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Professional résumé

Gowrisha C.
Vishwa Kumar

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer · Azure Landing Zones · Terraform · Platform Governance

Cloud platform engineer with 12+ years in IT and deep experience in multi-tenant landing zones, policy-as-code governance, identity federation, centralized networking, Kubernetes, and resilient cloud operations. Delivers secure, repeatable platforms through Terraform and automated delivery pipelines.

Professional experience

Senior Cloud Engineer

Santander Consumer Technology Services GmbH · Germany

  • Designed enterprise-scale cloud landing zones with secure multi-tenant topology, private endpoints, and hub-spoke networking under BaFin and DORA requirements.
  • Established Terraform self-service patterns that reduced manual provisioning effort by 40%.
  • Delivered Policy as Code, RBAC, Defender for Cloud, Conditional Access, and PIM controls; eliminated standing administrative privileges.
  • Reduced platform run-rate by 25% through tagging governance, reserved capacity planning, right-sizing, and lifecycle policies.
  • Architected Azure Virtual Desktop and workload-tiered BCDR patterns with defined RPO and RTO targets.

Technical Lead

Sopra Steria · India

  • Designed Azure transformation strategies using Azure Migrate and the 6R framework.
  • Built Terraform and CI/CD delivery patterns that reduced infrastructure deployment cycles from days to hours.
  • Implemented keyless AKS workload identity using Entra ID and OIDC federation.

Associate Technical Lead

Tech Mahindra · India

  • Delivered multi-cloud security and disaster recovery solutions across Azure and GCP.
  • Automated 70% of repeatable infrastructure provisioning and implemented Kubernetes workloads on AKS and GKE.

Cloud Engineer

Brainscale Inc. · India

  • Designed Azure architectures supporting more than 200 virtual machines and multiple platform services.
  • Engineered a 190 TB AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage migration with zero data loss.
  • Delivered more than 50 workload migrations and reduced recovery time objectives from 12 hours to 4 hours.
  • Introduced automated pipeline testing and approvals that reduced release failures by 40%.

Systems Engineer

NetApp Inc. · India

  • Administered VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments supporting enterprise Windows workloads.
  • Managed virtual-machine lifecycle, patching, monitoring, and incident resolution across infrastructure teams.

Selected architecture work

Enterprise Azure Landing Zone

CAF-based multi-tenant foundation with hub-spoke networking, Policy as Code, private connectivity, and reusable Terraform delivery.

Cloud Migration & BCDR

6R discovery, migration waves, Azure Site Recovery, Backup, and workload-tiered RPO/RTO baselines.

Azure Virtual Desktop

Five implementations using Terraform-managed host pools, FSLogix, autoscaling, and Conditional Access.

Cloud FinOps Programme

Tagging governance, right-sizing, reserved capacity, and lifecycle policies that lowered cloud run-rate by 25%.

Terraform Module Library

Reusable modules for landing zones, hub-spoke networking, security baselines, and automated validation.

KubeAI Operator

Kubernetes operator experiment using custom resources and reconciliation to manage AI workloads declaratively.