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Rana Ali

@ranaali1

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Senior Site Reliability and Cloud Engineer driving resilient, cost-efficient, scalable infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking senior SRE/Cloud or platform roles where I can lead resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure, mentor teams, drive automation, and deliver measurable uptime and scalability improvements.

I am a Senior/Staff Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud Engineer with 13+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and enterprise sectors. I focus on delivering high availability, reducing MTTR, and optimizing cloud spend through automation and resilient architecture.

I have hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), GitOps, CI/CD, and observability across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and I’ve led enterprise-scale cloud migrations and zero-downtime deployment strategies that improved scalability and reliability.

I mentor engineers, drive DevSecOps adoption, and align infrastructure with business goals—achieving measurable results like 99.98% uptime, major MTTR reductions, reclaimed engineering hours through automation, and multimillion-dollar cost savings.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Current

The Home Depot

May 2022 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Directed multi-cloud reliability programs raising uptime to 99.98% and lowering incident volume by 35%; engineered predictive analytics that reduced MTTR from 40 to 15 minutes and automated recovery pipelines saving 400+ engineering hours annually.

Kubernetes AWS Terraform CI CD Chaos Engineering Disaster Recovery Automation)SRE

Staff DevOps Engineer

Kong Inc

Apr 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years)

Ensured 99.9% SLA compliance by embedding proactive monitoring and automated remediation; systematized Kubernetes scaling for 500+ microservices improving release stability by 35% and reduced annual costs by ~$250K through cloud-native migrations.

Kubernetes Grafana OpenTelemetry CI CD Automated Remediation Cloud Migration Terraform

Senior DevOps Engineer

Clover Health

Mar 2017 - Mar 2020 (3 years)

Orchestrated CI/CD pipelines and standardized Terraform deployments across AWS/Azure/GCP, reducing deployment time by 40% and lowering cloud expenses by ~20% (~$600K annually); implemented chaos testing to ensure Tier-1 recovery within 20 minutes.

Terraform GitLab Jenkins ArgoCD AWS Azure GCP)Go CI CD Cost Optimization

Cloud Engineer

Fivetran

Feb 2015 - Feb 2017 (2 years)

Automated multi-cloud deployments and CI workflows with Terraform/Pulumi, reducing infrastructure drift by 60% and cutting detection time by 45% through centralized monitoring stacks (EFK/Prometheus).

Terraform Pulumi EFK Prometheus CI CD Monitoring Cost Optimization

Software Engineer

Overstock

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Built microservices handling 10M+ API calls/day improving response times 25% and adopted TDD raising test coverage above 90%, shortening release cycles from two weeks to three days.

Microservices REST APIs TDD CI CD Performance Tuning API Integration