Naqi Rizvi, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Naqi Rizvi

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloudways

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Embedded System, Software Engineering
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Cloudways
  • Malta
  • My current job since July 2018

• Working in Agile and Kanban environment
• Monitoring the progress on PowerBI and setting new targets with Managers
• R&D to improve internal development tools and dashboards
• Be able to automate any procedure with the current operations that can save time of team
• Setup the high availability web stack as per client requirement
• Application load testing and upgrading
• Perform complex web migrations and support junior coworkers with their migration processes
• Managing teams to provide best support and solutions to our Customers through tickets, chat, phone, emails, Slack, Skype
• Help team members with reaction to Alerts where needed on different monitoring frameworks. (Opsgenie, Sensu and Zabbix)
• Monitor and react to different abuse reports (Slack and emails) in close coordination with different teams.
• Cater complex infrastructure level issues and provide technical training to Juniors
• Hands On experience with Cloud provider (AWS, GCE, Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Shell, PHP, Python)
• Deploying web stack with Nginx, Apache, MySQL, Maria DB, Elastic Search
• Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Web hooks, Git
• Database management and operations (MySQL, MongoDB, and basics of PostgreSQL)
• System Initialization, Package Management, User & Group permissions (Extended Permissions ACL's)

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Cloudways
  • Malta
  • July 2018 to December 2018

- Assisting the customer in troubleshooting Server & Application level issues.
- Address all Client’s issues regarding their servers through Live Chat and ZenDesk Ticket System.
- Team Collaboration, Project & Task Management with Assembla
- Automating the daily tasks by fetching the data through REST APIs and then processing it using Python scripts.
- Manage Linux Servers hosted with AWS, GCE, Linode, Vultr, Digital Ocean, Kyup
- Varnish Cache management
- Server Backup, Cloning, Archival, and validation procedures
- Nginx reverse proxy along with Varnish, Apache, and PHP-FPM
- Monitoring and healing by OpsGenie, Zabbix, Sensu, and Monit
- DNS Management (Route 53, Cloudflare, DNS Made Easy)
- Working as AppOps (Wordpress, Magento, Wocommerce, Joomla, Prestashop, Moodle, OpenCart, Mautic)

I.T. Administrator at Host & Soft
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2015 to February 2017

- Working in a Software House & Web Hosting company as L3 Technical Support Engineer
- Managing servers on AWS, IOFlood, Vultr, Digitalocean
- Working with cPanel, Server Pilot, SSH to manage daily tasks
- Maintaining Instances, Backups, Cloning them as per requirement.
- Working under Linux environment with SSH access.
- Managing MySQL Databases through cPanel & phpMyAdmin
- Leading the teams of L1 & L2 technical support
- Resolving issues encountered by customers and tracking bugs
- Managing DNS, SSL, CRON, FTP
- Working with cPanel/WHM along with WHMCS to manage routine task
- Resolving issues encountered in Apache, NGINX & managing its servers.

CEO at Self Employed
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2009 to October 2015

- Managing the remote teams of experienced web developers, social media marketers & search engine experts.
- Managing Projects that includes Web Designing, Development, SEO, SMM, PPC
- Building Marketing plan of Business, Website and Product.
- Assigning tasks to teams and maintaining progress report in timely manner.
- Generating Keyword analysis report and suggesting new keywords as reflected in Google Trends
- Fetching & Generating reports on Weekly/Monthly basis
- Generating ROI reports for projects
- Lead a team of SEO Expert to achieve Goals & developers through defining the requirements for several applications.
- Setup of Analytics, Tag Manager, Conversion, Feed Manager, Merchant, Ad words
- Paid Marketing & PPC Campaigns for brand promotion
- Developed Successful Websites & Applications
- UI/UX Expert and have designed many responsive websites
- Designed Search Engine Marketing Strategies and Managed Team of SEO expert to achieve Goals
- Designing & Developing Landing Pages
- Distribution of Press Release for brand promotion & crowd funding
- Outreach skills to contact Bloggers, Content Writers for products promotion
- Successful PR building through Ninja Outreach, HootSuit, BuzzSumo

System Support & Network Engineer at Unique & Unique
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • August 2011 to September 2015

- IT Help Desk Support To Users
- Remote Help Desk Support to Branch Office
- Computer Hardware & Networking Implementation and Trouble Shooting
- Implementation and Configuration of the Cisco Switches & Routers, & Troubleshooting
- Implementation, Maintenance, & Troubleshooting of Wireless Networks & Access Point
- Windows Server Administration, Implementation of Services, and Troubleshooting
- Installing, Supporting and maintaining new server hardware and software infrastructure
- Managing email, Anti-spam and Anti Virus
- Suggesting and providing IT solutions to business and management problems
- Implementation of LAN, WLAN, & WAN
- Implementation of CCTV, & IP Camera System & Trouble shooting
- Installation, maintenance & Trouble Shooting of Printers, Scanners, & Plotters
- Assembling And troubleshooting Desktop And Laptops
- Managing and Securing IT Environment of the Organisation
- Providing Technical Support to the Other Engineers and Departments
- Configuration, Management, and troubleshooting of the Network Devices
- Implementing Network Security, & Network Monitoring
- Implementation of User Rights, and Security
- Google Console User & Group Management
- Print Server Configuration, Management And Troubleshooting
- Linux Based System Administration

Education

Bachelor's degree, Embedded System, Software Engineering
  • at Hamdard University
  • December 2015

I am a Computer System Engineer registered from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). My Major subjects are Embedded System, Software Engineering.

Specialties & Skills

Search Engine Submission
Networks
Social Media Marketing
IT Project Management
Technical Support
Search Engine Optimisation
Linux Administration
Wordpress Developer
Web Designer
Google Analytics
Web Developer
Google Adwords
Email Marketing
I.T. Project Management
Social Media Marketing
Software Developer
Technical Support
System Engineer
Network Engineer
Kubernetes

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Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Registered Computer System Engineer
  • December 2017

Training and Certifications

Git: Become an Expert in Git & GitHub (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
Git Started with GitHub (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
MySQL Database (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
Jenkins for Developer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019

Hobbies

  • Swimming