Results-driven Cloud Platform Engineer with extensive experience in a highly regulated financial environment, specializing in AWS and Infrastructure as Code. Demonstrated expertise in achieving 100% automated cloud deployments while mentoring teams on best practices.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
08.2024 - Current
Contributed to the implementation and enhancement of AWS cloud infrastructure through the utilization of automation techniques, with a year-on-year internal adoption rate of more than 45%.
Led and acted as a subject-matter expert in the deployment and enhancement of HashiCorp Vault Enterprise for secrets management.
Successfully implemented an end-to-end, cloud-native, and fully automated solution that is used by 95% of OCC product teams for secure secrets management.
Played a critical role in achieving Infrastructure as Code maturity by utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins for complete IaC lifecycle pipelines.
All cloud infrastructure deployments have been automated 100%, and cloud-native application configurations automated by more than 85%.
Successfully onboarded and provided operational support to around 85% of OCC development teams on a custom-built AWS cloud platform, encompassing technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Rancher, Kafka, and Harness.
Mentored junior engineers in cloud automation and collaborative development to enhance their professional growth and team efficiency.
Designed and implemented robust Terraform modules for seamless deployment and enhanced infrastructure efficiency, thereby cutting manual process intervention by 95% for AWS cloud account creation and management.
Completed the project for AWS account management automation through Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform.
Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
03.2023 - 08.2024
Collaborated with development teams to integrate cloud services into software applications.
Enabled monitoring solutions for cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk to ensure SLAs are met.
Contributed to the implementation and enhancement of AWS cloud infrastructure through the utilization of automation techniques, with a year-on-year internal adoption rate of more than 45%.
Enabled successful AWS platform adoption by guiding and supporting OCC internal dev teams in onboarding.
Optimized Infrastructure as Code practices by implementing robust solutions with Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, and custom Jenkins build pipelines.
Senior Associate, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
06.2020 - 03.2023
Collaborated with development teams to integrate cloud services into software applications.
Enabled monitoring solutions for cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk to ensure SLAs are met.
Education
Master Of Science - Computer Science
University Of Houston
Houston, TX
06.2020
Bachelor Of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam, Kerala
06.2018
Skills
Python
Bash
Groovy
AWS
Terraform
Vault
Ansible
Docker
Jenkins
GitHub
Rancher
Kubernetes
Kafka
Splunk
PostgreSQL
Certification
Hashicorp Terraform Associate
Hashicorp Vault Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
Timeline
Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
08.2024 - Current
Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
03.2023 - 08.2024
Senior Associate, Cloud Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation
06.2020 - 03.2023
Master Of Science - Computer Science
University Of Houston
Bachelor Of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering