Mudasir Mirza, Devops Manager

Mudasir Mirza

Devops Manager

dubizzle

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
Experience
13 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months

Devops Manager at dubizzle
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2016 to June 2020

• Built DevOps / SRE team for different regions from ground zero.
• Weekly catch ups with team members in the format of 1 on 1's.
• Performing mid-year & yearly reviews for team members, providing them feedback for improvement.
• Leading the migration process of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes using IaC
(infrastructure as code) with Terraform, Helm and Ansible
• Develop and design strategies and OKR (Objective Key Results) for the team to reach its goal
• Leading the project of migration to Amazon EKS from legacy platform(s)
• Manage the flow of day-to-day operations and conducting weekly planning meetings
• Setup the DR policies & infrastructure using AWS Backups with multi-region & multi-retention levels
• Designed & implemented secret management system using a modified version of Hashicorp Vault.
• Built the in-house framework for CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
• Implemented AWS GuardDuty for improving the security of the infrastructure
• Designed & implemented logging infrastructure to handle almost half a billion log lines every 15 min.

Site Reliability Engineer at Palantir
  • February 2015 to December 2015

Developing utilities to maintain servers uptime and security.
• Automating provisioning of servers by writing puppet modules.
• Monitor service(s) / server(s) for alerts and critical services / servers.
• Writing specialized scripts to maintain AWS infrastructure
• Assisting different teams in troubleshooting server / service related issues.

Linux System Administrator at Dubizzle FZ LLC
  • December 2012 to January 2015

Designing and implementing a Cisco based High-Availability network on Cisco Catalyst 3560.
• Writing scripts in BASH, PERL and PHP for system administration task automation.
• Central OpenLDAP server with different OU’s for VPN, PAM and SUDO for different DMZ.
• Managing and monitoring over 300 VMs, authenticating using OpenLDAP server separate for UAT
and Production environments.
• Designing and implementing DR (Disaster Recovery) plan with remote ESX and Backup.

Team Lead System Administrator
  • February 2011 to December 2012
System Administrator & Network Consultant at E Square Services (Pvt.) Limited | Crystal Networks
  • August 2006 to February 2011
IT Manager at E Square Services (Pvt.) Limited
  • June 2010 to February 2011
Assistant Network Administrator at Fariya Networks (Pvt.) Ltd
  • October 2009 to March 2010
Network Administrator at NaqshBandi Networks
  • January 2009 to September 2009

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
  • at BAHRIA UNIVERSITY
  • January 2011

High school or equivalent, Pre-Engineering
  • at GOVT. NATIONAL COLLEGE
  • January 2006

High school or equivalent, Pre-Engineering
  • at BAHRIA FOUNDATION COLLEGE
  • January 2004

O’Level

Specialties & Skills

VMware ESX
Scripting
Network Deployment
AUTOMATION
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
MANAGEMENT
NETWORKING