Sultan Gillani
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About
Dynamic and highly skilled Senior Platform/Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer with over 12 years of experience in IT, Python Development, and Cloud Computing across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. Proven expertise in implementing DevOps practices, managing CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for high availability and performance. Proficient in tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Terraform. Adept at driving Engineering Excellence initiatives, ensuring streamlined processes, and fostering a culture of innovation. Strong background in observability, incident management, and CI/CD release pipelines.
Experience
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Site Reliability Engineer, AMH
— 4 months
- Spearheaded the company's migration from Microsoft Application Insights to utilize OpenTelemetry, enhancing application monitoring and performance insights.
- Established and led AMH's first Site Reliability Team, focusing on optimizing reliability and performance.
- Orchestrated the migration from Azure Monitor to Grafana Cloud (Loki, Tempo, Prometheus), enhancing monitoring capabilities.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for dashboards and alerting, improving operational efficiency.
- Collaborated closely with development teams using C# for application development.
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Senior DevOps Engineer, Evisort
— 2 years
- Led the migration of the application stack from Gitlab CI to GitHub Actions, reducing operational costs and enhancing efficiency.
- Administered GCP to work with data science applications, and development.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Gitlab, and Rundeck/Ansible for configuration management and deployment.
- Automated DevOps tools using Python and Bash Scripts, contributing to a modularized Infrastructure as Code Terraform stack.
- Successfully moved manual Gitlab CI servers to Amazon EKS, optimizing scalability, and automating through Flux.
- Trained engineering teams on best practices for deploying services into EKS and automated processes using Terraform and ArgoCD.
- Implemented Consul for setting up health checks and monitoring for applications and server instances, resulting in improved reliability.
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Site Reliability Engineer, Nolan Transportation Group
— 2 years
- Played a key role in transitioning from on-premises operations to Google Cloud Platform and later to Azure, ensuring seamless cloud experiences.
- Configured and set up all GCP Kubernetes environments and set up the deployment process for 50+ applications.
- Set up multiple GCP projects based on the environment (Development, Staging, etc.), and implemented automation of the infrastructure using Terraform.
- Utilized Terraform for infrastructure and Gitlab CI/Ansible for configuration management and deployment, enhancing automation and security.
- Spearheaded the adoption of modern version control practices, moving from Azure DevOps to Gitlab and implementing Git-based workflows.
- Implemented automated testing using Gitlab CI and integrated static and dynamic code analysis tools, reducing security vulnerabilities by 85%.
- Configured applications for APM monitoring with New Relic, enhancing performance and user experience.
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DevOps Engineer, Veracity Industrial Networks
— a year
- Maintained and enhanced product demo tool on AWS, ensuring a seamless experience for potential customers.
- Implemented DevOps best practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management using Jenkins and Groovy.
- Created Jenkins Shared Library to streamline build and deployment processes, optimizing efficiency.
- Led the migration from OpenBSD to Linux, enabling the use of new DevOps tools and configurations.
- Developed front-end and back-end components for security appliance UI using React/Redux, Ruby/Sinatra, and RSpec/Capybara for testing.
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DevOps Engineer, Yardi Systems Inc.
— 5 years
- Ensured 99.99% availability of production environment in a hybrid infrastructure setting.
- Created various Docker images, docker-compose, Kubernetes config and ECS-parameter files.
- Managed DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, TeamCity, Consul, and Ansible.
- Containerized Nginx reverse proxy servers and implemented dynamic provisioning for containers, enhancing scalability and security.
- Implemented VPC, subnets, ELBs, Cloud Front, Cloudflare, S3, and EC2 for cloud infrastructure.
- Developed programs using C#, VB.NET, and shell scripting.
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IT/DevOps Engineer, Sapna Hotel Group
— 2 years
- Worked on an internal customized application deployment project.
- Setup AWS Services utilizing S3, and EC2.
- Worked on web service API to get the data from webservers to multiple on-premise SQL database servers.
- Created Python scripts for steady and continuous deployment, and integration.
- Participated in project planning sessions with business analyst and team members to analyze client requirement.
- Tuned SQL Statements using views and Stored Procedure.
Skills
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Configuration Management: Ansible, Vagrant, Consul, Packer — Expert
- Configuration Management
- Ansible
- Vagrant
- Consul
- Packer
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Scripting Language: UNIX Shell Scripting(bash, sh, zsh), Groovy, & Python — Intermediate
- Python Scripting
- Shell Scripting
- Groovy Scripting
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Database & Visualization: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, & SQLite — Expert
- Databases
- Postgresql
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- SQLite
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Network Technologies: NAT, VPC, Subnet Groups, TCP, UDP, MultiCast, Route Tables, CDNs, Firewalls — Expert
- Networking
- Firewalls
- NAT
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Monitoring Tools: New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace. — Intermediate
- Monitoring
- New Relic
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
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CI/CD, Automation Tools: Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Team City, Azure Devops, & Travis CI. — Expert
- Automation
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Gitlab
- Pipelines
- Github
- Azure Devops