Hamza Masood

DevOps Engineer

Dublin, Ireland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-m-masood/
Hamza Masood

About

I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I’m also a Free/Open source enthusiast. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, automation, data, and metrics.

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Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • GCP
  • image/svg+xml Kustomize
  • Azure
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind
  • TypeScript
  • Node
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • Openshift
  • Helm
  • Argo
  • Crossplane
  • Docker
  • Golang
  • Python
  • Prometheus
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • React

Experience

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    Dublin, Ireland - Remote

    Summary:

    • Develop Helm Charts to manage the Camunda 8 applications stack for our self-managed offering and provide third level support for customers for self-managed installation

    Responsibilities:

    • Introduced multiple operators in the CI in order to make processes more efficient
    • Developed helm chart configurations to connect to external Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
    • Generated Markdown from values.yaml to save time from not doing manual processes
    • Pioneered the multi-region setup of Camunda self-managed deployment
    • Simplified running Camunda Helm Chart on OpenShift
    • Made multiple contributions to the official documentation
  • -

    Dublin, Ireland - Hybrid

    Responsibilities:

    • Created various internal Terraform automations to enable technical support engineers to quickly replicate customer environments and replicate issues.
    • Solved various customer issues relating to NFS, storage, kubernetes, and cloud technologies.
    • Supported various customers to install and deploy Portworx on their production environment to enable them to effectively use the produce.
    • Held multiple workshops and knowledge transfer sessions both internally and externally related to stateful kubernetes workloads
    • Set up various internal labs related to Portworx Disaster Recovery cluster replication, using async and sync data replication.
  • -

    Dublin, Ireland - Hybrid

    Responsibilities:

    • Designed and implemented the entire CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for the developers to use.
    • Implemented various security policies that conform to SAP standards.
    • Implemented various OPA policies and other tools to aid deployment which in turn saved ~40% of development time.
    • Onboarded and mentored other team members. Gave talks to wider SAP Signavio on our CI/CD pipeline and devops practices.
    • Automated the provisioning of multitenancy provider accounts in SAP BTP and deployed using containers on Kubernetes.
    • Spearheaded the Agile DevOps design, development, testing, and release of 30 new microservices.
    • Implemented various observability tools for logging, metrics and tracing to help developers debug problems that customers were facing. (Prometheus, Dynatrace, Loki, Grafana, Jaeger).
    • Led incident response and provided hands-on troubleshooting during service interruptions.
  • -

    Dublin, Ireland - Hybrid

    Responsibilities:

    • Developed and maintained microservices that were deployed on SAP Kyma.
    • Contributed to SAP Kyma CNCF closed source repository.
    • Contributed to SAP Cloud Application Programming model which enabled our team to develop cloud applications in an easier manner.
    • Developed various Grafana views created from in-house SAP Hana Prometheus exporter.
    • Developed and maintained a 7 step process to onboard new contract users to theirrespective teams. This process takes 30+ minutes to execute manually. It now takes less than 5 minutes with the new automation.
    • Developed and maintained 100% mastery of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and deployment pipeline
    • Analysis of operating systems, hardware capacity, database and SAP applications to ensure optimal performance.
    • Performed CQC service such as Go-live analysis
    • Development Lead for an Internal Quiz/Survey application developed using SAP UI5.

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