
Raja Ramesh SP
Principal Cloud Architect | GCP & AWS Security
Salary / Daily rate
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
Cloud Architect with 17+ years of expertise across AWS, GCP, and Azure specializing in AI/ML implementations and zero trust security. Proven track record at Virtusa and LTIMindtree reducing RTO/RPO by 50% and implementing enterprise-scale migrations. Ready to architect scalable, secure cloud solutions that drive business transformation.
Work experience
Associate Director of Technology
Virtusa
Sep 2023 - Present
3 years 2 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
AI Tool Implementation on AWS: Developed and deployed machine learning models using AWS AI services, including Amazon SageMaker for model training and tuning, and AWS Lambda for scalable model inference, enhancing predictive analytics and automation workflows. Google Cloud AI Solutions: Leveraged Google Cloud AI tools such as Vertex AI and AutoML to build, deploy, and manage custom models for natural language processing and image analysis, improving operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making. AI Model Integration with AWS Bedrock: Experienced in deploying and fine-tuning foundational models using AWS Bedrock, enabling seamless integration of custom AI models into scalable applications for diverse business use cases. Architected and implemented Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security strategies, focusing on identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security to safeguard sensitive data and infrastructure. Conducted comprehensive security assessments and risk analyses of GCP environments, identifying vulnerabilities and implementing security controls aligned with industry standards and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2). Enforced encryption standards (in transit and at rest) across GCP workloads using Google-managed keys and Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys (CSEK) to meet compliance requirements for highly regulated industries. Led the architecture and deployment of failover solutions using automated DR tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) by 50% across cloud and on-premise systems. Led seamless migrations of on-premises and multi-cloud SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) to Azure SQL Databases, ensuring zero downtime using advanced migration techniques such as Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), transactional replication, and log shipping.
LTIMindtree
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Principal Architect
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
7 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Designed and implemented highly scalable and secure cloud architectures across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements. Executed complex cloud migration projects, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and refactoring, ensuring smooth transitions from on-premises systems to cloud environments. Implemented automated backup and disaster recovery solutions leveraging cloud-native services such as AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Azure Site Recovery, and GCP’s Cloud Storage for replication and snapshot management. Engineered high-availability solutions, including disaster recovery and business continuity plans, to ensure minimal downtime and robust system reliability. Developed blueprints and plans for migrating on-premises systems to the cloud, deploying containers, and managing RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs across multiple cloud environments. Developed and implemented comprehensive migration strategies, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and refactoring methodologies. Implemented Fluentd and Beats for automated log ingestion and routing, enabling real-time analytics and seamless integration with Elasticsearch, resulting in a 30% reduction in log processing time. Streamlined Kafka Monitoring and Alerting: Developed and deployed comprehensive monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana, integrating with Zookeeper to track Kafka broker health, consumer lag, and topic metrics, significantly improving system reliability and reducing incident resolution times. Designed Disaster Recovery for Kafka Clusters: Architected and implemented disaster recovery strategies for Kafka and Zookeeper, including cross-data-center replication, automated backups, and failover mechanisms, ensuring high availability and business continuity for critical messaging systems.
Senior Solutions Architect
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
1 year 5 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Directing as a Solutions Architect for multiple Cloud projects, Consultant Activities inclusive of establishing new processes and Checklists for performing data migration of the solutions on AWS and Azure Cloud Platforms. • Establishing and executing strategy and solutions on AWS and Azure Cloud in coordination with the Client Stakeholders (Business, IT and Application) • Migrated Database Servers on Azure Cloud Platform, Multi TB Databases are migrated as-is and latest version of Databases on Azure Cloud Platform. • Managing the implementation of network and infrastructure-related project entailing: • On Premises servers & applications migration to Azure and AWS cloud using Azure Migration, ASR, Cloud Endure and Cloud amaze tools. • Public cloud including cloud security using IAM, Guard Duty, Inspector including GDPR, HIPPA, Data Governances & Risk Managements. • Experience in DR Setup, Firewall Configuration, Security, Governance and Compliances for AWS, Azure Cloud Infrastructure. • Expertise in migration of Workloads and applications on Multiple Cloud Platforms. • Deep understanding and proven experience with in cloud design methodologies (Compute, Security, Network, Storage, CI/CD etc.)
Technical Solutions Architect
Hitachi Vantara
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
3 years 7 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Experience with AWS, Azure and GCP Cloud Environments, Docker, Kubernetes Container technologies. • Capability to develop technical solutions to complex business problems from POC to development, testing, production implementation and support. • Experience in design architecture for Migrations, Deployment of applications, preparing RFP, RFQ and RFI for multiple cloud environments. • Hands on experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud KMS, Datastore, Fire store, Storage, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Stack driver Monitoring, VPC, Load balancing and Cloud Armor. • Micro Services Architecture and deploying the application on public/private cloud platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP. • Experience on Azure Cloud Services like Infra assessment, Deployment, SQL Azure , NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory , API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and Automation using Power Shell Scripts. • Experience in using tools like Docker Compose, Kubernetes, for Orchestrating and deploying the services related to the Containers and with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker hub. • Experience in designing a Terraform scripts and deploying the infrastructure on Azure, AWS Cloud Environments. • Terraform scripts deployments using deployment manager to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, Compute Engines in public and private subnets in Google Cloud Platform.
Senior Associate
Cognizant
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
2 years 5 months
Bengaluru Area, India
• Expert-level experience with Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family. • Deploy, Migrate, Secure and Manage Linux-based infrastructure • Automation using Ansible and DevOps tools with attention to detail, documentation, standardization, procedures and policies • Initiated DevOps culture between operations, development, and database departments • Experience with OpenStack / OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes
Senior Technical Consultant
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.,
May 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 11 months
Bengaluru Area, India
• Expert-level experience & knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family. • Reduced ticket and security audit time by designing a configuration management service for Linux Servers. • Initiated DevOps culture between operations, development, and databased departments - Involved in architecture, development for RESTful based web applications
Software Development Consultant
Smart ERP Solutions Inc.
Jun 2012 - May 2014
2 years
Bengaluru Area, India
• Experience with AWS, VMWare Cloud Management Services. • Deploy, Migrate, Secure and Manage Linux-based infrastructure • Expert-level experience & knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family. • Reduced ticket and security audit time by designing a configuration management service for Linux Servers. • Initiated DevOps culture between operations, development, and databased departments • Deployed a password management service to meet security audit requirements.
Senior Web Application Developer
IbleSoft Inc.
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
7 months
Hyderabad Area, India
Project Planning, Documentation, Development, Maintenance and Delivery Development of Web Applications
Senior Software Engineer
IDHASOFT
Nov 2010 - Jan 2012
1 year 3 months
Pune Area, India
Project Planning, Documentation, Development, Maintenance, and Delivery Web Application Development using Open source technologies and .Net framework
Web Developer
Tregona IT Consulting Private Limited.
Feb 2007 - Oct 2010
3 years 9 months
Hyderabad Area, India
Development of Web Applications. Documentation, Code Development, Delivery & maintenance
Education
Lingaya's Vidyapeeth
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2024 - 2027
2 years 11 months
Osmania University
Bachelor of Laws - LLB
2019 - 2022
2 years 9 months
Osmania University
Master of Computer Applications - MCA
2004 - 2007
2 years 10 months