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Hi, I’m Sajid Ali, a DevSecOps professional with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience guiding digital transformations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I thrive at the intersection of security and agile development, aligning risk management with fast, scalable delivery to help organizations innovate confidently. My passion is building robust, compliant, and automated cloud ecosystems that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable teams to ship secure software quickly. I enjoy leading cross-functional groups, defining governance and automation strategies, and turning complex security challenges into practical, auditable workflows. I’m committed to continuous improvement, staying ahead of regulatory changes, and mentoring peers to adopt security-first mindsets in their daily DevOps practices.…Hi, I’m Sajid Ali, a DevSecOps professional with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience guiding digital transformations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I thrive at the intersection of security and agile development, aligning risk management with fast, scalable delivery to help organizations innovate confidently. My passion is building robust, compliant, and automated cloud ecosystems that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable teams to ship secure software quickly. I enjoy leading cross-functional groups, defining governance and automation strategies, and turning complex security challenges into practical, auditable workflows. I’m committed to continuous improvement, staying ahead of regulatory changes, and mentoring peers to adopt security-first mindsets in their daily DevOps practices.

Sajid Ali

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, Architect

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Hi, I’m Sajid Ali, a DevSecOps professional with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience guiding digital transformations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I thrive at the intersection of security and agile development, aligning risk management with fast, scalable delivery to help organizations innovate confidently. My passion is building robust, compliant, and automated cloud ecosystems that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable teams to ship secure software quickly. I enjoy leading cross-functional groups, defining governance and automation strategies, and turning complex security challenges into practical, auditable workflows. I’m committed to continuous improvement, staying ahead of regulatory changes, and mentoring peers to adopt security-first mindsets in their daily DevOps practices.…Hi, I’m Sajid Ali, a DevSecOps professional with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience guiding digital transformations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I thrive at the intersection of security and agile development, aligning risk management with fast, scalable delivery to help organizations innovate confidently. My passion is building robust, compliant, and automated cloud ecosystems that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable teams to ship secure software quickly. I enjoy leading cross-functional groups, defining governance and automation strategies, and turning complex security challenges into practical, auditable workflows. I’m committed to continuous improvement, staying ahead of regulatory changes, and mentoring peers to adopt security-first mindsets in their daily DevOps practices.

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Hi, I’m Sajid Ali, a DevSecOps professional with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience guiding digital transformations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. I thrive at the intersection of security and agile development, aligning risk management with fast, scalable delivery to help organizations innovate confidently. My passion is building robust, compliant, and automated cloud ecosystems that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable teams to ship secure software quickly.

I enjoy leading cross-functional groups, defining governance and automation strategies, and turning complex security challenges into practical, auditable workflows. I’m committed to continuous improvement, staying ahead of regulatory changes, and mentoring peers to adopt security-first mindsets in their daily DevOps practices.

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Lead DevSecOps Consultant at SRC (PIF company)

April 1, 2025 - Present

Led DevSecOps initiatives, enforcing secure development gates, GitLab CI/CD policy enforcement, and pre-commit/security checks. Implemented secure GitOps via GitLab-Agent to Kubernetes, guided automated code review, dependency scanning, vulnerability analysis, container scanning, and penetration testing. Triaged SAST/DAST results, validated false positives, and produced audit-ready evidence for SOC 2, PCI DSS, SAMA, and NCA. Conducted regulatory gap analyses (SAMA/NCA) and aligned cloud security with KSA requirements. Built GCP infrastructure with data sovereignty, created Terraform modules for cross-project reuse, applied CIS benchmarks, and automated security tooling integrations.

Lead DevSecOps Specialist at Takamol Holdings (Qiwa- Ministry of HRSD)

November 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025

Automated DevSecOps functions through custom scripts; integrated SAST/DAST into CI/CD pipelines; implemented environment monitoring with Trivy, SonarQube, ArcherySec, DefectDojo, and OpenVAS. Performed IaC scanning (Hadolint, Ansible-lint, TFlint) and managed database migrations with Liquibase within CI/CD. Built anomaly detection (SQL) and security visibility via Grafana/Prometheus/Elastic-Security/Logstash/Kibana/Fluent Bit. Coordinated incident detection/response (AlertOps, PagerDuty) and SSO (Okta) across GitLab and Grafana. Administered CoreDNS across Demo/Staging/UAT/Prod, integrated with IBM-APIC/DataPower, and deployed Kubernetes with Rancher and ArgoCD, plus Helm-based deployments. Secured RabbitMQ/Redis with HashiCorp Vault, enforced whitelist-based security, and integrated F5-WAF/modsecurity. Led a DevSecOps team, applying SRE principles for resilience and ensuring PCI-DSS, SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance.

DevSecOps/Cloud Architect at Innominds Pvt Ltd

January 1, 2020 - November 30, 2023

Built cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for security, serverless, and microservices workloads. Onboarded ZipErase data security to AWS, designed infrastructure and apps, integrated CI/CD across dev/prod, and supported developers with cloud configurations. Implemented serverless deployments (S3, CloudFront, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, WAF, SSO, Vault, Okta) with DR/failover strategies. Created monitoring dashboards in Sumo Logic and managed access controls including Atlas DB IP/NACL whitelisting and cross-account IAM. Conducted quarterly DR drills, migrated ACLs/NACLs to UAT Atlas DB, and decommissioned completed AWS accounts. Delivered pre-sales input for IoT/EV projects and developed Python tooling for software integrity verification.

Architect-DevOps at Exponential Machines Software Pvt. Ltd

June 1, 2017 - April 1, 2019

Led architecture and automation for cloud, DevOps, and IoT-focused projects. Standardized cloud architecture, built automated CI/CD and GitOps for multi-service deployments, and mentored a 5-member team. Implemented environments (test/dev/staging/UAT), integrated Docker/Kubernetes with GoCD, and drove monitoring/logging via CloudWatch, Prometheus, and ELK/EFK stacks. Ensured security and compliance through secure coding practices and tool-assisted reviews across pipelines.

Sr. Architect-Cloud Solutions at REAN Cloud (Hitachi Vantara)

October 1, 2015 - July 1, 2016

Led data center architecture, AWS IaaS design, and migration strategies. Developed CloudFormation-based automation frameworks with PowerShell/Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Jenkins. Contributed to pre-sales, mapping customer needs to migration approaches, and delivering complex cloud infrastructure with RHEL/CentOS, Nagios, and SFDC assets; mentored engineers and managed production support.

TechLead-Cloud Services & Integration at NetEnrich Technologies Pvt Ltd

February 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015

Onsite engagement with T-Mobile (Seattle) delivering cloud infrastructure and application architectures. Led a 12-person ops team, managed AWS components (ELB, EC2, ASG, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, DR), and maintained Java/J2EE stacks with HA proxies, SSO, and CI/CD tooling. Implemented centralized logging and performance monitoring with Elasticsearch/Splunk and SQL/data analytics for insights.

Sr. Architect-Cloud Solutions at Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd (Harman)

November 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014

Gained multi-cloud exposure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and built automated elastic cloud orchestration on AWS/Google Cloud. Managed AWS services (EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM), Windows/Linux environments, and POS/ERP integration; enforced security and patch compliance while enabling scalable cloud operations.

Sr. Unix Engineer at Springboard Technologies Pvt. Ltd

November 1, 2009 - December 1, 2013

Onsite in Gibraltar/HKB for StMinver/IGT; managed Unix/Linux servers, virtualization, backups, load balancing, and automation. Built Nagios/Prometheus-style monitoring, scripting, database administration (Oracle, MySQL), and performed deployments with CI/CD-friendly workflows.

Sr. SiteOps (SRE) Engineer at ValueLabs Inc

July 1, 2005 - November 1, 2009

Managed 4600+ servers, engineered Nagios/Monitors, automated maintenance with shell/Perl scripts, and ensured uptime for production services and eCommerce platforms. Built and maintained performance queries for Oracle databases, and supported distributed teams with around-the-world deployments.

Network Engineer at Primenet Global Ltd

February 1, 2004 - July 1, 2005

Configured network devices (Cisco Catalyst, routers), managed WAN backbones, and supported leased lines and gateway routing. Led projects for new circuits, backbone links, and customer link deployments; contributed to network operations center activities.