Kashif Siddique

As an HPC DevOps Systems Engineer, I help design, plan, and deploy High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems across institutions. I develop distributed, redundant architectures, coordinate procurement and rollout, and define operational frameworks. I collaborate with stakeholders to ensure integration and performance, and support post-deployment operations such as monitoring, maintenance, updates, and deployments.

Working in a corporate environment of Global Data Center Operations Team to look after all the Linux servers running in a Virtual hosted and cloud environment to provide 24/7 on-prem, on the cloud, and client support.

• Playing the lead role on new Projects by gathering the facts and finding the right solution as per the need and customers demand. • Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native micro services architecture. • Implement automation, effective monitoring, cost optimization and infrastructure-as-code using Public Cloud services. • Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing and documentation throughout the engineering team.

Managing the AWS cloud platform with many dimensions of scalability including EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, ECR, AWS Glue, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, OPS Work and Security Groups. Involved heavily in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git. Terraform and Docker as a containerization tool. Well versed with Ansible Playbooks, modules and roles.

Remote Support to: Crawley (UK), London (UK), UAE and Europe Datacenter (24x7 Technical Support). • Worked with database administrators, portfolio teams, and developers in coordinating system-wide updates and installing upgrades and patches. • Installation and configuration of Linux OS for new build environment. Installation and configuration of Open Source Applications • Systems Security Hardening and Patch updates for Linux servers. • Virtual Machines creation and administration on VMware vSphere.