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Rana Ali

@ranaali2

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Senior Site Reliability and Cloud Engineer driving uptime, automation, and cost-efficient scalable platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior SRE or cloud/platform roles where I can lead reliability, automation, and cost-optimization initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive DevSecOps across multi-cloud environments.

I am a Senior/Staff Site Reliability, DevOps, and Cloud Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and scaling mission-critical platforms across fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and enterprise sectors.

I design resilient, cost-efficient cloud architectures and automation that delivered 99.99% uptime, cut MTTR by 60%, and reduced cloud spend by millions through IaC, GitOps, and advanced observability.

I have led enterprise-scale cloud migrations, implemented zero-downtime deployment strategies, and integrated self-healing infrastructure while mentoring engineers and driving DevSecOps adoption.

My hands-on tech expertise spans Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and multi-cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP to deliver secure, fault-tolerant, and future-ready platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Current

The Home Depot

May 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Directed multi-cloud reliability programs, raising uptime to 99.98% and lowering incident volume by 35% while reducing MTTR from 40 to 15 minutes through predictive analytics and automation.

Kubernetes AWS Multi Region DR Observability Automation)Chaos Engineering Terraform Automation

Staff DevOps Engineer

Kong Inc

Apr 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years)

Systematized Kubernetes scaling for 500+ microservices and ensured 99.9% SLA compliance by implementing proactive monitoring, automated remediation, and resilience drills that increased fault tolerance by 30%.

Kubernetes Istio Envoy Grafana OpenTelemetry CI CD Chaos Engineering Cloud Migration

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 cutting cloud spend ~20% (~$600K annually).

Terraform Gitlab Jenkins ArgoCD Go CI CD Cost Optimization

Cloud Engineer

Fivetran

Feb 2015 - Feb 2017 (2 years)

Automated multi-cloud deployments and centralized monitoring, reducing infrastructure drift by 60% and detection time by 45% while improving deployment frequency by 30%.

Terraform Pulumi EFK Prometheus Cost Optimization

Software Engineer

Overstock

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Built microservices handling 10M+ API calls/day, improved response times by 25%, increased test coverage to 90%, and shortened release cycles from two weeks to three days via CI/CD and TDD.

Microservices REST APIs TDD CI CD OAUTH2 SQL NoSQL Performance Tuning