Syed Hidayathullah, Consultant - (DevOps & CyberSecurity)

Syed Hidayathullah

Consultant - (DevOps & CyberSecurity)

Flint International DWC LLC (Espina IT) for Cisco Inc

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications
Experience
19 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 10 Months

Consultant - (DevOps & CyberSecurity) at Flint International DWC LLC (Espina IT) for Cisco Inc
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since October 2020

 Responsible to work with cross functional teams to ensure seamless co-ordination to empower developers & engineers to work efficiently.
 Design and develop the build, release and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Azure DevOps & Jenkins
 Focus on continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline) through Azure Pipelines, YAML scripting and use of Team Foundation Server.
 Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure to ease deployment.
 Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health by using App Insights.
 Implement secure coding practices as per the guidelines from various frameworks such as OWASP Top 10, SANS 25, CIS Top 20 and NIST.
 Configuration and deployment of Kubernetes Container Clusters
 Management of the configuration through Ansible
 Deployment of infrastructure as per the requirement by using Terraform.
 Work closely with product & engineering groups to identify and document infrastructure requirements.
 Incident reporting and tracking with the help of ticketing tool like Issue track and JIRA.
 Evaluate the Performance and provide feedback for improvement.
 Deployment of Web Apps with Azure App Services.
 Strong grasp in Database technologies like (SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL)
 Analyse, debug and solve problems real time to ensure seamless completion of the tasks and pipelines.
 Collaborate effectively with distributed teams.
 Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
 Mentoring and guiding the team members.
 Monitoring and measuring customer experience.
 Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.

Consultant at Tevel Cyber Corps
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2018 to October 2020

 Review deployment and delivery of pipelines by implementing Azure DevOps.
 Implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure in the CI/CD pipelines, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
 Implementation of effective SDLC process for smooth development to deployment experience.
 Focus on secure coding practices and usage of various security frameworks like OWASP Top 10 and SANS.
 Understanding customer requirements and suggesting improvements.
 Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
 Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
 Review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project, to ensure it meets the customer requirements.
 Understand the in scope and out scope for the testing scenarios.
 Provide fixes and mitigation to developer teams, security teams for implementation of the fixes.
 Streamlined Coaching and Mentoring to motivate individuals and Performance Improvement of the team
 Maintained Effective communication with Training Team members, Stakeholders, Clients, peers from other local and global locations.

Training Manager at Wipro Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2017 to June 2018

 Develop and implement digital technology solutions with appropriate software design methodology.
 Setup, manage and maintain parity across dev, staging and production application environments
 Experience in designing and configuring high availability for web applications.
 Implementation of new thinking to challenge existing technology implementations and processes.
 Design and implement monitoring infrastructure development.
 Enforce best practices, code guidelines and ensure code quality.
 Produced site level weekly, monthly and quarterly reviews with the head and Business unit.

Assistant Manager at SopraSteria India Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2014 to April 2017

 Proficient in Identifying, Designing, Delivering and evaluating the software to meet the Objectives.
 Exposure to Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service
 Implementation of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
 Software testing and automation.
 Experience with Git and GitHub.
 Focus on Scripting languages like PowerShell, Python and Bash script.
 Ability to write and maintain build and deploy automation code
 Conduct gap analysis to understand the business requirements.
 Conceptualize and design initiatives for Technical programs.

Freelance Trainer at Self Entrepreneur
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2012 to March 2014

 Training Need Identification/Analysis
 Design, Customize the Training Content as per the Organizations requirement
 Create and Implement the Learning & Development Strategies and Solutions
 Delivery of Soft Skills and Behavior Training to the Target Audience
 Pre and Post Measurement of the Training Effectiveness

Associate Manager - Training at HCL Technologies Ltd.,
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2004 to September 2012

 End to End training execution on Technical programs.
 Software and product development by implementing the customer requirements.
 Training Need Identification and Analysis across different levels.
 Conduction Gap Analysis to improve the efficiency
 Implementation of new initiatives for competency development.
 Evaluate and review the Soft skills, Behavior, and Process trainings.
 Device Action plan for training improvement and Training Throughput.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications
  • at University of Madras
  • September 2001

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Specialties & Skills

Continuous Integration
Testing
Agile Software Development
Cyber Security
Leadership Skills & Team Handling
Business Communication
Problem Solving Skills
Interpersonal & Negotiation Skills
Stakeholder Management

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

AZ 400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2022
Valid Until:
July 2024
DCM (Diploma in Computer Management) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 1999
Valid Until:
June 2000

Hobbies

  • Adventure Sports, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Trekking, Snorkeling, Camping and more
    # Received "Pillar of the Process" Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Project. # Received Trophy for Exceeding the Expectations in terms of Performance Improvement Training conducted.