Senior DevOps Engineer – UAE

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer based in the United Arab Emirates with over 7 years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps practices. I specialize in building scalable, secure, and production-grade cloud environments for enterprise applications.

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Core Expertise

AWS Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Automation
Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) Production Deployments
Terraform Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD using GitHub Actions & Jenkins
Docker & Windows Container Builds in EKS
AWS WAF, Security Hardening & DevSecOps
Site-to-Site VPN Architecture
Monitoring & Logging Solutions

Professional Experience

Over the past 7+ years, I have designed and managed AWS environments including VPC architectures, secure networking setups, WAF implementations, and EKS clusters handling production workloads. I have led infrastructure automation initiatives using Terraform and implemented CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment time and increase reliability.

My experience includes migrating legacy systems to AWS, implementing secure Windows container build environments in Kubernetes, configuring NGINX gateways for multi-domain routing, and optimizing cloud cost through infrastructure redesign.

Location & Availability

Based in the United Arab Emirates and open to Senior DevOps, DevSecOps, and Cloud Engineering roles in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Portfolio

Visit my main portfolio page: yousafkhamza.github.io