hamza.awan

Hamza Awan

DevOps · SRE · Cloud & Platform Engineer

Hamza Awan is a freelance DevOps, SRE, and Cloud/Platform engineer who designs and operates CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and observability systems for founders, CTOs, and engineering teams who need production-grade reliability without hiring a full ops team.

I make infrastructure boring — pipelines that deploy themselves, dashboards that catch problems first, and a product that just stays up while you sleep.

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Hamza Awan

Good infra is invisible.
Bad infra pages you
at 3am.

Infrastructure only gets noticed when it breaks — a deploy that needs a prayer, an alert that fires at 3am and means nothing. I’m a DevOps/SRE contractor who builds the version nobody notices: CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and monitoring that means something when it fires.

Founders and CTOs usually bring me in when production depends on tribal knowledge and manual steps. I leave behind the opposite — automated deploys, infrastructure as code, dashboards worth trusting — run by your own engineers, not by me forever.

6+
Yrs Engineering
50+
Projects
15
Clients
99.9%
Uptime
60%
Cost Saved
100%
Delivered

Version-controlled everything

If it's not in a repo, it doesn't exist in production. Infrastructure is code — it gets reviewed, tested, and tracked.

Design for failure

Systems break. The goal is predictable failure modes, fast recovery, and no surprises at 3am.

Build for the handover

Good infrastructure can be handed to the next engineer without a week of undocumented context.

Observe before you trust

If you can't measure it, you don't know it's working. Metrics, logs, traces — baked in from day one.

What I ship.

Five layers of the same system — each one feeding the next.

Cloud Infrastructure

AWSGCPAzureTerraformCloudFormationVault

AWS, GCP, and Azure environments designed for multi-region resilience. IAM architecture, VPC design, cost governance, and disaster recovery built into every deployment.

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub ActionsArgoCDDockerGitOps

Pipelines that test, scan, sign, and deploy with full observability and rollback at every stage. GitOps where it fits; pragmatic automation where it doesn't.

Container Orchestration

KubernetesHelmIstioKustomizeEKSGKEAKS

Kubernetes that your team can operate, not just deploy to. RBAC, namespace isolation, admission controls, and internal tooling so ops isn't the bottleneck.

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaLokiOpenTelemetryAlertmanagerVictoria Metrics

Full-stack monitoring with metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Dashboards that tell the truth and alerts that page for the right reasons — baked in, not bolted on.

Reliability Engineering

SLO/SLAPagerDutyRunbooksChaos EngineeringPostmortemsIncident Management

SLI/SLO definition, error budget management, and on-call hygiene. Moving teams from reactive firefighting to systems that fail predictably and recover automatically.

Tech arsenal.

The tools I reach for when infrastructure needs to be production-grade.

Cloud Platforms
AWSGoogle CloudAzureDigitalOcean
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformAnsibleCloudFormationPackerHashiCorp Vault
Container & Orchestration
KubernetesHelmDockerIstioKustomizeEKSGKEAKS
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub ActionsArgoCDJenkinsTektonArgo WorkflowsGitLab CI
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiOpenTelemetryAlertmanagerDatadog
Languages & Scripting
BashPythonGoHCLYAMLLinux

The work.

Selected projects — case studies on request.

Trusted in production.

Founders and engineering leads bring me in when production can’t afford to be down. Here’s what they said afterwards.

  • We handed Hamza a stack that only deployed if the right person happened to be awake. He left us CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and dashboards the on-call actually trusts. A two-hour release is a click now — and when something moves in production, we hear about it in seconds.
    VP Engineering · Series-B fintechPlatform buildout · EKS + GitOps
  • The infrastructure audit paid for itself in the first month. We were over-provisioned almost everywhere; Hamza cut our cloud bill roughly 40% without touching reliability.
    Founder · Early-stage SaaSCost + reliability audit
  • Embedded with our team for a quarter and left it stronger than he found it — runbooks, SLOs, and an on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out. No lock-in either: our own engineers run it now.
    Head of Platform · E-commerceEmbedded SRE · 1 quarter
  • Migrated us off a pile of hand-managed VMs onto Kubernetes without a single customer-facing outage. He planned the cutover down to the rollback and we never needed it.
    Engineering Lead · Healthtech scale-upZero-downtime K8s migration
  • Our deploys used to fail silently and we'd find out from customers. Hamza rebuilt the pipeline with real gates and observability — mean time to detection went from hours to under a minute.
    CTO · B2B SaaSCI/CD + observability rebuild
  • Straight-talking, no theatre. He told us what was actually wrong, fixed the parts that mattered first, and documented the rest so we could pick it up. Exactly what you want from a contractor.
    Founder · Fintech startupInfrastructure hardening

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Certified, not claimed.

The certifications behind the work — each independently verifiable at the issuer.

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Ready to build
infrastructure
that lasts?

Platform buildouts, infrastructure audits, embedded SRE, and DevOps consulting. I work with product teams who need production-grade reliability without assembling a full ops team.

Response within 24hRemote-firstFixed-scope or T&MNo vendor lock-in

Frequently asked.

Let’s build
something real.

Available for infrastructure engagements, platform audits, and DevOps consulting.

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