Rizwan Ghzzaal
DevOps Associate Manager · Cloud · Infrastructure · Automation
Building reliable cloud infrastructure, automating delivery, and turning complex systems into repeatable engineering platforms.
01Automate the repeatable.
02Observe the important.
03Secure the foundation.
04Simplify the complex.
05Keep learning.
ID · LatviaDevOps Associate Manager / Accenture EMEA
May 2025 – Present
DevOps Associate Manager
Riga, Latvia · Hybrid
Aug 2022 – May 2025
DevOps Team Lead
Riga, Latvia
Provisioned cloud infrastructure and managed configuration through Terraform, Jenkins and Ansible CI/CD pipelines, APIs and command-line tools. Provided L3 Linux support and support across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Jun 2021 – Jul 2022
Sr. DevOps Engineer / Team Lead
Managed the EDLY DevOps team, mentored engineers and provided technical guidance. Planned and designed infrastructure and supported delivery across multiple projects.
Aug 2020 – May 2021
DevOps Engineer
Installed, administered, hardened and tuned Linux servers. Managed AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, load balancing, auto scaling, CloudFormation, Elasticsearch and IAM. Automated infrastructure with Ansible, Fabric, Puppet, Chef and Terraform, and supported clients worldwide across simultaneous projects.
Aug 2019 – Jul 2020
Sr. Cloud and SysOps Engineer
Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan
Supported site reliability and developer infrastructure, audited server health and security, and migrated on-premises workloads to AWS. Built Lambda automation for EC2/RDS scheduling and tagged AMI backups, automated MySQL user creation from spreadsheets, and centralized monitoring through ELK, Wazuh and Slack. Configured CloudWatch alarms and self-healing triggers, and audited security groups and network access lists.
Mar 2019 – Jul 2019
System Security Engineer
Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan
Patched servers and packages, maintained cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and implemented automated monitoring. Collaborated with Security Operations and developers to resolve vulnerabilities and improve deployment security and performance. Provided technical guidance and documented infrastructure implementations.
Jul 2017 – Mar 2019
Sr. Linux System Engineer / Team Lead
Pakistan
Supported dedicated servers and virtual machines, designed and deployed hosting solutions, and migrated customer data with minimal downtime. Maintained hosting servers, performed security audits and resolved complex customer issues using web, mail, DNS and virtualization tools.
Jun 2016 – Jul 2017
Linux System Engineer
Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan
Monitored server services and resolved support tickets. Built Bash event-handling scripts for common remediation tasks, mail-IP blacklist checks across more than 100 RBLs with email alerts, and metric-based alarms. Supported senior engineers with migrations.
Apr 2015 – Jun 2016
Jr. Linux System Engineer
Lahore, Pakistan
Answered pre-sales technical questions and advised customers on hosting plans. Wrote technical blogs, created hands-on hosting-panel labs and documented procedures and remediation steps to support customers and new interns.
Inspecting
"Infrastructure as Code for repeatable and automated cloud environments."
1resource "aws_organizations_account" "workload" {2 name = var.account_name3 email = var.account_email4 parent_id = var.ou_id5}67module "landing_zone" {8 source = "./modules/baseline"9 logging = true10 guardrails = local.policies11}
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Versioned
Repeatable
Automated
Reproducible
Inspecting
The smallest deployable unit — one or more containers sharing network and storage.
01/05Make infrastructure boring.
02/05Make deployments predictable.
03/05Make systems observable.
04/05Automate what should not be manual.
05/05Keep learning.
Technical mentoring · DevOps learning & bootcamp activities
AWS Certifications
HashiCorp Certifications
IBM Professional Certification