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Your infrastructure breaks at 2 AM. Your deploys take 45 minutes. Your AWS bill climbed 40% and nobody can explain why. I fix all three - and I've done it 100+ times on this platform. Former SRE Lead at Yellow AI (100M+ users, AWS + on-prem). Now I run Skybyte, a DevOps and cloud consulting practice focused on startups and mid-market teams that need senior infrastructure work without the senior hire. What 61+ Upwork jobs and a 100% Job Success Score actually look like: Cloud cost optimization - cut AWS/Azure/GCP spend by 40-60% through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, spot fleets, and architecture cleanup. Not guesswork; I run the cost audit, build the dashboard, and hand you the savings. Kubernetes migration and management - moved production workloads to EKS, AKS, and self-managed clusters on Hetzner. Helm charts, ArgoCD GitOps, zero-downtime cutovers. I've handled clusters running 200+ pods and clusters running 6. CI/CD pipeline engineering - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines. Took teams from 45-minute manual deploys to sub-5-minute automated releases with rollback built in. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - full AWS, Azure, and GCP environments defined in Terraform modules. State management, drift detection, and PR-based infrastructure reviews that your team can maintain without me. DevSecOps and compliance - SOC 2 infrastructure from scratch, cloud security audits, Cloudflare WAF and DDoS protection, network security architecture, and DPDP-aligned data handling. I've built the controls and written the documentation auditors actually accept. Monitoring, observability, and SRE - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, PagerDuty. Full observability stacks that catch failures before your users file tickets. I set up SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows. Beyond core DevOps - SSO/SAML integration, n8n workflow automation, MLOps pipelines, Docker deployments on bare metal and VPS, GCP Cloud Run serverless, and technical documentation your team won't ignore. I work best with funded startups burning money on cloud, engineering teams stuck in deployment hell, and companies scaling past the point where one developer can manage the infrastructure part-time. Stack: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) · Azure (AKS, DevOps, AD) · GCP (GKE, Cloud Run) · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Docker · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Datadog · Cloudflare · n8n Not a "set it up and disappear" contractor. I document everything, train your team, and build systems designed to run without me and scale.

I help startups launch and scale on AWS by designing and building production ready cloud infrastructure. Whether you're building a new product or evolving an existing platform, I deploy cloud infrastructure that's designed to scale with your product. I work with modern DevOps practices to build production AWS environments, including: ➜ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation, OpenTofu) ➜ Automated CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins) ➜ Containerized or serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda) ➜ Secure AWS networking and IAM Setup ➜ AWS architecture design for scalable systems ➜ Production deployments using EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, and VPC + Much more ➜ Observability, alerting, backups, disaster recovery, monitoring and performance tuning ➜ Monolith, Microservices and Eventdriven architectures supported ➜ Python, JavaScript/Typescript driven stacks, and Golang based codebases supported Once the system is built and deployed, I prefer to stay involved to keep it stable, secure, and maintainable. That includes ongoing infrastructure management, obsessive monitoring, performance tuning, finops and cost optimisation, security hardening, and incremental improvements as your product scales. ------ Thanks for reading. Reach out if you’d like to discuss the details.

Hi, I'm Umar Farooq, I 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 that's reliable when it matters, scales when you grow, and costs less than what you're spending now. I'm a 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 with 8+ years helping startups, growing companies, and enterprises 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬. Whether you're launching your first product, scaling rapidly, migrating to the cloud, or constantly firefighting broken systems. I design solutions that work for your business, not just your servers. Recently, I've extended this into 𝗔𝗜-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 building autonomous agent pipelines, self-hosted automation platforms, and multi-agent orchestration systems that run on infrastructure I design end-to-end. If your infrastructure is holding back your team, your deployments are risky, your costs are climbing, or you need someone who gets both the technical and business side let's fix it together. 🔧 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝑫𝒐: ☁️ 𝑨𝑾𝑺 & 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 Design scalable, high-availability architectures on AWS, GCP, Azure etc. EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Auto Scaling, API Gateway Migrate legacy systems to modern cloud environments with zero downtime ⚙️ 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒆 & 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 Terraform (modular, reusable), CloudFormation, Ansible Automated provisioning and configuration across all environments 🤖 𝑨𝑰 𝑨𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 & 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 N8N self-hosted workflows, OpenClaw multi-agent systems on AWS, LLM-integrated pipelines, autonomous task orchestration, and MCP server deployments all running on hardened cloud infra. ⚡𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 End-to-end process automation across your stack. Zapier replacement with N8N, webhook-driven pipelines, data sync, notification routing, and custom integrations with your SaaS tools. 🚀 𝑪𝑰/𝑪𝑫 & 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD End-to-end pipelines: build → test → deploy → rollback strategies 🐳 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 & 𝑶𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 Docker optimization, Kubernetes (EKS & self-managed) Blue-green deployments, rolling updates, container security 🔐 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 & 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 IAM policies, VPC security, encryption, WAF Least-privilege access and compliance-ready infrastructure 📊 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack Real alerts, useful dashboards, SLO/SLI tracking 💡 𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔: 📉 Cut AWS costs by 35% through rightsizing and autoscaling ⚡ Reduced deployment time from 45 minutes to 3 minutes 🎯 Migrated monolithic apps to Docker & Kubernetes with zero downtime 🏗️ Built Terraform infrastructure used across dev/staging/prod environments 🔒 Hardened security postures for compliance-oriented companies 🛠️ 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌: Automation: N8N, OpenClaw, Multi-Agent Systems, MCP Servers, LLM Integration, AI Pipelines Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Security: IAM, VPC, encryption, WAF configurations 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑴𝒆: ✅ 8 years of production DevOps experience ✅ I handle the full lifecycle: design → build → automate → monitor → secure ✅ Clear communication, on-time delivery ✅ Focus on solving business problems, not just implementing tools ✅ Available to start immediately for urgent issues If your 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 is slowing your team down, your 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘆, your 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴, or you want 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 working inside your systems not just on top of them 𝒍𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌. I handle the full lifecycle: 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 → 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 → 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 → 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟 → 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑨𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔. Send me a message about your project and I'll tell you exactly how I can help.

I'm a DevOps Engineer with proven experience in helping startups, SaaS companies, eCommerce, FinTech, healthcare, and enterprise businesses build secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. I help clients: Reduce AWS & GCP cloud costs by up to 40% Achieve 99.99% uptime with reliable infrastructure Automate deployments using modern CI/CD pipelines Deploy production-ready Kubernetes environments Improve security with DevSecOps best practices I also lead a team of 20+ experienced DevOps engineers, enabling us to deliver projects of any size, from infrastructure optimization to complete cloud transformations. Services I Provide ✅ DevOps Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure ✅ AWS, GCP & Azure Cloud Solutions ✅ Cloud Migration & Infrastructure Modernization ✅ Docker Containerization ✅ Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) ✅ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi) ✅ CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Bitbucket) ✅ GitOps (Argo CD, Flux CD) ✅ Linux Server Administration ✅ DevSecOps & Security Hardening ✅ SSL/TLS Certificate Installation & Automation ✅ Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch) ✅ Cloud Cost Optimization Technical Expertise Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Microsoft Azure Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, CloudWatch Security: DevSecOps, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, IAM, SSL/TLS Why Work With Me? ✔ 11+ years of DevOps Engineering experience ✔ Proven expertise in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform ✔ Secure, scalable, and production-ready infrastructure ✔ Team of 20+ DevOps engineers for enterprise-scale projects ✔ Clear communication, fast response times, and reliable delivery Whether you need a DevOps Engineer for cloud migration, Kubernetes deployment, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, Linux administration, or cloud cost optimization, I'm ready to help. Send me a message or invite me to your job, and let's build reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure for your business.

🚀 Are you facing AWS infrastructure issues, cloud migration risks, deployment failures, security vulnerabilities, or unstable production environments? I help businesses design, migrate, secure, automate, and maintain production-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS. MY 8+ years of hands-on experience, I work as a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Solutions Architect across SaaS platforms, web applications, databases, enterprise networks, and AI-powered systems. My focus is simple: build cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, automated, observable, cost-efficient, and easy to maintain. ☁️ 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS infrastructure design and implementation ✅ EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and Route 53 ✅ Highly available and fault-tolerant cloud architecture ✅ VPC design, public/private subnets, NAT Gateway, and load balancers ✅ IAM roles, policies, access control, and AWS account security ✅ Multi-environment architecture for development, staging, and production 🔄 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ On-premises and VPS migration to AWS ✅ Lift-and-shift server migration ✅ AWS Application Migration Service and database migration ✅ Application migration to ECS, Fargate, EC2, and Kubernetes ✅ DNS, SSL, Cloudflare, and domain migration ✅ Zero-downtime and low-risk migration planning ✅ Post-migration validation, monitoring, and optimization 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗣𝗦 & 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline ✅ Automated build, testing, and deployment pipelines ✅ Docker and containerized application deployments ✅ Blue/green, rolling, and canary deployment strategies ✅ React, Next.js, Node.js, Laravel, Python, and FastAPI deployments ✅ Environment variables, secrets, and release management ✅ Production troubleshooting and deployment recovery 🧩 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠 & 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Terraform infrastructure development ✅ AWS CloudFormation templates ✅ Reusable infrastructure modules ✅ Dev, staging, and production environment automation ✅ Infrastructure state management and version control ✅ Secure and repeatable cloud provisioning ✅ Existing Terraform review and troubleshooting 📦 𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗥 & 𝗞𝗨𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Docker containerization and Docker Compose ✅ AWS ECS and Fargate deployments ✅ Amazon EKS and Kubernetes cluster management ✅ Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests ✅ Ingress, load balancing, autoscaling, and secrets ✅ Microservices infrastructure ✅ Container monitoring and troubleshooting 🌐 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS VPC architecture ✅ Site-to-Site VPN and private connectivity ✅ Public and private subnet configuration ✅ Security groups, NACLs, and route tables ✅ AWS PrivateLink and VPC endpoints ✅ On-premises to AWS connectivity ✅ RDS private subnet access through VPN, bastion, and secure tunneling ✅ Load balancer, DNS, and SSL troubleshooting 🔐 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 & 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Linux server security and hardening ✅ AWS IAM and least-privilege access ✅ Security group and firewall configuration ✅ SSL/TLS certificate installation and troubleshooting ✅ Malware cleanup and compromised-server recovery ✅ AWS Secrets Manager and secure credential handling ✅ Cloudflare protection, WAF, DNSSEC, and DDoS protection ✅ Backup, disaster recovery, and security remediation ✅ SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email security 💾 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 & 𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Amazon RDS setup and troubleshooting ✅ SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB ✅ RDS private subnet connectivity ✅ Database migration and optimization ✅ Security, backups, and access configuration ✅ MongoDB Atlas performance optimization ✅ Database monitoring and production issue resolution 📊 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗢𝗕𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki ✅ AWS CloudWatch logs, metrics, and alarms ✅ Datadog and ELK Stack ✅ Infrastructure and application dashboards ✅ SNMP monitoring, syslog, and alerting ✅ Centralized log management ✅ Production incident investigation ✅ Performance and availability monitoring 🏆 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AWS infrastructure migrations using ECS Fargate, RDS, Cloudflare, and Terraform ✅ Secure private connectivity to AWS RDS SQL Server ✅ AWS VPC and Site-to-Site VPN implementations ✅ Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki observability platforms ✅ GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Docker and microservices ✅ AWS GovCloud infrastructure using CloudFormation ✅ Cloudflare security and protection implementations ✅ Linux server recovery, malware cleanup, and hardening ✅ AWS SES email platforms and deliverability improvements ✅ Docker-based SaaS deployments on AWS and Azure ✅ AWS networking, SSL, DNS, and API Gateway troubleshooting ✅ Application migration from V

DevOps and Linux engineer with 4+ years running production infrastructure for businesses that cannot afford downtime. 100+ projects delivered on Upwork at a 96% success rate, currently managing systems that handle millions of requests a day. Most clients reach out for one of three reasons. Something broke and they need it fixed fast. They are scaling and their setup will not hold. Or they want someone to review their cloud and tell them honestly what is wrong. I handle all three, find the root cause, fix it properly, and document everything so your team can maintain it. ☁️ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 & 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, Hetzner. Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, K3s), Docker, Terraform, Ansible. CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. GitOps, zero-downtime deployments, autoscaling, cloud migration, and cost optimization. 🐧 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘅 & 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux. Nginx, Apache, LiteSpeed, HAProxy. Server setup and hardening, SSL, performance tuning, cPanel, WHM, Plesk, WordPress hosting, backups, and disaster recovery. 🌐 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗗𝗡𝗦 & 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 WireGuard, OpenVPN, NAT and floating IP routing, firewalls, and DNS architecture. Email deliverability (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI), mail servers (MailCow, Postfix, iRedMail, Amazon SES), and VoIP (Asterisk, FreePBX, SIP). 🛡️ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲 & 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 Cloudflare WAF, DDoS and bot mitigation, Zero Trust, Tunnels, and load balancing. DevSecOps, Vault secrets management, fail2ban, and full security audits. 📊 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, and ELK. Logging, alerting, and observability that catches problems before your users do. Python and Bash automation throughout. ✅ 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 I communicate clearly and give honest timelines. I own the problem instead of handing it back. I leave you with clean documentation. And I am there when production breaks, including outside business hours. If your infrastructure is unstable, your costs are climbing, or you just need a reliable engineer who takes responsibility for the outcome, send me a message. Happy to review your setup and tell you honestly what I would do. Ali