About

Anwar Azad is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in IT infrastructure automation, DevOps, and cloud solutions. He is currently working as an Infra Architect at Cognizant, where he actively participates in high-level team activities in DevOps areas such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements, and conducting tool evaluations. Anwar is also a liaison between development teams, senior LOB management, vendors, and other DevOps teams. Anwar's specialties include IT infrastructure automation, programming in PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, and Bash, Git, creating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, public cloud solutions using AWS/Azure, containers using Docker and Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform. He has experience with backup tools such as Commvault, EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, Veritas Netbackup, and EMC Data Domain, and storage solutions such as Netapp, Isilon, and Powermax. Anwar is also experienced in virtualization using VMware vSphere and vRA/vRO and operating systems such as Linux and Windows. Anwar's current responsibilities include designing, creating, and implementing CI/CD pipelines to automate build and release activities, application modernization with microservices using Kubernetes and containers, and designing and implementing compute, backup, storage, databases, and networking components for application infrastructure in public cloud (AWS/Azure) and private cloud using VMware. He also follows Agile way of working using Azure Boards and acts as a Scrum Master. Anwar has previously worked at EMC and Computer World WLL, where he was a Senior Delivery Specialist and IT Consultant, respectively. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical, Electronic, and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician from Galgotia's College of Engineering and Technology and UPTU. Anwar's tech stack includes infra, Senior Software Engineer, AWS, DevOps, Azure, CI/CD, Python, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, SQL, JavaScript, Microservices, and Flask.