Pratik Mohite

01 About

DevOps and Cybersecurity Leader with 7+ years of experience architecting secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure across fintech and digital asset platforms. I combine hands-on technical depth in AWS, Azure, DevSecOps and infrastructure automation with strategic leadership — driving ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance, strengthening security posture, and optimizing cloud performance and cost.

• 7+Years in DevOps & Security
• AWS · AzureCloud platforms secured
• ISO 27001 · SOC 2 · PCI-DSSCompliance programs driven

02 Experience

1. Head of DevOps & Security

   ARP Digital · Dubai

   Jun 2025 — Present

   • Technical leadership. Lead DevOps, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and IT operations — owning architecture, engineering standards, security governance and platform reliability.
   • AWS architecture. Architect highly available infrastructure on ECS Fargate, ALB, Global Accelerator, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, VPC, IAM and Secrets Manager across production and staging.
   • DevSecOps & CI/CD. Secure deployment automation with GitHub Actions, AWS OIDC federation, ECR and infrastructure-as-code — eliminating long-lived cloud credentials.
   • Security & compliance. Drive ISO 27001 implementation, risk assessments, vulnerability remediation, penetration-test coordination and enterprise security policy.
   • Enterprise security ops. Run CrowdStrike Falcon EDR, NinjaOne RMM, endpoint encryption, identity management and MFA enforcement across corporate infrastructure.
   • Observability. Centralized monitoring and alerting with Grafana, CloudWatch and Slack to sharpen visibility and incident response.
   • Digital asset security. Oversee security controls around Fireblocks custody infrastructure and Chainalysis KYT.
   • Optimization & AI. Cloud cost optimization, automation, and evaluation of AI-powered tooling for engineering and security productivity.

2. Security Engineer — Cloud & Infrastructure

   Pyypl · Dubai

   Mar 2023 — Jun 2025

   • Network architecture. Designed secure AWS VPCs with subnets, route tables, NAT gateways and site-to-site VPNs.
   • Perimeter controls. Configured AWS WAF, Cloudflare and NACLs for intrusion prevention, bot protection and zero-trust segmentation.
   • Endpoint security. Deployed CrowdStrike Falcon, tuned detection policies and fed alerts into centralized dashboards.
   • Compliance. Led PCI-DSS certification efforts and ISO 27001 controls implementation across infrastructure, applications and access.
   • SIEM. Built centralized log monitoring with Grafana, CloudWatch and ELK to correlate events and alert on suspicious activity.
   • Container security. Image vulnerability scanning, Kubernetes RBAC reviews and hardened Docker/EKS configurations.
   • Access & audits. Enforced privilege separation with IAM roles and OIDC; remediated IAM, security group and routing misconfigurations against CIS and NIST.

3. DevOps Engineer

   Mastercard · Mumbai

   Jun 2021 — Mar 2023

   • Azure security. Assessed AKS, ACR, Azure AD and network rules against internal, ISO and NIST benchmarks.
   • Secure SDLC. Embedded SonarQube and Checkmarx (SAST/DAST/IAST) into GitLab pipelines.
   • Privileged access. Implemented CyberArk (Vault, CPM, PVWA) across cloud and on-prem workloads.
   • Detection. Integrated CrowdStrike with Splunk and Azure Monitor; handled incidents, ran RCAs and improved detection logic from IOC patterns.
   • M365 audit. Reviewed permissions, audit logs, DLP rules and MFA enforcement across Microsoft 365.

4. System Engineer

   Nelito & Katalyst · Mumbai

   Feb 2019 — Jun 2021

   • SWIFT systems. Managed secure deployments of SWIFT payment applications on Linux and Windows.
   • Hardening. System hardening, firewall rules and patch management for PCI-grade environments.
   • Virtualization. Administered Hyper-V clusters and segmented virtual networks with SCVMM.

03 Skills