- Senior Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in designing, automating, and operating secure, highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading cloud migration projects and implementing scalable, resilient architectures that improve system reliability and operational efficiency. Highly skilled in cloud automation and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and business alignment.
- Extensive experience across Azure (primary), OCI, and AWS, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
Hi, I’m
Rahul Darak
Hyderabad
Summary
Overview
9
years of professional experience
6
Certification
Skills
- Cloud Architecture & Multi‑Cloud (Azure, AWS, OCI)
- DevOps & CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) & Docker
- Azure Networking, Security & Identity
- Azure Migrations, Replatforming
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (003)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Work History
Softtek
Senior Cloud Engineer
03.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Architected and optimized enterprise cloud infrastructure by implementing cost‑effective designs, resource right‑sizing, and lifecycle management, driving improved performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Designed and implemented Azure, OCI, and multi‑cloud landing zones, including virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, DNS zones, and security policies, following enterprise governance and best practices.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, PowerShell, and Ansible, creating reusable modules and standardized frameworks to enable faster, repeatable, and compliant deployments.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes using Azure DevOps, supporting source control, automated deployments, change management, incident handling, and access governance in Agile environments.
- Architected and managed Azure Kubernetes storage and resource governance, including Persistent Volumes (PV), Persistent Volume Claims (PVC), Storage Classes, and Kubernetes namespaces, ensuring reliable workloads and efficient resource segmentation. Managed AKS networking for secure communication between workloads and Azure services.
- Integrated AKS with Azure Active Directory (AAD) to enable Kubernetes RBAC, ensuring secure, role‑based access for platform and application teams. Implemented secure secrets management by integrating AKS with Azure Key Vault and enabling workload access to secrets and certificates.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating container image builds, vulnerability scanning, and deployments to AKS with controlled release strategies.
- Implemented and managed critical PaaS and security services, including Storage Accounts, App Services, SQL Managed Instances, Azure Arc, and different types of Load balancers to manage traffic and improve application resilience.
- Led implementation of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) solutions, including FSLogix, MSIX/AppAttach, custom image pipelines, autoscaling plans, and optimization of user experience and cost.
- Led workload assessment and modernization initiatives, partnering with application teams to migrate and redesign VMware‑based workloads into Azure IaaS, PaaS, and managed services, improving scalability, availability, and cloud adoption outcomes.
- Collaborated with network and security teams to re‑architect network connectivity, including firewall migrations, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect setup, hybrid cloud routing, and cross‑cloud integration (Azure ↔ Oracle ↔ AWS).
- Designed and operated secure cloud networking solutions, troubleshooting complex connectivity and routing issues across VNets, firewalls, load balancers, and multi‑cloud environments.
- Supported AWS cloud environments by architecting and managing VPCs, EC2, ELB, Direct Connect, and storage services, ensuring secure connectivity and high availability.
- Designed and executed disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for mission‑critical systems, minimizing downtime and data loss while resolving complex infrastructure and platform issues.
- Served as Tower Lead, managing and mentoring a team of 4 engineers, owning delivery of new projects, architecture decisions, and operational excellence for client cloud initiatives.
TCS
Cloud Operations Engineer
12.2018 - 03.2021
Job overview
- Provided operational support and administration for multiple Microsoft Azure subscriptions, ensuring stability, availability, and compliance across production and non‑production environments.
- Designed, deployed, and maintained Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including Virtual Machines, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Azure Active Directory, App Services, Azure Container Registry (ACR), Load Balancers, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.
- Built and maintained custom VM images following Azure best practices, ensuring consistency, security hardening, and minimal downtime when working with production workloads.
- Implemented and managed Azure Backup and Recovery Services Vaults, performing backup configuration, validation, troubleshooting, and file‑level and VM‑level restore operations.
- Generated weekly production and critical server health reports using Azure Monitor metrics and Log Analytics queries, providing visibility into performance and availability.
- Prepared monthly cloud inventory and cost reports, tracking Azure resource consumption and helping stakeholders monitor usage and spend.
- Monitored infrastructure alerts and incidents, providing L2/L3 technical support, performing root cause analysis, and coordinating issue resolution through ticketing systems and cross‑functional teams.
- Integrated and managed Windows and Linux virtual machines with Azure Active Directory, supporting identity, access control, and authentication requirements.
- Performed maintenance activities including VM snapshots, patching support, and creating new VM instances from existing snapshots as part of change management processes.
- Administered user and group access, configuring permissions for users, groups, and shared resources across local and network environments.
TalentSprint Pvt Ltd
Technical Support Engineer
08.2016 - 03.2018
Job overview
- Configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting of Windows operating systems and servers.
- Responsible for incidents and Service requests, ensuring that they are resolved effectively and efficiently against service level agreements (SLA).
- Responsible for resolving, troubleshooting issues with the client Internal applications, and managing the licensing server for assigning licenses to users.
- Diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving hardware, software, or other network and system related problems.
- Aiding through Remote Assistance Tools such as Skype for Business, Remote Desktop, Zoom and WebEx
- Escalate trouble tickets in the queue to appropriate functional areas and follow up with those functional areas to ensure completion within designated SLAs (Service level agreements).
- Monitor, analyze and address reliability and performance issues logged in Remedy ticketing tool, resolving, or escalating as per the defined procedure.
- Configuration of LVM and managing the volumes.
- Experienced in working with Active Directory, GPO ‘s, SMBX, DNS, DHCP windows server. Comfortable with PowerShell scripting and commands.
- Strong Trouble Shooting and problem-solving skills, contributed many articles to Knowledge base.
Education
GuruNanak Engineering CollegeHyderabad
Bachelor of Technology from Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies
03-2014
University Overview
Timeline
Senior Cloud Engineer
Softtek
03.2021 - Current
Cloud Operations Engineer
TCS
12.2018 - 03.2021
Technical Support Engineer
TalentSprint Pvt Ltd
08.2016 - 03.2018
GuruNanak Engineering College
Bachelor of Technology from Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies