Nikmal Kakar

About Nikmal Kakar

I am a DevSecOps and Cloud Security Engineer with 7+ years of experience helping organizations build secure, automated, and compliant cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. My expertise lies in combining DevOps speed with enterprise-grade security designing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible, automating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, and securing workloads with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native controls. I focus on embedding security into every step of the development lifecycle so businesses can scale quickly without sacrificing resilience or compliance.Having worked in both commercial enterprises and regulated federal environments, I bring a strong background in aligning cloud architectures with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and DoD RMF frameworks. Beyond the technical skills, I excel at bridging development, operations, and security teams driving faster deployments, reducing risk, and ensuring mission-critical applications run securely at scale. My passion is enabling organizations to innovate in the cloud with confidence, knowing security is a built-in advantage not an afterthought.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer Software Engineer

   Noaa National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

   Jan 2024 — Present · Silver Spring, MD, US

   Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Education

• Kardan University

  Bachelor's degree

  2010 — 2014