Haseeb
Sibtain

Senior CloudOps & DevOps Engineer

Ten years keeping production infrastructure boring — AWS and Azure platforms, automation that removes manual steps, and cost work that pays for itself. Most recently owned the cloud platform for a business unit serving 10M+ monthly users.

Tenure / 2015 — 2026

Accenture · 3 yr
CBS · 2 yr 7 mo
NBCU · 1 yr
Harvard Business Publishing · 3 yr 11 mo
20152018202120232026
$500K+

Cloud cost reduced through FinOps governance and lifecycle policy

4h → 30m

Release cycle after rebuilding deployment workflows

10M+

Monthly users on platforms under my ownership

25M+

Viewers served by the Olympics streaming build at NBCU

Experience

Senior CloudOps EngineerHarvard Business Publishing

Jul 2022 — May 2026
  • Rebuilt enterprise deployment workflows on Jenkins and GitHub Actions, cutting release cycles from four hours to 30 minutes and removing manual deployment risk across production systems serving 10M+ monthly users.
  • Started and led a FinOps program across business units, introducing S3 lifecycle governance and cleanup policies that cut annual S3 spend by $100K and drove $500K+ in long-term savings.
  • Rolled out Splunk Cloud observability across AWS environments, reducing alert noise 40% and doubling issue detection speed in production.
  • Migrated legacy Elastic Beanstalk workloads to ECS Fargate, modernizing the deployment architecture and improving release consistency and scalability.
  • Led an organization-wide automation effort integrating Ansible with AWS Systems Manager to standardize server configuration and automate patching across multiple business units.
  • Built reusable Terraform and CloudFormation patterns that standardized provisioning and shortened environment onboarding for other engineering teams.
  • Worked with security to harden IAM standards, enforce least-privilege access, and put continuous guardrails in place across AWS accounts.

Cloud Automation EngineerNBCUniversal

Jun 2021 — May 2022
  • Led technical delivery and stakeholder alignment for NBC's Olympics live streaming platform on Peacock, coordinating engineering, product, and leadership against a fixed go-live date for 25M+ viewers.
  • Architected and ran the AWS and Azure infrastructure behind the streaming platform, designed for high availability and zero-downtime live event delivery.
  • Automated provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling, standardizing deployment across cloud-native and containerized environments.
  • Implemented Dynatrace and CloudWatch observability, cutting troubleshooting time and improving incident response during live production.
  • Wrote the onboarding documentation and operational standards that shortened engineer ramp-up as the team grew.

Linux EngineerCBS

Nov 2018 — May 2021
  • Ran Linux production environments supporting enterprise applications, deployments, and reliability work.
  • Automated recurring operational and deployment tasks in Bash and Python, reducing manual effort and improving consistency across production systems.
  • Handled production troubleshooting and incident response across enterprise infrastructure.

Linux AdministratorAccenture

Nov 2015 — Oct 2018
  • Supported enterprise Linux infrastructure with a focus on patch management, performance tuning, and production support.
  • Worked across infrastructure and operations teams on deployments and operational improvements in large-scale environments.