Farkhanda Sadaf
@farkhandasadaf
Senior Cloud Engineer at NorthBay Solutions who cut AWS environment setup from days to under 2 hours with Terraform.
PakistanWhat I'm looking for
At NorthBay Solutions, I manage multi-account AWS environments for enterprise clients, covering production and disaster recovery operations. I work on monitoring, incident response, patching, compliance, cost optimisation, and security findings remediation.
As a Cloud Engineer at NorthBay Solutions, I automated infrastructure with Terraform, cutting environment setup from days to under 2 hours. I also replaced a manual frontend release with a GitHub Actions pipeline to S3 and CloudFront.
At Cloftech, I managed AWS infrastructure for web applications and migrated SQL Server workloads from Azure to AWS with zero data loss. I also set up CloudWatch monitoring and alarms.
I focus on reliable, secure, cost-efficient cloud operations, including tested backup and disaster recovery. I build AI-driven workflows for investigations and reporting, with human approval for every production change.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Managing multi-account AWS environments for enterprise clients at an AWS Partner MSP.
• Cloud operations: monitoring, incident response, patching and compliance across production and DR
• Cost optimisation, backup and disaster recovery reviews, and security findings remediation
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation; CI/CD with GitHub Actions and CodePipeline
• Automated invest
• Automated infrastructure as code with Terraform (ECR, ECS, Route 53, CodePipeline, bastion hosts), cutting environment setup from days to under 2 hours
• Replaced a manual frontend release with a GitHub Actions pipeline to S3 + CloudFront, with Slack failure alerts
• Delivered RDS cost optimisation and AWS architecture documentation for enterprise clients
• Supported a HIPAA-aligned security fra
• Managed AWS infrastructure for web applications: EC2, ECS, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53
• Migrated SQL Server workloads from Azure to AWS with zero data loss
• Built GitHub Actions CI/CD for a Vue.js app on S3 and CloudFront
• Set up CloudWatch monitoring and alarms
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
EF SET
EF SET English Certificate 77/100 (C2 Proficient)
Jul 2025
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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