Ahmed Tariq

Senior Cloud, DevOps and Platform Engineer with 5 years of experience designing, building and operating production infrastructure across Azure and AWS, with additional GCP experience. Strong hands-on experience managing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon EKS, AWS ECS, containerised workloads, Azure App Services, Azure Container Apps and serverless platforms across development, staging and production environments. Experienced with Kubernetes administration, Helm deployments, ingress, networking, scaling, secrets management, workload configuration and production troubleshooting. Built and maintained infrastructure using Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM Templates, AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK, alongside CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Argo CD. Experienced in cloud networking and security across Azure and AWS, including VNets, VPCs, private endpoints, Azure Firewall, security groups, Key Vault, AWS KMS, Managed Identity, Entra ID, AWS IAM, RBAC, Azure Policy and cloud governance. Managed observability and production operations using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Also experienced in AI infrastructure and platform engineering for Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, RAG applications and agentic AI workloads, including secure deployment, private networking, identity, monitoring, CI/CD and supporting cloud infrastructure. Additional experience includes Azure API Management, Service Bus, Functions, Logic Apps, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, event-driven architectures, cloud migrations, disaster recovery, cost optimisation and enterprise integration platforms.