Summary
Osman Sharif is a Security Cloud Engineer with eight years' experience designing identity, access, and governance controls for regulated Azure environments. He specializes in Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, and replacing static credentials with managed identities while embedding controls into CI/CD pipelines. Osman scales secure, least-privilege access using reusable Terraform modules, policy-as-code, and PowerShell automation to deliver audit-ready evidence without slowing engineering teams. He routinely partners with platform and DevOps teams during cloud migrations to reduce access risk and remediate issues via Defender for Cloud. Based in Stockport, he blends hands-on infrastructure troubleshooting roots with a focused trajectory in identity automation and cloud governance.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Maryland Global Campus
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Morgan State University
Bachelor of Science Cloud and Network Engineering, Bachelor of Science Cloud and Network Engineering at Western Governors University