AWS Infrastructure and DevOps Architect
+91 9611186430
rajkahuja@outlook.com
Hiring : Helping AWS Discipline to recruit best talent, participated in 200+ Technical interview in first three months. Planed Hiring, Training, Pre-Project Work, Mentoring strategy for Graduate Engineer Trainings.
Training and Development : Authored/Designed Training program for Engineers, Senior Engineers and Lead Engineers in SRE Practice & AWS Practice . Created Focused Certification Group and helping more and more employees to get certified to grow company market value and build client trust.
Incubation Labs : Started Incubation Labs for AWS Discipline and helping junior team members to upskill.
ZEE5 is an on-demand Internet streaming media provider and is one of the leading OTT platform in India. I worked in Zee5 as Lead Infrastructure Architect , helped Zee5 to make infrastructure 25 times more scalable.
Redesigning of AWS Infrastructure : Redesigned and updated AWS infrastructure (serving live XX Million user per day) and scaled it to handle 25 times of peak load. This complete activity was done within 15 days for "Radhe" movie Launch and "Friends: The Reunion" Launch.
Production Operations : Managed AWS Cloud Operations for OTT platform with Million of active users and restored production outage 3 times within 30 min.
FinOps : Started FinOps for cloud cost management, Build the team, Trained them, provided tools like CXO DashBoard and CUDOS Dashboard , increased use of spot instances, increased usage of RI and saving plan. Helped Organisation to save $2M per annum within 6 month of FinOps Operation.
Infrastructure as Code : Helped team to build reusable modules repository, Increased utilization of terraform from 40% to 80%.
AWS Subject Matter Expert for Informa Enterprise Global Support team Managing & Supporting AWS Infrastructure. It is not fun to manage 7000+ EC2 instances and 200+ AWS Accounts without automation, so I was automating every possible task using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Boto3 & AWS CLI. Here I work for cost saving, compliance , maintenance & Support of any AWS Infrastructure issue.
AWS Cost Saving : Implemented $1M per annum cost saving. Automated most of these task using Python.
Terraform : Designed and Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
ECS/Kubernetes : Managed and supported large cluster of ECS and Kubernetes.
AWS Resource Inventory & Compliance Reporting : Created Global inventory for AWS resources using python boto3 sdk.
AWS Compute Monitoring : Created a custom monitoring solution for specific needs using using Python, MYSQL, PHP & HTML.
Here, I worked as Techinical Marketing Engineer [solution architect] role for Cisco's Cloud Managed Service Team. Product management and product development work which involved designing & building monitoring solution for Cisco's hardware appliances, virtual appliances & application stack. Playing with Cisco's products to perform POC. Working with multiple team to get product developed and delivered to custumers withing strict timeline. Build & managed AWS infrastructure for Cloud Managed Service.
Worked on multiple project for automation and orchestration of task. Honored to get selected as tiger team member for automation and orchestration withing Cisco's Cloud Managed Services. Implemented DevOps practises to all product development teams for automation and orchestration. Manaaged Cisco's DataCenter lab infrastructure of more than 40 rack spaces along with AWS infrastructure.
Worked as DevOps Technical Lead for Honeywell's Building Security Product Development team for SaaS application. I was not statisfied with deploying/upgrading procedure for 3-tier web application, I worked and automated app-stack deployment & upgrade. For product quality enhancement and fast delivery, build CI/CD pipreline.
Worked as Senior System Engineer for Remote Infrastructure Management Team, which envolves working on Server, Networks , Load Balancer & Firewalls. Driving Siemens network migration from frame relay to MPLS. Working with multiple vendors to getting network link upgraded.
Worked in Ericssion's Global Network Operation Center[GNOC] as Engineer. Implementing planned activities of software upgrades, migrations, network changes on large scale. Supporting field teams for project roll-outs.
Worked in Huawei's Global Network Operation Center[GNOC] as Engineer. Worked on multiple roles which envolved Alarm Monitoring, Preventive Management, Change Management & Configuration Management in Global NOC.
HMR Institute of Technology and Management
Guru Gobind Sing Inderprastha University, Delhi
AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional [Certification Expired]
AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate [Certification Expired]
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert [CCIE written only, expired]
Cisco Certified Network Professional [ CCNP Routing & Switching, Certification Expired ]
Cisco Certified Network Associate [ CCNA Routing & Switching, Certification Expired ]
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
Red Hat Certified Engineerl [ RHCE, Certification Expired ]
ITIL Foundation Certified
Six Sigma Green Belt (DFSS) Certified