About Raza
English
Native or bilingual
Experience
- HSBC UK LtdAWS DevOps Engineer / AWS ArchitectMarch 2022 - November 2024 (2 years and 8 months)• Worked in a large multi-account AWS environment (above 1500 AWS Accounts) and provided system architecture, implementation, improvement and migration services. Collaborating with different stakeholders to define and achieve, highly available, resilient, scaleable and cost-effective solutions on AWS clouds.• Implementing AWS architecture solutions as infrastructure as a code using Terraform. These architectures consists of miscellaneous AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, System Manager, dynamodB (NoSQL), VPC, IAM, RAM, Inspector2, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail, API Gateway, Cloud-Native build. Architect IAM Policies.• Extending AWS cloud infra to new AWS region and on-boarding new AWS Accounts• Configure CloudWatch logs push to Splunk service and backup to S3 for different solutions and setup alarms and alerts.• Implemented Service Contral Polices (SCP) to centrally manage AWS accounts and limit IAM roles permisstions. Reduce IAM role permission via SCP’s.• Deploy VPC, DirectConnect and Transit Gateway connection to extend AWS cloud networks to use On-Prem resources and vice versa.• Created Thousand Eyes (SaaS from Cisco) network monitoring setup in AWS clouds for different AWS regions.• Added watermark in HSBC’s base AMIs ( Linux, Windows) Build Factory to improve compliance control for AMI depreciation. Automation deployed using AWS System Manager and AWS StepFunctions.• Reviewing legacy application solutions and resources to migrate to AWS clouds.• Write AWS lambda functions using python and add unit tests using pytest and Moto libraries .• Configuring CI/CD Jenkins pipelines for miscellaneous projects to setup automation.• Deploy CloudWatch Alarms to integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection.• Enable CVE and Network exposure checks for EC2, ECR, Lambda’s using AWS Inspector delegated administrator account for AWS Organization.
- Dual Layer IT Solutions LtdAWS DevOps Engineer / AWS Data EngineerSeptember 2021 - January 2022 (4 months)• Providing system architecture, implementation and improvement services to Dual Layer IT clients. Collaborating with different stakeholders to define and achieve optimum service and system architecture on AWS.• Implementing aws infrastructure as a code using terraform for miscellaneous aws services such as S3, ec2, security groups, vpc, subnets, NACL’s, ACM, AMI , IAM roles, authena, AWS Glue.• Architecting and maintaining data piplelines, data processing ETL with AWS Glue and setup Quicksight dashboards.• Adding SNS for SMS and Email notification and setup resouces policies.• Configure CloudWatch logs and backup to S3 for different applications and setup alarms and alerts.• Reviewing legacy application solutions and resources to migrate to AWS clouds.• Configuring AWS CI/CD pipelines for miscellenous projects to setup automation.• Review infrastructure for PCI DSS Compliance using AWS SecurityHub, AWS Config.Tools & Skill: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, EC2, VPC, YAML/JSON, Terraform, TerraformCloud, Docker, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, AWS SecurityHub, AWS Config, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, NodeJS, Typescript, Python, Git, GitHub, dynamoDB, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, VirtualBox, Docker, Plantuml
- Hexaware LtdAWS EngineerJanuary 2021 - August 2021 (7 months) Develop and Architect features for D&G serverless backend services on AWS. D&G have a suit of around 50 services deployed on AWS and based on microservice architectures with REST API's. Implementing Lambda functions using Typscript/NodeJS run time for server-less application architectures and integrate with AWS API Gateway using Serverless Framework. Define serverless yaml file for AWS resources, environment variable and permission for resources in the stacks. Deploy services to different environment (CI, DEV, TEST, SIT, UAT) as requested by Testing teams. Configuring AWS CI/CD for serverless applications AWS CloudBuid . Investigate issues and fix bugs in the existing services/ build pipeline using CloudWatch logs and testing tools.Tools
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Education
- MPhilCity University of Hong KongMPhil
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect - Professionalamazon web services2025
- HashiCorp Certification Terraform AssociateHashiCorp2021