Akash Soam
Bengaluru
Summary
Critical thinking DevOps and Cloud Infra Engineer with around 8 years of experience and extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Capgemini
Bengaluru
08.2024 - Current
- Established automated AWS/Grafana monitoring platform, enhancing multi-account dashboard and alert management.
- Added intelligent alert routing and X-Ray tracing with CloudWatch correlation for enhanced monitoring.
- Managed cloud infrastructure to ensure system reliability and availability.
- Drove continuous improvements in automation and cloud-native DevOps practices, enhancing overall deployment efficiency.
- Implemented template-driven observability for 30+ AWS services, enabling dynamic data source adaptation.
- Built integrations with Model Context Protocol to connect LLM agents to external systems securely.
- Developed proofs of concept for agentic AI workflows utilizing Python and LLMs.
- Contributed to architectural planning and operational documentation for fault-tolerant AI systems.
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - 08.2024
- Designed Technical Design documentation for multiple cloud platforms and architectures.
- Served as Role Based Access Control owner for multiple cloud platforms.
- Maintained cloud infrastructure for Google Cloud, Azure, and SharePoint.
- Developed cloud infrastructure using Terraform, employing a modular approach for scalability and reusability.
- Implemented GCP HTTPS Load Balancers for backend services without public IPs.
- Established VPN tunnels and integrated cloud platforms on cloud-cloud and ground-cloud concepts.
- Developed lifecycle policies on GCS Buckets.
- Managed production incidents and streamlined ticket resolution processes using Remedy and Jira for efficient issue tracking.
- Developed Azure Enterprise applications and App registrations for SharePoint integrations.
- Integrated Azure Key Vault and GitLab Secret Manager to implement DevSecOps practices, ensuring secure management of secrets, API keys, and credentials across all pipelines.
- Utilized Azure Storage Accounts (Blob/File) for managing static assets and intermediate pipeline artifacts with secure access via SAS tokens and identity-based controls.
- Provisioned and secured container images using Azure Container Registry (ACR) and deployed them to OpenShift environments for standardized Dev/Test/Prod rollouts.
Infra Developer
Cognizant
04.2018 - 12.2020
- Migrated SVN, Git, and TFS with complete commit history, enabling automation of build and deployment for Windows and Tomcat applications using Jenkins/QuickBuild.
- Developed pipeline scripts in Jenkins, streamlining end-to-end build and deployment processes.
- Implemented shared library approach and deployed applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Managed Jenkins as administrator and resolved access tickets.
- Troubleshot Jenkins issues, resolving job failures, software installations, plugin upgrades, and node connectivity problems.
- Installed Jenkins slave agents on Windows machines and completed internal certification training for SVN and Git.
- Validated patching activities for Linux and Windows servers, creating PowerShell script to check Tomcat service status post-patching.
- Onboarded new applications into cloud services such as GKE registered through Anthos.
Education
B.Tech/B.E. - Civil Engineering
Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU)
INDIA08-2016
Skills
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD development
- Devsecops
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Google Cloud Platform
- Azure
- Grafana
- Github
- OpenAI integrations
Certification
- Associate Cloud Engineer Certification, 11/01/22
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, 12/01/25
Social Link
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashsoam-9121ab8a/
Languages
- Hindi
- English
- Hindi
Internship
Estimation and costing, Heavy Engineering Limited, Estimation and costing of renovation of Heavy Engineering Limited buildings.
Timeline
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Capgemini
08.2024 - Current
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - 08.2024
Infra Developer
Cognizant
04.2018 - 12.2020
B.Tech/B.E. - Civil Engineering
Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU)