Faisal Abdi

Founder

Kloud Skool · Self-employed

United Kingdom · Remote

• Established Kloud Skool to help IT professionals and aspiring cloud engineers build practical skills for a career in Azure cloud computing.
• Designed and delivered the Cloud Acceleration Program, a bootcamp covering foundational to advanced topics.
• Created educational content — video tutorials and hands-on labs — tailored to beginners and experienced professionals moving into cloud roles.
• Built a community of learners on Discord for collaboration, Q&A and peer support.
• Mentor students toward IT certifications and real-world job readiness, drawing on 10+ years of experience as a certified Azure Cloud Engineer and DevOps professional.
• Onboarded and trained students from diverse backgrounds, achieving high satisfaction and measurable skill improvement.

Cloud Engineer

SSE plc · Contract

England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Cloud engineering across Azure infrastructure, automation and day-to-day operations.

Cloud Engineer Manager

PwC UK · Full-time

Hybrid

• Deployed Azure Landing Zone using the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Created Terraform modules for Azure and Google Cloud resource deployment.
• Implemented governance and policy in Azure via code for a secure environment.
• Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and applied DevSecOps practices.
• Implemented infrastructure testing with Terratest and automated GitHub repository versioning.
• Defined IaC standards, GitHub repo structure, branching strategies and DevOps best practices.
• Mentored junior team members and took part in backlog refinement, sprint reviews and lunch-and-learns.

DevOps Engineer

Doctor Care Anywhere · Full-time

United Kingdom · Remote

Azure Consultant

Telstra Health · Contract

United Kingdom · Remote

Azure Cloud Engineer

Nordcloud, an IBM Company · Full-time

Remote

• Migrated and modernised on-prem infrastructure and applications to Azure.
• Deployed Azure infrastructure using ARM templates and implemented CI/CD with Azure DevOps (YAML).
• Applied security measures including private endpoints, application gateway and Azure Firewall.
• Implemented a hybrid connection using site-to-site VPN and configured Azure AD B2C for the application.
• Deployed PaaS (App Services, Azure SQL, Managed Instance, Key Vault, Storage) and IaaS (virtual machines).
• Automated tasks such as database restoration using PowerShell.

DevOps Engineer

Barts Cancer Institute · Full-time

London Area, United Kingdom

• Worked across GitLab, PowerShell and infrastructure automation.

Escalation Agent

Fitzrovia IT Limited · Full-time

London Area, United Kingdom

• Office 365 and 3rd-line support.

Second Line Support

Barts Cancer Institute · Full-time

Greater London, England, United Kingdom