SUNIL SURYAMANI
Thane
Summary
Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS architecture and disaster recovery planning. Expertise in automating infrastructure with Terraform and optimizing performance through microservices. Committed to delivering secure, scalable solutions that drive business success. Strategic solution architect focused on process evaluation and optimization.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect | May 2025 – Present
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
05.2025 - Current
- AWS Enterprise Architecture: Lead the architectural design of enterprise-grade solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure operational excellence, security, and cost optimization.
- Strategic Cloud Advisory: Advise clients on complex AWS Hybrid Cloud architectures and large-scale migration strategies for digital transformation projects.
- Multi-Account Governance: Serve as the Anchor Project Support Excellence lead, ensuring architectural integrity and security compliance across complex AWS Organizations and landing zone workstreams.
- Advanced Solution Design: Author comprehensive Low-Level Design (LLD) and High-Level Design (HLD) documents covering VPC topology, IAM hierarchies, and integration with third-party security appliances.
- Stakeholder & Roadmap Management: Partner with C-suite stakeholders to align AWS technical roadmaps with core business objectives and long-term scalability requirements.
- DevOps & Modernization: Driving the adoption of AWS DevOps tools (CodePipeline, CloudFormation/Terraform) to achieve faster release cycles and infrastructure consistency across global regions.
- Technical Leadership: Facilitate deep-dive workshops for clients on advanced AWS services, including Serverless (Lambda), Managed Databases (RDS/DynamoDB), and Cloud Security best practices
Associate Architect Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
04.2024 - 04.2025
- UPI Banking Infrastructure: Architected highly resilient and secure cloud networks for mission-critical UPI applications, achieving sub-second transaction latency through optimized AWS Direct Connect and high-bandwidth connectivity.
- Enterprise Network Security: Engineered a centralized networking model using AWS Transit Gateway and Fortinet Firewalls to manage segregated ingress/egress traffic with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) across a multi-account environment of 25+ AWS accounts.
- Governance & Compliance: Established a robust AWS Landing Zone using Control Tower for automated account vending and enforced enterprise-wide security guardrails through Service Control Policies (SCPs).
- Microservices Orchestration: Streamlined the deployment and management of containerized microservices on AWS EKS by developing modular Helm charts and utilizing Amazon ECR for secure image versioning.
- Disaster Recovery (DC-DR): Orchestrated full-scale DC-DR drills, automating failover procedures and ensuring zero data loss through real-time data replication using Kafka and YugabyteDB.
- Architectural Documentation: Authored comprehensive design documents including system architecture diagrams, security frameworks, and data models to ensure alignment across cross-functional engineering teams.
Senior Cloud Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
04.2023 - 04.2024
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Developed reusable Terraform modules, enabling rapid provisioning of Dev, UAT, and Prod environments via a single automated pipeline.
- Hybrid Networking: Configured Site-to-Site VPNs and Transit Gateway (TGW) Peering, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises data centers and AWS cloud resources.
- Storage & AD Migration: Streamlined data migration from on-prem to AWS FSx, ensuring Active Directory integration over private MPLS networks.
- Cost Management (Recommended): Implemented cost-optimization strategies using AWS Trusted Advisor and custom Python scripts, identifying and decommissioning unused resources to reduce monthly cloud spend.
- Security Hardening (Recommended): Automated security compliance checks using AWS Config and GuardDuty, ensuring all provisioned infrastructure met strict organizational security benchmarks.
Cloud Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
09.2021 - 04.2023
- High-Traffic Media Infrastructure: Managed large-scale news platforms including India.com, Zee News, and DNA, ensuring infrastructure stability for massive concurrent traffic across India and international regions.
- CI/CD Pipeline & Automated Rollback: Designed and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodeCommit. Developed a dynamic deployment process with an automatic rollback feature to the previous stable version in case of failure.
- CMS Migration & Modernization: Led the migration of legacy WordPress platforms to modern, scalable architectures, successfully maintaining infrastructure performance during high-traffic events.
- Regional Migration: Spearheaded the end-to-end migration of media applications and RDS databases across AWS regions within strict project timelines.
- Linux Automation: Developed complex Shell scripts for day-to-day administrative tasks, including automated application log collection and filtering to reduce troubleshooting time.
- Production OS Upgrades: Successfully executed Operating System version upgrades for production environments to ensure security and performance compliance.
- Operational Efficiency: Automated infrastructure inventory and server management, contributing to a 20% reduction in operational costs.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University
Mumbai05-2024
Bachelor of Science in IT (B.Sc IT) -
Saket College of Arts, Science & Commerce
05-2019
Skills
- Cloud computing expertise
- Cloud architecture
- Cloud security
- Hybrid solutions
- Migration strategy
- Disaster recovery
- Microservices architecture
- DevOps strategy
- Orchestration management
- Network security
- Compliance security
- Identity management
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Redis
- Kafka
- Performance tuning
- Database performance
- System administration
- Ansible
- Git
- Maven
- FluentBit
- New Relic
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- YAML
- Java
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Project management
- Team collaboration
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Core Competencies
- Architecture: Multi-Tier Microservices, Hybrid Cloud, DC-DR Strategy, Migration Planning.
- AWS Governance: Control Tower, Landing Zones, Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs).
- Advanced Networking: Transit Gateway (TGW), VPC PrivateLink, Fortinet Firewalls, Direct Connect.
- DevOps & IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, Ansible.
- Databases & Messaging: YugabyteDB, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis, RDS, DynamoDB.
- Security & Compliance: AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Identity Management (IAM), Compliance Security.
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Native
Native
Accomplishments
Organizational Growth Award.
Timeline
Solution Architect | May 2025 – Present
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
05.2025 - Current
Associate Architect Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
04.2024 - 04.2025
Senior Cloud Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
04.2023 - 04.2024
Cloud Engineer
APPLIED CLOUD COMPUTING
09.2021 - 04.2023
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University
Bachelor of Science in IT (B.Sc IT) -
Saket College of Arts, Science & Commerce