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About Me: The Intersection of Reliability and Security — Engineering Resilience & Velocity

I am a Lead DevSecOps, SRE, and Platform Engineer with over 12 years of IT experience, specializing in designing, securing, and scaling resilient multi-cloud platforms for highly regulated enterprise environments. My focus is on eliminating operational toil and accelerating delivery velocity through advanced automation, robust GitOps workflows, and end-to-end security integration.

  • Birthday: 10 July 1989
  • Website: www.sheikhrizvan.in
  • Phone: +91 7020025123
  • City: Hyderabad, India
  • Age: 37
  • Degree: Computer science & Engineering
  • Email: sheikhrizvan779@gmail.com
  • Freelance: Not Available

Throughout my career, I have focused on transforming complex enterprise architectures into resilient, automated, and secure digital infrastructure. My deep expertise spans multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, and GCP) and production-grade Kubernetes orchestration, where I build everything from dynamic KEDA-based autoscaling to progressive zero-downtime release workflows. Operating heavily within the highly regulated BFSI domain, I approach infrastructure with a security-first mindset. Rather than treating compliance as an afterthought, I operationalize DevSecOps by embedding automated SAST/DAST scanning gates right into CI/CD pipelines. This has allowed teams I lead to reliably pass strict security audits while dramatically cutting down deployment vulnerability rates. As an SRE practitioner, I believe system reliability is a core feature. I specialize in defining precise SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, and engineering robust disaster recovery frameworks to guarantee system resilience under production pressure. Recently, I have also expanded my focus into AIOps and MLOps, designing automated pipelines on Azure AI Foundry to establish governed, reproducible lifecycles for modern AI solutions.

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Happy Clients

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Total Projects

3000

Hours Of Support

Enterprise Teams

Hard Workers

Technical Toolkit

  • Azure Cloud & DevOps 90%
  • Docker & Kubernetes 80%
  • Python & Powershell Scripts 90%
  • JavaScript 60%
  • PHP 60%
  • Terraform IaC 85%
  • HTML & CSS 90%

Certifications

AIOPS Foundation

AIOPS Foundation DevOps Institute Certificate No: GR564000652RS Valid till: 09/06/2029

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Cyber Security

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Bootstrap

JavaScript

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

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Sumary

Rizvan Sheikh

A Proven Record of Enterprise-Scale Delivery — My career tracks a steady evolution from core application engineering at IBM to architecting high-consequence platform infrastructure at firms like EY GDS. From slashing client tenant onboarding times down from days to minutes through full-stack automation, to leading incident command centers across a 16x5 window, I focus on driving tangible business outcomes. Check out the quick breakdown of my core technical stack below, or download my full professional resume — Rizvan_Sheikh_AzureDevOps_June26.pdf — for a deeper dive into my complete career journey, technical milestones, and project architecture.

  • Hyderabad, India
  • +91 7020025123
  • sheikhrizvan779@gmail.com

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

2010 - 2014

G.H. Raisoni College, Amravati, MH, India

Diploma in Computer Science & Engineering

2007 - 2010

P.R.M.I.T. College, Amravati, MH, India

Professional Experience

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Dec 2022 - Present

EY GDS

  • Engineered containerized microservices on Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) and modernized release workflows with reusable YAML-based pipelines in Azure DevOps.
  • Implemented dynamic autoscaling of Docker-based build agents using KEDA, improving elasticity and reliably handling workload spikes.
  • Designed one-click tenant provisioning — a fully automated, pipeline-driven workflow spanning cloud, data and security layers — streamlining BFSI client onboarding.
  • Owned Disaster Recovery design and operational readiness — meeting RTO/RPO objectives and ensuring production resiliency.
  • Partnered with Dev Leads, Architects, and Product Managers to streamline client onboarding by designing a fully automated pipeline-driven provisioning workflow, enabling one-click tenant setup across cloud, data, and security layers.
  • Built observability with Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK Stack and New Relic — metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting for fast detection and triage.
  • Mentored junior DevOps engineers — technical guidance, code reviews and best practices across CI/CD, cloud and security.
  • Acted as a bridge between engineering, security and leadership, aligning delivery with stakeholder and compliance goals.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Aug 2018 - Dec 2022

U S Technologies International (UST Global)

  • Managed end-to-end build and release — dependency management, deployment strategies and environment coordination across Dev, QA, UAT, Staging and Production.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines on GitHub and Azure DevOps, supporting scheduled, nightly, milestone and on-demand builds.
  • Built and operated Kubernetes platforms — multi-stage Dockerfiles, Helm-integrated promotion from Dev to Staging to Production.
  • Defined branching and release strategies for multiple concurrent development streams and controlled release cycles.
  • Provisioned Azure infrastructure — Virtual Networks, VMs, NSGs, Storage Accounts and Recovery Services Vaults/Plans — for server migration initiatives.


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