Abdul Malik Mohammed

About Abdul Malik Mohammed

Senior DevSecOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure environments.I specialize in embedding security into the software delivery lifecycle through automation—designing secure-by-default infrastructure, enforcing policy as code, and integrating SAST, SCA, container, and IaC scanning into CI/CD pipelines. AWS Security (Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty, IAM, KMS) Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation) CI/CD Security (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) Compliance Automation (NIST 800-53, CJIS, SOC 2, CIS) Kubernetes & Container Security (EKS, ECS, Trivy, OPA, Falco)At Verizon, I built a compliance-driven security automation framework supporting federal systems—reducing vulnerabilities by 65% and automating audit evidence generation.Previously at Optum, I led cloud transformation initiatives, reducing infrastructure provisioning time from days to hours and improving incident response by 70%.I’m passionate about enabling engineering teams to move fast while maintaining a strong security posture through automation and standardization.

Experience

1. Devops Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Verizon

   Apr 2024 — Present · US

   Administered IBM MQ environments (queue managers, channels, clusters) ensuring high availability across production systemsResolved MQ cluster and channel failures, improving system stability and reducing incident recurrenceImplemented monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, enabling proactive detection of batch failures and latency issuesManaged SSL/TLS configurations for MQ, resolving authentication and handshake failuresAutomated infrastructure tasks using Ansible and Python, reducing manual effort and improving consistencyProvisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform (GCP: GKE, VPC, Compute Engine)Led incident triage and RCA during outages, improving MTTR and service reliabilityApplied SRE principles (SLI/SLO, error budgets) to improve system observability“Reduced MTTR by 30%”“Improved system uptime to 99.9%”Led hybrid cloud and data center infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability and performance across AWS and VMware environmentsImplemented enterprise backup and recovery strategies, including retention policies, offsite archival, and recovery validationConducted disaster recovery testing (DR drills) and improved RTO/RPO compliance across critical systemsPerformed L3/L4 troubleshooting for DNS, networking, and infrastructure issues in production environmentsCollaborated with vendors for backup, storage, and DR solutions, ensuring SLA adherenceStrengthened observability using monitoring tools, enabling proactive incident detection

Education

• Trine University

  Master of Information Sciences and Studies, Information Technology