Zuber Ahmed

Scope of Work:
Design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale cloud and cognitive infrastructure and DevOps processes on Azure, focusing
on high availability, scalability, cost optimization, security, and automation.
Responsibilities, Tasks & Achievements:
• Designing and implementing secure and scalable Kubernetes clusters in Azure and On-prem data centers.
• Drive Proof of concept (POC) for new requirements.
• Responsible for E2E understanding business needs and detail out the requirements with implementation plans.
• Represent and propose latest technology trends to design architect group and technology leaders
• Implementation of Centralized Monitoring of Multiple Kubernetes services using Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos,
Grafana Loki and ELK.
• Implementation of container security using Trivy, Aquasec and NeuVector on Kubernetes.
• Working on GenAI use cases and integration with different tools.
• Working on Code Generation use case for DevOps/IaC using GenAI, OpenAI.
• Working on Nvidia DGX A100/H100 SuperPOD cluster.
• Implementation of CI/CD using Jenkins, GitOps using ArgoCD.
• Inferencing open source LLM models in a private cluster.
• Working on different Hugging Face models for GenAI use cases.
• Designing and implementing Azure Kubernetes clusters.
• Working on MLOps and LLMOps technologies.
• Optimization of GPU utilization using GPU fragmentation
• Managing deployment and security scanning of applications on OpenShift Cluster / Rancher.
• Setup Monitoring and alerting on Kubernetes and OpenShift Cluster/Rancher.

• Worked as Team Lead for Client Ericsson, Gurgaon in the R & D Department.
• Responsible for E2E understanding business needs and detail out the requirements with estimation (BUC/One Pager)
• Provide leadership and direction to agile teams and ensure delivery timeline with quality
• Part of release architecture team, define and design product roadmap based on the market trend
• Represent and propose latest technology trends to design architect group and technology leaders
• Collaborate with other application architects for cloud ready solution design and development
• Drive Proof of concept (POC) for new requirement, code review and share improvements
• Responsible for product deployment on Native HW, Virtualization, Cloud and Kubernetes environment
• Design programmable infrastructure for automatic scalable application with respect to compute and storage
• Design architecture for migration of Native Application to Cloud Native environment (Containers, Helm, Kubernetes)
• Design procedures for hardware upgradation, physical to virtual migration, physical/virtual to cloud migration
• Design disaster recovery solution for high availability of Ericsson Multi Mediation product
• Analyze and implement best practices and emerging concepts in DevOps and Continuous Integration
• Design automated test framework (using Dockers) to achieve faster feedback
• Ensure system stability, security hardening, software supportability, discover and mitigate security vulnerability
• VA report preparation as per CIS-CAT, Tenable, Trivy
• Implementation of Product Security GDPR and Design Rules requirements
• Implementation of encrypted communication (mTLS/One way SSL) between client and Server.
• Define and design automated software upgrade and migration procedures newer version of product release
• Handle infrastructure and platform related customer escalation for released products
• Product maintenance support to release bug fixes, newer version of OS and third-party products
• Provide technical training to teammates and new joiners for competence ramp up
• Ensuring that new design changes are presented to the required stakeholder, capturing review comments, and ensuring review comments are implemented.
• Designing of Docker images.
• Designing of Helm Charts.
• Writing Shell Scripts.
• Writing Ansible Playbooks.
• Openstack administration and Heat Template Designing.
• Working on Docker and Kubernetes.

Environment: ECCD (Ericsson Cloud Container Distribution), ADP (Application Development Platform) Services (SIP-TLS, Certificate Manager, Helm Chart Registry, Container Registry, Database Document PG, PM Server, Backup and Restore Orchestrator, KMS, IAM, LDAP, CM Yang Provider, Ingress Controller), HP Blade servers, Ericsson Blade server, EMC Storage, Kubernetes, Dockers, Container, Redhat Linux, Scripting (Shell), Jenkins, LVM, iSCSI, HTTPD, Tomcat, VMware ESXi, KVM, RHEL OpenStack, Ericsson Cloud, REST API, Ansible, Git, Gerrit, Grafana, NFS, Terraform, Jenkins

Scope Work:
Managed and optimized cloud native infrastructure, automated processes, and supported development teams in deployment
and monitoring for cost efficiency, security, and reliability.
Responsibilities,
• Worked as Team lead in RICOH Japan Project
• Worked as an active member in transition of work from Japan to India.
• Involved in SOP and SOW creation.
• Resolving tickets within SLA.
• Coordination between storage and DB teams.
• Mentoring Team to upskill team members.
• Managing and maintaining Redhat clusters.

• Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Enterprise linux servers
• Installing, Managing and Administration of cloud (AWS and Rackspace) and Linux servers (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat)
• Ensure optimum utilization of IT resources. (Hardware and Software).
• License compliance for software used in the organization.
• Defining and Implementing IT policies.
• Managing Mail, DHCP and DNS servers.
• Managing and training team members.
• Backup/Restoration planning and implementation.
• Implementations of hardware and software upgrades/patches.
• Managing critical paths and taking appropriate actions.
• Actively Involved with the Development team for designing and implementing solutions for clients.

Environment: Linux, Shell Script, NFS, LVM, HTTPD, DNS, Mail, SQUID, WHM/cPanel, Mysql

• Monitor, Troubleshoot and Manage Network and Security between UK and INDIA.
• Managing Network for 700 users using Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Coordinating with multiple ISPs for Lease Line problems in India and UK.
• Configure Cisco Router (3600 Series) & Switches (1900 and 2600 Series) for WAN (lease line) & LAN.
• Configure, Monitor & Troubleshoot (Security Policy and NAT) for Juniper firewall.
• Handling and Manage Servers in UK & India (Windows and Linux Servers).
Environment: Linux, Windows XP/7/8/10, Windows Server 2003/2008