Safder Ali Khan

Safder Ali Khan is a highly experienced engineering services leader with a focus on DevOps, FinOps, SRE, and cloud infrastructure. Currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Sophos since April 2020, Safder manages global SRE and FinOps organizations for the Sophos Cloud platform. Prior roles include Director of Engineering Services at Intralinks, where leadership was provided to DevOps and Release Engineering teams, and Principal Software Engineer at Verilume, where foundational engineering processes were established. Previous experience encompasses roles at EMC as a Consultant Software Configuration Release Engineer, and at Cisco as Technical Leader overseeing Developer Tools and Release Engineering for a large distributed team. Safder's career began as a Customer Support Engineer at Pertech Computers Limited after earning a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and a Master's in Management Studies from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.