Saad Malik
About Saad Malik
Saad Malik is a Senior DevOps Azure Engineer at Cogent Communications in Washington, D.C., with three years of experience in Azure cloud services and configuration management tools. He has a background in Unix/Linux system administration and has contributed to various migration and automation projects using technologies such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
Work at Cogent Communications
Saad Malik has been employed at Cogent Communications as a Senior DevOps Azure Engineer since 2021. In this role, he operates out of Washington, D.C., and has accumulated three years of experience. His responsibilities include writing recipes in Ruby for Chef Server and workstation to manage and configure nodes. He has also created a Virtual Network on Windows Azure and designed ARM templates for the Azure platform. Additionally, he has implemented various Azure services and has been involved in the migration of on-premises virtual machines to the Azure cloud.
Previous Experience at Republic Bank
Prior to his current position, Saad Malik worked at Republic Bank as a Unix/Linux System Administrator from 2016 to 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky. During his tenure, he contributed to the migration from On-Premise TFS to Azure DevOps and participated in the migration of Artifactory and GIT servers. His role involved supporting development teams by minimizing outage times of testing environments.
Education and Expertise
Saad Malik holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Sargodha. His technical expertise includes extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. He has hands-on experience with message broker software like Kafka and RabbitMQ, and he has utilized Azure services including Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL for automation.
Technical Skills and Tools
Saad Malik possesses a range of technical skills relevant to his role as a DevOps engineer. He has expertise in process automation using tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. He has written Ansible Playbooks in YAML for deployment management and has experience in converting build.xml into pom.xml for application builds using Maven. Additionally, he has administered version control systems for daily backups and checkpoint files.
Cloud Migration and Infrastructure Management
In his professional capacity, Saad Malik has been involved in significant cloud migration projects. He has migrated on-premises virtual machines to Azure using a lift and shift approach and has provisioned landing zones in Azure Cloud using Terraform integrated with Azure DevOps. His experience also includes working with Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for instance deployment and migration.