Chirag Pandey
Cloud Analyst (AWS)
Noida,UP
Summary
Cloud Analyst with 9+ years designing, building, and operating hybrid
and cloud-native platforms across enterprise environments. Deep expertise in AWS (multi-account landing zones, Transit Gateway networking, IAM, observability), Microsoft Azure, with strong Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD automation capability. Proven FinOps leadership—delivering up to 30% YoY AWS cost reduction and recurring ~20% month-on-month savings—while driving architecture decisions through to operational handover.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certifications
Work History
Analyst
Coforge LTD
11.2021 - Current
- Lead a team of 8 members, managing end to end four customers AWS accounts and the flow of day-to-day operations.
- Hands-on architect and builder for AWS platform services, owning end-to-end delivery from design
through implementation and operational handover. - Built CI/CD-driven infrastructure automation and repeatable patterns using AWS
CDK/CloudFormation; standardized networking, security baselines, and deployment guardrails.
- Designed and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, reducing deployment failures and improving system reliability by 70%.
- Migrated workloads from legacy AWS accounts into a governed multi-account landing zone using
AWS Organizations/Control Tower concepts; implemented IAM, SCPs, and tagging standards. - Designed and implemented a hub-and-spoke AWS network using Transit Gateway across accounts/VPCs; configured TGW attachments and route tables (association/propagation),
segmentation, and end-to-end routing.
- Led the upgrade and lifecycle management of Amazon EKS clusters, ensuring zero-downtime deployments and high availability of Kubernetes workloads.
- Optimized cloud infrastructure by implementing auto-scaling policies, proactive monitoring, and automated resource scheduling, achieving a 25% reduction in operational costs.
- Use AWS Bedrock and Azure Open AI services for creating AI based applications- Retrieval
- Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve the quality and relevance of generated response.
- Delivered FinOps initiatives, driving ~20% month-on-month AWS cost reduction through
right-sizing, scheduling, and governance/tagging.
Cloud SME
Garg Data Information
05.2016 - 11.2021
- Hands-on cloud architect for hybrid and cloud-native workloads, designing and implementing AWS
reference architectures aligned to security, reliability, and cost requirements. - Built and evolved AWS network foundations (VPC design, subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs,
Route 53) and resilient traffic patterns using ALB/NLB. - Designed and implemented Transit Gateway connectivity (hub-and-spoke) to interconnect VPCs
and integrate on-prem/partner networks; managed TGW route tables, propagation/associations, and
segmentation for secure east-west traffic. - Delivered infrastructure-as-code and automation (CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform-style IaC where
used) and integrated CI/CD to enable consistent, repeatable environment provisioning. - Implemented AWS security and governance controls (IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, AWS Config,
GuardDuty/Security Hub) and led remediation of availability/performance/security risks. - Partnered with application teams on platform services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS) and drove
FinOps optimization through right-sizing, scaling policies, and monitoring. - Reduced AWS spend by ~30% YoY through governance, usage visibility, and optimization
- Operated and supported large-scale cloud infrastructure, maintaining high availability across ~1,000
clustered hosts and associated virtual machines. - Led major incident response, performed RCAs, and drove preventative fixes; approved/monitored
major changes to minimise downtime. - Created and maintained SOPs, operational metrics, and global reporting for service visibility and
compliance. - Executed security and compliance activities, including vulnerability assessment reporting and
automation of recurring tasks. - Managed a team of 12 (3 onsite, 9 offsite) supporting 24x7 engineering operations.
Education
B-Tech - CS
Bhagwant University
Ajmer01-2012
Skills
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM)
DevOps/CI/CD
FinOps/Cost Optimization
GitHub Actions
Landing Zone Accelerators
Amazon EKS / ECS
Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)
Kubernetes
Networking (VPC routing, TGWroute tables, DNS, VPN)
CloudWatch / CloudTrail
Authentication & AccessManagement
AWS Aurora and RDS (PAAS)
Certification
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Timeline
Analyst
Coforge LTD
11.2021 - Current
Cloud SME
Garg Data Information
05.2016 - 11.2021
B-Tech - CS
Bhagwant University