Looking for someone who can quickly understand complex systems, build reliable observability infrastructure, and optimise it for long-term value? I specialise in Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Clickhouse, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Python. These are the tools that I have used for over a decade to help teams solve observability problems. Whether it’s designing from scratch or improving what’s already there, I’m ready to dive in and work alongside you to get results. Here is what my clients say about me: 👉"Muzammil has been a consistently reliable and technically proficient contractor over the past year. His work on our Kubernetes monitoring stack—particularly Grafana dashboards and Prometheus configurations—has been excellent. He demonstrated a strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and observability best practices, producing clear, insightful dashboards that have significantly improved our operational visibility." 👉"Muzammil has successfully delivered another complex project ahead of time and exceeded expectations. He has gone above and beyond to make sure that I understood the technical details of the project in depth. In addition to his phenomenal technical acumen, he is friendly, humble, and easy to work with. Looking forward to working with him again soon." 👉"This is my 4th freelance project working with Muzammil and he has again delivered a challenging project in a very short time. I look forward to working with him again because of his outstanding technical skills, coding skills, scripting skills, and ability to deliver regardless of the level of complexity of the project. He is very well-versed in all aspects of DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering. Great communication and very easy to work with." 👉"Muzammil delivered the desired result in the agreed time, was always available for questions, and was able to answer all questions related to this project. His communication was top-notch and his technical skills were strong. He documented all the steps and provided links to external sources that were used. Overall, I enjoyed working with Muzammil and look forward to working with him again in the future." # How can I help you ## Monitoring - maintaining dashboards in Grafana - managing logs and metrics using Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus - maintaining long and short-term monitoring data (logs/metrics) - optimizing Loki and Prometheus for scalability and high availability - debugging complex issues with monitoring solutions - integrating alerts and notification handlers such as Slack, email and jira, etc ## Docker - build multi-platform multi-stage dockers - debug complex issues with docker containers ## CICD - automating software deployments using CICD pipelines using multiple platforms (GitHub action, GitLab, circle CI, etc.) - Deploy scalable self-hosted runners either on-prem or in-cloud - debug complex issues in CICD pipelines - debug permission (IAM) related issues in the cloud ## Kubernetes - Deploy applications via Kubernetes for scalability and reliability - Adding monitoring and observability to the applications running in the cloud (Logs, metrics, traces) - Build entire infrastructure using the "Infrastructure as Code" approach - Storing sensitive data (authentication and identity keys) in a secure way - Enabling authentication and authorization for access control Other Skills: Prometheus, K8s, Grafana, Open Telemetry (OTEL), Loki, GCP, Pubsub, cloud run, GKE, IAM, Firestore, Firebase, EC2, AWS, EKS, Fragate, consul, Typescript, Javascript, Nodejs, Python, Fast API, express, flask, nginx

I take over Cloud (AWS, GCP) infrastructure that's scaling faster than your team can manage - and make it stable, observable, and cost-efficient. Recent work: Navya Network (Healthcare AI) - 4 months ongoing. Zero-downtime ECS Fargate migration, Databricks cost optimization, multi-region architecture. 99.9% availability with sub-second agent orchestration. Ockam (AI startup) - Led SOC2 compliance from scratch while rebuilding their platform architecture. Invesco (Fortune 500) - Migrated 500+ applications to AWS. Genentech - Built enterprise container platform that cut developer onboarding from weeks to days. What I deliver: Production Kubernetes and ECS at scale. Terraform infrastructure you can actually maintain. CI/CD pipelines that don't break. Observability that tells you what's wrong before customers do. How I work: Async-first, timezone-flexible. I document everything and build for handoff - you get infrastructure your team can run without me. Available for 2-4 week projects or longer engagements. Previously scaled a platform engineering practice from 12 to 150 engineers at Slalom Build. Now running Accelra Technologies and taking select consulting work.

AWS & Azure Certified DevOps Engineer with experience designing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions for startups and enterprise clients worldwide. I specialize in serverless architectures, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and cloud security compliance. What I bring to your project: • Cloud Architecture & Automation: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation) & Azure (AKS, Functions, App Service, Key Vault). • CI/CD Mastery: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD. • Security-First Approach: IAM best practices, GuardDuty, WAF, Secrets Manager, TLS/SSL, network hardening. • Cost Optimization: Auto-scaling, savings plans, resource right-sizing. • Full-Stack DevOps Delivery: From migration & modernization to monitoring & incident response. • Proven track record: Cut deployment times by 70%, re-architected systems for 99.99% uptime, and led multi-region rollouts for mission-critical applications. Let’s build secure, automated, and high-performing cloud systems for your business. Send me a message, I respond fast.

I am a DevOps Engineer with 4 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and automating cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. My expertise centers on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CI/CD pipeline automation with GitHub Actions, and containerized deployments. I deliver scalable, secure, and cost efficient solutions that streamline development workflows and accelerate time to market. ☁️ Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep 🚀 CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines 🐳 Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, ACS,ECS,Kubernetes (AKS), Helm 📈 Monitoring & Logging: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana 🌐 Networking & Security: Virtual Networks, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Azure Key Vault, RBAC 🗄️ Databases: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL 💻 Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python 🔄 Version Control: Git, GitHub, Azure Repos Key Accomplishments → Designed and deployed complete Azure and AWS infrastructure using Terraform with remote state management, enabling consistent and repeatable deployments across environments → Built end to end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment → Implemented secure networking architectures using private endpoints, managed VNets, and proper RBAC configurations → Reduced manual deployment efforts through automation, improving deployment consistency and reducing configuration drift → Established monitoring and alerting solutions using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for proactive infrastructure management What I Bring I take a comprehensive, hands on approach to DevOps focusing not just on getting things working, but understanding the underlying architecture and best practices. I'm committed to building infrastructure that is secure by default, cost conscious, and maintainable long term. Let's collaborate to modernize your infrastructure and streamline your development operations.

Experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible, combined with infrastructure validation and security tooling such as Terratest, Terrascan, and Checkov to ensure reliable, compliant, and production-ready deployments. Proficient in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, with hands-on experience building automated deployment workflows using Atlantis, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity, and Bitbucket Pipelines. Experienced in implementing GitOps practices by managing Kubernetes workloads with ArgoCD, enabling declarative application delivery, version-controlled environments, and consistent deployments across development, staging, and production clusters. Strong scripting capabilities in Bash and Python for automation, operational tooling, and system management. Experienced in building secure and hardened infrastructure artifacts, including creating hardened VM images using Packer and building secure Docker base images following container security best practices. This includes minimizing attack surface, applying CIS-aligned configurations, removing unnecessary packages, and integrating vulnerability scanning into CI pipelines to ensure images meet security and compliance requirements before deployment. Adept at implementing monitoring and observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, and the ELK/EFK stacks (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana), enabling comprehensive metrics, logs, and tracing visibility for cloud-native systems. Deep understanding of Linux and Windows server environments, with extensive experience configuring and operating web servers including NGINX, Apache, and IIS.

I'm an experienced and certified DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years working with various cloud-based projects and managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, building scalable and highly available systems. Formerly a software engineer (more than 15 years in total) with comprehensive experience building distributed systems with Java/Python/Golang/Web Application/DevOps/Cloud tech stacks and infrastructure. I have plenty of experience working with Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes/Docker/Compose/ECS, CI/CD and Automation, Configuration Management, Monitoring & Logging, and Security/DevSecOps. I also earned Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional level from AWS.

Is your cloud infrastructure costing too much? Are deployments slow, unstable, or keeping you up at night? I'm Muhammad Rafay — a Certified AWS Solutions Architect & Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with 4+ years of experience building secure, scalable, and production-ready DevOps systems for startups and growing businesses. I help teams cut cloud costs, eliminate deployment failures, and build infrastructure that stays up — so you can focus on shipping product, not firefighting servers. ✅ Free 15-minute DevOps/Infrastructure audit — I'll review your setup and share 3 quick wins for cost, security, or deployment speed. ⚡ Core Expertise: ✔️ Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ECS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch), GCP, Azure ✔️ Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), Helm, high-availability deployments ✔️ CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitbucket — zero-downtime, rollback-safe releases ✔️ Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible — reusable, version-controlled, multi-environment ✔️ Linux Administration: Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian — server hardening, tuning, and security ✔️ DevSecOps: IAM least-privilege, Vault, Fail2Ban, WAF, SSL/TLS automation, patch management ✔️ Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch — proactive alerting before failures hit ✔️ Automation & Scripting: Bash, Python — reducing manual ops overhead 🏆 What You Get When You Hire Me: ✔ Production-ready infrastructure built for uptime and scale ✔ CI/CD pipelines that deploy faster with zero manual errors ✔ Secure cloud environments with least-privilege access ✔ Clean documentation for long-term maintainability ✔ Reduced AWS/GCP/Azure costs through right-sizing & automation ✔ Reliable support — avg. response under 2 hours 🎯 Industries Served: SaaS platforms | eCommerce | Startups | Web Applications | GPS & Real-Time Systems 💡 Whether you need to fix a critical Linux issue, migrate to AWS, or build a fully automated DevOps pipeline — I deliver secure, scalable solutions that work in production. 📩 Message me or click Invite to Job — let's fix your infrastructure the right way.

Need secure, scalable cloud infrastructure or a high-performing web application? I can help. I am a Top Rated Azure DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with over 3,000 hours of enterprise-level experience. I specialize in helping businesses automate their deployments, reduce cloud costs, and build reliable, scalable applications from the ground up. How I can help your business: Cloud & DevOps: Azure administration, CI/CD pipeline automation, and container orchestration to ensure your apps run smoothly 24/7. Full-Stack Development: Building modern, responsive web apps using Next.js, TypeScript, and robust Python backends. Data Engineering: Managing big data clusters, disaster recovery strategies, and data source integrations. Core Technologies: AWS (EC2, EKS), Azure Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes (Helm), Terraform, Python, Next.js, and Hadoop/HDP. Whether you need to fix a broken deployment pipeline, migrate to the cloud, or build a scalable web app from scratch, let's talk. Send me a message and we can discuss your project's technical needs!

From delivering projects and developing multi-tenant SaaS platforms to engineering cloud services, I bring a wealth of hands-on experience. I also hold 7 public certifications in cloud computing, along with my Master's Degree in Computer Applications 1. GCP Professional Cloud Architect - recertified, 2. GCP Professional Coud Security Engineer 3. GCP Associate Cloud Engineer 4. GCP Cloud Digital Leader 5. Microsoft Azure AZ-104 Administrator Associate 6. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 7. HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate In addition, I am actively practicing and continuously upskilling GenAI evolving technology Tools and prototyping RAG architecture. Some of the projects I have worked listed here: 1. Migrated mission-critical production scripts to SaaS-based Version Control Management systems. 2. Architected and engineered a secure VPN connection between on-premise systems and managed Kubernetes (OpenShift) using 'strongSwan' for the daemon process. 3. Configured, deployed, and managed microservices using UrbanCode Deploy, implementing containerization strategies. 4. Deployed SDLC stack services as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for both external and internal applications. 5. Engineered, secured, and governed the integration of GitHub as the source code management (SCM) platform for the organization. 6. Orchestrated JFrog Artifactory as a stateful application on GKE, managing storage of packages, binaries, and JARs. 7. Deployed numerous internal and external applications as workloads on GKE using Helm package manager, with architecture designed by myself. 8. Successfully migrated Oracle data to BigQuery and implemented data visualization tools for enhanced analytics. 9. Architected a multi-tenant SaaS product with integrations for third-party tools. 10. Developed and implemented cloud portability design principles for seamless multi-cloud operations. 11. Authored detailed design documentation for compatibility testing in multi-cloud environments.

☁️ 𝗔𝗪𝗦 | 🔁 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 | 🏗️ 𝗜𝗮𝗖 | 🤖 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 | 🟢 99.99% 𝗨𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 | 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 I'm a DevOps Engineer from Ukraine (currently based in Portugal) with over 10 years of experience in software development and a strong academic background in Computer Science. I specialize in building and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure for web applications. My focus is on delivering reliable systems using modern DevOps practices such as: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) Cloud platforms (AWS) Containerization & orchestration (Docker) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) Monitoring & logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) In addition to DevOps, I have a background in front-end and some backend development (Python, Java, Node.js), which gives me a solid understanding of full-stack systems. I prefer long-term projects and complex environments where I can contribute to automation, performance, and deployment efficiency. Quality, reliability, and collaboration are my top priorities.