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Hi, I'm Tarik Naeem
Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | SRE
Emirates Airline
📍 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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Designed & coded using Claude AI Agent — from layout to deployment
Domain
Registered via Namecheap — tarserv.com
Cloud Server
Hosted on Hetzner CX22 — $4/month VPS from Germany
Free SSL
HTTPS powered by Let's Encrypt via Certbot — auto-renewing
Dockerized
Runs in a Docker container with Nginx Alpine — lightweight & portable
CI/CD Pipeline
GitHub Actions auto-deploys on every push to main branch
GitHub Repo
Source code version-controlled on GitHub with automated workflows
Coolify Dashboard
Self-hosted PaaS for monitoring and managing all deployed apps
Hardened Server
SSH key-only, UFW firewall, Fail2ban, auto security updates — fully secured
Career Highlights
Key Achievements
Enabled Apple Pay at Emirates
Architected the first-ever digital wallet payment integration for Emirates Airline, processing thousands of in-app transactions
60% Faster CI/CD Pipelines
Reduced pipeline execution time from ~25 min to ~10 min using JTE Jenkins shared libraries across 40+ microservices
5G Core Automation at Ericsson
Automated provisioning of 5G Core network infrastructure using Ansible, reducing manual configuration effort by 70%
Enterprise Secret Management
Onboarded HashiCorp Vault at Emirates managing 500+ secrets and TLS certificates across 30+ production applications
100% Deployment Governance
Integrated ServiceNow validation into Jenkins CD pipelines, enforcing automated change management on every production release
12-Factor Cloud Native at Scale
Deployed Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes and PCF at Dell EMC, serving 100K+ daily users across 5+ enterprise clients
Infra Setup: Days to 30 Minutes
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing environment setup time by 95% across multi-cloud environments
99.95% Network Uptime
Maintained SLA compliance for 2G/3G/4G remote sites across 500+ network nodes at Ericsson over 5 years
About Me
Driving DevOps Transformation
A dynamic and results-driven DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leader with 13+ years of international experience across the UK, Poland, Dubai and India.
Proven track record in aviation, banking, telecom, and IT industries — specializing in designing and delivering high-impact DevOps solutions that drive business transformation and operational efficiency.
Passionate about building resilient, scalable, and future-ready IT infrastructures with a strategic mindset and hands-on technical expertise.
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
CI/CD & Automation
Cloud & Infrastructure
Containers & Orchestration
Configuration & IaC
Security & Secrets
Monitoring & Observability
App Servers & Platforms
Integrations & APIs
Career Journey
Professional Experience
Emirates
Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | SRE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Architected Apple Pay integration — first-ever digital wallet payment for Emirates Airline, ensuring PCI-DSS compliance for payment processing
- Onboarded HashiCorp Vault managing 500+ secrets and TLS certificates across 30+ production applications, eliminating manual rotation
- Delivered Google Pay integration with corporate payment gateway, expanding digital payment options for millions of customers
- Built an internal developer platform using JTE Jenkins shared libraries, enabling 40+ microservice teams to self-service CI/CD without DevOps intervention — reducing pipeline time by 60%
- Implemented shift-left security with SonarQube SAST and container image scanning in CI pipelines, achieving zero critical vulnerabilities in production
- Defined SLOs and SLIs for tier-1 booking services, tracking error budgets to balance reliability with feature velocity
- Integrated ServiceNow change request validation into Jenkins CD pipelines, enforcing governance on 100% of production deployments
- Configured AppDynamics instrumentation and alerting, reducing incident detection time by 40% and leading postmortem reviews to reduce recurring incidents
- Maintained WebLogic and JBoss application servers serving tier-1 airline booking systems with 99.9% uptime SLA
Luxoft Poland
Senior DevOps Engineer
Krakow, Poland
- Built shared Jenkins libraries adopted by 10+ teams in a data science banking organization, standardizing CI/CD practices
- Automated Apache Airflow workflow orchestration from Jenkins, reducing manual data pipeline triggers by 80%
- Designed CI/CD pipelines for Python Flask application deployments on Hadoop clusters, enabling daily releases
- Standardized Python environments using Conda, eliminating dependency conflicts across 15+ data science projects
Ericsson
DevOps Engineer / Architect
Bengaluru, India
- Automated 5G Core server provisioning with Ansible and Ansible Tower, reducing manual configuration by 70%
- Implemented network automation for 200+ 5G Core network devices using Netconf + Ansible
- Built end-to-end CI/CD with Jenkins, SonarQube SAST, JUnit, Cucumber, and Sysdig/Anchore container scanning — shift-left security across all pipelines
- Led a team of 4 developers, delivering 3 major automation projects on schedule
- Architected Kubernetes-based CDD Platform as an internal developer platform for self-service software delivery and upgrades
- Set up GitLab repositories with CI/CD runners and golden path templates, onboarding 20+ developers to standardized workflows
- Designed HLD/LLD documents, conducted POCs and cost estimations for infrastructure automation projects
Dell EMC
DevOps & Cloud Architect / Consultant
Bengaluru, India
- Led DC migration, IaC, and app deployment projects for 5+ enterprise clients across banking and IT sectors
- Deployed 12-factor Cloud Native Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes and PCF, serving 100K+ daily users
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing environment setup time from days to 30 minutes
- Built monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes, achieving 99.9% observability coverage
- Implemented DevSecOps with HashiCorp Vault, Istio service mesh, KMS, and Ansible Vault — enforcing zero-trust security across production environments
- Automated VMware vSphere 6.5/6.7 provisioning via APIs and Ansible, managing 100+ virtual machines
- Managed AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, RDS, Lambda, R53) following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles
- Designed architecture documents (HLD/LLD), conducted POCs and cost estimations for enterprise client projects
Wipro Limited
Lead Engineer
Bengaluru, India
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Ansible across cloud and on-prem VMs, reducing deployment time by 50%
- Built continuous delivery pipelines with auto-scaling, handling 3x traffic spikes without manual intervention
- Implemented AWS cloud automation via Jenkins, Git, Ansible, and Shell scripting for 10+ application teams
- Managed Dev, Staging, and Pre-Prod environments ensuring environment parity and compliance
Ericsson
Senior Engineer
Bengaluru, India / Reading, UK
- Completed international knowledge transfer in Reading, UK — bridging operations between India and UK teams
- Managed configuration of 500+ remote network nodes (Node-B, RNCs) across multiple regions
- Maintained 99.95% uptime SLA for 2G/3G/4G remote sites through proactive fault management
- Automated database record extraction and OSS integration, saving 15+ hours of manual work per week
IKYA (Quess Company)
GNSC AM Engineer
Noida, India
- Supported Bharti Airtel's global network on multivendor platforms (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei) — one of India's largest telecom networks
- Monitored and maintained 1000+ network elements (RNC/BSC, Node-B/BTS, Cell Sites) ensuring service continuity
- Managed critical fault escalation achieving 98% SLA compliance for major network incidents
Credentials
Certifications
ITIL Foundation Level
IT Service Management
Exin Cloud Computing Foundation
EXIN
Associate - Cloud Infrastructure & Services v3.0
Cloud Infrastructure
Published Work
Publications
Education
Academic Background
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Graphic Era University, Dehradun
2005 - 2009
Get In Touch
Let's Connect
Email
tariknaeem87@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/tarikn
GitHub
github.com/tariknaeem
Location
Dubai, UAE