Solutions Architect Cloud Engineer
Resume:
Rani Kalangi ********@*****.*** USA: 201-***-****
19+ YEARS CLOUD ENGINEER MULTI-CLOUD DEVOPS CI/CD IAC Results-driven Cloud Solutions Architect with 19+ years of experience designing and managing secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and GCC environments. Proven track record of leading enterprise cloud transformations, automating DevOps pipelines, and deploying cloud-native applications using Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes. Strong background in cost optimization, compliance (SOC 2, GCC), and infrastructure monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Known for hands-on leadership, cross- functional collaboration, and mentoring platform teams in modern DevOps practices. EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Commerce, Andhra University, India (1992 – 1995)
• PGDCA in Computer Applications - Avanthi Computer Center, India (1993 – 1994)
• Diploma in Express IT Diploma - Lithan Hall Academy, Singapore (2014 – 2015) TECHNICAL CERTIFICATES AWARDED
• AWS Cloud Practitioner (2024)
• Microsoft Certified:
o AZ-104 (Azure Admin)
o AZ-305 (Solutions Architect)
o AZ-400 (DevOps)
o AZ-700 (Networking)
• AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals)
• Microsoft Certified: AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals)
• Government Commercial Cloud (2021)
TECHNICAL CERTIFICATES ATTENDED.
• AWS AI certification completed (2024)
TECHNICAL SKILL SUMMARY
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, GCC
• IaC & Config Mgmt: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Helm
• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, Zabbix, Dynatrace
• Scripting Languages: Python, Shell, PowerShell, YAML, Groovy,
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, DNS, VPN, BGP, Load Balancers
• Database: MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MySQL, Oracle SQL,RDS
• Tools & Platforms: VMware, Hyper-V, Git, Confluence, Jira
• Certifications: AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-700, AI-900, AWS Cloud Practitioner, GCC 2
AWARDS:
o Achieved twice Excellence Service award in Spotlight. o Best Employee ACE Learner award from Cognizant Technologies Solutions. WORK EXPERIENCE
CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SAIANA TECHNOLOGIES INC. 02/2025 to till date Led cloud infrastructure strategy and deployment for Slate Book, an AI-powered education platform, using multi-cloud best practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Led the design and deployment of Slate Book, a scalable AI-powered educational platform on AWS, serving high-traffic SaaS customers across multi countries.
• Architected multi-tier cloud infrastructure using EC2, Lambda, RDS (PostgreSQL), S3, CloudFront, and API Gateway, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implemented microservices-based architecture using EKS (Kubernetes) with Helm and Istio for service discovery and traffic management.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS Code Pipeline with support for Blue/Green deployments.
• Integrated Amazon Cognito for user authentication and IAM policies for least privilege access across services.
• Built observability stack using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, with alerting integrated into Slack and PagerDuty for proactive incident response.
• Designed disaster recovery and data backup strategy using Cross-Region Replication and AWS Backup.
• Collaborated with developers and data teams to deploy LLM-based APIs, hosted on Sage Maker and fronted via API Gateway.
• Established cost monitoring using AWS Cost Explorer and enforced budget alerts and tagging policies for cost optimization.
• Ensured compliance with SOC 2 readiness, implementing encryption at rest/in-transit, MFA enforcement, and secure CI/CD practices.
• Provided architecture documentation and conducted training sessions for DevOps and engineering teams. SENIOR CLOUD ENGINEER AT COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS 07/2021 to Jan 2025 Client: Government Technology Agency
As Cloud Engineer, supported the development and maintenance of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Configuration of principles.
• Hands-On with Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP and GOV Commercial Cloud.
• Implemented and assisted in cloud deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and optimizing cloud-based environments for security, scalability and efficiency.
• Deep understanding and focus on issues and supported 24/7 for all customers.
• Hands-on experience in Shell Script, Typescript for Terraform, GitHub.
• Assist in cloud environment provisioning and maintenance with ISO standards.
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Puppet) and scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell)
• Develop Cloud architecture blueprints, best practices, using Terraform, Cloud Formation and ARM templates. Hands-on experience in creation of Docker image and register in Docker Registry.
• Strong Proficency in Docker for Containerizing applications and Managing Docker images.
• Familiarity with container registries Amazon ECR, Azure AKS and Google GKE.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cloud solutions align with business goals.
• Daily checklist, server maintenance Patching, updates, VA scan, Cloud ID creation, peering VPC Transit gateway Aws Organizations, Firewall Networking: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS, SMB, NTP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, LDAP, LAN and WAN.
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• Experienced in long-running applications, load balancing, EBS Volume, and IAM roles using Amazon EC2, Container Service (ECS). AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.), GCP (Compute Engine, Big Query, etc.), Azure (VM, Blob Storage)
• Knowledgeable in monitoring metrics on EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, VPC, and RDS using CloudWatch.
• Proficient in backup services like EBS snapshots, S3 backups, and Amazon Glacier.
• Led a key role in Migration projects for enhancement from GCC1.0 to GCC 2.0 with Multi Cloud Environment.
• Experienced in security policies like Security Groups, IAM roles, and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA).
• Experienced in Version Control Software like GIT and Bitbucket. Running Ansible play books & lambda scripts.
• Proficient in CI/CD using Jenkins Server for end-to-end automation builds and deployments.
• Experienced in the migration and deployment of applications with upgraded versions.
• Exposed to all aspects of the software development life cycle, including analysis, planning, development, testing, implementation, and post-production analysis.
• Experienced working with Docker to build images at the root of repositories.
• Staying current with the latest features and capabilities of the AWS PaaS, CaaS platform.
• Monitoring & Problem resolving for various services, CloudWatch, Stack driver, or Azure Monitor Sentinel, JIRA, Zabbix, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace and NOC tasks CDN,WAF,Cloudefare tasks as advised by Organization.
• AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.), GCP (Compute Engine, Big Query, etc.), Azure (VM, Blob Storage)
• Proactive learner and effective collaborator in fast-paced cloud environments. SENIOR CONSULTANT AT NTT DATA 02/2018 – 07/2021
Client - Project Lead & SRE Engineer – (ITT Team & VPC Team) DBS Bank Singapore. (Cloud & DevOps)
• Hands On experience in Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP Cloud.
• Implemented and assisted in cloud deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and optimizing cloud-based environments for security, scalability and efficiency.
• Deep understanding and focus ITSM issues and supported 24/7 for all customers.
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Established, architected, and managed Client On-boarding initiative within other branches since inception for both external and internal clients within the Client Reference Data Group at DBS.
• Managed and maintained client account for Enterprise Data Group at DBS Bank
• Played a key role in Migration Project full Data Centre Migrated to New Data Centre. (Lift and shit, Blue/Deployments, Istio, canary Deployments, V2V models.
• Project handling from Kick-off meeting & Infra Setup, Creation of ID. Participating in Audit. IDR clearance done.
• Experienced in collaborating, prioritizing, planning, and executing backlogs to meet project milestones efficiently. Performed SRE role and maintained MTTR and MMTD tasks.
• Deep Understanding of Kubernetes Architecture and it components (PODs, deployments, Replicas, Stateful sets. Hands on experience in Amazon EKS integration with Jenkins. Handling Secrets, Config-maps, Storage & network policies. Helm charts & AgroCD Pod-Priority.
• Creation of Master slave Environment. Proficiency with kubectl commands for managing resources, rolling updates and trouble shoot issues. Knowledge in KOPS Cluster, RKE & K3S, networking SSL TLS, Name Spaces, Resources Quotes,RBAC (Role Base Access Control), Advanced Scheduling, service principals.
• Daily checklist, server maintenance Patching, updates, VA scan, Cloud ID creation, peering VPC Transit gateway Firewall etc.
• Worked on VMware, Windows, Linux administration. Worked on HANA database. VMware 5, ESXI, vCenter, vSphere client.
• Solutions provided for various topic for new Software. Creating SOP documents and performed demo. 4
• Continuous support Dev/prod/UAT Environments build for different countries, Singapore, China, Indonesia, HK & India.
• Worked in Data Centre migration had a major role in implementing in production environment.
• Identified and eliminated deployment inefficiencies by implementing CI/CD best practices with GIT version control, enhanced by Jenkins for robust integration and expedited delivery. Continues integration using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, & Github, Run Deck.
• An Ansible management node that has Ansible installed and configured an Ansible target node.
• SSH key-based authentication should be set up on the Ansible management node to establish a connection with the target node via SSH without requiring a password.
• An Ansible inventory file where you define your target host's IP address in the inventory file
• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, VPC, Submitting, DNS, DHCP, Socket., etc., Firewall.
• Load Balance Data store management. DRS Management, Disaster Recovery. HA/VM Failover test, Storage backup recovery, collect logs, troubleshooting steps implemented.
• Hands on experience in creating Kubernetes Clusters, PODs, Replicas. Docker images.
• Deep Understanding of Kubernetes Architecture and it components (PODs, deployments, Replicas, Stateful sets.
• Hands on experience in Amazon EKS integration with Jenkins.
• Handling Secrets, Config-maps, Storage & network policies. Helm charts & Argo CD Pod-Priority set up affinity rules.
• Creation of Master slave Environment.
• Proficiency with Kubectl commands for managing resources, rolling updates and trouble shoot issues.
• Knowledge in KOPS Cluster, RKE & K3S, networking, ingress policies, SSL TLS, Name Spaces, Resources Quotes,RBAC (Role Base Access Control), Advanced Scheduling, service principals.
• Created direct connect from on-prem to AWS cloud. Manage Auto-scaling and ELB. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR AT SITA COMMAND CENTRE 07/2017 – 01/2018
• Experience in leading and implementing organizational change and operating models. Execution of Work orders, Decommission, BIOS, Packets downloading.
• Analyzed, assessed participated and submitted multiple proposals to several clients and won various projects.
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects in dynamic environment.
• Served as a feedback loop for the organization, gathering customer feedback and communicating customer needs of product and management team.
• Manage the incident management process, including incident identification and resolution, aligning with SLA’s
• Monitoring alert raised for incidents and communicating ongoing incidents to customers and internal stakeholders, collected many RCA and updated for future references.
• User Access Management including creating user accounts & implementing group policies.
• Monitor VPN access, Remote access to servers and ensure there is no downtime for all the systems. PROJECT ADMIN/IT SUPPORT AT CREDIT SUISSE AG 12/2016 – 05/2017
• Served as a feedback loop for the organization, gathering customer feedback and communicating customer needs of product and management team.
• Facilitated incident mitigation, recovery and resolution for high-risk incidents, ensuring prompt and efficient response.
• Worked with Reliability Engineering and Tech Organizations to improve incident tooling reliability and user communications.
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• Manage alerts with all IT branches and Liaise with all Data Centers.
• Manage 2 countries accounts Singapore & Hong Kong.
• Managed and worked on different applications PeopleSoft, Dynamics, Trade shift & my shop cloud software.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub, automating build and deployments.
• Configured monitoring with CloudWatch and implemented IAM policies for access control.
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