Sooraj Planku Veedu

• • Designed and operated Azure-based cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, and platform services, supporting scalable and highly available production workloads

• • Built and maintained Terraform-based infrastructure and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, improving deployment consistency and reliability

• • Developed and implemented an Observability Maturity Ladder, evolving monitoring practices from ad-hoc (Level 0/1) to structured, production-grade observability (Level 4), significantly improving system visibility and incident detection

• • Designed and implemented end-to-end logging, metrics, and distributed tracing, enabling deep application-level insights and faster root cause analysis

• • Led cloud security hardening initiatives, including application network privatization using Private Endpoints and secure exposure of services via Azure API Management (APIM) and Azure Front Door

• • Established continuous security validation practices, ensuring applications comply with internal and external security standards

• • Implemented cost governance strategies, including budget alerts and proactive cost monitoring, improving cost visibility and preventing unexpected cloud spend

• • Developed automation solutions using Python and Bash to reduce manual operational effort and improve system reliability

• • Managed production Kubernetes (AKS) clusters, leading incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous reliability improvements

• • Led and automated large-scale migration to a GitOps-based deployment model using Argo CD and Helm, reducing migration timeline from ~6 months to 1.5 months through scripting and workflow optimization

• • Designed and maintained Terraform-based infrastructure integrated with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalable and consistent deployments

• • Built Python-based automation to streamline CI/CD workflows, reducing pipeline execution time and improving developer productivity

• • Implemented cloud cost optimization strategies using OpenCost and Prometheus metrics, enabling improved resource utilization and cost visibility

• • Led migration of on-premise applications to GCP, significantly improving scalability, system resilience, and operational flexibility

• • Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure consistency, governance, and repeatability

• • Collaborated with engineering teams to align cloud architecture with performance, security, and cost-efficiency best practices