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Shazy Nisar

@shazynisar

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Senior DevSecOps & SRE engineer building secure, scalable cloud platforms and automated reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a DevSecOps/SRE role where I can lead secure platform engineering, automate CI/CD and GitOps, embed SOC2/PCI/HIPAA compliance, improve SLO/SLI reliability, and optimize cloud cost and performance.

Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience across Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and Lead Platform Engineering roles. Proven expertise in designing and operating scalable cloud-native systems across E-commerce, FinTech, Healthcare, Telecom, and SaaS domains. Hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps (FluxCD/ArgoCD), and automation. Experienced in building observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry) and implementing SLO-driven reliability. Strong leadership in platform initiatives, developer experience improvements, and operational automation, delivering measurable impact such as 70% faster deployments and 99.99% uptime across enterprise environments

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

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eNGINE USA

Sep 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Led DevSecOps initiatives and a security-first platform strategy for AI-driven SaaS, owning multi-account AWS with IAM governance and Zero Trust controls. Reduced deployment time by 30% via secure CI/CD and GitOps, improved uptime to 99.99%, cut MTTR by 20%, and optimized cloud costs by 10–15%.

AWS IAM Zero Trust Kubernetes GitOps Terraform

Senior Platform Engineer

Brex USA

Oct 2019 - Aug 2022 (2 years 10 months)

Designed AWS/Azure infrastructure with Terraform for scalable financial systems and built an internal developer platform for self-service deployments. Implemented CI/CD and Kubernetes microservices with blue-green and canary releases, strengthening DevSecOps while reducing manual infrastructure provisioning effort by 70%.

Terraform AWS Azure Internal Developer Platform (IDP)CI CD Docker Kubernetes

DevOps Engineer

ClearScale USA

Mar 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 6 months)

Managed AWS/GCP infrastructure for healthcare systems handling sensitive patient data, ensuring HIPAA-compliant access controls. Built CI/CD automation for 40% faster deployments, automated releases with Python and Bash, and improved monitoring with CloudWatch and Grafana while supporting Kubernetes adoption and reducing deployment errors.

AWS GCP CI CD Python BASH Docker Kubernetes Cloudwatch Grafana HIPAA

Systems Engineer

Zocdoc USA

May 2014 - Feb 2017 (2 years 9 months)

Supported Linux-based enterprise infrastructure across multiple client environments and assisted AWS cloud migration initiatives. Automated administration with Bash, monitored system performance and uptime, and supported deployment and release processes through troubleshooting and infrastructure documentation.

Linux Cloud Migration Bash Scripting Infrastructure Automation Troubleshooting Documentation