Fix: security_orchestration_policy_spec.rb hangs on creating_policy_pipeline

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Summary

The Developer Experience (DevEx) team is working on improving pipeline stability EPIC and has identified a recurring failure due to security_orchestration_policy_spec.rb That's causing significant job timeouts.

Problem Description

The spec file ee/spec/lib/ee/gitlab/ci/pipeline/chain/validate/security_orchestration_policy_spec.rb is expected to take a few minutes to run, but hangs for 60 + minutes before timing out.

Error Details

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# [RSpecRunTime] Starting example group ee/spec/lib/ee/gitlab/ci/pipeline/chain/validate/security_orchestration_policy_spec.rb. Expected to take 1.34 seconds.
Gitlab::Ci::Pipeline::Chain::Validate::SecurityOrchestrationPolicy
  #perform
    when creating_policy_pipeline? is true
Terminated
WARNING: step_script could not run to completion because the timeout was exceeded. For more control over job and script timeouts see: https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/configure_runners/#set-script-and-after_script-timeouts
ERROR: Job failed: execution took longer than 1h30m0s seconds

Impact

Frequency: 14 occurrences in the last 28 days
Duration: Jobs hang for 60+ minutes before timing out

Related Issue

gitlab-org/quality/analytics/team#145