30–40%
Typical idle spend surfaced in infrastructure audits
Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Optimize AWS, Azure & M365 for cost, reliability & governance
14+ years in production cloud operations — infrastructure audits, automation, monitoring, and long-term consulting for teams that need stability without bureaucracy.
I'm Rizwan — production-first engineering for enterprise and growth-stage teams.
- aws:productionhealthy
- azure:governancealigned
- m365:identitysecured
- cicdpipelines + approvals
Available for consulting & long-term partnerships
Multi-cloud
AWS, Azure & Microsoft 365 under one operational lens
Executive-ready
Clear findings, prioritized actions, and summaries stakeholders can act on
AWS Management & Optimization
Right-size workloads, tighten guardrails, and keep production predictable.
- EC2
- RDS
- CloudWatch
- Auto Scaling
- Security
- Cost Optimization
- Production Support
Azure Management & Governance
Align subscriptions, identity, and networking with enterprise policy.
- Azure Infrastructure
- VM Management
- Networking
- Governance
- Identity
- Monitoring
Microsoft 365 Administration
Reduce license waste and identity risk with lifecycle automation.
- Entra ID
- Intune
- Exchange
- Security
- User Lifecycle
- Licensing Optimization
DevOps & CI/CD
Ship safely with pipelines, IaC, and deployment guardrails teams can own.
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Deployment Automation
Monitoring & Reliability
Cut MTTR with observability that on-call engineers actually use.
- CloudWatch
- Grafana
- Alerting
- Logging
- Incident Analysis
- Performance Optimization
Why Work With Me
Practical Engineering, Not Just Certifications
Production-First Thinking
Focus on stable, scalable, maintainable infrastructure instead of temporary quick fixes.
Cost-Aware Architecture
Build systems that balance performance, scalability and operational cost.
Enterprise Operations Experience
Experience with cloud infrastructure, monitoring, governance, automation and operational reliability.
Automation Mindset
Reduce repetitive operational work through automation and better system design.
Expertise
Featured expertise / Stack
- AWS
- Azure
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitLab CI/CD
- Linux
- Cloudflare
- PostgreSQL
- FastAPI
- Python
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
Engagement
Infrastructure & Cloud Audit
Identify cost waste, operational risks, performance bottlenecks, security gaps, and governance issues across your infrastructure.
Book Infrastructure AuditDeliverables
- Infrastructure Review
- Security Findings
- Cost Optimization Opportunities
- Reliability Recommendations
- Architecture Improvements
- Executive Summary
Insights
Latest Insights
AWS optimization, cloud governance, DevOps, monitoring, Microsoft 365, infrastructure reliability and automation.
Governance
The Real Cost of Technical Debt in Cloud Operations
When shortcuts in IAM, tagging, backups and pipelines become multi-quarter remediation—and how to stop the compounding interest.
AI Infrastructure
GPU Servers Are Not Your Biggest AI Cost
Early AI infrastructure bills are often dominated by egress, storage, orchestration overhead and idle capacity—not GPU hours alone.
Microsoft 365
How Companies Waste Microsoft Licenses
Lifecycle gaps, SKU sprawl and shadow collaboration patterns that inflate Microsoft 365 cost—and how governance fixes both spend and risk.
AWS
CloudWatch Dashboards Companies Actually Need
A minimum viable AWS observability set that aligns engineering, finance and on-call—without dashboard sprawl.
Engagements
Available for Consulting & Long-Term Engagements
- Infrastructure consulting
- Cloud optimization
- DevOps implementation
- Production troubleshooting
- Technical leadership
- Architecture reviews