Tarik Naeem

TARIK NAEEM

Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Email: tariknaeem87@gmail.com
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tarik-n-0147a5161
GitHub: github.com/tariknaeem
Nationality: Indian
Visa: UAE Employment Visa
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Experience: 13+ Years

Professional Profile

DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering leader with 13+ years of international experience across UK, Poland, Dubai, and India. Proven track record in aviation (Emirates), banking, telecom (Ericsson), and enterprise IT (Dell EMC). Specialized in CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps. Experienced in delivering high-impact solutions at enterprise scale.

Key Achievements

60% Pipeline Reduction: Reduced CI/CD pipeline execution time using Jenkins JTE shared libraries across 40+ microservices at Emirates

500+ Secrets Managed: Onboarded HashiCorp Vault managing secrets and TLS certificates across 30+ production applications

First Apple Pay at Emirates: Architected the first-ever digital wallet payment integration for Emirates Airline

70% Less Manual Config: Automated 5G Core server provisioning at Ericsson using Ansible and Ansible Tower

100% Deployment Governance: Integrated ServiceNow validation into Jenkins CD pipelines, enforcing change management on every production release

100K+ Daily Users Served: Deployed 12-factor Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes and PCF at Dell EMC for 5+ enterprise clients

95% Faster Infra Setup: Automated provisioning with Terraform, reducing environment setup from days to 30 minutes

99.95% Network Uptime: Maintained SLA compliance for 2G/3G/4G sites across 500+ nodes at Ericsson over 5 years

Professional Experience

Emirates March 2023 - Present
Senior Technical DevOps Engineer | SRE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Architected Apple Pay and Google Pay integrations with corporate payment gateways, ensuring PCI-DSS compliance
  • Onboarded HashiCorp Vault managing 500+ secrets across 30+ production applications
  • Built internal developer platform using JTE Jenkins shared libraries, enabling 40+ teams to self-service CI/CD — reducing pipeline time by 60%
  • Defined SLOs/SLIs for tier-1 booking services, tracking error budgets for reliability
  • Implemented shift-left security with SAST and container scanning, zero critical vulnerabilities in production
  • Integrated ServiceNow governance into Jenkins CD for 100% deployment compliance
  • Configured AppDynamics alerting, reducing incident detection by 40%; led postmortems to reduce recurring incidents
  • Maintained tier-1 WebLogic and JBoss booking systems with 99.9% uptime SLA
Luxoft Poland October 2022 - March 2023
Senior DevOps Engineer
Krakow, Poland
  • Built shared Jenkins libraries adopted by 10+ teams in data science banking organization
  • Automated Airflow orchestration, reducing manual data pipeline triggers by 80%
  • Designed CI/CD for Python Flask deployments on Hadoop clusters
Ericsson October 2021 - September 2022
DevOps Engineer / Architect
Bengaluru, India
  • Automated 5G Core provisioning with Ansible, reducing manual configuration by 70%
  • Network automation for 200+ 5G Core devices using Netconf and Ansible
  • Led team of 4 developers; architected Kubernetes-based CDD Platform
Dell EMC February 2019 - October 2021
DevOps and Cloud Architect / Consultant
Bengaluru, India
  • Led data center migration and application deployment for 5+ enterprise clients
  • Deployed 12-factor Spring Boot apps on Kubernetes and PCF serving 100,000+ daily users
  • Automated infrastructure with Terraform; implemented DevSecOps with Vault, Istio, KMS
  • Managed full AWS stack (VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, RDS, Lambda, Route53)
Wipro Limited July 2018 - January 2019
Lead Engineer
Bengaluru, India
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Ansible, reducing deployment time by 50%
  • Built auto-scaling CD pipelines handling 3x traffic spikes
Ericsson May 2013 - June 2018
Senior Engineer
Bengaluru, India / Reading, United Kingdom
  • Managed 500+ network nodes; maintained 99.95% uptime SLA for 2G/3G/4G sites
  • Completed international knowledge transfer in Reading, United Kingdom
IKYA Human Capital Solutions (Quess Company) October 2012 - May 2013
GNSC AM Engineer
Noida, India
  • Supported Bharti Airtel network on multivendor platforms; monitored 1,000+ elements with 98% SLA compliance

Technical Skills

CI/CD and Automation: Jenkins, Jenkins JTE, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Groovy DSL

Cloud, IaC and Containers: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Docker Compose, Terraform, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Istio, PCF/Cloud Foundry

Monitoring, Security and Platforms: Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, HashiCorp Vault, SonarQube, Sysdig, WebLogic, JBoss, REST APIs

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India | 2005 - 2009

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