DevSecOps · SRE · SOC · Agentic AI

Zeshan Tariq

8+ years across gov, finance & defence Azure & Kubernetes Remote — UK Freelance available
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Security-first delivery, made autonomous

Azure-certified DevSecOps engineer with 8+ years across government, finance and consultancy — pairing SOC practice with SRE discipline, and increasingly putting AI agents to work across the SDLC so teams ship faster with security built in.

DevSecOps

Shift-left security — SAST/DAST, IaC & dependency scanning and policy-as-code in every pipeline.

Cloud & AKS

Azure & Kubernetes platforms designed, secured and run end to end — resilient, scalable workloads.

Agentic & AI

AI agents and copilots that review code, remediate drift and cut toil — guardrails and human sign-off.

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Where I've shipped & secured

DevOps Infrastructure Engineer · UK Central Government
APR 2024 — PRESENT

Automating Azure + on-prem with Terraform, Bicep & PowerShell; GitLab CI/CD with built-in security scanning; automated remediation to cut MTTR; compliance via Azure Policy & Defender for Cloud.

L3 Security Engineer, SOC · National Law-Enforcement AgencySecurity
JUL 2023 — MAR 2024

Stood up & led a new SOC team. Threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel with advanced KQL, full-lifecycle incident response, malware analysis and automated response playbooks.

Senior Azure DevSecOps & SRE · UK Government AgencySecurity
JUL 2021 — JUL 2023

Infrastructure automation & Kubernetes orchestration; hardened with Defender, Sentinel & Splunk; observability via Log Analytics, Grafana & Elastic; B2C SSO architecture.

DevSecOps Engineer · UK Central Government (Security)Security
APR 2021 — JUL 2021

Security, logging & troubleshooting across a Kubernetes microservice platform on AWS.

DevSecOps Consultant · Global Defence ContractorSecurity
MAR 2019 — FEB 2021

Designed secure deployment procedures with architects & InfoSec officers, minimising downtime and addressing risk through shared-responsibility on Azure.

DevOps Engineer · UK Local Government
2018 — 2021

Build/release pipelines to Azure App Service & Dynamics 365; introduced DevOps best practice & SonarQube into Azure DevOps CI/CD; GitHub repository management.

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Tools & proficiency

Azure & AKS95%
Kubernetes & Docker92%
Terraform / IaC93%
Security — Sentinel, Defender, KQL90%
CI/CD — GitLab, GitHub Actions94%
Agentic / AI-assisted automation88%
⌁Commit AIreview 🔒sec gate ◎deploy

Cloud · Azure, AKS, AWS  ·  IaC · Terraform, Bicep, Ansible  ·  CI/CD · GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins  ·  Security · Sentinel, Defender, KQL, Splunk  ·  Observability · Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus  ·  Langs · PowerShell, Python, Bash, C#

Certified: AZ-400 Azure DevOps Expert · AWS Cloud Practitioner

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Let's build something secure

Open to remote DevSecOps, platform & SRE roles — and AI-enablement of your delivery pipeline.

LocationUnited Kingdom — remote
MessageUse the form — it reaches me directly
FreelanceAvailable now