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Saddique Khan

DevOps / SRE / Cloud Consultant Engineer

CEO, Cloud DevOps Solutions

Berlin, Germany

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) LinkedIn

Leadership

CEO, Cloud DevOps Solutions

Cloud DevOps Solutions provides AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes consulting to engineering teams that want to ship with confidence, manage cloud spend, and build reliable infrastructure. As CEO, Saddique leads client engagements directly, from initial scoping through delivery, combining hands-on engineering depth with strategic oversight.

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About

Experienced DevOps and SRE engineer with a background spanning physical servers, AWS, Azure, and private-cloud/container platforms including Kubernetes, Rancher, and Red Hat OpenShift. Work covers enterprise application configuration and management, Agile delivery, monitoring and observability, security, CI/CD, containerised deployments, secrets management, automation, database administration, artifact repositories, and data-lake/HDFS environments. Emphasis on client collaboration, clear documentation, and end-to-end ownership of platform delivery.

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

mobile.de (Adevinta)

March 2025, Present

Berlin, Germany

  • Member of the Cloud Platform (CL) team at Adevinta, operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure for mobile.de across GCP and AWS.
  • Migrated five production MongoDB clusters (mongodb-infra, mongodb-dmh, mongodb-auth, mongodb-fraudretention, mongodb-apn) and staging instances to Percona on Kubernetes.
  • Designed and delivered end-to-end GitHub Runners observability: investigation of PromQL queries, four Grafana dashboards (deployment overview, health & availability, capacity, workflow alerts), and full alerting rule set.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes add-ons for SCHIP PRE clusters to v1.33; upgraded Elasticsearch to v9.2.4 on production; removed namespace-based limit ranges cluster-wide.
  • Built Backstage self-service plugins for Google Maps API key management (backend, frontend scaffold, create/list/restrict forms, E2E verification) and GitHub repository lifecycle (create internal repos, restore from graveyard).
  • Implemented dynamic cost dashboard builder in Backstage and wired identified AI products to correct cloud accounts; fixed cost dashboard bugs.
  • Reconfigured Argo CD SSO to Okta spoke (mobint); rotated the Argo extensibility secret; fixed broken Velero deployment in production.
  • Built NAT Gateway monitoring: CloudWatch traffic dashboard, Terraform module, and simple alert.
  • Set up PostgreSQL database replication from CIS to mobile.de staging via AWS DMS (network connectivity, DMS instance, full snapshot replication).
  • Configured dbt workloads on the Composer GKE cluster; suspended unused GCP project (mo-data-dwh-stag).
  • Deployed Wiz sensor and Kubernetes connector; tested and validated OIDC connections; removed overly broad 10.0.0.0/8 inbound rules from Redis and PostgreSQL Terragrunt units.
  • Configured Cloudlet Bot to assign unplanned label and land tickets correctly on active sprints; automated CTH team Slack notifications on deploy-all-accounts failures.
  • Resolved Redis credentials issue for dealer-email-service; removed carbon-relay from YAMS; deployed Pingdom dashboard on cluster; decommissioned deprecated NPS survey subdomain (umfrage.mobile.de).
  • Added and refined MongoDB alerting rules (CPU limits percentage, write latency, pod waiting status label); fixed team mentions in Slack alerts channels.

Senior DevOps Engineer

NewYorker.de

April 2023, March 2025

Berlin, Germany

  • Modified Jenkins pipelines to trigger deployments to Kubernetes environments.
  • Upgraded a Rancher-managed Kubernetes development environment from v1.21 to v1.25.1.
  • Migrated distributed Rook-Ceph storage and user data to Longhorn StorageClass.
  • Deployed VolumeSnapshot resources and CRDs for namespace backup and disaster recovery.
  • Deployed Velero with Helm and GitOps for Kubernetes resource backups; scheduled regular backups.
  • Customised Wazuh deployments with Kustomize and wrote Ansible roles to enrol agents for security monitoring.
  • Deployed JupyterHub with Helm and GitOps.
  • Worked with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Promtail, troubleshooting monitoring issues.
  • Deployed Kubernetes resources including Docker images, Secrets, ConfigMaps, and StatefulSets.
  • Wrote Wazuh custom rules for LAN, WAN, and anomalous scanning detection.
  • Used Ansible automation to deploy SSH keys and certificates on Red Hat Linux.
  • Configured LDAP in Wazuh for enterprise log management.
  • Supported Cloudera cluster maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Used Nexus and Harbor artifact repositories for images and packages.
  • Used HashiCorp Vault for secrets, certificates, and application keys.
  • Authored and maintained internal Wiki documentation.

Senior DevOps Engineer & Analyst Programmer

KPMG

January 2022, April 2023

Marsa, Malta

  • Analysed CRM and Power Platform environments across development, SIT, and QA.
  • Implemented Azure DevOps CI pipelines to migrate solutions to Azure Git and created packaging pipelines for artifacts.
  • Designed deployment flows for higher environments using Microsoft Power Platform Build Tools and PowerDevOps.
  • Configured service connections and pipeline-agent extensions; used PowerShell for Power Platform deployments.
  • Used OWASP security tooling for Azure Functions and developed infrastructure pipelines for Azure Functions.
  • Managed approval-related security group assignments, supported product backlog work, and prepared release artifacts.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Synechron

September 2019, December 2021

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Built multi-layer and multi-stage Dockerfiles for OpenShift/Kubernetes and Java Spring Boot, Angular, and Node.js applications.
  • Implemented Jenkins agents/pods across OpenShift namespaces to support microservices CI/CD.
  • Used HashiCorp Vault for secrets and private keys in deployment pipelines.
  • Configured NGINX for TLS termination, GZIP, health checks, and routing.
  • Integrated Kafka topics, schemas, and secrets for microservices; configured Redis caching and Kibana application logging.
  • Configured HTTPS request routing to Kubernetes pods and created NFS-backed PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims.
  • Used a private Nexus repository for images and application dependencies; managed image tags across Dev, UAT, Staging, and Production.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines including SonarQube, JUnit, code coverage, API testing, and Checkmarx.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Techlogix

March 2016, September 2019

Lahore, Pakistan

  • Provisioned Red Hat, CentOS, Solaris, and AIX virtual machines for staging, development, and production.
  • Applied OS patches and performed database administration tasks.
  • Deployed financial application clusters and databases.
  • Migrated databases locally and to AWS RDS.
  • Deployed three-tier architecture on AWS and .NET applications to Azure App Service.
  • Configured Azure Recovery Services Vault, Azure Traffic Manager, and Azure Resource Manager templates.
  • Monitored production application performance and implemented Jenkins CI/CD.

Selected Projects

Client and project engagements, listed as project/client references only; does not imply endorsement or permission to use logos.

GitHub, Azure & AWS Templates

Aug 2016-Present

Personal

Writing Azure ARM and AWS CloudFormation templates for automating enterprise-level cloud architecture. Published on GitHub.

Azure ARM AWS CloudFormation

Manitoba Public Insurance

Jan 2022-Apr 2023

via KPMG

Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for a CRM platform migration; packaging pipelines, deployment flows, and Power Platform tooling.

Azure DevOps Power Platform CRM

Emirates NBD

Sep 2019-Dec 2021

via Synechron

Containerisation platform on OpenShift/Kubernetes; full CI/CD pipeline from source control to pod including SonarQube, JUnit, and Checkmarx. Separate pipelines for Android (APK) and iOS (IPA) builds.

Kubernetes OpenShift Jenkins Nexus

Fransabank, Lebanon

Oct 2018-Mar 2019

via Techlogix

Deployed Financial Crime and Compliance Management (FCCM) for the bank and handed over to the continuation team.

FCCM Financial Services

Rafidain Bank, Iraq

Oct 2018-Mar 2019

via Techlogix

On-site deployment of Flexcube 14.1 core banking module on local servers; trained client technical staff on deployment procedures.

Flexcube 14.1 Core Banking

National Bank of Pakistan

Sep 2017-Nov 2018

via Techlogix

OFSAA application support and Disaster Recovery infrastructure setup; configured synchronised DR servers.

OFSAA Oracle BI Disaster Recovery AIX

Bank of Punjab

Mar 2016-Nov 2018

via Techlogix

Production support for Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking, Oracle BI, OFSAA, SOA Suite, and Oracle Access Manager across Solaris, Linux, and Windows Server environments.

Oracle Flexcube Oracle SOA Solaris Oracle DB

MCB Bahrain / Dubai / Islamic Banking

Mar 2016-Dec 2017

via Techlogix

Application support across three MCB engagements: IBM WebSphere administration, Oracle DB recovery, and Flexcube upgrade support on AIX and Solaris platforms. UAT and Production environments maintained throughout.

IBM WebSphere Oracle Flexcube AIX Solaris

Skills & Technologies

Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS)Azure (VNets, Azure Functions, App Service, Recovery Services Vault, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, Autoscaling)

Containers & Platforms

KubernetesRed Hat OpenShiftRancherDockerHelmKustomizeArgoCD

CI/CD & Delivery

JenkinsAzure DevOpsGitOpsGroovy pipeline syntaxSonarQubeJUnitCheckmarxAPI testingCode coverage

Infrastructure Automation

TerraformAnsibleAzure Resource Manager templatesPowerShell

Observability & Security

GrafanaPrometheusKibanaLokiPromtailWazuhZabbixOWASP toolingHashiCorp Vault

Storage, Data & Messaging

LonghornRook-CephNFSHDFS / ClouderaKafkaRedis

Repositories & Databases

NexusHarborMySQLOracleOracle RMAN

Programming

PythonJava

Certifications & Recognition

Verified Credentials

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft · January 2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft · September 2021

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

The Linux Foundation · August 2020

Academic Recognition

  • Fourth place at provincial level, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore admission (September 2007)
  • Second place in college (September 2006)

Languages

EnglishGermanUrduPashtuPunjabiHindi

Get in touch

Based in Berlin, Germany. Available for consulting engagements, technical advisory, and collaboration.

[email protected] +49 152 358 72520