Has your Linux server crashed? Or with CPU spikes? Or under DDoS attacks? I've been solving system crises 24/7 for over 25 years. Linux server/VPS management, performance, monitoring, and hardening; DDoS mitigation with ModSecurity and CSF firewall protection; email deliverability. #4 contributor worldwide on Spamhaus Threat Intelligence (100K+ threat monthly reports) and AbuseIPDB (1000K+ reports since 2025) - I identify cyber threats before they hit your servers, and I maintain real-time threat intelligence for global networks. #1 developer ranking on Stack Overflow Spanish (16K+ reputation) in 2022 with solutions trusted by thousands of developers. Skills: Linux Sysadmin, WHM/CPanel, HestiaCP, VestaCP, LAMP, LEMP, Varnish, Cloudflare, WordPress protection, hosting, PHP, MySQL, malware, webmaster, Apache, Exim, ModSecurity, CSF Firewall, networking, and security. Problems Solver and so on... My clients networks: OVH, Digital Ocean, Bluehost, Interserver, AWS, Linode, Google Cloud, GoDaddy, Hetzner, Hostinger, Contabo, Azure Microsoft, NetCup, NameCheap, AsmallOrange, BudgetVM, Comvive, DotBlock, FastHost, HostRocket, Liquidweb, and a long so on. Long experience. Since 1993 I've been working with computers for companies like IBM (12 years).

Highly experienced and skilled in linux system, linux kernel and linux system programming. I had served in NXP semiconductor for 7 years, and worked in linux field for more than 15 years. Linux Kernel - Subsystem: KVM Virtualization, Filesystem, Network, USB, Linux Video - Debugging: Performance, System Analysis, Software Debugging, OOPS Embedded Linux - Frameworks: OpenWRT, Yocto, Android - Device Driver: USB, XHCI, WIFI, LTE, Network, Camera Linux System Development - System: Ubuntu, Centos, Archlinux, Raspberry pi, Orange pi - Network: VPN, VXLAN, IPTABLE, Router, Wireguard - Virtualization: Qemu, Libvirt, Virtualbox, Docker, K8s Programming Skills - C/C++ - Bash/Makefile - Android - Python

Interested in automation, opensource, unix/linux, AI, networking, developing command line tools, web applications, APIs. Learned basics of information security

👋 I am a Certified Multicloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), and Platform Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience. Throughout my career, I’ve consistently designed, deployed, and managed scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions for enterprises, fast-growing startups, and highly regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce 💪💪 SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTS 👉 Programming Languages Applied across automation, infrastructure workflows, and backend integrations in enterprise CI/CD pipelines: Bash, Python, YAML, PowerShell – scripting and orchestration of distributed systems. Golang, TypeScript, JavaScript – building CLI utilities, microservices, and dashboards. SQL – database scripting and performance optimization for PostgreSQL, MySQL. Key Result: Cut deployment times by 82% through custom automation scripts across hybrid-cloud environments. 👉 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Delivered multi-cloud infrastructure for Fortune 500 organizations: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM, ARM Templates. Key Result: Achieved full disaster recovery readiness and cross-region scalability with Terraform and Ansible. 👉 Containerization and Orchestration Implemented microservices at scale via Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE): Docker, Kubernetes (all providers), OpenShift, Azure Service Fabric. Key Result: Reached 99.99% uptime and reduced cloud spend by 37% through optimized autoscaling strategies. 👉 DevOps Engineer | GCP DevOps | AWS DevOps - Cloud Platforms and Services Architected and secured global hybrid-cloud infrastructures: AWS (core focus): enterprise-grade deployments for healthcare, finance, retail. Azure: DevOps pipeline integrations with AD. GCP: Implemented GKE and BigQuery for large-scale data solutions. Key Result: Led a cloud transformation cutting costs by $2M+ annually and accelerating delivery 5x. 👉 DevOps Engineer | GCP DevOps | AWS DevOps - DevOps Tools and Practices Engineered CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and release automation: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Argo CD, Octopus Deploy. Key Result: Delivered zero-downtime deployments and enabled 10x faster production rollouts. 👉 DevOps Engineer | GCP DevOps | AWS DevOps - Monitoring and Observability Built end-to-end observability stacks: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Zabbix, CloudWatch. Key Result: Improved MTTR by 42% through central log management, alerting, and tracing. 👉 Marketing and Analytics Collaborated with marketing teams for real-time analytics: Google Analytics, GTM, Mixpanel, FullStory, Drift, HubSpot. Key Result: Delivered live dashboards, boosting conversion tracking accuracy by 27%. 👉 Databases and Storage Engineered high-availability and cloud-native database solutions: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra. Key Result: Migrated legacy DBs with zero data loss and achieved 62% performance uplift. 👉 Operating Systems & SysAdmin Large-scale administration of Unix/Linux systems: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Cloud Linux, Windows Server. Key Result: Automated patching across 500+ nodes and hardened OS security to CIS standards. 👉 Networking Designed and managed enterprise-grade network topologies: VPN, VLAN, DNS, DHCP, NAT, SNMP. Key Result: Built secure multi-cloud VPCs and site-to-site VPNs between on-prem and cloud. 👉 System Administration & Hosting Maintained enterprise-scale hosting platforms: cPanel, WHM, Cyberpanel, Plesk, HAProxy, Email Servers. Key Result: Migrated 200+ sites with no downtime, tripling load-balancer efficiency. 👉 Web Servers & Application Platforms Scaled and optimized business-critical applications: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss. Key Result: Reduced latency by 52% via reverse proxy caching and CDN integration. 👉 Frameworks & Libraries Supported DevOps workflows for development teams: React, Angular, Next.js, Spring Boot, GraphQL. Key Result: Delivered CI pipelines for frontends and serverless backend deployments. 👉 Testing Tools Selenium, Mixpanel Testing. Key Result: Automated regression testing to eliminate production rollbacks. 👉 Security & Authentication Secured regulated infrastructures (PCI, HIPAA): Keycloak, Azure, Cognito, OKTA, Firewalls, Fail2ban. Key Result: Built centralized SSO and conducted security audits with advanced threat modeling. 📩 Ready to take your cloud infrastructure to the next level? If you need a dependable DevOps partner who builds secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions, send me a message — I'd be glad to learn about your project and help bring your vision to life.

✅ I'm the highest-rated and one of the highest-earning Devops and Cloud specialist freelancers on Upwork, with more than 60 5-star reviews and overwhelmingly positive feedback. 💫 I am featured as the top freelancer in the IT category on Upwork, which has over 116,000 Freelancers in the category. 👨🏻‍💻 I am your all-in-one DevOps partner and your co-CTO: I help tech & AI startups build scalable, secure, production-ready infrastructure from day one. Whether you’re launching an MVP, deploying ML models, or scaling your SaaS, I bring 8+ years of DevOps expertise to move fast without breaking things. 🔐📆 🥇 Proud to be part of Upwork’s Expert-Vetted Talent Pool (Cloud & DevOps) 🆘 I’ve helped: - AI platforms optimizing LLM and inference workloads - NLP + computer vision teams deploy fast across dev/staging/prod - Founders ship early and scale confidently with clean infra 🍝 History: - 70+ projects completed - 2400+ hours of DevOps & Cloud consulting delivered - Clients include AI platforms, fintech companies, and early-stage startups 😌 Why your life would be easier working with me: - All-in-One Expert : From day one, I handle everything related to infrastructure, DevOps, and CI/CD. You’ll never worry about scaling, monitoring, or hiring multiple engineers. - Infra that just works : I build platforms that are reliable, observable, and secure. You focus on product. I’ll take care of the rest. - Speed + stability : I move fast while following best practices. That means rapid delivery, clean automation, and fewer late-night emergencies. - Efficiency-focused : I help you avoid cloud waste and complexity. This means fewer headaches, reduced costs, and a stack that scales confidently without technical debt. 🔧 You’ll get infrastructure that is: - Cost-optimized and cloud-native (GCP, AWS) - Automated and reproducible (Terraform, CI/CD) - Designed for scale (Kubernetes, GitOps, GPU-ready) - Observed and hardened (Monitoring, Security, Secrets Mgmt) 💬 Recent Client Feedback: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I was extremely impressed with Haythem's professionalism, knowledge, skill, and experience throughout our engagement. His communication was excellent - he consistently responded within an hour or two and really understands business requirements well. He's very efficient at solving not just simple problems, but complex ones too, and he truly gets how development teams work. Haythem communicates really well with our entire team and is even willing to adapt to DevOps related technologies he's not familiar with. The quality of his work was consistently excellent. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for outstanding DevOps support and help. If we have another project, I would definitely hire him again in a heartbeat.” - DAOSTREET - https:// daostreet.io ⚙️ Tech Stack Expertise : for AI & Tech Startups - Not limited to - - Cloud: GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Vertex AI), AWS (EKS, Lambda, SageMaker), Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH - IaC & Automation: Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins (Groovy), Cloud Build, Ansible, HashiCorp Vagrant - Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE, EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Harbor - MLOps: Model deployment pipelines, GPU workloads, feature store integration - Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Cloud Monitoring, Zabbix, Munin, Loki - Security: IAM, VPCs, TLS/SSL, WAFs, HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak, OpenVPN, IPSEC, pfSense, fail2ban - Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Firebase, Cloud SQL, MySQL - Web & System Services: Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Postfix, Kannel, Alfresco - Linux & OS-Level: Debian, Nix, RHEL, Pacemaker, Corosync, LVM, VDO, Stratis - Dev Tooling & Scripting: Bash, Python, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Git, Node.js - Networking: SMPP/SMS, SMTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, FTP, SSH, T.38 - Virtualization & Firewall: VMware, Cisco ASA

Your AWS bill is growing faster than your revenue. Deployments take too long. Your infrastructure wasn't built to handle what you're throwing at it now. Sound familiar? I'm Nouman, a Certified AWS Cloud Architect with 7+ years of hands-on experience building production infrastructure that scales without breaking the bank. I've helped companies reduce their cloud spend by up to 40% while actually improving reliability and deployment speed. What I do best: → AWS Cost Optimization: I audit your infrastructure, kill waste, right-size resources, and implement Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategies. Most clients see 30-40% savings within the first month. → Cloud Architecture & Migration: I design and build multi-cloud environments on AWS and Azure that are secure, scalable, and don't require a dedicated team to maintain. → Kubernetes & Containers: Private EKS and AKS clusters with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Karpenter, Terragrunt). Your team deploys with confidence, not anxiety. → CI/CD Pipelines: End-to-end automation with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. I've cut deployment cycles from hours to minutes for multiple clients. → Infrastructure as Code: Everything in Terraform and Terragrunt. Reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable. No more snowflake servers. Recent results: Optimized a multi-tenant AWS environment, cutting monthly spend by ~35% while improving uptime Built private Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS) serving production workloads with zero-downtime deployments Automated infrastructure provisioning that reduced environment setup from days to under an hour Implemented security and compliance frameworks (HashiCorp Vault, SonarQube, Trivy) for regulated industries How I work: I communicate clearly, respond fast, and treat every project like a partnership. I'll tell you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear. That's how we get results. Ready to stop overpaying for AWS? Send me a message and let's talk about your infrastructure.

Your server is down. Your team is stuck. Your infrastructure is holding your business back. That's where I come in. I'm a Senior Systems Administrator with 10+ years of hands-on experience managing Linux and Windows server environments for enterprise-scale operations including 7 years at Nayatel, one of Pakistan's largest ISPs, where I owned infrastructure serving thousands of concurrent users. I've migrated complex on-premise systems to cloud environments with zero downtime, hardened servers against real threats, and built automation pipelines that eliminated hours of manual ops work every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I HELP YOU WITH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Server Setup & Administration Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) and Windows Server provisioning, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting. You get a stable, optimized server not just one that's running. Cloud Infrastructure (AWS & Azure) Deployments, migrations, cost optimization, and ongoing management. I hold AWS Solutions Architect and CloudOps certifications and have managed multi-cloud environments in production. Security & Hardening Firewall configuration, OS hardening, intrusion detection (Wazuh, ELK Stack), SSL/TLS, VPN setup, and penetration testing. I don't just set it up, I make sure it stays locked down. Automation & DevOps Support Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines. Repetitive manual tasks get automated. Deployments become consistent and reliable. Database & Network Operations PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB administration. DNS management, email servers (Zimbra, Axigen), routing, and VPN configuration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY CLIENTS WORK WITH ME AGAIN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most infrastructure freelancers disappear after delivery. I don't. I document everything, explain what I did and why, and stay available if something comes up after handoff. Two decades of enterprise ops work taught me that reliability is the job, not just technical skill. I keep communication clear and direct. No jargon dumps. No vague updates. You'll always know exactly where things stand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CERTIFICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LET'S TALK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If your infrastructure needs to be more stable, more secure, or better managed, send me a message. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help and what that looks like.

A satisfied client is the goal of my work. I'm seasoned engineer with 20+ years of experience configuring, monitoring, upgrading, and sustaining system hardware, software, and supporting infrastructure. Strong analytical mindset with cross-disciplinary troubleshooting skills for complex, system-level issues. Highly motivated, dependable, and accountable for delivering results. Business before pleasure!

If your engineering team is shipping slower than six months ago and your AWS bill is growing faster than your revenue the problem is almost never the engineers. It's the infrastructure they're working around. I fix that at the architecture level, not the band-aid level. I'm a Top Rated DevOps and Cloud Security Engineer (100% JSS) who has worked with Series A–C SaaS companies, high-volume e-commerce platforms, and regulated fintech environments across AWS, Oracle, and Azure. Recent engagements: ✔ Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 85 minutes (65% faster) for a SaaS platform at 500k MAU ✔ Cut AWS spend by 40% ($18k/month saved) for a $30M ARR e-commerce company through E KS right-sizing, spot instance migration, and auto-scaling architecture. ✔ Maintained 99.98% uptime for a Series B fintech platform processing $2M+/day — through Prometheus + Grafana alerting, SLO definition, and proactive SRE incident runbooks. Here's the infrastructure automation and cloud engineering work I do best: ✔ CI/CD & Automation : Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI. From commit to production in minutes, not hours. ✔ Kubernetes & Container Orchestration : Docker, K8s cluster setup, scaling, and hardening on AWS EKS, GKE, and AKS. ✔ Infrastructure as Code : Terraform and Ansible. Reproducible, version-controlled infra from day one. ✔ Cloud Security & DevSecOps : Threat modelling, IAM hardening, EBS encryption, VPN, and SSL/TLS across AWS, GCP, and Azure. ✔ Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack. You see problems before your users do. I don't just implement what's asked. I assess whether what's asked is the right solution. When Terraform is overkill, I'll say so. When Kubernetes is being used where Docker Swarm would serve better, I'll tell you before you spend three months over-engineering it. My value is in the decisions that don't make it into the ticket not just the ones that do. I take on 2–3 engagements at a time and I'm selective about fit. If you're dealing with infrastructure that's becoming a ceiling on your growth share your architecture overview or describe the problem. I'll come back with a direct technical perspective within one business day. If it's not something I can solve well, I'll tell you that too. 💬 Send me a message with your stack AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, or Linux and your biggest DevOps or cloud security challenge. I'll respond within 2 hours with a direct technical assessment. No sales pitch, no discovery call needed.

I build, secure, and scale production-ready cloud architecture that cuts infrastructure costs and deployment times, backed by 9+ years of enterprise experience. As a Senior DevOps & DevSecOps Engineer and former Deloitte tech lead, I don't just spin up environments. I architect resilient, zero-trust, production-grade cloud infrastructures engineered for massive scale and strict security audits. If your current infrastructure is manual, fragile, or bleeding money, I can step in to automate and stabilize it. High-Impact Results I Deliver: • Optimized complex environments to slash AWS infrastructure costs by 40% while maintaining maximum performance SLAs. • Streamlined deployment pipelines to accelerate delivery cycles and cut deployment duration by 40%. • Integrated advanced automated tooling (SAST/DAST/SCA) directly into pipelines to hit 95% vulnerability detection coverage. Core Bottlenecks I Solve For You: ▸ Fix Broken Pipelines: Repair failing CI/CD infrastructure and speed up lagging release tracks. ▸ Production Kubernetes: Design, deploy, and debug rock-solid cluster environments (EKS, AKS, GKE). ▸ Automate via Code: Eliminate manual human errors by building clean, dry, maintainable Terraform and Terragrunt configurations. ▸ Security & Secrets Hardening: Implement zero-trust access, secure secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), and prepare systems for strict compliance (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA). Deep Technical Toolbox: ◦ Cloud Platforms: AWS (Advanced) , Azure , GCP. ◦ Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (CKA Certified) , Docker , Helm. ◦ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform , Terragrunt , Ansible. ◦ CI/CD & GitOps: GitLab CI , GitHub Actions, Jenkins , Azure DevOps , Argo CD. ◦ DevSecOps & Secrets: SonarQube , Snyk , PrismaCloud , HashiCorp Vault. ◦ Observability: Prometheus , Grafana , ELK Stack , Datadog. Why Clients Hire Me: ✦ Production-First Mindset: Everything is built cleanly with real-world traffic, high availability, and security in mind. ✦ Elite Certifications: Credentialed as an AWS Certified DevOps Professional , Azure DevOps Engineer Expert , and Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer. ✦ Fast Execution: Based out of Dubai (UAE Golden Visa Holder) , operating on flexible hours to fully support global team schedules. Let's build a secure, scalable system together. Click the "Message" or "Invite to Job" button, share your current infrastructure pain points, and I'll outline a clear technical approach for you.