Sohaib Ahmad

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Professional with 5+ years with core expertise in Linux, Networking and system administrating. Have worked on Public Cloud Amazon Web Services(AWS) for more than 4 years to help customers build, expand and migrate their applications on AWS with services like EC2, RDS, ELB, AutoScaling, ElasticCache, EBS, SSM, CloudEndure.

Sr Associate Site Reliability Engineer

  • Website: www.ahmadsohaib.com
  • Phone: +353-894373233
  • City: Dublin, Ireland
  • Degree: Master
  • Email: ahmadsohaib1216@gmail.com

In my current role the focus is on ensuring the reliability and stability of large-scale software systems. This is achieved by designing and implementing automated processes, monitoring and alerting systems, conducting post-incident reviews, and continually improving the system's resilience to prevent outages and minimize downtime. Leveraging services like Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Ansible, Jenkins I ensure that our software systems are always available and performing at their best and I work closely with other teams to achieve this goal

Facts

Companies Worked In

Roles Worked In

Years of Experience

Certifications

Skills

Networking 80%
System Administrator 90%
Python 50%
Kubernetes 80%
Linux 90%
AWS 80%

Resume

Summary

Sohaib Ahmad

5+ years with core expertise in Linux, Networking, system administrating and Public Cloud(AWS/GCP).

  • Dublin, Ireland
  • +353-894373233
  • ahmadsohaib1216@gmail.com

Education

Master of Science in Cloud Computing

2015 - 2016

University College Dublin, Ireland

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

2011 - 2015

Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard University, New Delhi, India

Professional Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

May 2024- Present

Workday,Dublin Ireland

  • Improving cost and performance of global , multi-tiered Kubernetes clusters.
  • Identifying areas where automation could be practiced to encourage efficiency.
  • Applying analytical skills for troubleshooting and problem determination.
  • Collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds

Senior Associate Site Reliability Engineer

2022 - May 2024

Workday,Dublin Ireland

  • Responsible for patching of multiple production environments during the Maintenance Window which are running Public Cloud(AWS/GCP).
  • Troubleshooting and narrowing down the issue encountered during the maintenance window.
  • Ensuring reliability of application throughout the week, by monitoring and anticipating any issues which might arise during the week
  • Building projects/tools for internal team to reduce toil and repetitive work
  • Technologies like Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Linux I use in my day to day work.

Cloud Operations Engineer

2021 - 2022

Amazon Web Services, Dublin, Ireland

  • Assisting cloud solution architects in resolving customer-specific issues and helping in providing best practices and recommendations on how to obtain the best from AWS services.
  • Troubleshoot application deployments, recreate customer issues, build proof of concept applications. Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.
  • Build and maintain CloudFormation templates, Chef cookbooks and shell scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes.
  • Part of IR (incident response) and Change Management teams that required deep troubleshooting skills in different areas (Networking, Windows, AWS services, security) while working under established SLAs

Cloud Support Engineer

2020 - 2021

Amazon Web Services, Dublin, Ireland

  • Fix issues that rise on AWS infrastructure and find root cause of the issue to take it to resolution.
  • Managing full 3 tier application stacks from the OS up through custom applications.
  • Working with AWS Enterprise users to deal with their requirements of their large-scale environments
  • Providing training to new hires and also to leverage operational networking and security knowledge among other operations engineers on the team.

Cloud Support Associate

2017 - 2020

Amazon Web Services, Dublin, Ireland

  • Helping small to medium base customers to run their IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. Advise AWS customers on AWS best practices.
  • Assist customers to secure their cloud infrastructure, ensure high availability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
  • Interact with leading technologists around the world work directly with Amazon Web Service architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
  • Working with internal teams to escalate the issue in order to provide quick and reliable support to the mission critical applications for our customers.s

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