DevSecOps Engineer with expertise in AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and IaC. Proven success in reducing deployment time by 80%, cutting costs by 30%, and improving system uptime and security. Experienced in proactive threat monitoring, compliance automation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Hi, I’m
Ali Abbas
Dubai
Summary
Overview
3
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Incred Financial Services
DevSecOps Engineer
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Designed and enhanced CI/CD pipelines, migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and reducing deployment time by 80%.
- Provisioned and managed high-availability Dev, Staging, and Production environments.
- Upgraded Kubernetes clusters from v1.29 to v1.30 and implemented RBAC, reducing unauthorized access by 30%.
- Conducted network traffic analysis and configured firewall rules, increasing bandwidth utilization by 40% with zero security breaches over six months.
- Automated security scans with SonarQube and Trivy, improving compliance scores from 43% to 92%.
- Deployed Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, cutting incident response times by 50% and system downtime by 20%.
- Developed Terraform scripts for infrastructure provisioning, reducing setup time by 60% and improving disaster recovery readiness.
- Built and maintained scalable, high-availability AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and VPC, increasing system uptime by 25%.
- Optimized AWS costs through Auto Scaling, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans, reducing expenses by 30%.
- Strengthened cloud security via IAM policies, Security Groups, WAF, and KMS encryption, cutting vulnerabilities by 70%.
- Mitigated security threats using AWS GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector, reducing risk exposure by 60%.
- Streamlined compliance audits with AWS Config and Security Hub, improving audit readiness and compliance posture by 40%.
- Authored automation scripts in Python, Bash, and Ansible, saving over 500 man-hours annually in DevOps operations.
- Documented setup guides, DR protocols, and architectural diagrams to standardize deployments and support scale.
- Implemented multi-region backups for Amazon DynamoDB and RDS using cross-Region replication, enhancing data durability and compliance.
- Remote
FunctionUp
Teaching Assistant
11.2022 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Provided one-on-one support for special needs students.
- Graded assignments, tests and papers according to teacher instructions.
- Facilitated group discussions among students to encourage critical thinking skills.
- Remote
Education
Rajkiya Engineering College, Kannauj (AKTU)
B.Tech from Electrical Engineering
06.2022
University Overview
GPA: 7.2/10
Skills
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, API Gateway, Load Balancers, Kafka, Elasticsearch, SNS, SQS, GuardDuty, Config, Security Hub, Secrets Manager, Backup, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, Route 53, EventBridge)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, RBAC, HA clusters)
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, Trivy
- Security: IAM, WAF, KMS, Nessus, Burp Suite, Pingsafe
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, EFK Stack
- Scripting: Python, Bash
- Web Technologies: Nodejs, Express, React
- Databases: MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis
- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- GEM Award – Cloud Optimization: Saved $12,000/year by redesigning infrastructure.
- GEM Award – Compliance Improvement: Boosted compliance from 43% to 92% via secure CI/CD.
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Pursuing)
Timeline
DevSecOps Engineer
Incred Financial Services
04.2023 - Current
Teaching Assistant
FunctionUp
11.2022 - 02.2023
Rajkiya Engineering College, Kannauj (AKTU)
B.Tech from Electrical Engineering