Salim Ali Siddiq

DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Cloud Security and DevSecOps practices.
  • Proven track record in automating security processes.
  • Recognized for mentoring and knowledge transfer.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert specializing in Cloud Security and Threat Intelligence.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber Threat Intelligence (cti)CybersecuritySecurityCloud SecuritySecurity Engineering

Other Skills

Threat ModelingWritten CommunicationOSSECAWSJenkinsBashPythonWeb Application FirewallCommunicationSSLDetection EngineeringCyber Threat Hunting (CTH)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Security ResearchMicrosoft Azure

About

I'm currently working as a Security Researcher at Adobe in the Secure Software Engineering Team. Prior to this, I was working at GE Digital as a Cybersecurity Engineer in the infrastructure and platform security team. Previously, I’ve interned as a Security Analyst Intern at Intralinks and also worked as Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Fundamentals of Computer Networks course at my University. I graduated from Northeastern University with a Master's in 'Telecommunication Systems Management'. I have extensive experience in Cloud Security and I am proficient in programming languages such as Python, Bash scripting. I’ve mostly worked on AWS cloud to secure the infrastructure and have gained immense experience in the DevSecOps domain. Being an efficient problem solver and team player, I have a flair to accept challenges and solve them. Also, I was always appreciated for my aptitude to grasp and solve complex problems by my peers and professors. TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming Languages: Python, BASH Shell scripting, SQL, Java(basic) Applications and Tools: OSSEC, AVI-WAF, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Prisma-Redlock, Jenkins, Terraform, Splunk, Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash, Burp Suite, NMAP, Wireshark, Eclipse, Netbeans, Rally, Jira, Confluence Networking Protocols: TCP, UDP, IPv4, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, SSL, TLS, ARP, NAT, VPN, IPsec, ACL Operating Systems: Ubuntu, CentOS, MacOS, UNIX Amazon Web Services: IAM, S3, Glacier, Storage Gateway, EC2, ELB, AWS Inspector Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (Pursuing)

Experience

8 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Servicenow

Staff Information Security Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Adobe

2 roles

Cyber Threat Researcher

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Threat ModelingCyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

Security Researcher

Apr 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Written CommunicationCybersecurity

Ge digital

2 roles

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Shared Services- Security
  • Subject-matter expert for Host Intrusion detection tool
  • Co-architected, deployed and tested the stack for open-source End-Point security tool – OSSEC integration for 6 environments including AWS public cloud and customer data-centers, saving $100K each environment, per year on commercial licenses
  • Automated validation and deployment of security services and rulesets using Jenkins, Bash and Python scripts
  • Built, deployed and tested the Anti-Virus tool solution in 3 customer data-centers
  • Spearheaded efforts to identify container security tools and manage them using Rancher-Kubernetes
  • Tuned Web Application Firewall(WAF) rules, signatures and whitelisting to reduce false-positives by 99%, thus increasing actionable alerts
  • Built Prisma RedLock policies to detect failures of security best practices for services on AWS thus improving security posture
  • Awarded 2 Impact awards for contribution to my team and other teams as well
  • Mentored and provided knowledge-transfers to interns and new team-members
Written CommunicationSecurity

Cyber Security Engineer

Aug 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Infrastructure and Platform Security
  • Subject-matter expert for Host Intrusion detection tool
  • Co-architected, deployed and tested the stack for open-source End-Point security tool – OSSEC integration for 6 environments including AWS public cloud and customer data-centers, saving $100K each environment, per year on commercial licenses
  • Automated validation and deployment of security services and rulesets using Jenkins, Bash and Python scripts
  • Built, deployed and tested the Anti-Virus tool solution in 3 customer data-centers
  • Spearheaded efforts to identify container security tools and manage them using Rancher-Kubernetes
  • Tuned Web Application Firewall(WAF) rules, signatures and whitelisting to reduce false-positives by 99%, thus increasing actionable alerts
  • Built Prisma RedLock policies to detect failures of security best practices for services on AWS thus improving security posture
  • Awarded 2 Impact awards for contribution to my team and other teams as well
  • Mentored and provided knowledge-transfers to interns and new team-members
Written CommunicationSecurity

Northeastern university

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Fundamentals of Computer Networking

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Guided on Content Distribution Networks, Network Protocols, Security and resolved conceptual problems of students
  • Reviewed project codes, algorithms and network implementations
Written CommunicationCommunication

Intralinks

Security Analyst Intern

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Waltham, Massachusetts

  • Monitored IDS events for malicious events and analyzed them for incident response
  • Automated validation of SSL certificates and TLS ciphers on entire production environment using Python
  • Verified whether security vulnerabilities on websites and apps are fixed using Burp Suite
  • Managed firewall services according to company needs using Checkpoint Smart Security tool
  • Contacted different teams to solve security issues and raised tickets using Jira
Written CommunicationSecurity

Education

Northeastern University

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

Hindustan University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Atomic Energy Central School

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