Rohan Verma
Cloud and DevOps Architect
Chennai, India | your.email@example.com | +91 98XXX XXXXX | linkedin.com/in/your-profile
Professional Summary
Cloud and DevOps Architect with 8 years designing and operating AWS production systems for enterprise and FSI clients. Has delivered 12 AWS Well-Architected reviews, identifying and remediating 40+ high-risk findings, and designed a multi-region DR architecture for an FSI client achieving 15-minute RTO and 5-minute RPO across 2 live rehearsals. Reduced cloud spend by 35% across a 20-account AWS organisation through a structured FinOps programme. Combines deep technical delivery with the ability to present risk and investment decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Skills and Expertise
Architecture: AWS Well-Architected Framework, Multi-region and HA design, Landing Zone and Control Tower, Microservices architecture, Event-driven architecture
Cloud - AWS: EKS, EC2 / ASG, RDS / Aurora Global, S3, CloudFront, ALB, VPC / Transit Gateway, IAM / Organizations
DevSecOps: Trivy (container scanning), Checkov (IaC scanning), Dependabot, SAST / DAST in pipelines, IAM least privilege, Secrets rotation
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK
Containers: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Istio
FinOps: Reserved Instances / Savings Plans, Spot Instance strategy, Rightsizing, Tag governance, Cost allocation
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - ProfessionalMar 2024 - Mar 2027
- AWS Certified Security - SpecialtyAug 2023 - Aug 2026
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Nov 2022 - Nov 2025
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateJan 2022 - Jan 2025
Work Experience
Cloud and DevOps Architect - Cloudspan India
Apr 2022 - Present- Designed a multi-region active-passive DR architecture for an FSI client using Aurora Global Database, S3 CRR, and Route 53 health check failover; achieved 15-minute RTO and 5-minute RPO, validated across 2 live DR rehearsals without service disruption.
- Defined the company's standard Terraform module library (VPC, EKS, RDS, ALB, IAM) and a private module registry; adopted across all 6 client engagements, reducing time-to-first-environment from 5 days to under 2 hours.
- Embedded DevSecOps controls into CI/CD pipelines for 4 clients (Trivy image scanning, Checkov IaC scanning, Dependabot); average security posture scores across clients rose from 54% to 89% within 3 months, with zero critical findings in subsequent third-party audits.
- Led 12 AWS Well-Architected reviews across client workloads; identified and remediated 40+ high-risk findings covering security misconfiguration, SPOFs, and over-provisioned compute; estimated annual risk and waste exposure reduced by INR 2.4 crore across clients.
- Designed AWS Landing Zone for a 12-account organisation using Control Tower (SCPs, centralised logging to S3 and CloudWatch, GuardDuty); account provisioning time reduced from 2 weeks to 4 hours via automated account vending, with 100% of accounts born compliant.
- Owns on-call escalation for 3 client production environments; reduced mean time to resolve Severity 1 incidents from 2 hours to 40 minutes by publishing runbooks, tuning alert thresholds, and running incident command training for client engineers.
- Presents cloud strategy and infrastructure risk to non-technical stakeholders at 3 clients on a quarterly basis; translates findings from Well-Architected reviews and security assessments into investment cases, resulting in 2 approved budget increases totalling INR 3.8 crore for reliability improvements.
- Mentors 4 mid-level engineers via weekly 1:1s and architecture reviews; 2 promoted to senior level in 18 months.
Senior DevOps Engineer - Stratagen Technologies
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022- Led migration of a 40-service monolith onto EKS across 3 environments; delivered zero-downtime production cutover by running a 6-week parallel-run with automated traffic shifting, with no customer-visible incidents on go-live day.
- Designed AWS Landing Zone for a 12-account organisation; reduced unmanaged account sprawl from 18 ungoverned accounts to zero, with centralised security findings consolidated in Security Hub.
- Reduced monthly AWS spend by 28% across a 12-account organisation by implementing Spot Instance strategies for non-production EKS node groups and purchasing Compute Savings Plans; INR 1.1 crore annual saving realised within 60 days of implementation.
- Reduced mean time to resolve Severity 1 incidents from 2 hours to 40 minutes through improved runbooks, alert routing, and incident command training for 8 engineers.
DevOps Engineer - Gridbase Corp
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019- Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and later GitHub Actions for a 15-service Node.js platform; eliminated manual release steps that had caused 3 production incidents in the previous year.
- Containerised 8 services to Docker and ECS; server provisioning overhead for new service deployments dropped from 3 hours to under 15 minutes.
Systems Engineer - Sysbridge Networks
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016- Managed Linux server estate and early AWS adoption (EC2, S3, VPN) for an internal IT platform; supported transition of 3 on-premises workloads to AWS with no service disruption.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science - Southern Technical University, Chennai
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