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SUMIT SAURAV

Technical Lead
Pune,MH
SUMIT SAURAV

Summary

Accomplished Technical Lead with extensive expertise in architecting and securing scalable, multi-cloud infrastructures across AWS and Azure. Adept at driving DevOps automation using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Docker, and CloudFormation, with a proven track record in public cloud security, vulnerability management, CIS benchmark compliance, and automated patch management for both Linux and Windows environments. Recognized for leading and mentoring high-performing teams, embedding security into every layer of the stack, and delivering measurable improvements in compliance, uptime, and cost efficiency. Certified in AWS and Azure, I combine hands-on technical proficiency with strategic vision to deliver secure, resilient, and business-aligned cloud solutions.

Skills

AWS Cloud Security

Operating Systems: Linux (Red hat & Centos & Ubuntu),Windows

DevOps Tool: Ansible,Cloud Formation,GIT,Github,Docker,Terraform,Rundeck

Monitoring: Splunk,Kibana,Pingdom,Grafana,OMI

Ticketing tools: Jira,SNOW,GLPI,BMC Remedy on Demand

Work History

BFDL(Bajaj Finserv Direct Limited)
Pune, Maharashtra

Technical Lead, Operations
10.2023 - Current

Job overview

• Implementation of AWS security best practices, including IAM policy management, encryption, network segmentation.

• Alignment with industry standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and GDPR.

• Reduction in vulnerabilities or security incidents,reduced critical vulnerabilities by 85% with zero major incidents.

• Leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation to ensure repeatability, agility, and compliance.

• Mentoring and upskilling team members, leading to promotions or increased team productivity.

Virtusa (Coupa)

Site Reliability Engineer
05.2022 - 09.2023

Job overview

  • Primary on-call engineer for escalations and customer point of contact
  • Maintaining github repository for deployments and achieve sustainable environment
  • All changes and issues are ticketed in Jira for assignment and tracking
  • Actively using Splunk/Grafana/Pingdom/ELK to gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Application deployment on production and non-production environment by following release and change management process
  • Setup new deployment from scratch to host customer/applications with
  • Track down defects and come up with innovative solutions to improve reliability and availability
  • Work with product engineering team to resolve trouble tickets, developing and running scripts, and troubleshooting services in hosted environment.
  • Recorded daily events and activities in site diary to evaluate process and improve productivity
  • Developed SOPs and change controls pertaining to setup, maintenance and operation of equipment, facility and utilities

Rackspace Technology

Cloud Engineer L2 and Devops Engineer
01.2021 - 04.2022

Job overview

Roles and Responsibilities (DevOps)

  • Installing, Configured and management in Ansible Centralized Server and creating playbooks to support various application server
  • Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks and Yaml for resource declaration
  • Maintained Git workflows for version control and source code management
  • Write terraform scripts from scratch for building Dev, Staging, Prod and DR AWS environments
  • Provisioned servers and deployed features using Terraform and Ansible
  • Hands-on knowledge of docker containerization platform
  • Jenkins integration with Git ,docker and ansible

Roles & Responsibilities ( Public Cloud Operations AWS )

  • Ability to manage servers using System Manager (SSM) for patch management and troubleshooting of servers
  • Ability to estimate usage costs and experience in monitoring and auditing systems using cloudwatch and cloudtrail
  • Create/Managing buckets on S3 (CLI) and store logs backup
  • Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)

HCL Technologies Ltd

Cloud Administrator
01.2015 - 01.2021

Job overview

Roles & Responsibilities (Public Cloud Operations AWS )

  • Build and release Ec2 instances Amazon Linux, Redhat and Windows for POC, Development and Production environment and configuring the servers as per request
  • Managing VPC, security groups,Private and public subnets, Route Table, Internet gateway NAT Gateway, Peering
  • Managed Autoscaling during high traffic and release activity(updating launch configurations)
  • Configuration Identity & Access Management (IAM) Users, Groups, Permission, Polices, Roles.
  • Configured and reports related to Cloud watch, Guardduty, AWS Inspector.
  • Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots
  • Fetching reports from AWS config and trusted advisor
  • Production assistance on 24*7 basis

Roles & Responsibilities (MS Azure)

  • Resource Group Management, Implementing and managing Azure networking
  • Implementing virtual machines, Planning and implementing storage, backup, and recovery services
  • Azure PowerShell: Server creation, Image creation, Copying image, Snapshot Creation
  • Worked on CDN and traffic manager
  • Configuring ELBs and VM scale sets, azure files in MS azure

Roles & Responsibilities (Linux Administration)

  • Linux patching/upgradation activities using ansible along with managing Adhoc commands and tasks and configuration management
  • On Prem/ Public Cloud servers management.
  • Provisioned load balancer, auto-scaling group and launch configuration for micro services using Ansible.
  • Maximized system availability through development and testing of contingency plans.

Certification

AWS Sysops Associate

Education

Yamuna Institute of Engg. And Technology (Kurukshetra University)
Haryana

B.Tech from ECE
05.2010 - 04.2014

University Overview

GPA: 73.8%

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