅ IAM roles, policies, access control, and AWS account security ✅ Multi-environment architecture for development, staging, and production 🔄 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ On-premises and VPS migration to AWS ✅ Lift-and-shift server migration ✅ AWS Application Migration Service and database migration ✅ Application migration to ECS, Fargate, EC2, and Kubernetes ✅ DNS, SSL, Cloudflare, and domain migration ✅ Zero-downtime and low-risk migration planning ✅ Post-migration validation, monitoring, and optimization 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗣𝗦 & 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline ✅ Automated build, testing, and deployment pipelines ✅ Docker and containerized application deployments ✅ Blue/green, rolling, and canary deployment strategies ✅ React, Next.js, Node.js, Laravel, Python, and FastAPI deployments ✅ Environment variables, secrets, and release management ✅ Production troubleshooting and deployment recovery 🧩 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠 & 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Terraform infrastructure development ✅ AWS CloudFormation templates ✅ Reusable infrastructure modules ✅ Dev, staging, and production environment automation ✅ Infrastructure state management and version control ✅ Secure and repeatable cloud provisioning ✅ Existing Terraform review and troubleshooting 📦 𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗥 & 𝗞𝗨𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Docker containerization and Docker Compose ✅ AWS ECS and Fargate deployments ✅ Amazon EKS and Kubernetes cluster management ✅ Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests ✅ Ingress, load balancing, autoscaling, and secrets ✅ Microservices infrastructure ✅ Container monitoring and troubleshooting 🌐 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS VPC architecture ✅ Site-to-Site VPN and private connectivity ✅ Public and private subnet configuration ✅ Security groups, NACLs, and route tables ✅ AWS PrivateLink and VPC endpoints ✅ On-premises to AWS connectivity ✅ RDS private subnet access through VPN, bastion, and secure tunneling ✅ Load balancer, DNS, and SSL troubleshooting 🔐 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 & 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Linux server security and hardening ✅ AWS IAM and least-privilege access ✅ Security group and firewall configuration ✅ SSL/TLS certificate installation and troubleshooting ✅ Malware cleanup and compromised-server recovery ✅ AWS Secrets Manager and secure credential handling ✅ Cloudflare protection, WAF, DNSSEC, and DDoS protection ✅ Backup, disaster recovery, and security remediation ✅ SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email security 💾 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 & 𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Amazon RDS setup and troubleshooting ✅ SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB ✅ RDS private subnet connectivity ✅ Database migration and optimization ✅ Security, backups, and access configuration ✅ MongoDB Atlas performance optimization ✅ Database monitoring and production issue resolution 📊 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗢𝗕𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki ✅ AWS CloudWatch logs, metrics, and alarms ✅ Datadog and ELK Stack ✅ Infrastructure and application dashboards ✅ SNMP monitoring, syslog, and alerting ✅ Centralized log management ✅ Production incident investigation ✅ Performance and availability monitoring 🏆 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS infrastructure migrations using ECS Fargate, RDS, Cloudflare, and Terraform ✅ Secure private connectivity to AWS RDS SQL Server ✅ AWS VPC and Site-to-Site VPN implementations ✅ Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki observability platforms ✅ GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Docker and microservices ✅ AWS GovCloud infrastructure using CloudFormation ✅ Cloudflare security and protection implementations ✅ Linux server recovery, malware cleanup, and hardening ✅ AWS SES email platforms and deliverability improvements ✅ Docker-based SaaS deployments on AWS and Azure ✅ AWS networking, SSL, DNS, and API Gateway troubleshooting ✅ Application migration from V

🇵🇰Multan, Pakistan$40/hr100% JSS5.00 (186)Since Oct 2022
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$6.3k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#3,471 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#312 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$9.3k

Last 6 months: $38k

World#1,683 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#141 / 52.9k
Total earnings
$140k

Billed in all: $144k

World#25,721 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#1,935 / 52.9k
Per project
$605

$1.1k in the last 6 months

World#165,324 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#16,730 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
35

Across 43 contracts

63% fixed37% hourly
World#2,067 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#514 / 52.9k
Projects in all
232

Across 271 contracts

66% fixed34% hourly
World#7,723 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#1,075 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$144k+$9.3k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
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