Iftequar's CV
Iftequar Syed
AI Platform Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure
Profile summary
Accomplished AI Platform Engineer with over 10 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering. Track record of directing AI platform operations, automating multi-tier cloud deployments, and managing continuous integration workflows. Dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native environments and scalable infrastructure solutions.
Career highlights
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering: Provisioned and managed scalable multi-tier cloud environments using Terraform and Azure CLI to replace manual configurations with automated workflows.
Site Reliability Operations: Directed site reliability engineering and DevOps operations while managing continuous integration and deployment pipelines to accelerate delivery cycles.
Container and Deployment Automation: Managed containerized workloads and microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service alongside automated build and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Professional Certifications: Earned multiple industry certifications including AWS Solution Architect Associate and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directed AI platform operations and infrastructure engineering, guiding multi-tier cloud deployments, automated delivery pipelines, and secure cloud-native environments.
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate application deployment, infrastructure updates, and AI agent releases.
- Provisioned scalable multi-tier cloud environments using Terraform and Azure CLI, replacing manual configurations with automated infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Configured security controls using Azure Key Vault integrated via secrets alongside Network Security Groups and Role-Based Access Control.
- Deployed containerized workloads and microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service, using Kubernetes Deployments, Services, and Ingress Controllers for secure traffic routing.
- Developed automation to securely upload, manage, and process application artifacts and AI-related assets in Azure Blob Storage.
Managed Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps operations, directing a team of up to 15 engineers while acting as a Technical Program Manager to coordinate daily scrums, capacity planning, and strategic reliability initiatives aligned with business goals.
- Engineered and maintained automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Digital.AI to accelerate deployment cycles while maintaining high availability.
- Configured automated build, test, and deployment workflows with Jenkins CD pipelines and managed source code in Bitbucket.
- Automated manual, repetitive tasks to reduce operational toil using Ansible and Jenkins while establishing monitoring through Azure Monitor, Splunk, and Dynatrace.
Directed infrastructure operations within cloud environments, managing AWS architecture and deployment automation while overseeing continuous integration workflows and container infrastructure across distributed server fleets.
- Developed Ansible Playbooks for application deployment and configuration changes across various environments.
- Managed Docker container infrastructure, including creating Docker images via Dockerfiles, snapshots, and managing volumes.
- Monitored server performance and system health using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk, establishing alerts for proactive issue resolution.
Directed technical support operations and system administration, overseeing server setups, VMware virtualization environments, and data backup workflows. Managed hardware, software, and network configurations while maintaining user accounts and profile maintenance.
- Built and configured VMware servers for virtualization alongside custom cron jobs for scheduled tasks.
- Performed patching, security updates, and performance tuning on Linux systems.
- Maintained user accounts and resolved hardware, software, and network issues for end-users.
Education
- Bachelor of Computer Science | Maulana Azad College of Arts, Commerce and Science | Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, MH. India.