Iqbal Nazir
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Experience

Build engineering and DevOps.

Seven-plus years spanning CI/CD, IT Operations automation, customer-specific software work, and academic software development and visualisation.

  1. August 2021 - Present

    DevOps Engineer

    msg life Central Europe GmbH

    • Develop, maintain, and improve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for software builds, integration, and customer deliveries.
    • Manage build and integration activities within the software delivery and build engineering team.
    • Coordinate and execute software deliveries across the release lifecycle.
    • Adapt customer projects to successive releases of the msg life core product.
    • Support at least three major releases per year alongside minor releases.
    • Maintain Jenkins pipelines used across customer projects.
    • Support delivery to standalone installations, on-premises environments, and AWS cloud environments.
    • Work with AWS CloudFormation and CodeCommit in deployment-related workflows, including basic EC2 troubleshooting.
    • Use Argo CD for deployment orchestration in GitOps-based workflows.
    • Collaborate across teams to resolve delivery issues.

    Technologies: Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, CI/CD, Git, Bitbucket, AWS EC2, AWS CloudFormation, CodeCommit, Argo CD, Jira, Confluence

  2. May 2019 - July 2021

    DevOps Engineer

    SPIRIT/21 GmbH

    • Developed Python scripts to automate IT Operations processes using Ansible Tower, its REST API, and Jenkins.
    • Created and maintained Jenkins jobs and pipelines for the Automation team.
    • Wrote automated tests using PyTest.
    • Deployed and maintained AWX using Docker.
    • Documented technical solutions in Confluence and worked in weekly Scrum and sprint cycles.

    Technologies: Python, PyTest, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Tower API, AWX, Docker, AWS, CloudForms, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

  3. August 2017 - April 2019

    Junior Application Engineer

    Mindlab Solutions GmbH

    • Automated processes using Ansible and scripting languages.
    • Developed software modules to customise company software for customer-specific requirements.
    • Created technical documentation using DokuWiki and Markdown while working in an Agile team.

    Technologies: Python, PHP, PowerShell, Ansible, AWX, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code

  4. January 2017 - July 2017

    Master's Thesis Student - Software Development and Data Visualisation

    University of Stuttgart - Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems

    • Analysed event-based industrial manufacturing error data using Markov models.
    • Developed visualisations to explore patterns and potential future error occurrence.
    • Developed a Windows application and web-based visualisation diagrams for dataset analysis.

    Technologies: C#, Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3.js

    • Thesis: “Visual Correlation Analytics of Event-based Error Reports for Advanced Manufacturing”.

  5. March 2016 - June 2017

    IT Administration Intern / Working Student

    TeamViewer GmbH

    • Analysed and implemented a centralised logging server.
    • Performed scripting and IT administration tasks and created technical documentation.

    Technologies: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graylog, Confluence, SharePoint