Muhammad Irfan Tahir
Lahore
Summary
Accomplished Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience at Cloudflow, adept at managing multi-cloud infrastructures and implementing disaster recovery solutions. Proficient in Terraform and Kubernetes, I excel in optimizing CI/CD pipelines and fostering collaboration. My strong problem-solving skills drive successful project outcomes in dynamic environments.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
Cloudflow
01.2025 - Current
- Managing multi-cloud infrastructure with Terraform across AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Cloudflare.
- Implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructure on Oracle Cloud.
- Managing Oracle Cloud networking including VCN, subnets, route tables, security lists, and VPC peering.
- Provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters on Oracle Cloud.
- Deploying applications via ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous delivery.
- Integrating External Secrets Operator with Oracle Vault for secure secrets management.
- Configuring MySQL replication channels for database high availability.
- Setting up Oracle Cloud Streaming (Kafka) for event-driven architectures.
- Implementing monitoring and observability with Loki, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
- Managing Terraform workflows with Atlantis for collaborative infrastructure changes.
- Building machine images with HashiCorp Packer for standardized deployments.
- Deploying and managing Keycloak for identity and access management.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Squadio
07.2024 - 12.2024
- Managing on-premise Kubernetes clusters using Rancher, including cluster version upgrades and maintenance.
- Deploying and managing applications via ArgoCD and Helm Charts for GitOps-based delivery.
- Implementing KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) for dynamic pod autoscaling.
- Managing persistent storage with Longhorn for Kubernetes volumes.
- Configuring Linkerd service mesh for traffic management and observability.
- Migrating traffic routing from Ingress to API Gateway for improved API management.
- Implementing monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Administering Keycloak for Single Sign-On (SSO) and identity management.
- Configuring SonarQube for static code analysis and quality gates.
- Managing Nexus Repository for container images, npm packages, and artifact storage.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Unifonic
Lahore
01.2024 - 06.2024
- Provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and managing state via Terraform Cloud.
- Deploying applications on Kubernetes using Helm Charts.
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Oracle, and GCP.
- Configuring managed services on AWS, Oracle, and GCP.
- Optimizing ArgoCD pipelines for continuous delivery.
- Managing secure vaults for secrets in Kubernetes Helm Charts.
- Implementing monitoring with Opensearch, Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting via OpsGenie.
- Managing CI/CD with DroneCI, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Automating tasks using Bash and Python scripts.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Arbisoft
Lahore
03.2021 - 01.2024
- Managed and deployed Open EDX learning platform.
- Managing various AWS services.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GoCD, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD.
- Using Ansible for configuration management.
- Managing monitoring with Splunk, CloudWatch, NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki.
- Provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Automating operations with Bash and Python scripts.
- Managing microservices in ECS and EKS environments.
DevOps Engineer
Roulestech
Lahore
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Managed multiple cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Bitnami, Hetzner.
- Deploying CRM solutions with automation and scalability.
- Provisioning infrastructure with Terraform.
- Deploying applications on GKE and EKS.
- Managing microservices with Docker and Docker Compose.
- Implementing monitoring with CloudWatch and NewRelic.
- Configuring CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins.
- Automating tasks with Bash and Python.
- Managing server configurations with Ansible.
- Managing Linux and Windows web servers.
System Administrator
Bayt.com
Lahore
06.2019 - 02.2020
- Managing AWS services (EC2, S3, Route53) for vfairs.com.
- Managing Linux servers with Ansible.
- Troubleshooting Linux server issues.
- Managing PHP stack on Linux and deploying CI/CD solutions.
- Working with LAMP and LEMP stacks.
- Managing microservices on Docker.
- Managing version control with GitHub and BitBucket.
- Provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
Network System Engineer
NextBridge
Lahore
07.2016 - 06.2019
- Setting up and administering AWS cloud services.
- Administering Linux servers, site migrations, and WordPress/PHP-FPM integration.
- Troubleshooting software, hardware, and network issues.
- Implementing monitoring with Nagios and NagiosQL.
- Managing Git repositories on GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket.
- Administering WHM/cPanel, Virtualmin/Webmin, and Docker.
- Configuring Apache and NGINX web servers.
- Automating tasks with Bash/Python scripts.
- Managing servers with Ansible.
- Managing Windows AD, DNS, LDAP, and IIS.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Punjab
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan01.2015
Skills
Operating Systems:
Linux
Cloud Platforms:
AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
Configuration Management:
Ansible
Containerization:
Docker
Container Orchestration:
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Tools:
Helm, Kustomize
GitOps:
ArgoCD, FluxCD
CI/CD Tools:
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GoCD, Azure DevOps
Version Control:
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS CodeCommit
Monitoring & Observability:
CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios, Loki, EFK Stack, Splunk
Scripting Languages:
Bash, Python
Secrets Management:
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Oracle Vault, External Secrets Operator
Service Mesh:
Istio, Linkerd
Web Servers & Load Balancers:
Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, IIS
Architecture & Practices:
Microservices Architecture, Infrastructure Management, Kubernetes Administration, CI/CD Pipeline Management, GitOps Continuous Delivery, Disaster Recovery Implementation, Monitoring and Observability
Certification
•CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation • 2024
• https://www.credly.com/badges/009394d6-d482-4d74-9cd7-8dd00236c93e/public_url
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, HashiCorp, 2025, https://www.credly.com/badges/7fe831bf-c19c-4601-8065-894572230862/public_url
• Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud, 2023, https://google.accredible.com/fa4ba8ef-2528-4ace-be11-fb6f45bc2240#gs.7pd85b
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2023, https://www.credly.com/badges/789915bf-9e04-4f7d-9b1c-4ba0ecd876de/public_url
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2022, https://www.credly.com/badges/5923f043-3064-4984-b145-cfabecef8c49/public_url
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2022, https://www.credly.com/badges/cd09dacd-2850-44c9-9341-b1e5d7830e8d/public_url
The Linux Foundation • 2024
• https://www.credly.com/badges/009394d6-d482-4d74-9cd7-8dd00236c93e/public_url
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, HashiCorp, 2025, https://www.credly.com/badges/7fe831bf-c19c-4601-8065-894572230862/public_url
• Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud, 2023, https://google.accredible.com/fa4ba8ef-2528-4ace-be11-fb6f45bc2240#gs.7pd85b
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2023, https://www.credly.com/badges/789915bf-9e04-4f7d-9b1c-4ba0ecd876de/public_url
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2022, https://www.credly.com/badges/5923f043-3064-4984-b145-cfabecef8c49/public_url
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2022, https://www.credly.com/badges/cd09dacd-2850-44c9-9341-b1e5d7830e8d/public_url
Projects
Site Reliability Engineer (Contractor), Crossover - GFI Software, https://www.gfi.com/, 08/01/22, 07/31/23, Deploying AWS services through CloudFormation., Developing Python scripts for CloudFormation stack management., Managing code on GitHub., Managing GitHub Actions for ECS cluster updates., Integrating Grafana graphs into Appmanager for performance analysis., Implementing CloudWatch monitoring., Managing Windows/Linux servers and CPanel., Automating tasks with Bash and Python., Managing AWS OpenSearch for data indexing., Managing Amazon EKS for container orchestration.
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
Cloudflow
01.2025 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Squadio
07.2024 - 12.2024
Senior DevOps Engineer
Unifonic
01.2024 - 06.2024
Senior DevOps Engineer
Arbisoft
03.2021 - 01.2024
DevOps Engineer
Roulestech
02.2020 - 02.2021
System Administrator
Bayt.com
06.2019 - 02.2020
Network System Engineer
NextBridge
07.2016 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Punjab