Sandeep Sharma
Cloud Architect | DevOps | Microservices | IaC | Automation
Dwarka
Summary
Expert Cloud Architect and DevOps Architect with strong communication and problem-solving skills. Experienced in designing solution diagrams and automating processes. Subject matter expert in cloud technologies, microservices, Python, PowerShell, Terraform, and automation tools. Demonstrated ability to align business requirements with technology for successful design, migration, and integration of cloud solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Sr AWS Architect | DevOps
Bangalore Business Analysts Pvt Ltd
11.2023 - Current
- Led the comprehensive gathering of requirements, analyzing existing infrastructure, and collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs for cloud migration projects.
- Conducted thorough assessments of on-premises applications and systems, identifying key dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and security considerations to formulate effective migration strategies.
- Proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Terraform, and Bitbucket, an experienced DevOps Architect designs and implements scalable containerized environments.
- Robust comprehension of the Cloud Platform, encompassing a wide array of features and capabilities such as Security, Firewalls, RedisCache, Key Vault, Networking, S3 Storage, Resource Groups, SQL Server, Sql DB, and Load-Balancers.
- Implemented and managed Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to document crucial design decisions, ensuring transparency and aiding in the decision-making process throughout the project lifecycle.
- Actively utilize Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Terraform, and Bitbucket in my daily workflow.
- Fostered a culture of collaboration by regularly reviewing ADRs with cross-functional teams to align on architectural choices and maintain a unified vision for AWS cloud solutions.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, integration, and deployment processes, enhancing development agility.
- Executed detailed cost estimations for AWS cloud solutions, considering factors such as compute resources, storage, and data transfer, ensuring accurate budgeting and financial planning.
- Utilize Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning, enabling consistent deployment across various cloud platforms.
- Proven track record of leveraging AWS ADS tools to ensure secure and seamless data management.
- Manage code repositories effectively using Bitbucket, facilitating collaborative development and version control.
- Orchestrated the seamless migration of on-premises applications to AWS, employing best practices and industry standards to ensure minimal downtime and optimal performance during the transition.
- Collaborated closely with development and operations teams to define migration plans, execute testing procedures, and address any challenges encountered during the migration process.
- Conducted rigorous performance benchmarking of applications post-migration, utilizing AWS monitoring tools and performance metrics to validate successful migration outcomes.
Established performance baselines and conducted thorough comparisons between on-premises and AWS-hosted environments, showcasing the improved scalability, reliability, and efficiency achieved through the migration.
AWS Solutions Architect
Dimiour
07.2023 - 11.2023
- Designed scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS, aligning with clients' business goals and requirements.
- Implemented IaC practices using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management, reducing deployment times and minimizing errors.
- Architecting and deploying ADFS identity solutions within the AWS environment, ensuring seamless design and implementation.
- Implemented AWS security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, and compliance frameworks, ensuring data protection and regulatory adherence.
- Architecture HA and DR solutions using AWS services like AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, and AWS Backup for business continuity.
- Established CI and CD pipelines using tools like Bitbucket, GitHub Action, or Azure DevOps to automate software delivery.
Orchestrated Docker containers with Kubernetes or Amazon ECS, enhancing application scalability, and facilitating efficient deployment. - Implemented robust monitoring and logging solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and ELK stack for real-time insights into system health.
- Employed tool like Ansible for configuration management, ensuring infrastructure consistency and reliability.
- Worked closely with development and operations teams to foster a DevOps culture, facilitating communication and collaboration.
- Engaged with potential clients to understand their business needs and objectives, building strong relationships and trust.
- Create and deploy sophisticated functionalities within AWS AD Premium, encompassing aspects of security, governance, and compliance.
- Led PoCs and demonstrations to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of proposed solutions, aiding in decision-making.
- Demonstrated deep technical knowledge of AWS services and DevOps practices to instill confidence in clients and ensure solution feasibility.
- Extensive experience implementing AWS ADS services for efficient data storage and retrieval.
Cloud Solution Architect | DevOps
CloudEQ Software India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2023 - 07.2023
- In my role as a Cloud Architect, I collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including Product Owners, Project Managers, and Directors of the Sales department. In addition, I provide leadership to the Engineering team, taking charge of end-to-end project execution.
- Focus's on enhancing network performance, ensuring security, and establishing seamless connectivity within AWS environments.
- Working alongside the Sales team, I actively engage in comprehending client requirements and gathering essential information. Drawing upon my expertise, I collaborate with Product Owners to develop project roadmaps, ensuring alignment with client expectations. This involves designing and proposing innovative solutions that address client needs and presenting them to both Product Owners and clients for consideration.
- As the leader of the DevOps team, I oversee critical areas such as pipeline establishment, microservices architecture design, and release management. By implementing efficient and scalable systems, I facilitate seamless integration and deployment, contributing to the overall success of the development lifecycle.
- Accomplished AWS Architect specializing in network design and optimization for cloud environments.
- Employ a security-first approach to network design, implementing robust security measures and best practices to safeguard critical data and resources.
- Furthermore, my involvement extends to migration projects, encompassing diverse strategies like lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and transforming monolithic architectures into microservices. Through meticulous planning and execution, I spearhead these initiatives, enabling clients to harness the advantages of modern cloud environments.
- Beyond project execution, I actively engage in automation tasks using tools such as Ansible, shell scripting, Python, and PowerShell. Leveraging these technologies, I streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive continuous improvement. Additionally, I focus on integrating the proposed solutions through the use of Terraform or CloudFormation, ensuring seamless implementation within the cloud infrastructure.
- As a Lead Cloud Architect, my comprehensive skill set, project management acumen, and leadership abilities enable me to excel in overseeing end-to-end project delivery. From initial client engagement, requirements gathering, and solution design to migration projects, automation, and seamless integration, I play a pivotal role in orchestrating successful cloud initiatives.
Furthermore, as a Lead Cloud Architect, I leverage my expertise to design comprehensive solution diagrams based on the information gathered from clients. These solution diagrams serve as visual representations of the proposed architecture, providing stakeholders with a clear understanding of the intended system design. - In addition to my broad range of cloud architecture skills, I possess in-depth proficiency in various AWS services. This includes Lambda, AWS Glue, Athena, RDS, DynamoDB, and cost management tools and lot more. With a strong command over these technologies, I can effectively utilize their capabilities to architect and optimize cloud solutions, ensuring efficient and cost-effective implementations.
Sr. Manager | DevOps Architect | Solution Architec
Alternative Path
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Alternative Path
- Demonstrated track record of designing and implementing highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure for complex, mission-critical applications
- As a seasoned cloud architect, you have extensive experience in designing cloud architectures that can handle high loads, ensure fault tolerance, and provide disaster recovery capabilities
- Proven track record in enhancing network performance and implementing secure, high-performing AWS network architectures.
- Dedicated to designing and implementing network solutions that establish seamless connectivity within AWS environments, delivering comprehensive network infrastructure expertise.
- Experienced cloud architect with strong communication skills, able to effectively present technical designs and convey benefits/risks of cloud architectures to non-technical stakeholders, address concerns/questions, and provide actionable insights to enable informed decisions
- Worked with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, JUnit, Git, PHPUnit, Maven, and other tools
- Migrated on-premises applications to AWS, re-architecting applications to leverage AWS services and minimize costs
- Created and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible
- Possessed the expertise to proactively evaluate the implemented solutions and make necessary alterations, thereby ensuring the optimal performance and sustainability of the architecture
- Proficient in creating and designing cloud infrastructure that is tailored to the precise specifications of clients and adeptly conveying the benefits to them
- Completed a project to set up monitoring and alerting for a client's infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana
- The implementation included designing a scalable architecture, configuring Prometheus to collect metrics, and setting up dashboards in Grafana for easy visualization and alerting
- Defined security best practices and implemented them across AWS services, including IAM, VPC, S3, AWS WAF, IDS/IPS, DDoS Protection, SSL certs and Encryption
- Optimized AWS resource utilization and reduced costs using services like EC2 Reserved Instances, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch
- Designed and implemented serverless architectures using API Gateway and DynamoDB, including defining disaster recovery and business continuity plans with multi-region failover and backup strategies
- Proficient in designing, deploying, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes and Docker, with a deep understanding of containerization and microservices architecture
- I am experienced in breaking monolithic applications into microservices
- My job involves analyzing, designing, and implementing software solutions that align with clients' business requirements and technical constraints
- I evaluate the current application architecture, identify potential areas for improvement, and devise a strategy for breaking the monolith into smaller, loosely coupled microservices
- I work closely with development teams to ensure that the microservices are scalable, maintainable, and reliable.
Project Lead | Cloud Solution Architect
Wipro
01.2015 - 04.2022
- Accomplished cloud leader with a track record of designing and migrating AWS-based solutions.
- Led teams of 5 engineers and senior engineers to deliver successful projects.
- Expert in coordinating project execution, ensuring 100% on-time delivery, and meeting contractual commitments.
- Proficient in cloud architecture, infrastructure security, and network design with a strong AWS foundation.
- Skilled in implementing design patterns for distributed systems, including Kubernetes (K8S) infrastructure.
- Designed, developed, and maintained K8S infrastructure for secure, highly available (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) environments.
- Led projects with a focus on data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Successfully re-hosted, re-platformed, and refactored on-premises applications for cloud migration.
- Provided guidance and support to engineering teams for automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using DevOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform.
- Maintained a strong understanding of AWS technologies, including IAM, networking, load balancing, security, and storage.
Lead Administrator
hCentive Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
11.2013 - 01.2015
- Set clear team goals and expectations on projects and delegate tasks and set deadlines, monitor team performance, and report on metrics and listen to their feedback and resolve any issues\ blocker or conflicts
- Responsible for day-to-day administration duties, including Windows Active Directory object maintenance such as Domain Controllers, DNS, user authentication, and other operating systems as needed
Technician Network Services
Convergys India Services Pvt Ltd Pvt. Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2013
- I worked with a team that remotely supported thousands of users
- Troubleshoot client issues and escalated tickets if needed or placed a service call if the matter was identified as a hardware concern, followed-up with clients to ensure satisfaction with action taken
Education
Secondary Certificate (10th -
National Institute of Opening Schooling
Higher Secondary Certificate (12th) - undefined
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
National Institute of Opening Schooling
Bachelor of Arts - General
Indian Education Centre
Skills
Project leadershipundefined
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
Timeline
Sr AWS Architect | DevOps
Bangalore Business Analysts Pvt Ltd
11.2023 - Current
AWS Solutions Architect
Dimiour
07.2023 - 11.2023
Cloud Solution Architect | DevOps
CloudEQ Software India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2023 - 07.2023
Sr. Manager | DevOps Architect | Solution Architec
Alternative Path
04.2022 - 04.2023
Project Lead | Cloud Solution Architect
Wipro
01.2015 - 04.2022
Lead Administrator
hCentive Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
11.2013 - 01.2015
Technician Network Services
Convergys India Services Pvt Ltd Pvt. Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2013
Secondary Certificate (10th -
National Institute of Opening Schooling
Higher Secondary Certificate (12th) - undefined
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
National Institute of Opening Schooling
Bachelor of Arts - General
Indian Education Centre
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