Sameer Syed

About Sameer Syed

Senior Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer with experience in architecting, provisioning, deploying scalable AWS solutions via CI/CD and automating enterprise infrastructure. Expert in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), AWS Cloud, container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)), cloud-native architecture, CI/CD automation and observability/monitoring setup with proven track record reducing deployment time and cutting operational costs while driving cross-functional collaboration.TECHNICAL SKILLS: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, VPC, SQS, SNS, KMS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB, SageMaker, Secrets Manager, Cert Manager, Amazon Bedrock, Cost Optimization etc,), Azure (App Service, Resource Manager, Document Intelligence, AKS and other core services), Multi-cloud, On-Prem, Hybrid; Terraform Enterprise, Ansible; Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, OpenShift; Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, TFS, JFrog Artifactory, Maven; Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, TeamCity; HashiCorp Vault, CheckMarx, SonarQube, Veracode, KeyFactor; Linux, Windows Server; OTel(OpenTelemtry), FluentBit, Datadog, Splunk, Container Insights, Prometheus; ServiceNow; Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, JSON; Akamai CDN; Copilot, Agentic AI, AI/ML in Cloud; JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, FinOps, New hire training.

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Engineer

   FIS

   Feb 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Designed and implemented multi-region AWS disaster recovery architecture to reduce RTO from 4 hours to 15 minutes and achieved 99.99% uptime SLA by using Terraform Enterprise, AWS services like Route53, ALB/NLB, EKS (EBS + fine-grained RBAC), RDS Auora, Kafka• Accelerated developer velocity roughly 60% through automated CI/CD (build, test, push docker image to artifactory, deploy using Kubernetes) using GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Harness, integrating CheckMarx SAST/SCA with custom SARIF parsing that prevented ~200+ vulnerabilities pre-merge• Migrated legacy applications to EKS with Helm, standardizing deployments across 5 environments and reducing infrastructure costs by approximately $180K annually• Implemented HashiCorp Vault with automated secret rotation across multiple AWS services (Lambda, EC2, RDS, Kafka, EC2, EKS etc,) reducing security incident response time from 2+ hours to under 45 minutes• Built comprehensive observability platform integrating Container Insights, CloudWatch custom dashboards, and OTel (Prometheus); improved MTTR from 45 minutes to roughly 8 minutes across 30+ microservices• Led root cause analysis for critical AWS incidents, producing actionable postmortems via ServiceNow that drove 8 platform improvements and reduced similar incident recurrence by over 80%

Education

• Kakatiya University, Warangal

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Engineering

• Oklahoma Christian University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering

• Marist University

  Master's degree, Information Systems