RAJIV DG

Highly experienced IT professional with 19 years of global expertise in architecting and managing complex, enterprise-wide IT programs, operations, and infrastructure services across on-premises and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). Proven leader in DevOps and Cloud Engineering, with a strong focus on automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and cloud transformation across various industries, including Education, Media, Finance, Healthcare, and Legal. Extensive experience in DevOps strategy, cloud migration, and automation, reducing costs by over 30% while successfully transitioning from on-premises infrastructure to cloud, and between clouds. Expertise in architecting solutions, including infrastructure design, high-level solution architecture, and technical responses to RFI/RFPs. Strong subject matter expertise in IaC, Security as Code, Compliance as Code, PaaS, SaaS, Virtualization, Containerization, and CI/CD pipelines. Skilled in Kubernetes orchestration on VMs and managed services (Amazon EKS, ECS, Azure AKS), managing clusters with hundreds of nodes and thousands of pods. Hands-on experience in AWS and Azure IaaS/PaaS services, with a focus on Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, and Azure DSC for infrastructure automation. Proficient in logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, and CloudWatch for infrastructure, applications, containers, and databases. Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), ensuring production infrastructure stability, conducting RCA, issue triaging, and adhering to SLAs and SLOs. Adept in Linux and Windows Server administration, Bash, PowerShell, and SCM tools like GitHub, BitBucket, and SVN. Strong background in team building, leadership, coaching, and mentoring, with a track record of collaborating closely with senior leadership and operations teams. Thought leader in the technology space, presenting at conferences and industry events, contributing to community initiatives, and delivering high-impact solutions. A driven and self-motivated professional, skilled in client engagement and delivering innovative, scalable, and secure IT solutions that align with business goals.

• Successfully Led Large-Scale Deals: Spearheaded and delivered multi-million-dollar deals for global enterprise customers, ensuring seamless execution and client satisfaction.

• DevOps Architecture & Automation: Designed and implemented automated deployment pipelines for over 40 critical applications, utilizing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) frameworks. Streamlined release processes to accelerate delivery cycles.

• Infrastructure as Code & Blue-Green Deployments: Architected infrastructure pipelines for seamless deployment of immutable infrastructure, facilitating blue-green deployment strategies. Optimized and fixed existing application deployment pipelines, integrating Jenkins and Ansible for automation across AWS and Azure environments.

• Cloud Infrastructure Design & Management: Designed and deployed highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant cloud architectures on AWS and Azure. Planned and implemented cloud infrastructure solutions aligned with budgetary constraints and long-term business objectives.

• SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Migration: Led the migration of approximately 15 SAP S/4HANA workloads from on-premises to multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure), ensuring minimal disruption and seamless integration of workloads, including email servers.

• End-to-End DevOps Deployment: Deployed multiple DevOps projects leveraging AWS services such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, and other tools like GIT, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ECR, ECS, EKS, and AKS. Enabled serverless operations using AWS Lambda for efficient deployment.

• Complex Workload Migrations: Successfully migrated over 300 workloads with three-tier architecture to AWS Cloud using CloudEndure and CloudFormation. Ensured secure and efficient migration of on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

• IBM Research Compute Cloud (RC2) Implementation: Implemented the Research Compute Cloud (RC2) at IBM Research India, leading the deployment and hosting of IBM’s first-ever RC2 infrastructure in the region. The setup included IBM Storage DS4800, IBM pSeries, IBM xSeries servers, and virtualized environments (VIOS, AIX, VMware ESX/vCenter/vSphere, RHEL XEN servers).

• Datacenter Consolidation & Optimization: Directed the successful consolidation of a 430+ server datacenter at IBM Research, reducing the server count by 75%, energy consumption by 67%, and physical datacenter space by 63%. Leveraged VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere, RHEL KVM, and P2V virtualization technologies to optimize infrastructure.