Santhosh Kumar Ballu
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Cloud and DevOps engineer focused on AWS architecture, cloud migrations, and scalable infrastructure design. Implement disaster recovery solutions, automate infrastructure deployments, and enforce cloud security best practices. Manage CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Ansible for reliable, repeatable releases.
Overview
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Certification
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11
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Solution Architect
Capgemini Financial Services
Alpharetta, Georgia
05.2025 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures aligned with client needs.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions, enhancing overall system performance.
- Assessed existing infrastructure and recommended enhancements, facilitating effective cloud migration.
- Provided technical guidance and mentorship to junior architects and engineers, fostering skill development and project success.
- Developed custom automation scripts utilizing Python and PowerShell to streamline tasks.
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
LP Corp (LTIMindtree)
Nashville, Tennessee
11.2023 - 05.2025
- Led cloud infrastructure implementations featuring landing zone deployments with multi-account strategies.
- Architected disaster recovery solutions that strengthened resilience of SAP workloads.
- Provided guidance on cloud best practices, enhancing reliability and failover capabilities of SAP deployments.
- Executed automated infrastructure deployments using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Integrated AWS SSO configurations with Azure Entra AD groups for streamlined user administration.
- Established governance rules ensuring compliance and security across AWS organizations using Control Tower.
- Supported infrastructure initiatives focused on FinOps and robust security measures.
- Facilitated OS upgrades on critical SAP servers to meet current standards.
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
State of Georgia (GTA)
Atlanta
08.2022 - 11.2023
- Working under the State Enterprise architecture group as a cloud architect.
- As a cloud architect interacting with most of the state agencies/entities and understanding their requirements in cloud environments.
- Implemented cloud best practices solutions for state agencies, enhancing their cloud infrastructure.
- Implemented the Landing zone deployments with multi org structure and multi account strategies
- Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) for cloud security and vulnerably using partner service and possible security services and IAM services from AWS.
- Developed failover architectures, including disaster recovery and high availability models.
- High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles.
- Implementation of infrastructure and application deployments
- Infrastructure automations using Terraform and CDK for CICD pipelines.
- Worked on WAF firewalls for application integrations using AWS native firewalls
- Application deployment followed Devops CICD process using multiple pipeline tools.
- Application deployments into orchestration or serverless platforms.
- Developed in-house call center platform using AWS Connect services, facilitating onboarding of all state agencies onto a unified platform.
- Customized CCP boards to enhance user experience based on application demands. for connect user board experience as per application demands.
- Configuring the Routing profiles for Connect contact flows.
- Agent’s onboarding and user management for connect.
- Realtime call recording and forwarding options for connect.
- Customization of contact flows and real-time attributes for aws connect.
- Integration of chatbot with lex and DynamoDB for connect virtual support.
- For chat experiences using lex bot customizations on connect.
- Good Experience on Data warehouse to implement the ETL process.
- Working on AWS Glue Studio easy to create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue
- Working experience on Glue to create and run the ETL jobs for data process
- Executed data lake implementations, delivering industry-standard and customized solutions tailored to state agencies' data needs.
- Working on Glue and Glue crawlers for data lake implementations.
- Utilized Splunk dashboards to analyze and visualize data insights.
- Working on Aws Data Lab to club all data migrations and DB migrations in single platform.
- SNS, SQS for notifications. S3 storage and lifecycle policies.
- Working experience on CloudFront.
- With that it resolves the complex big data and Data warehouse solutions to the customers.
- Worked on Amazon Kendra for search engine.
- Kendra configured with public domains for search engine to support ML based search features.
- Kendra configured with multiple connectors.
- Enabled Kendra with crawler depths.
AWS Solution Architect / Migration SME
Nutrien (TCS)
Denver, CO
06.2022 - 08.2022
- Collaborating with client and designing architecture for production applications migrations (AWS)
- Did migrations from on Prem to cloud using MGN and cloud endure migration tools.
- Migrated over 500 SAP servers and applications in multiple waves using MGN.
- Implemented Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) for security and vulnerability management using CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint services.
- Infrastructure provisions and automation using Terraform and CFT’s.
- Configured CI/CD deployments with AWS native services including CodeBuild and CodePipeline using CDK.
- Worked on WAF firewall systems for applications firewalls with Illumio and AWS WAF.
- Worked on Imperva configurations for vulnerability.
- Worked on Direct connect configurations for tunnel creations.
- Performed updates using Ansible for efficient configuration management.
- Denver, CO, Remote
Cloud Architect Associate Manager
MODEC (Accenture)
Hyderabad
07.2021 - 05.2022
- Implemented architectures, infrastructure, and application deployments to support client requirements.
- Implemented the Landing zone deployments with multi org structure and multi account strategies
- High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles
- Providing the failover architectures like, Disaster Recovery and High availability models.
- Migrated SAAP systems to AWS cloud using lift and shift strategy to improve scalability.
- Collaborating with client and designing architecture for SAP production applications on IAAS(AWS)
- Gathering information from clients to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.
- Deployed infrastructure using Terraform to streamline resource management.
- Working on multiple PAAS services like, elastic beanstalk, RDS, ECS, EKS
- Developed applications utilizing Docker images on ECS and EKS clusters.
- CICD pipelines are configured for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Configured EMR and Athena with Glue jobs to optimize data analytics and reporting capabilities.
- Configured glue jobs to enable the data lake to store it in storage and query process from Athena.
- Configure the lambda functions to fine tune the data.
- Developed user and group management processes using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
- Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
- Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
- Building the Inhouse call center platform using AWS connect services and it will enable the services to onboard all the state agencies into one platform.
- Customization of CCP boards for connect user board experience as per application demands.
- Configuring the Routing profiles for Connect contact flows.
- Agent’s onboarding and user management for connect.
- Realtime call recording and forwarding options.
- Customization of contact flows and real-time attributes.
- Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
- Worked with Terraform to build infrastructure.
- Implemented Direct connect tunnel and configurations as part of cloud network setup.
- Hyderabad, India
AWS Architect
Invent Health (9Logic)
Hyderabad
09.2020 - 05.2021
- Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.
- Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
- Automated provisioning and management of AWS components including EC2 instances, security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM using AWS CloudFormation templates.
- Automated deployments with Code build, Codedeploy and Code pipeline services.
- Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
- Managed user and group accounts using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
- Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
- Utilized Python boto3 to automate AWS resource management..
- Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
- Created Docker containers and consoles to streamline application lifecycle management.
- Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.
- Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
- Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.
- Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
- Worked on presales area on the projects and cloud discussions.
- Presales will give the confidence to the customers to choose the right solutions.
- Experience installing, configuring, and supporting Amazon AWS.
AWS Architect & Devops engineer
Ciber
Bengaluru
06.2019 - 07.2020
- Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.
- Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.
- Managed AWS services including IAM, RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, DynamoDB, SES, SQS, and SNS to ensure secure and efficient cloud operations.
- Developed and deployed applications on ECS clusters using Docker images to enhance application scalability.
- Created and managed Docker containers and consoles to streamline application life cycle management.
- Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.
- Experienced in pushing Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.
- Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.
- Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
- Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
- Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
- Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
- Experienced installing, configuring, and supporting Amazon AWS.
- Assisted in utilizing SMS to streamline the migration of applications to AWS cloud infrastructure. and CloudEndure.
- Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
- Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.
- Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
- Experienced in Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Nirmata.
- Experienced in creating microservices applications and maintaining micro services applications.
- Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.
- Part of presales for AWS cloud and Bigdata solutions.
- Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
- Part of presales for AWS cloud and Bigdata solutions.
- Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
AWS Developer & DevOps Engineer
Oracle India
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 05.2019
- Designed EC2 instance architecture ensuring high availability and adherence to security parameters.
- Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and Ropeworks.
- Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.
- Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, DynamoDB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
- Managed user access through creation, modification, and deletion of users and groups in Amazon Identity and Access Management.
- Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
- Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
- Design and develop the Jenkins jobs to create an application and infrastructure jobs to deploy the applications/ deployment.
- Developed scripts for build, deployment, and maintenance tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python, and Bash.
- Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
- Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
- Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.
- Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
- Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.
- Supported Amazon AWS environments to enhance system reliability and efficiency.
- Experienced in creating microservices applications and maintaining micro services applications.
- Bengaluru, India
Education
Bachelors - computer science engineering
JNTU
Hyderabad, India01-2009
Skills
- AWS and cloud services
- Cloud architecture design
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform and Ansible
- CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins and Hudson
- Git and Bitbucket
- AWS ECS and EKS
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Cloud Security Practices
- Disaster recovery planning
- IT Service Management
- Cloud Financial Management
- RDS and Oracle databases
- SQL Server and MySQL
- Cloud Database Solutions
- Shell scripting and Python
- Agile methodologies
- Identity Access Management
- CloudWatch and Nagios
- Linux Administration
- Oracle Linux
- WebLogic and APEX
- Infrastructure as Code
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate, 2018-06-01, 2024-02-01
- AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, 2021-02-01, 2027-02-01
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, 2021-03-01, 2024-03-01
- AWS Certified Gen AI - Professional, 2026-07-20, 2029-07-20
- Claude Certified AI Architect - Foundations, 2026-08-12, 2027-08-11
Timeline
Cloud Solution Architect
Capgemini Financial Services
05.2025 - Current
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
LP Corp (LTIMindtree)
11.2023 - 05.2025
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
State of Georgia (GTA)
08.2022 - 11.2023
AWS Solution Architect / Migration SME
Nutrien (TCS)
06.2022 - 08.2022
Cloud Architect Associate Manager
MODEC (Accenture)
07.2021 - 05.2022
AWS Architect
Invent Health (9Logic)
09.2020 - 05.2021
AWS Architect & Devops engineer
Ciber
06.2019 - 07.2020
AWS Developer & DevOps Engineer
Oracle India
06.2015 - 05.2019
Bachelors - computer science engineering
JNTU