Opsentriq LLC

The bottleneck

Security is where delivery goes to die.

Not because teams don't care about it — because it arrives at the end, by hand, from a different department, on a deadline nobody planned for.

Your pipeline ships in minutes. Your security review takes six weeks.

Reviews queue behind a person, not a process. Delivery velocity stops mattering the moment a release waits on a spreadsheet.

Every environment drifts. Nobody can say which ones are still compliant.

A host gets patched out of band, a policy gets loosened "temporarily," and the gap between documented and actual widens quietly.

Then the audit lands, and evidence gets assembled by hand.

Engineers stop building for three weeks to screenshot control states the pipeline should have been emitting all along.

It doesn't have to work this way. Every one of those is an automation problem.

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How production-ready is your delivery pipeline?

Eight questions, about sixty seconds. You get a scored readiness profile across the four areas auditors and incident reviews actually probe — plus the one that's costing you most right now.

Question 1 of 8 Pipeline Security

Are security scans — dependency, container, and static analysis — enforced as gates that can actually block a release?

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Readiness score / 16

Answer the questions to build your profile. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to send it.

Get the full remediation roadmap Send me the roadmap

A six-page PDF mapping each gap to a specific control, the effort to close it, and the order to do it in. No newsletter.

What we do

Six practices, one operating model.

Cloud migration, DevSecOps, compliance, platform engineering, and Linux systems — delivered as engagements that leave your team able to run what we built.

Engineers reviewing a delivery pipeline on screen

DevSecOps Automation

Security embedded in every stage of delivery, enforced by the pipeline rather than by policy documents.

CI/CD pipeline design
Trivy, Checkov, SAST integration
Vulnerability management workflows
Shift-left practices

Data centre aisle with an engineer at work

Cloud Engineering & Migration

Scalable, cost-controlled AWS platforms — and a migration path that doesn't need a weekend outage.

AWS architecture and migration
Terraform infrastructure as code
Docker and Kubernetes
Cost optimization

Team reviewing a platform architecture diagram

Platform Engineering

Internal platforms that let developers self-serve infrastructure without filing a ticket or learning Terraform.

GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux
Internal developer platforms
Environment standardization
Self-service infrastructure

Security analyst monitoring compliance dashboards

Cloud Security & Compliance

Meet the framework without slowing delivery. Evidence gets produced by the pipeline, continuously.

STIG and CIS benchmark implementation
Threat detection integration
Compliance automation
Audit preparation

Engineer working on Linux server infrastructure

Linux Systems Engineering

Enterprise Linux estates built for uptime, patched on a schedule you can actually evidence.

RHEL, CentOS, Red Hat Satellite
High-availability architectures
Automated patching
Performance optimization

Mentoring session reviewing technical material

Linux Training & Mentoring

Hands-on preparation for engineers moving into Linux systems and platform roles.

RHCSA and RHCE exam preparation
Real-world lab exercises
Resume and interview coaching
Career transition support

Track record

Numbers from the work, not the brochure.

Opsentriq is new. The experience behind it is not — a decade of DevSecOps and Linux engineering delivered inside financial services, medical devices, and federal programs.

60%

Faster releases through shift-left CI/CD, with zero critical security issues post-deployment

Federal systems integrator

1,000+

Systems brought under automated vulnerability assessment and patching

Public sector cloud program

66%

Reduction in deployment time after moving to GitOps workflows with ArgoCD

Public sector cloud program

99.99%

Uptime sustained on high-availability architectures with automated failover

Cloud services provider

Where that experience comes from

Senior Software Engineer

MetroStar

Automated container and IaC security scanning with Trivy and Checkov, cutting vulnerability detection time by 40%. Built shift-left pipelines delivering 60% faster releases with zero critical post-deployment findings.

2024 — present

Senior Systems Engineer

Planet Technologies

Led enterprise vulnerability assessment across 1,000+ systems with automated patching, cutting security incidents by 60%. Deployed Splunk across 150+ servers and delivered internal DevOps training to engineering teams.

2024

Cloud Engineer

Axle

Cut AWS operating costs 20% while improving availability 15%. Ran containerized workloads through 50% user growth and built HA architectures sustaining 99.99% uptime.

2021 — 2024

Cloud Engineer

Capital One

Secured AWS environments across IAM, ECS, and VPC, and migrated 35+ legacy applications to cloud-native infrastructure — cutting downtime 40% and deployment errors 30%.

2018 — 2020

Linux Engineer

Boston Scientific

Enforced STIG and CIS benchmarks across 100+ RHEL and CentOS servers, lifting audit compliance 30% while holding 99%+ uptime on regulated medical-device platforms.

2016 — 2018

Red Hat Certified Engineer — RHCE

Red Hat Certified System Administrator — RHCSA

How we work

Four phases. No surprises in the invoice.

Every engagement is scoped to your environment and constraints. The sequence, however, doesn't change.

PHASE 01

Discover

Assess the current state — pipelines, environments, controls, and the gap between what's documented and what's actually running.

PHASE 02

Design

Architect against your real constraints: budget, headcount, regulator, and the systems you can't turn off.

PHASE 03

Build

Implement with automation and security from the first commit. Everything lands as code and gets reviewed.

PHASE 04

Operate

Support, tune, and hand over — with your team trained to run it without us on the call.

For engineers, not employers

Learn Linux from someone who runs it in production.

Small-cohort, lab-heavy training for people moving into Linux systems and platform engineering roles — taught by an RHCE-certified engineer who has hardened these systems inside banks, hospitals, and federal programs.

See upcoming cohorts Download the syllabus

RHCSA exam preparation8 weeks

RHCE exam preparation10 weeks

Real-world lab environmentIncluded

Resume & interview coaching1-on-1

Who we are

Founded by Abdul Karim Jalloh, a senior DevSecOps engineer who spent a decade integrating security into delivery pipelines and hardening Linux estates for organizations that answer to regulators.

Opsentriq exists because that work shouldn't require an enterprise budget. The practices are the same ones used inside Fortune 500 and federal environments — sized for teams that don't have a platform department.

Mission-driven

Every solution is aligned to a business objective you can name, not a technology we happen to like.

Automation first

Manual toil gets eliminated, not documented. Every repeatable task becomes code.

Security by design

Embedded from day one. Never bolted on before an assessment.

Knowledge transfer

We train your team alongside the build, so self-sufficiency is the deliverable.

Get in touch

Tell us what's slowing you down.

A 30-minute call, no pitch deck. You'll leave with at least one thing you can fix yourself.

Email

info@opsentriq.com

Based in

Washington DC — Baltimore area

Response time

Within one business day

Engagements

Project, retained, and fractional