Zane Siddiq

Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed cloud platforms across multi-region environments. Proven expertise in Kubernetes platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and reliability engineering. Strong track record of reducing incidents, lowering cloud costs, and improving system performance at enterprise scale.

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer - Deloitte

(2021-06)

• Built and operated multi-region AWS and GCP infrastructure supporting high-availability enterprise applications with 99.9%+ uptime SLAs.
• Designed VPC networking architecture including subnet segmentation, NAT gateways, private endpoints, ALB/NLB routing, DNS failover, and TLS termination.
• Led Kubernetes platform engineering across EKS and GKE clusters with 100+ nodes, implementing HPA autoscaling and capacity forecasting for high-throughput workloads.
• Established SLI/SLO frameworks and error budgets, reducing Severity-1 incidents by 35% and improving change failure rate across all services.
• Served as incident commander during production outages, conducting root cause analysis and blameless postmortems that reduced mean time to recovery by 40%.
• Developed fully automated Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and AWS CDK, cutting environment provisioning time by 60% and eliminating configuration drift.
• Rolled out GitOps workflows via ArgoCD, enabling blue/green and canary deployments with near-zero downtime across all production services.
• Built a centralized observability platform using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to capture golden signals across all services.
• Boosted 95th-percentile API latency by 30% through load testing, caching strategies, and compute right-sizing initiatives.
• Optimized RDS PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas and automated backups, improving failover recovery time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes.
• Lowered annual cloud expenditure by 22% through resource right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, and autoscaling policy optimization.
• Operationalized machine learning workflows using Kubeflow, MLflow, and Vertex AI, enabling automated model deployment and version tracking.
• Mentored junior engineers on distributed systems reliability, Kubernetes debugging, and Infrastructure as Code module design.

DevOps / CloudOps Engineer - Verifone

(2019-02 - 2021-03)

• Engineered scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins for microservices-based distributed systems, cutting average deployment time by 40%.
• Deployed and operated Kubernetes clusters with GitOps automation, improving deployment frequency by 3x and reducing rollback times significantly.
• Established SRE practices including proactive monitoring, alerting thresholds, and capacity planning, reducing customer-impacting outages by 28%.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible across multi-account AWS environments, enabling repeatable zero-touch deployments.
• Containerized legacy monolithic applications and migrated workloads to ECS/EKS, improving horizontal scalability, fault isolation, and resilience.
• Configured observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to enable proactive detection of latency spikes, resource saturation, and error rate anomalies.
• Strengthened IAM boundaries, secrets management (Vault/SSM), and compliance controls in preparation for a successful SOC 2 audit readiness review.
• Participated in on-call rotations and led quarterly disaster recovery drills, validating recovery objectives and identifying runbook gaps.

System Administrator - Wells Fargo

(2017-04 - 2019-01)

• Administered Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and Windows Server environments supporting critical financial applications under strict PCI-DSS security controls.
• Automated patching, backup scheduling, and server provisioning workflows using Bash and PowerShell scripts, reducing operational toil by 25%.
• Configured and maintained monitoring solutions via Splunk and Nagios, enabling rapid detection of performance anomalies and unauthorized access attempts.
• Managed DNS, firewall rules, and secure remote access controls across internal and DMZ network zones.
• Supported disaster recovery planning and conducted periodic failover testing to ensure alignment with recovery objectives.
• Collaborated with information security and audit teams on vulnerability remediation, documenting system hardening procedures for compliance reporting.

B.S. - Computer Science