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Saqib A.

DevOps & Secure Cloud Infrastructure | AWS, Azure, GCP, M365 | Linux

Senior DevOps and SRE engineer currently at Bank of America, with prior roles at Fiserv and the Federal Reserve Board. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional. Over a decade building, securing, and operating production infrastructure at organizations where downtime and compliance failures have real consequences. What I work on: DevOps & SRE: CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, Kubernetes and container orchestration, incident response, SLO/SLA frameworks, and observability with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana. I build deployment pipelines that development teams can actually use, and monitoring systems that surface real problems instead of generating noise. MLOps & AI Infrastructure: GPU cluster management and HPC infrastructure (256 NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 with Mellanox InfiniBand at University of Rochester), ML pipeline automation, model deployment workflows, and the underlying cloud infrastructure that keeps AI workloads running reliably and cost-efficiently. Cloud Architecture: Multi-cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Architecture design, cost optimization, migration planning, and day-two operations. AWS Professional certification active through 2029. Cloud & Network Security: HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and NIST compliance implementation. Vulnerability assessment, zero-trust architecture, network security policy, BGP and enterprise routing, firewall management, and security monitoring with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. Microsoft 365 & MSP: Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Intune, Purview, and Azure AD in enterprise environments. Conditional access, DLP policy design, endpoint management, and the migration and tenant cleanup work that MSPs and growing companies regularly need. GCC High experience. Managed Services & IT Operations: Full-stack IT support for small and mid-size organizations: device management (Mac, Windows, iOS), Google Workspace and M365 administration, HIPAA-aligned endpoint security, and the kind of ongoing ownership that means clients call once instead of repeatedly. I have trained over 1,000 students in DevOps and cloud infrastructure through Redfort Technologies, which means I communicate technical work clearly to executives, to developers, and to non-technical founders. US-based in Falls Church, VA. Available for project-based and ongoing engagements.

🇺🇸Falls Church, United States$70/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Jul 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR
$190

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#115,250 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#16,063 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$578

Last 6 months: $1.1k

World#59,305 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,969 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$9.1k

Billed in all: $9.8k

World#204,276 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#32,585 / 62.1k
Per project
$700

$284 in the last 6 months

World#152,879 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#25,981 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
4
25% fixed75% hourly
World#51,813 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,181 / 62.1k
Projects in all
13

Across 15 contracts

47% fixed53% hourly
World#175,712 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#25,131 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$9.8k+$578 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$9.0k$9.5k$10.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 19% in Amazon EC2

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