Saad A.

Are you facing slow deployments, high cloud costs, or unreliable infrastructure? I help engineering teams build scalable, secure, automated cloud platforms that ship fast and stay compliant. 7+ years senior DevOps and Cloud Architecture (GCP & AWS). Track record on regulated systems most freelancers cannot match: HIPAA-compliant healthcare infrastructure for a 500+ staff clinical platform, and PCI-DSS aligned fintech serving 1M+ monthly active users with 99.9% uptime. What I do: • Architect & operate Kubernetes platforms (GKE, EKS, on-prem) — multi-environment, GitOps-delivered, with proper security boundaries • Build Terraform / Pulumi infrastructure-as-code with compliance guardrails baked in • Design CI/CD pipelines with security gates (SAST, Trivy, signed images, secret scanning) • Implement zero-trust access with Teleport and centralized secrets via Infisical • Optimize cloud cost — right-sizing, spot/preemptible, commitments, observability-driven cutbacks • Compliance-ready infrastructure for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FINRA Tech: GCP (Pro Cloud Architect certified), AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Helm, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Grafana, Teleport, Infisical, Cloud Armor / WAF tuning. Available 30+ hours/week, 4–6 hours US-ET overlap. Open to contract-to-hire. Looking for a senior DevOps partner who can stabilize, secure, and scale your infrastructure? Let's talk