Gulfam S.
DevOps Engineer | Cloud Architect | Azure | AWS | GCP | Kubernetes
Is your AWS bill climbing, your DevOps pipeline slow and risky, or a cloud migration stuck because nobody wants to touch production? That's usually where people find me. I'm a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 12+ years running real production systems on AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. I build cloud and DevOps foundations, with CI/CD your team can run confidently without me. RESULTS I'VE DELIVERED ✅ CI/CD: cut deployment time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes by rebuilding a legacy CI/CD pipeline in GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, with zero-downtime releases ✅ AWS cloud cost: reduced a client's AWS bill by 38% (about $11,000/month) through right-sizing, Spot Instances and Reserved Capacity, with no performance loss ✅ Cloud migration: moved 30+ on-prem services to AWS EKS with zero downtime, including databases, message queues and a PCI-DSS compliant workload ✅ DevOps for ML: turned manual, multi-day ML deployments into an automated same-day Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline COMMON DEVOPS AND CLOUD PROBLEMS I FIX ✅ Slow, manual releases, replaced with reliable CI/CD ✅ Surprise AWS and Azure cloud bills ✅ Fragile DevOps setups that only one person understands ✅ CI/CD pipelines that fail randomly or skip security checks ✅ Cloud migrations with no rollback plan ✅ Azure DevOps and AWS environments that have drifted apart AWS, AZURE & GCP CLOUD ARCHITECTURE ✅ Cloud architecture design and AWS Well-Architected reviews ✅ AWS and Azure cloud cost optimization and FinOps audits ✅ Cloud high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity ✅ Azure cloud landing zones and AWS multi-account cloud design CLOUD MIGRATION ✅ On-premises to AWS, Azure or GCP cloud migration ✅ Zero-downtime cutover planning and post-migration cloud tuning ✅ Monolith to microservices modernization, with CI/CD from day one ✅ DevOps handover so your team owns the new cloud environment AWS DEVOPS ✅ AWS EKS, EC2, S3, RDS and IAM, set up the DevOps way ✅ AWS CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins ✅ AWS CI/CD with zero-downtime deployments and clear rollbacks ✅ AWS cloud security hardening that DevOps teams can maintain AZURE DEVOPS ✅ Azure DevOps pipelines, repos and releases for CI/CD ✅ Azure DevOps CI/CD migration from Jenkins or older pipelines ✅ Azure cloud infrastructure with Terraform and AKS ✅ Azure DevOps and Entra ID access with least privilege ✅ Azure DevOps CI/CD approvals and environment gates ✅ Azure cloud cost optimization and Azure monitoring ✅ Azure DevOps and AWS CI/CD side by side in hybrid cloud setups KUBERNETES, DOCKER & IaC ✅ Production EKS, AKS and GKE clusters, with Helm and autoscaling ✅ Kubernetes CI/CD deployments with safe rollbacks ✅ Azure AKS and AWS EKS, run with the same DevOps approach ✅ Reusable Terraform modules for dev, staging and production cloud environments ✅ Infrastructure as code wired into your CI/CD pipeline on AWS and Azure CI/CD & DEVOPS AUTOMATION ✅ CI/CD in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Azure DevOps ✅ Automated testing and security checks inside every CI/CD run ✅ Blue/green and rolling CI/CD deployments for AWS, Azure and Kubernetes ✅ CI/CD for cloud apps, microservices and ML workloads ✅ DevOps automation that removes manual release steps DEVSECOPS & MONITORING ✅ DevSecOps in the CI/CD pipeline: scanning, secrets checks and approvals ✅ Cloud IAM and Entra ID least-privilege access on AWS and Azure ✅ CIS hardening, PCI-DSS cloud environments and zero-trust design ✅ Cloud monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK and CloudWatch ✅ Dashboards for AWS, Azure and CI/CD pipeline health WHO I WORK WITH ✅ Startups and enterprises needing DevOps, AWS and Azure cloud help ✅ Teams moving from manual releases to CI/CD on Azure DevOps or AWS ✅ One DevOps engineer for AWS, Azure and CI/CD, not three specialists ✅ A DevOps and cloud partner who explains things plainly WHAT YOU GET FROM A DEVOPS ENGAGEMENT ✅ A CI/CD pipeline your team understands and can extend ✅ AWS and Azure cloud environments defined as code ✅ DevOps runbooks for deployments, rollbacks and incidents ✅ Azure DevOps or AWS dashboards for CI/CD health, cost and uptime ✅ A cloud, DevOps and CI/CD roadmap for what to improve next HOW I WORK ✅ Straight DevOps advice on what your cloud setup really needs, even if that means less ✅ 15 days of free support after delivery ✅ Clear cloud, CI/CD and DevOps documentation your team can follow LET'S TALK Send me what you're running on AWS, Azure or GCP today and what keeps breaking in your DevOps or CI/CD process. I'll reply with a practical first step and an honest view of the scope. TECH STACK AWS | Azure | Azure DevOps | GCP | Cloud | DevOps | CI/CD | Kubernetes | EKS | Docker | Helm | Terraform | Ansible | CloudFormation | GitHub Actions | GitLab CI | Jenkins | Prometheus | Grafana | Datadog | ELK | CloudWatch | Python | Bash | Go | Linux
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