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Hamza Zaidi

@hamzazaidi1

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Senior Cloud DevOps architect specializing in Azure, Kubernetes, and SRE.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior platform or cloud engineering roles where I can lead cloud transformations, implement GitOps/IaC, mentor teams, and improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency in a collaborative, outcomes-driven organization.

I am a strategic, hands-on Cloud DevOps and SRE leader with over a decade of experience architecting enterprise-grade, cloud-native solutions that improve reliability, security, and release velocity. I have led cloud transformations, migrated monoliths to microservices, and implemented GitOps, Terraform, and platform engineering practices that reduced deployment times and cloud spend while achieving up to 99.99% uptime.

My background spans HIPAA and SOC 2 regulated environments, multi-cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP), and streaming platforms using Kafka. I mentor and lead engineering teams, drive FinOps and observability initiatives, and deliver resilient, automated CI/CD platforms that empower developers and align cloud strategy with business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal DevOps Engineer

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Aetna Digital

Jan 2021 - Present (4 years 8 months)

Spearheaded architecture and deployment of a secure, HIPAA/GDPR-compliant Azure platform using AKS and Terraform, reducing deployment times by 50% and cutting annual cloud spend by 30%. Led an 8-person DevOps team and achieved 99.95% uptime for mission-critical healthcare applications.

Azure AKS Terraform ArgoCD Apache Kafka CI CD GitOps Azure DevOps Azure Policy

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

Jun 2016 - Sep 2020 (4 years 3 months)

Designed and optimized hybrid cloud infrastructure (Azure & AWS) supporting >1M transactions/min, implemented Kafka-based streaming to reduce threat detection latency to <10s, and introduced SRE practices that cut MTTR by 60%.

AWS Azure Kafka Jenkins Ansible Prometheus Grafana

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

SiriusXM

Feb 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Developed CI/CD pipelines and pioneered Docker adoption and initial production Kubernetes deployment, automated environment provisioning to reduce setup time from 3 days to under 30 minutes, and implemented ELK-based centralized logging.