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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.

$200K
Annual cloud cost savings (Reserved Instance strategy)
15,000+
Vulnerability findings closed (RBVM, 3 platforms)
10+
Production pipelines with Bedrock failure analysis
15+
Years enterprise cloud experience
45%
MTTR reduction via observability
cloud
AWS EC2 / EKS / ECS VPC / PrivateLink / Route 53 IAM Lambda S3 / RDS Azure GCP Oracle OCI
ai / ml infrastructure
AWS Bedrock (Claude) SageMaker AWS Batch AWS DMS Azure ML → SageMaker Migration Vertex AI RAG Pipeline Design MCP GitHub Copilot Cursor
iac & policy-as-code
Terraform CloudFormation Checkov Ansible Kubernetes Docker Helm
ci/cd & release engineering
Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD GitLab CI Groovy Pipelines RPM / AMI Builds
reliability & observability
Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Splunk Datadog OpenTelemetry SLO / SLI / Error Budget Incident Command On-call Rotation
security & compliance
Wiz Snyk SonarQube OWASP ZAP CISA KEV / CVE Remediation RBVM IAM Governance CIS Benchmarks SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA
finops
FinOps Governance Reserved Instances & Savings Plans Resource Lifecycle Automation
languages
Python Bash Groovy YAML / HCL
AWS
PRO
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Valid Dec 2026

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 ↗

MBA — Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
2013 – 2015 · India
B.E. — Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
2005 – 2010 · Karnataka, India

Experience

DevOps Engineer
Oct 2023 – Present
Workday · Dublin, Ireland

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.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)
Sep 2022 – Oct 2023
Protego Technologies Ltd · Dublin, Ireland
  • 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.
Cloud SysOps Engineer (Lead)
Dec 2019 – Aug 2022
Hilti Asia IT Services (HAITS) · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 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.
Cloud Service Engineer
Jul 2018 – Dec 2019
Maxis · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 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%.
IT Service Delivery Consultant III (L3)
Feb 2017 – Jun 2018
DXC Technology (formerly HPE) · Cyberjaya, Malaysia
  • 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.
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 vRealize Automation for self-service provisioning.
  • Managed Windows & Linux provisioning, optimising infrastructure performance and security for healthcare systems (HIPAA-compliant).
Associate Professional
Oct 2012 – Nov 2014
CSC India (now DXC) · India
  • Windows/Linux environments and VMware vSphere administration.
Systems Engineer
Jul 2010 – Oct 2012
Dell International & HCL India · India
  • Enterprise technical support, Active Directory and network device administration.

Projects

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Blog

Deep dives on cloud, platform engineering and AI infrastructure — each backed by a real, live-verified build.

Sep 27, 2026
Agent Cost & Observability Platform for LLM Agents
Every Gemini call logged with token counts and cost, guardrails that block prompt injection before it spends a cent, quality scored by an LLM judge.
GCPFinOpsLLM Agents
Sep 27, 2026
Secure Delivery to Cloud Run: Binary Auth & Canary
Nothing reaches production unless it was built by this pipeline and passed a vulnerability gate — two signed attestations, one bad release caught and rolled back.
GCPSupply ChainBinary Authorization
Sep 27, 2026
FinOps Cost-Anomaly Detector on Google Cloud
A z-score baseline over daily cost per service, SKU and GKE namespace — catching every injected anomaly with zero false positives.
GCPFinOpsBigQuery
Sep 27, 2026
Serverless Orders Platform: Cloud Run, Workflows Saga & Firestore
An order-processing platform with no servers to run — a saga that retries transient failures, compensates business failures, and never oversells stock.
GCPServerlessSaga
Sep 26, 2026
Streaming Data Platform: Pub/Sub to BigQuery with Dead Letters
An event pipeline you can trust — enforced schema, a replayable raw landing zone, dead-lettering, and PII-masked authorized views for analysts.
GCPData EngineeringPub/Sub
Sep 26, 2026
Hub-and-Spoke Network Landing Zone on Google Cloud
Three VPCs joined by Network Connectivity Center in star topology, so prod and dev reach shared services but never each other — proven three ways.
GCPNetworkingZero Trust
Sep 26, 2026
Enterprise RAG Platform: Access Control, DLP & Cost
A governed GenAI knowledge platform where forbidden chunks are never retrieved — enforced in SQL, proven with real distinct identities.
GCPRAGDLP
Sep 25, 2026
GKE Platform Engineering: Binary Authorization & Canary
An internal developer platform on GKE Autopilot: signed images, GitOps, canary releases with automatic rollback, a WAF-protected Gateway.
GCPGKEPlatform Engineering
Sep 23, 2026
KEDA and Karpenter on GKE: Event-Driven Autoscaling
Scale pods on Pub/Sub queue depth with KEDA and provision right-sized nodes with Karpenter on GKE Standard, both dropping to zero when idle.
KubernetesKEDAKarpenter
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Based in Dublin, Ireland (GMT timezone) · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional · Response within 24 hours · Free 30-min initial consultation