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Piyush Jain

Delhi

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Results-driven VP of Cloud Infrastructure with 24 years of experience leading cloud innovation and automation program, optimizing costs, and driving operational excellence. Expertise in cloud strategy, multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure), automation, and security. Proven track record in managing large-scale cloud budgets, leading global teams, and implementing cutting-edge technologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President - Cloud Infra, DevOps Technical Operations

Bold Technology
08.2022 - Current
  • Defined and executed cloud transformation strategies that improved scalability and operational efficiency, resulting in a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs over 24 months
  • Architected and deployed cloud-based infrastructure solutions, achieving 99.99% system uptime and reducing latency by 20% through optimised network configurations and database tuning
  • Managed a $14 million annual budget, implementing cost-saving initiatives and optimising cloud resource utilisation, saving $0.5 million in expenses annually
  • Built and led high-performing teams of 40+ engineers and architects, increasing productivity by 17% through streamlined workflows and professional development programs
  • Enhanced data security and compliance by implementing robust policies, reduced attack surface area and introducing best practices for WAF, BM, authentication & authorisation, secret management etc
  • Directed large-scale cloud migration projects, successfully migrating 100+ applications to K8s from webapps within a 12-month timeline, improving service reliability by 10% and reduced the cost by 10%
  • Pioneered automation initiatives that reduced manual intervention by 40%, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment speed and consistency
  • Negotiated strategic contracts with cloud vendors, securing $1.7 million in cost benefits over three years and enhancing service levels through tailored agreements
  • Introduced cutting-edge technologies, such as serverless computing and container orchestration (Kubernetes), argocd , argo rollouts, scalable Jenkins workers, ‘build once, deploy many’, daily release etc
  • Reducing development cycles by 80% and accelerating time-to-market
  • Developed disaster recovery and business continuity plans, ensuring a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour for mission-critical systems
  • Collaborated with C-suite executives and stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable cloud strategies that supported company growth objectives
  • Reduced overall operational expenses by 12% through innovative cost-optimisation techniques and effective resource management
  • Delivered a 20% increase in customer satisfaction by enhancing application performance and reliability
  • Introduced Jira ITSM to measure the team performance and also figured out and mitigated the key area of friction between dev and devops team
  • Bring industry leading thought leadership to develop and drive an 'Automation First' and 'Anytime Deployment with end-to-end DevOps' strategy for the entire organization to meet the growing need for speed to market, delivery flexibility and competitive capabilities
  • Lead a team of engineers and architects to help continue optimizing and building the current capabilities
  • Develop cloud best practices and ensure its consistent use across the enterprise
  • Establish cloud governance, guidelines, processes, and tools to ensure successful deployment and monitoring of cloud solutions
  • Determine security requirements to develop a best-in-class security posture (with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture leaders) that prevents risk but drives adoption of cloud capabilities in a pragmatic, and repeatable manner as part of the DevOps pipeline

Head of Devops and Cloud Services

Barco Electronics
09.2019 - 08.2022
  • Continuously evolve the security, reliability, and scalability of the cloud platforms
  • Improve, optimize, and identify opportunities for efficient software development and deploy processes
  • Manage and reduce the cost by identifying the waste and innovative solutions
  • Define the lifecycle automation and tooling needs for the cloud operations team and help determine how these tools & solutions can help drive consistency and efficiency
  • Design tools and automation to prevent problem recurrence
  • Creating a new cloud team, which can work in fast paced environment and learn quickly
  • Establish robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines from code commit to production deployment
  • Provide self-serve tools to engineering teams to onboard to these continuous delivery pipelines
  • Defining the vision for the cloud services and working with the product owners and leadership team to prioritize the business requirements to help achieve the short term and long-term goals of the organization
  • Managing a self-organizing agile team
  • Upgrading the current infrastructure and managing the availability of services for multiple teams and customers
  • Played an instrumental role in creating the vision for the devops and cloud infrastructure by collaborating with different product team to understand the long term and short-term requirements
  • Created architecture and polices for cloud infrastructure creation through automation via terraform, python, CRDs, lambda and azure function
  • Created compliance rules via AWS organization, guardrails, control tower, Azure security, product readiness checklist
  • Created a model to deploy the different business applications in a multi-cloud, managed, multi-cluster environment using Git, artifactory, Jenkins, Helm, Helmsman, argocd and Kubernetes, without downtime in an auto-scalable environment
  • Created the observability stack for all the Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure using Prometheus, new relic, Grafana, Opsgenie and Statuspage
  • Maintaining the uptime of 99.999% across all services running on different clouds
  • Successfully achieved the ISO 27001/17/18 certification for the cloud services and the different products running on the cloud
  • Experience of working on cutting edge technologies in a multi-cloud, multi-region, and multi-cluster environment

Director Technology

Snapdeal
03.2016 - 09.2019
  • Managing the hybrid cloud consists of AWS and open stack
  • Managing the Devops, Network and IT operations of the organization
  • Defining vision and IT strategy for the organization
  • Managed a team of 80 FTE
  • Creation and implementation of the server, network services and IT security policies
  • Introduction of change management, RPO & RTO for backups, disaster recovery, incident management processes
  • Migration from AWS to private cloud with minimal downtime
  • Created own colocation Data Center for Snapdeal Hybrid cloud (Cirrus), spans across three Data Centre regions, with a highly dense server architecture of 72,000 cores, 16 PB of storage, and a robust 100G SDN infrastructure
  • Created a fully automated DR site in AWS using terraform, salt-stack and Kubernetes
  • Implementation of CDN (Akamai), load-balancer (F5), firewall (Palo Alto), WAF and bot-manager
  • Implemented and managed the helpdesk and improved the user experience by 5X
  • Introduced and promoted the video conferencing technology using cisco telepresence, WebEx and hangout to reduce the cost of travelling

Sr. Project Manager

IBM India
02.2010 - 03.2016

Project Manager

CSC India
09.2005 - 02.2010

Sr. System Administrator

GLOBAL LOGIC
07.2002 - 09.2005

Unix Administrator

TCS (formerly Tata Infotech)
10.2000 - 07.2002

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics & Telecommunication

01.2000

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS
  • Azure
  • AWS organization
  • AWS Config
  • Azure Multi-tenant
  • Automation: Terraform
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS)
  • Docker
  • Serverless & Microservices: Azure Webapps
  • AWS Lambda
  • Azure Functions
  • DevOps & Automation: CI/CD (Jenkins
  • BitBucket
  • CI/CD
  • ArgoCD)
  • Helm
  • Helmsman
  • Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • New Relic
  • Azure Monitor
  • Cloudwatch
  • ELK
  • Networking & Security: IAM
  • VPC
  • VPN
  • Load Balancers
  • WAF
  • TLS Encryption
  • KeyVault
  • Nessus
  • Storage & Databases: S3
  • Blob Storage
  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • Azure SQL
  • Mongo
  • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Multi-region failover
  • RTO/RPO strategies
  • Content Delivery Network: Akamai
  • Cloudflare
  • Cloud Strategy & Roadmap Execution
  • Cost Optimization & FinOps
  • Vendor & Stakeholder Management
  • Team Leadership & Talent Development
  • Incident Management & Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Certification

  • Linux Foundation - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • PMI – PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • IBM certified Cloud Architect
  • IBM Advisory Project Manager
  • ITIL Certified
  • Sun Certified Solaris Administrator

Technical Skills

AWS, Azure, AWS organization, AWS Config, Azure Multi-tenant, Terraform, Python, Ansible, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Docker, Azure Webapps, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, CI/CD (Jenkins, BitBucket, CI/CD, ArgoCD), Helm, Helmsman, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Cloudwatch, ELK, IAM, VPC, VPN, Load Balancers, WAF, TLS Encryption, KeyVault, Nessus, S3, Blob Storage, RDS, DynamoDB, Azure SQL, Mongo, Multi-region failover, RTO/RPO strategies, Akamai, Cloudflare

Timeline

Vice President - Cloud Infra, DevOps Technical Operations

Bold Technology
08.2022 - Current

Head of Devops and Cloud Services

Barco Electronics
09.2019 - 08.2022

Director Technology

Snapdeal
03.2016 - 09.2019

Sr. Project Manager

IBM India
02.2010 - 03.2016

Project Manager

CSC India
09.2005 - 02.2010

Sr. System Administrator

GLOBAL LOGIC
07.2002 - 09.2005

Unix Administrator

TCS (formerly Tata Infotech)
10.2000 - 07.2002

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics & Telecommunication

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