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Syed Nawazuddin

@syednawazuddin

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Principal Cloud, DevOps, and SRE leader driving secure, compliant platform reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior platform/SRE roles where I can lead cloud modernization, improve reliability via automation, and ensure security/compliance in regulated environments.

I am a Principal DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years of experience modernizing cloud platforms, automating infrastructure, and improving production stability for Fortune 100 banking and healthcare enterprises. I specialize in architecting secure, scalable AWS and Kubernetes environments using Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices aligned with HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, and CMS standards.

Throughout my career I have led cloud modernization, SRE, and compliance initiatives at organizations including Citigroup, CVS Health, and JPMorgan Chase, delivering 99.99% availability, reducing high-severity incidents, and accelerating deployments through CI/CD, GitOps, and automated observability. I have enabled enterprise AI/ML workloads with GPU-enabled Kubernetes, MLflow integration, and cost-governance strategies for model training and inference.

I bring hands-on expertise in Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift), Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and automation with Python/Ansible. I partner closely with security, compliance, and engineering teams to deliver resilient, auditable, and cost-optimized cloud ecosystems that meet rigorous regulatory and operational requirements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE

Current

Citigroup

Apr 2019 - Present (6 years 11 months)

Provided technical leadership for enterprise-grade banking platforms, implementing IaC and CI/CD to reduce environment provisioning time by 45% and lowering high-severity incidents by over 35% through SRE practices and automation.

EC2 RDS Terraform Kubernetes Prometheus Datadog Python CI CD

DevOps Engineer

CVS Health

Feb 2016 - Mar 2019 (3 years 1 month)

Led HIPAA-compliant AWS and Kubernetes platform engineering for pharmacy and claims systems, reducing Sev-1 incidents by 40% and cutting deployment cycles by 80% via IaC, GitOps, and observability improvements.

AWS EKS Terraform Terragrunt ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana Jenkins Kubernetes

Senior UNIX System Administrator

JPMorgan Chase

Nov 2012 - Jan 2016 (3 years 2 months)

Managed 1100+ UNIX/Linux servers and enterprise SAN/NAS storage, leading platform migrations and hardening to maintain 99.9% uptime and support regulated financial production environments.

RHEL VMWare Shell Scripting Patching Incident Management Veritas cluster