Rajesh Sood, MBA
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Platform Engineering · SRE · MLOps & AI/ML Infrastructure · Dublin, Ireland
15+ years building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprises across FinTech, Telecom, and Global Manufacturing. At Workday I own the AWS platform, security posture and release engineering for Content Tools — from a governed self-service AWS environment built from zero, to a production AWS Bedrock failure-analysis system embedded in CI/CD, to a 15,000+ finding vulnerability remediation program. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
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Previously certified: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect · Oracle OCI Architect Professional & Associate · AWS Developer & SysOps Administrator – Associate · Juniper JNCIA-DevOps · Aviatrix Multicloud Network Associate. All credentials verifiable on Credly ↗
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Own AWS infrastructure, security posture, release engineering and AI/ML-augmented tooling for Workday's Content Tools platform estate.
- AI/ML infrastructure: designed a production ML inference system on AWS Bedrock (Claude), embedded directly in CI/CD — stage-scoped log capture, traceback extraction and named failure-pattern detection — live across 10+ production pipelines, cutting manual failure triage.
- MLOps: led the migration of ML workloads from Azure ML to AWS SageMaker — AWS DMS database migration, AWS Batch training jobs and SageMaker notebooks — owning networking, IAM, storage and compute; added OpenTelemetry tracing into Splunk plus model-latency and token-cost tracking.
- Platform engineering: designed and built a governed, self-service AWS environment from zero (VPN, IAM, PrivateLink, Route 53, ALB, identity integration) as sole technical owner from design through production handoff.
- Security: set CISA KEV-first, risk-based remediation strategy for an org-wide RBVM program across 3 platforms, closing ~15,000+ findings; host hygiene alone removed 350–400 findings per platform with no code change.
- IaC: led the CloudFormation → Terraform migration and introduced Checkov policy-as-code, moving security compliance from manual review to pipeline-enforced.
- Release engineering: own the release pipeline for 3 core platforms (RPM builds on Amazon Linux 2023, AMI packaging, EC2 rollout, ALB/CloudWatch, QA, production certification); sole owner of the Jenkins controller/agent fleet; closed 700+ infrastructure tickets.
- Decommissioned legacy content-management and data-warehouse systems and non-standard compute to reduce attack surface and recurring cost.
- Built and supported multiple EKS clusters and a global observability stack (Splunk + Datadog + Prometheus) with SLO/SLI alerting for high-availability FinTech workloads, reducing MTTR by 45%.
- Integrated Snyk, SonarQube and OWASP ZAP as shift-left controls in CI/CD, reducing production vulnerabilities by 40%.
- Owned EKS cluster operations — capacity planning, incident command and a runbook-driven on-call rotation.
- Delivered $120K in annual savings through Reserved Instance strategy and resource lifecycle automation across multi-region AWS.
- Authored CloudFormation templates enforcing security and compliance baselines across 10+ AWS regions and business units.
- Led the IAM governance program to meet enterprise SOC 2 and internal audit standards.
- Built self-healing infrastructure with AWS Lambda for automated compliance remediation.
- Architected and migrated 30+ enterprise applications to AWS with HA/DR configurations and zero-downtime cutovers.
- Spearheaded the Reserved Instance purchasing program, reducing cloud expenditure by 15% ($80K annually).
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation, Ansible and Terraform.
- Performed vulnerability assessments and security hardening, reducing security incidents by 50%.
- Provided L3 architectural support across hybrid environments (AWS, Hyper-V, VMware), managing 300+ EC2 instances across 8 enterprise accounts, monitored with CloudWatch and Zabbix.
- Developed health-check and remediation scripts that reduced application downtime and manual escalation; applied CIS benchmarks to improve security posture.
- Level 3 VMware Administrator managing virtualisation operations for enterprise clients.
- Ensured high availability of vSphere environments and supported cloud migration initiatives.
- Provided enterprise IaaS cloud automation using HP BSA Suite, VMware vSphere and vRealize Automation for self-service provisioning.
- Managed Windows & Linux provisioning, optimising infrastructure performance and security for healthcare systems (HIPAA-compliant).
- Windows/Linux environments and VMware vSphere administration.
- Enterprise technical support, Active Directory and network device administration.
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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