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Rajesh Sood, MBA

staff cloud & devops engineer · ai/ml platform engineering · aws · kubernetes · terraform · sre · dublin, ireland

15+ years building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprises across FinTech, Telecom, and Global Manufacturing. Sets platform-wide DevOps and reliability standards across multi-account AWS — architecting the platforms and technical decisions that let engineering orgs ship fast without breaking things. Hands-on GenAI integration using Amazon Bedrock and Claude.

$200K+
Cloud cost savings delivered
99.99%
Uptime SLA maintained
35%
Faster deploy cycles
15+
Years enterprise cloud experience
45%
MTTR reduction via observability
cloud
AWS EC2 / EKS / ECS Lambda S3 / RDS Amazon Bedrock SageMaker Azure GCP Oracle OCI
ai / genai
RAG Pipeline Design Claude / Titan LLM GitHub Copilot Cursor
iac & orchestration
Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Kubernetes Docker Helm
ci/cd & gitops
Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD GitLab CI
observability & finops
Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Splunk Datadog SLO / SLI / Error Budget FinOps Governance
security
Wiz Snyk SonarQube OWASP ZAP CIS Benchmarks IAM Zero-Trust SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA
languages
Python Bash YAML / HCL
AWS
PRO
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AZ
Microsoft Azure Certified
Microsoft
GCP
Google Cloud Certified
Google Cloud
OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified
Oracle
MBA — Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
2013 – 2015 · India
B.E. — Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
2005 – 2010 · Karnataka, India

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer
Oct 2023 – Present
Workday · Dublin, Ireland
Architecting AI/ML platform infrastructure with SageMaker and integrating GenAI capabilities via Amazon Bedrock and Claude. Driving SRE practices on EKS — maintaining 99.99% uptime SLA, owning incident command, and setting reliability standards. Delivered 35% cycle-time reduction through CI/CD platform modernisation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform). Built AI-powered security automation with Wiz and Snyk, reducing vulnerability remediation time significantly. Achieved $100K+ FinOps savings through Reserved Instance strategy and right-sizing governance. Accelerated IaC velocity 25% using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Bedrock-assisted workflows.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)
Sep 2022 – Oct 2023
Protego Technologies Ltd · Dublin, Ireland
SRE for a high-availability FinTech client — designed observability architecture that reduced MTTR by 45%. Led migration from Datadog to Splunk SignalFx, cutting monitoring costs while improving signal coverage. Implemented shift-left security in CI/CD (Snyk, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP), reducing vulnerabilities by 40%. Automated Kubernetes HPA scaling and built Prometheus monitoring pipelines, improving team efficiency by 20%.
Cloud SysOps Engineer (Lead)
Dec 2019 – Aug 2022
Hilti Asia IT Services (HAITS) · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Led cloud operations, security, and compliance across Hilti's global AWS infrastructure spanning 10+ regions (CIS, ISO, SOC 2, GDPR). Delivered $120K annual cost savings through Reserved Instance strategy and intelligent auto-scaling. Standardised CI/CD pipelines using CloudFormation across regions, reducing provisioning time by 60%. Built self-healing infrastructure with AWS Lambda for automated compliance remediation.
Cloud Service Engineer
Jul 2018 – Dec 2019
Maxis · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Designed and deployed 30+ applications on AWS and multi-cloud platforms with high availability. Led Reserved Instance strategy achieving $80K in annual savings while reducing monthly cloud spend by 15%. Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terraform. Performed vulnerability assessments and security hardening, reducing security incidents by 50%.
ITO Service Delivery Consultant III
Feb 2017 – Jun 2018
DXC Technology · Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Supported hybrid cloud environments (AWS, VMware, Hyper-V) for multiple enterprise clients. Monitored 300+ AWS instances using CloudWatch & Zabbix. Improved security posture with CIS benchmarks and developed automation scripts for proactive health checks.
Sr. VMware Administrator L3
Oct 2016 – Jan 2017
Softenger (at HPE) · Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Level 3 VMware Administrator managing virtualisation operations for enterprise clients. Ensured high availability of vSphere environments and supported cloud migration initiatives.
Sr. IT OS Analyst
Nov 2014 – Oct 2016
Optum / UnitedHealth Group · Noida, India
Provided enterprise IaaS cloud automation using HP BSA Suite, VMware vSphere, and vRA. Managed Windows & Linux provisioning, optimising infrastructure performance and security for healthcare systems (HIPAA-compliant).
Systems Engineer
2010 – 2014
Dell International / HCL India · India
Early career roles in enterprise IT infrastructure, systems administration, and technical support across large-scale environments.

Projects

01
GitOps EKS ArgoCD Flask Deployment
Terraform-provisioned EKS + ECR with ArgoCD reconciling plain Kubernetes manifests. CI runs real tests and terraform validate on every push.
EKS ArgoCD Terraform ECR GitHub Actions
02
Bedrock Terraform Infrastructure
Complete Terraform solution for deploying AWS Bedrock AI services with security best practices, multi-environment support (dev/staging/prod), and automated compliance checks.
Bedrock Terraform IAM CloudWatch
03
AWS SageMaker MLOps Pipeline
End-to-end SageMaker training pipeline (XGBoost plus a custom PyTorch container), provisioned with Terraform and shell automation from data prep through model registration.
SageMaker XGBoost PyTorch Terraform Python
04
DevSecOps Platform — Jenkins + SonarQube
Self-hosted Jenkins, SonarQube, and a stack of shift-left security scanners on a single EC2 host, with the single-host POC tradeoffs documented rather than hidden.
Jenkins SonarQube DevSecOps Checkov EC2
05
Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Monitoring
Enterprise monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, and Node Exporter. One-command deployment, RBAC security, pre-built dashboards, and multi-channel alerting (Email, Slack, PagerDuty).
Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Helm RBAC
06
AWS Cost Optimization CLI
A Python CLI, not a Terraform demo: scans an AWS account for waste and prices findings against the live AWS Price List API, exporting a report. 54 tests, all run in CI. Now the engine behind a paid audit service — the repo below covers architecture, IAM policy, and a sample finding.
Python FinOps AWS Price List API CLI CI

Contact

Currently Available For

  • Contract / Consulting Projects
  • Part-time Engagements
  • B2B DevOps Partnerships
  • Full-time Opportunities

Based in Dublin, Ireland (GMT timezone) · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional · Response within 24 hours · Free 30-min initial consultation