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Hi, I'm Tarik Naeem

Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | SRE

📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Behind The Scenes

This resume isn't just a static page — it's a fully automated, cloud-hosted project built with modern DevOps practices.

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AI-Built
Designed & coded using Claude AI Agent — from layout to deployment
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Domain
Registered via Namecheap — tarserv.com
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Cloud Server
Hosted on Hetzner CX22 — $4/month VPS from Germany
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Free SSL
HTTPS powered by Let's Encrypt via Certbot — auto-renewing
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Dockerized
Runs in a Docker container with Nginx Alpine — lightweight & portable
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CI/CD Pipeline
GitHub Actions auto-deploys on every push to main branch
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GitHub Repo
Source code version-controlled on GitHub with automated workflows
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Coolify Dashboard
Self-hosted PaaS for monitoring and managing all deployed apps
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Hardened Server
SSH key-only, UFW firewall, Fail2ban, auto security updates — fully secured

About Me

Driving DevOps Transformation

A dynamic and results-driven DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leader with extensive international experience across the UK, Poland, Dubai and India.

With a proven track record in aviation, banking, telecom, and IT industries, I specialize in designing and delivering cutting-edge DevOps solutions that drive business transformation.

I bring a strategic mindset and hands-on technical expertise to lead transformative DevOps initiatives, building resilient, scalable, and future-ready IT infrastructures.

Current Role
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Company
Emirates Airlines
Location
Dubai, UAE
Industries
Aviation, Banking, Telecom
Education
BTech, ECE
University
Graphic Era, Dehradun

Expertise

Technical Skills

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CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins Jenkins JTE GitLab CI/CD Azure DevOps Groovy DSL AWS CodeDeploy
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Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Azure Terraform VMware vSphere EC2 S3 VPC Lambda
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Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker PCF / Cloud Foundry Microservices Istio
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Configuration & IaC

Ansible Ansible Tower Terraform Shell Scripting Python
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Security & Secrets

HashiCorp Vault DevSecOps Sysdig Anchore KMS SonarQube
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Monitoring & Observability

AppDynamics Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch ServiceNow
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App Servers & Platforms

WebLogic JBoss IIS Spring Boot Hadoop Apache Airflow
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Integrations & APIs

REST APIs Apple Pay Google Pay ServiceNow Git Netconf

Career Journey

Professional Experience

Emirates
Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | SRE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mar 2023 - Present
  • Enabled Apple Pay payment feature for the first time in Emirates Airline
  • Onboarded HashiCorp Vault for certificate, keys and secret management
  • Integrated Google Pay with corporate payment gateway
  • Built faster pipeline automations using JTE Jenkins reusable libraries
  • Automated test suites (sanity, smoke, chrome-testing) via CI/CD pipelines
  • Automated ServiceNow change request validation in Jenkins CD pipelines
  • AppDynamics instrumentation and alerting setup
  • Managed WebLogic and JBoss application servers
Luxoft Poland
Senior DevOps Engineer
Krakow, Poland
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
  • Built shared Jenkins Libraries for data science banking organization
  • Automated Airflow workflow triggers from Jenkins
  • CI/CD pipeline for Python Flask apps on Hadoop clusters
  • Set up Python virtualization environments using Conda
Ericsson
DevOps Engineer / Architect
Bengaluru, India
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
  • Automated 5G Core Servers with Ansible and Ansible Tower
  • Network Automation of 5G Core devices using Netconf + Ansible
  • CI/CD with Jenkins, SonarQube, JUnit, Cucumber, Sysdig
  • Led a team of 4 developers
  • Kubernetes-based CDD Platform for software delivery
  • GitLab repositories and CI/CD runner setup
Dell EMC
DevOps & Cloud Architect / Consultant
Bengaluru, India
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
  • DC migration, IaC, and app deployment projects for multiple clients
  • Deployed 12-factor Cloud Native Spring Boot apps on Kubernetes & PCF
  • Terraform IaC, Python automation for dev/test infrastructure
  • Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana on Kubernetes
  • Security: HashiCorp Vault, Istio, KMS, Ansible Vault
  • VMware vSphere 6.5/6.7 automation via APIs and Ansible
  • AWS services: VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, RDS, Lambda, R53
Wipro Limited
Lead Engineer
Bengaluru, India
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
  • Ansible automation for infrastructure provisioning in cloud & VMs
  • Built continuous delivery and auto-scaling environments
  • AWS cloud automation via Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Shell scripting
  • Managed Dev, Staging, and Pre-Prod environments
Ericsson
Senior Engineer
Bengaluru, India / Reading, UK
May 2013 - Jun 2018
  • Completed knowledge transfer in Reading, United Kingdom
  • Configuration management of remote Nodes (Node-B, RNCs)
  • Fault management of 2G/3G/4G remote sites
  • Network uptime management to meet defined SLAs
  • Database automation with OSS integration
IKYA (Quess Company)
GNSC AM Engineer
Noida, India
Oct 2012 - May 2013
  • Global project for Bharti Airtel on multivendor platforms (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei)
  • Surveillance and support of network elements (RNC/BSC, Node-B/BTS)
  • Escalation of major/critical network faults per SLA

Credentials

Certifications

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ITIL Foundation Level
IT Service Management
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Exin Cloud Computing Foundation
EXIN
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Associate - Cloud Infrastructure & Services v3.0
Cloud Infrastructure

Published Work

Publications

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Ansible Driven Automated Deployment vCSA 6.5/6.7
Automating VMware vCenter Server Appliance deployment using Ansible
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vCSA Automated Deployment Using Ansible
Infrastructure as Code approach to vCenter deployment automation

Education

Academic Background

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Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Graphic Era University, Dehradun
2005 - 2009

Get In Touch

Let's Connect

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Email
tariknaeem87@gmail.com
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LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/tarikn
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Location
Dubai, UAE