Fardin Sadry

About Fardin Sadry

With over 12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud Engineering, the focus is on delivering highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions for both commercial and federal government sectors, including critical infrastructure projects with DHS and CISA. Expertise spans the entire DevOps lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on ensuring compliance with industry standards like FedRAMP, enhancing system reliability, and optimizing performance for mission-critical applications.Leadership is key in designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud architectures using best practices from SRE, SecOps, and GitOps to streamline processes, drive automation, and enable continuous delivery. There\'s a proven track record of driving innovation through infrastructure-as-code (IaC), incident management, and implementing observability frameworks to optimize system performance and minimize downtime.In addition to technical expertise, strong leadership fosters a culture of continuous improvement, cross-functional collaboration, and knowledge sharing. The role involves managing teams, defining and executing service-level objectives (SLOs), and aligning business goals with technical strategies to ensure infrastructure meets both operational and security needs. A proactive problem-solving approach is applied to identify and mitigate risks, driving strategic decisions that align with organizational goals and industry requirements.

Experience

1. Devsecops Engineering Manager

   ECS

   May 2025 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   As a DevSecOps Engineering Manager with ECS Federal, I lead high-impact cloud and security engineering initiatives in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. My focus is on securing and modernizing federal IT environments through DevSecOps practices, automation, and compliance-driven development.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of DevSecOps and SRE engineers supporting mission-critical environments.• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines integrating security controls (SAST, DAST, IaC scanning) across development lifecycles.• Design and manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) deployments using Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation for secure, scalable architectures.• Ensure continuous monitoring, threat modeling, and compliance with federal cybersecurity mandates (e.g, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP).• Partner closely with DHS stakeholders to drive Zero Trust architecture initiatives, container security, and cloud posture management.• Support CDM capabilities deployment for asset management, identity, vulnerability, and incident response.Passionate about bridging the gap between security and operations to protect federal systems while accelerating mission delivery.

Education

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Master of Science - MS, Cloud Computing Architecture

  2020 — 2020

• University of Maryland

  Micro-Master, Cloud Computing

  2019 — 2020