Available for Senior DevOps / Platform Engineering roles

Mir Sohel Ali

DevOps Engineer

AWS-certified DevOps Engineer with 3.5+ years of experience building and owning cloud-native infrastructure for a high-volume fintech payment platform. I ship faster releases, drift-free infrastructure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms.

Pune, India +91 9834717662 er.mirsohelali@gmail.com
~60%
Faster Deployments
CI/CD Automation
~70%
Less Provisioning Time
Terraform IaC
~40%
MTTR Reduction
Observability Stack
~45%
Faster Release Cycle
Cross-team Collab

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About

I'm a DevOps Engineer at AJ Techsoft, where I own the cloud platform for a high-volume fintech payment system running on AWS EKS. My day-to-day is split between Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and the kind of observability work that makes 3 AM pages a lot rarer.

Over the last 3.5+ years I've delivered measurable outcomes: ~60% faster release cycles, ~70% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time, and ~40% improvement in MTTR. I care about least-privilege security, zero-downtime releases, and giving developers a platform they actually like using.

Currently pursuing AWS SAA-C03 and CKA. Open to senior DevOps / Platform Engineering roles — including remote-first opportunities globally.

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Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS EC2S3RDSEKSVPCIAMRoute 53ALBSecrets ManagerCloudWatchECR

Containers & Orchestration

DockerDocker ComposeKubernetes (EKS)HelmHPACluster AutoscalerAmazon ECS

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (modular)AnsibleCloudFormation

CI/CD & Automation

JenkinsGitLab CIGitHub ActionsSonarQube (SAST)

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackCloudWatch

Scripting & OS

Bash/ShellPythonYAMLLinux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)

Security

IAM Least PrivilegeKubernetes RBACSecrets ManagerVPC/SGs

Version Control

GitGitHubGitLab

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Experience

DevOps Engineer

AJ Techsoft

Dec 2022 – Present
Pune, India

Project: Fintech Payment Platform — cloud-native microservices on AWS EKS handling high-volume payment transactions.

  • CI/CD Pipeline Automation

    Designed and owned end-to-end pipelines (Jenkins + GitLab CI + GitHub Actions) integrating SonarQube SAST, Docker image builds to ECR, and automated EKS deployments — cutting release cycle time by ~60% and eliminating manual deployment errors across Dev, QA, and Prod.

  • Infrastructure as Code

    Built reusable, modular Terraform configurations for EC2, RDS, EKS, VPC, and IAM — reducing environment provisioning time by ~70% (days → under 30 minutes) and enabling fully version-controlled, drift-free infrastructure.

  • Kubernetes Platform Engineering

    Deployed and maintained a production EKS cluster serving 15+ microservices. Standardised all deployments with Helm charts; configured HPA and Cluster Autoscaler to absorb 3× traffic spikes with zero unplanned downtime.

  • Zero-Downtime Releases

    Implemented blue-green and rolling update strategies for all production releases on the live payment platform, ensuring uninterrupted transaction processing during critical upgrades.

  • Observability & Incident Response

    Built Prometheus + Grafana monitoring with custom dashboards (p99 latency, error rates, cluster health). Combined with ELK + CloudWatch — reduced MTTR by ~40%.

  • Network Architecture

    Designed multi-AZ VPC topologies with public/private subnet isolation, NAT gateways, and strict Security Group rules — separating payment databases from public endpoints and passing all internal security audits.

  • Security Hardening

    Enforced AWS IAM Least Privilege and Kubernetes RBAC across all services. Migrated secrets to AWS Secrets Manager; integrated SonarQube vulnerability scanning into CI.

  • Cross-functional Collaboration

    Partnered with dev, QA, and product teams to streamline releases, mentored 2 junior engineers, and improved overall delivery velocity by ~45%.

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Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
    SAA-C03 — In Progress
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
    CKA — In Progress

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Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
VNMKV University, Maharashtra
2018 – 2022

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Let's build resilient infrastructure together.

Open to senior DevOps / Platform Engineering roles — including remote-first opportunities globally.