Senior Cloud Architect & DevOps Leader

SURESH GANESAN

Plano, TX • 469-***-**** •*********@*****.***•https://www.linkedin.com/in/sureshganesan08/ Professional Summary

Senior Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS and Azure cloud platforms. Expert in Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps practices. Achieved 99.99% uptime, accelerated deployments by 40%, and reduced incidents by 25%. Skilled at mentoring, leading, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, enterprise-scale cloud solutions. Certifications

● AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

● Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

● HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Technology Stack

● Cloud: AWS, Azure

● CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Octopus, Bitbucket Pipelines, GHA, ArgoCD

● Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation

● Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS

● Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Dynatrace

● Scripting & Automation: Python, Shell, PowerShell & Boto3 Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer – CarOffer (A CarGurus Company) Plano, TX Oct 2019 – Present

● Led the design and architecture of migrating 15+ legacy applications from on-premises infrastructure to AWS using Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 40% and significantly increasing deployment frequency.

● Designed and implemented secure hybrid cloud architectures leveraging AWS Transit Gateway and VPN, achieving 99.99% uptime for mission-critical workloads.

● Built and maintained reusable Terraform modules for core AWS services, standardizing infrastructure delivery and reducing setup time by 30% across multiple engineering teams.

● Architected and managed Amazon EKS and ECS clusters with GitOps-based deployments, optimizing containerized workloads for enhanced reliability and scalability.

● Integrated Wiz Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), remediating all critical and high-risk issues within two weeks and enforcing 48-hour remediation SLAs.

● Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, and ArgoCD, integrating SonarCloud quality gates to improve code quality and reduce vulnerabilities by 30%.

● Developed robust Python automation solutions to eliminate manual tasks, resulting in significant time and cost savings across operations.

● Established comprehensive monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Slack alerts, reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) and improving visibility across production environments.

Cognizant Technology Solutions May 2013-Oct 2019

Senior DevOps Engineer — Capital One – Plano, TX May 2017 – Oct 2019

● Led AWS infrastructure migration for Capital One apps, ensuring high availability and cost optimization.

● Automated the Re-hydration process of updating the new AMI for security compliance

● Implemented Blue/Green deployments & auto-scaling, improving application resilience during peak load.

● Developed self-healing pipelines in Jenkins & Chef with Python automation, reducing incident resolution time by 25%.

● Partnered with InfoSec teams to enforce enterprise-compliant IAM, VPC, and security controls Infra Specialist — Local World – London, UK Jan 2016 – Apr 2017

● Re-engineered the DevOps and cloud architecture using containers, and CloudFormation, improving system scalability and maintainability

● Hosted and managed the entire AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, achieving 99.9% uptime and enabling rapid provisioning of resources

● Coordinated multi-team deployments across UK & offshore teams, ensuring synchronized releases.

● Set up CI/CD pipelines with Bamboo and Python scripts to automate builds and deployments, reducing manual effort and speeding release cycles DevOps Tech Lead – Chennai, India May 2013 – Dec 2015

● Automated server provisioning in AWS by creating custom scripts that called the AWS API from Jenkins, reducing manual setup time and ensuring consistent environments

● Re-provisioned and decommissioned servers older than 60 days using AWS CLI scripts, ensuring compliance with lifecycle standards and freeing up resources

● Implemented EC2 automation and AMI hardening, optimized backups with Python scripts, deployed Apache/Tomcat applications via Octopus, and tuned Linux performance, which improved system reliability and reduced deployment time Additional Related Roles

Linux System Administrator – NTT DATA ( Bangalore, India May 2012 - May 2013) Linux System Administrator – Artech Info Systems (Bangalore, India July 2010 - April 2012) Education

B. Tech in Information Technology – St. Peters Engineering College, Anna University

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