portfolio.sh
$ whoami

HAMAD TARIQ

$ cat role.txt

IT Administrator & DevOps Engineer

$ cat certs.txt
AWS Solutions Architect ✓
M365 Endpoint Admin ✓
Azure Administrator
CCNA
Azure DevOps
$ ./connect --portfolio
$
Resume
0
Years Exp
0
Certs Earned
0
Featured Projects
0
Uptime %
SCROLL

About Me

Profile

IT Administrator and DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure. Specialized in AWS, Azure, and network automation. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate, with CCNA, AZ-104, and AZ-400 lined up next.

Linux Windows Server Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible CI/CD GitOps
🎯

Focus Areas

Cloud Architecture Multi-cloud strategies & migration
Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates
Automation & Scripting PowerShell, Bash, Python
Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK

Experience

IT Administrator & DevOps Engineer Nov 2023 — Present

Designing and managing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, automating deployments with Terraform and Ansible, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for production systems.

AWSAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CD
IT Support Specialist Feb 2021 — Jun 2023

Provided end-user support, device management, and IT asset tracking while building the scripting and automation foundation used across later roles.

SupportScriptingAsset MgmtAutomation

Certifications & Badges

Earned

Certified
Amazon Web Services

Solutions Architect Associate

Design distributed systems on AWS

Earned: Aug 9, 2026 · Valid to Aug 2029 Associate
EC2S3VPCRDSLambdaCloudFormation
Verify on Credly
Certified
Microsoft 365

Endpoint Administrator (MD-102)

Deploy, manage & secure endpoints with Intune

Earned: Aug 18, 2026 · Renew by Aug 2027 Associate
IntuneAutopilotEntra IDComplianceDefenderWindows 11
Verify on Microsoft Learn

Scheduled — Sep 2026

Microsoft Azure

Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

Manage Azure identities & governance

Exam: Sep 2026 Associate
Entra IDRBACStorageNetworkingMonitorBackup
Cisco

CCNA (200-301)

Network fundamentals & automation

Exam: Sep 2026 Associate
RoutingSwitchingVLANOSPFPythonAnsible
Microsoft Azure

Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)

DevOps practices & GitHub Actions

Exam: Sep 2026 Expert
PipelinesReposArtifactsBoardsGitHubSecurity

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS 0%
Azure 0%
GCP 0%

DevOps & Automation

Docker 0%
Kubernetes 0%
Terraform 0%
Ansible 0%
CI/CD Pipelines 0%
GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux) 0%
💻

Scripting & Languages

Bash/Shell 0%
PowerShell 0%
Python 0%
🔧

Infrastructure & Tools

Linux Admin 0%
Windows Server 0%
Networking (CCNA) 0%
Observability 0%

Featured Projects

Infrastructure 2024

Multi-Cloud IaC Framework

Terraform modules for deploying consistent infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP with automated testing pipelines.

TerraformAWSAzureGitHub ActionsTerratest
Automation 2024

K8s Cluster Bootstrap

Automated Kubernetes cluster provisioning with ArgoCD, monitoring stack, and GitOps workflows using Terraform and Helm.

KubernetesArgoCDPrometheusHelmTerraform
Networking 2023

Network Automation Suite

Python/Ansible collection for network device configuration, backup, compliance checking, and automated remediation.

PythonAnsibleNAPALMNetBoxJinja2
CI/CD 2023

Pipeline Template Library

Reusable GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipeline templates for microservices, infrastructure, and security scanning.

GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsSonarQubeTrivyDependabot
Monitoring 2024

Observability Stack

Complete monitoring solution with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiTempoOpenTelemetry
Security 2023

Compliance Automation

Automated CIS benchmark scanning, policy enforcement with OPA/Gatekeeper, and remediation playbooks for cloud resources.

OPAGatekeeperCISKyvernoTerraform

Writeups & Notes

Cloud Jul 2026

Terraform State Management: Remote Backends That Don't Bite

How I structure S3 + DynamoDB state backends, locking, and team workflows for multi-cloud infrastructure.

Kubernetes Jun 2026

GitOps with ArgoCD: My 3-Month Learning Takeaways

Sync strategies, app-of-apps patterns, and the mistakes I made so you don't have to.

Networking May 2026

CCNA Study Plan: From Zero to Exam Ready in 4 Months

My lab setup, study resources, and the order I tackled each domain on the 200-301 exam.

Get In Touch

📧
🐙

GitHub

github.com/hamadtariq
📍

Location

Available for Remote / Hybrid