Sadiq's CV
Sadiq hassan
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Senior Platform Engineer
Profile summary
Accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 7 years of progressive experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and DevSecOps. Designing secure multi-account AWS environments, implementing GitOps-driven Kubernetes workloads, and deploying automated CI/CD pipelines with integrated compliance controls. Dedicated to building scalable infrastructure standardisation and declarative patterns that accelerate environment onboarding and reliability.
Career highlights
Cloud Platform Provisioning: Designed secure cloud platform provisioning using Terraform and OIDC identity management, cutting environment onboarding time to 4 days.
Infrastructure Standardization: Reduced environment setup effort by 90% through platform standardization and declarative infrastructure patterns across multi-account environments.
Continuous Integration Pipelines: Built and scaled reusable CI/CD pipelines embedding policy-as-code, secrets management, and compliance controls across 10 environments.
Kubernetes Security Certifications: Earned professional certifications including Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs platform engineering and DevSecOps operations across multi-account AWS environments, managing secure-by-default guardrails and compliance controls within a regulated payments domain.
- Designs secure cloud platform provisioning using Terraform and OIDC identity management, cutting environment onboarding time to 4 days.
- Reduces setup effort by 90% through platform standardisation and declarative infrastructure patterns.
- Operates GitOps-driven Kubernetes workloads using Terraform to ensure configuration consistency and drift prevention.
- Deplores a secure data platform handling 3M daily users with AWS ELB, Route 53, Shield Advanced, and NGINX.
Directed infrastructure initiatives across on-premises environments and AWS, establishing hybrid cloud capabilities, platform standardisation, and operational workflows. Managed the delivery of serverless and containerised solutions, GitOps-driven workloads, and security-hardened deployment pipelines.
- Reduced environment setup effort by 90% through platform standardisation and CI/CD templating using declarative infrastructure patterns.
- Built and scaled reusable CI/CD pipelines embedding policy-as-code, secrets management, and compliance controls across 10 environments.
- Reduced repeated operational work by converting recurring platform issues into scripts, runbooks, pre-flight checks, and reusable DevOps workflows.
Guided platform engineering initiatives, directing cloud infrastructure strategy and operational standards across distributed environments. Aligned infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks to establish clear architectural guardrails for engineering teams.
- Standardized Helm deployment templates, ingress patterns, operational playbooks, and security controls to drive Kubernetes adoption.
- Developed modular Terraform infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts including VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, and EKS using remote state, workspaces, and Crossplane compositions.
- Engineered robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with matrix workflows, reusable templates, and secret management to automate infrastructure provisioning, Docker builds, and Helm chart releases across dev, staging, and prod environments.
Guided cloud platform operations across AWS environments, managing infrastructure patching, security updates, and resource management tasks while directing maintenance schedules and operational workflows using CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
- Built monitoring and recovery solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, backups, and EC2Rescue to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure deployments using Jenkins, AWS EKS, Gradle, Terraform, and Azure DevOps.
- Configured and maintained F5 load balancers and Palo Alto firewalls to secure network traffic.
- Administered Cisco Firepower and IDS systems to monitor network activity.
- Reduced environment setup effort by 90 percent by leading platform standardisation and CI/CD templating using declarative infrastructure patterns.
- Built and scaled reusable, security-hardened CI/CD pipelines embedding policy-as-code, secrets management, and compliance controls across 10 environments.
Education
Computer Science with Cyber Security