Home

Mohamm .Z - DevSecOps & SRE Manager|GenAI Lead

[email protected]

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Relocation: NO

Visa: USC

Resume file: DevSecOps & SRE Gen AI lead -Zubair_1781534913747.docx Please check the file(s) for viruses. Files are checked manually and then made available for download.

ZUBAIR Director-LevelTechnologyLeader PlatformEngineering DevSecOps&SRE CloudTransformation EXE CUTI VE P ROFILE Technology execution leader with 13+ years of progressive experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, cloud transformation, and enterprise modernization across regulated financial services environments(PwC,WellsFargo,JPMC).Currentlyresponsiblefor11engineersacross4platformssupporting14 applications, with full accountability for a $3M $4M technology budget portfolio. Proven record acting as the primary execution partner to senior technology leadership translating strategy into measurable outcomes across engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and operations. Adept at driving simplification, standardization,anddeliveryvelocitywhilemaintainingenterprise-gradereliability,security,andcompliance.Combines deep technical grounding in DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, CI/CD, Kafka, and GenAI with a pragmatic leadership style built for scale, transformation, and cross-functional execution. C ORE COMPETENC IES ExecutionLeadership CTO/CIOAlignment DeliveryGovernance Cross-orgCoordination Accountability Culture Org Design Platform&Cloud PlatformEngineering CloudTransformation AWS Azure GCP HybridCloud IaC (Terraform) DevSecOps/SRE DevSecOps SRE CI/CD SLIs/SLOs/ErrorBudgets ChaosEngineering Observability Incident Management Modernization LegacyModernization PlatformRationalization CloudAdoption Open-Source Ecosystems Kubernetes Financial Services RegulatedEnvironmentDelivery Risk/ComplianceControls Kafka Enterprise Infrastructure Wells Fargo JPMC AI&Innovation GenAIEnablement DataDogWatchdog RAG/LLMChatbotDevelopment Enterprise GPT AI-Driven Operations Operations BudgetOwnership($3M $4M) HeadcountPlanning ResourceAllocation Project Management Vendor Strategy P ROFESS IONAL EXP ERIENCE DevSecOps & SRE Manager|GenAI Lead PwC Digital Jul2021 Present 3yrs9mos Leading 11 Engineers 4 Platforms 14 Applications $3M $4M Budget Chicago, IL Serveastheprimarytechnologyexecutionleaderforaportfolioofenterpriseplatformsanddistributedapplications, acting as the execution arm of senior technology leadership. Drive cross-organizational delivery spanning platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, CI/CD, and GenAI-enabled operations across a regulated enterprise environment. Lead11engineersacross4enterpriseplatformssupporting14client-facingandinternaldistributedapplications owningfullplatformhealth,deliveryexecution,servicereliability,andoperationaloutcomes Manage a $3M $4M technology budget portfolio, aligning investment decisions with platform strategy, modernizationpriorities,andbusinessobjectiveswhiledrivingcostgovernanceandlong-termscalability Actastheprimaryexecutionpartnertoseniortechnologyleadership,providingclearvisibilityintoplatformhealth, delivery status, risks, and trade-offs across a complex multi-application portfolio DefineandoperationalizeSLIs,SLOs,anderrorbudgetstoimprovedeliveryaccountability,balancerelease velocity with platform stability, and establish measurable reliability outcomes across engineering teams PioneerGenAIadoptionwithinSREoperations leveragingDataDogWatchdogtosurfaceanomaliesmissedby traditional monitoring, enabling proactive error resolution before escalation CollaboratedwithRAGteamtoarchitectanddeployanLLM-poweredchatbotthatqueriesandanalyzes knowledge base articles andrunbooks in response to SRE prompts reducing incident resolution time Driveplatformautomationstrategyacrossinfrastructureprovisioning,CI/CDpipelines,testing,failoverreadiness, and failure mitigation reducing manual intervention and improving deployment consistency Leadresilienceengineeringthroughchaosengineeringprogramstostress-testplatformrobustness,identify failure points proactively, and improve system hardening across distributed environments Createprocesses,blueprints,andgovernanceframeworkstoembedreliability,operability,andsecurityinto platform design from the ground up aligning with open-source-first engineering principles Partnerwithengineering,architecture,security,andbusinessstakeholderstoalignplatformroadmaps,prioritize delivery, and remove systemic bottlenecks in how software is designed, built, tested, and deployed Buildanddevelopengineeringtalentthroughstandardizedbestpractices,runbookdocumentation,playbooks, and platform enablement fostering an accountability and ownership culture across the team Technologies:Kubernetes Terraform AWS Azure Kafka DataDog Prometheus Grafana CI/CD GitHub ADO GenAI/LLM AVP DevOps / Kafka Engineer Wells Fargo Jul2019 Jul2021 2yrs Financial Services Enterprise Infrastructure Kafka Cloud Migration Chicago, IL Ledcomplexenterprise-levelinfrastructureprogramsincludinginfrastructurecurrencyupgrades,applicationand data center consolidation, Identity Management, and O365 migrations (Mail, Lync, OneDrive, SharePoint) Translatedbusinessrequirementsintoscalableinfrastructuresolutions,addressingsecurity,availability, performance, scalability, and manageability across regulated financial services environments Developedstrategyandroadmapsformigrationoflegacyapplicationstocloudplatforms,owningexecutionfrom planning through delivery in a compliance-sensitive environment OperatedasaseniorDevOpsandKafkaengineeringleaderwithinalarge,multi-layeredfinancialservices organization navigating complex stakeholder environments and regulated delivery constraints Deliveredcross-functionalinfrastructureandengineeringoutcomesinpartnershipwithapplicationengineering, architecture, operations, and business teams at enterprise scale Infrastructure DevOps Automation Engineer JPMC & Other Firms 2012 2019 7yrs Multi-firm AWS Azure Agile DevOps CI/CD Reference Architecture Design Designed,architected,andbuiltenterprise-scalesystemsleveragingnext-generationcloudservicesand automation across AWS and Azure, establishing strong technical foundations for platform delivery Implementedandmanagedend-to-endCI/CDpipelinesusingautomationtoolingtostreamlinebuilds, deployments, and release cycles reducing manual effort and improving delivery predictability Definedanddroveanautomation-firstagileDevOpssoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle,establishingengineering standards and reference architectures adopted across teams LedinitiativestodesignandimplementDevOpssolutionsincludingreferencearchitectures,deliveryframeworks, and operational models influencing engineering direction across multiple firms Builta13+yeartechnicalfoundationacrossdistributedsystems,cloudplatforms,infrastructureautomation,and DevOps practices that underpins current Director-level leadership scope TECHN IC AL PR OFIC IENC IES Cloud AWS Azure GCP HybridCloud PrivateCloud Cloud Architecture DevOps/SRE CI/CD SRE ChaosEngineering SLIs SLOs ErrorBudgets IncidentManagement Infrastructure Kubernetes Terraform(IaC) Kafka Monitoring Logging ADO GitHub Jira Observability DataDog DataDogWatchdog Prometheus Grafana GenAI/LLM RAGArchitecture LLMChatbotDevelopment EnterpriseGPT DataDogAIOps Security DevSecOps ComplianceIntegration IdentityManagement Vulnerability Management ED UCA TION & CER TIFICATIONS BS JNTU 2012 AWSCertifiedSolutionsArchitect/DevOpsProfessional GoogleCloudProfessionalCloudArchitect/DevOpsEngineer CertifiedKubernetesAdministrator(CKA) LEAD ER SH IP & IMPACT HIGH LIGH TS $3M $4Mbudgetownershipwithfullinvestmentprioritization,costgovernance,andportfolioaccountability Led11-engineerorganizationacross4platforms buildingaccountabilityculture,executiondiscipline,and engineering excellence 13+yearsspanningJPMC,WellsFargo,andPwC deliveringacrossregulatedfinancialservicesenvironments at enterprise scale PioneeredGenAIandLLMadoptionwithinSREoperations drivingAI-enabledmonitoring,anomalydetection, and runbook intelligence Ledplatformresilienceengineeringthroughchaostesting,SLI/SLOgovernance,andobservabilityframeworksat multi-application scale Consistentrecordofaligningtechnologyexecutionwithbusinessoutcomesacrossengineering,infrastructure, cloud, and operations Referencesandadditionaldetailsavailableuponrequest linkedin.com/in/zuberm3134 Keywords: cprogramm continuous integration continuous deployment artificial intelligence Alabama Illinois