Raj Kumar Mahanty

Seasoned DevOps and Cloud leader offering 16+ years of experience scaling and streamlining global technology engineering and operations. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams to develop robust infrastructure, implement CI/CD pipelines, ensure always-on service availability, and promote a culture of innovation.

Responsibility also includes :

1. Infrastructure Operating Cost Reduction

2. Infrastructure Management - IAAC , Cloud and Micro-Services

3. People Management - FTEs and Interns

4. Escalation Management

5. On Call and Alert Management

6. Observability

Responsible for building a team of Smart Engineers who would enhance and support the AWS Platform on which the Flight Services Applications are migrated.Responsible for End to End supporting the Cloud and DevOs infrastructure for Flight Services Business for CAE

Since this a captive takeover of the Medtronic GTC Bangalore from Medtronic in August 2020 hence majority of the Roles and Responsibilities which I performed,remains the same when it comes to the Cloud Platform services for Medtronic.

Involved in RFP activities with Solution Architects to help them respond with a tailored made custom solution for the requirement best suited for Medtronic need.

Designing and developing a intelligent framework that works as another layer on top of an Cloud Management Platform to give you a complete automated approach to maintaining the multi cloud platform with Multi Landing Zone Support, Role based Self-service Portal, Single Pane of Visibility, Cloud Integrations ,Service Catalog Automation and Multi Cloud Cost Controls and Reporting.

Designing and developing some Simple, Medium and Complex catalogue services on AWS catalog with approval stages so that business can self-create the environment with automation in place to place proper Guardrails and test in place during creation of the environment

Designing the Multi-Cloud Platform on AWS and Azure for Medtronic adhering to the Governance and Security Compliance as per the Security Organization of Medtronic, these IAAS platforms are used by the business units to develop the applications and appropriately host them in the required non Production or Production environment.

As part of our responsibility, we helped the BU Teams to setup the platform within the guardrails to host the application and setup the infrastructure via IAAC. As part of compliance needs we were responsible for upgrading the OS and related infrastructure to keep the environment secure with the latest patches using scheduled and automated updates with minimum downtime.

Reducing the Cloud Cost spends and adhering to the Budgets defined via continous monitor of usage and optimization of Cloud resources were our defined OKRs to achieve

As a senior architect, I am also responsible for continuous improvements to the platform and implementation of new technology and services which would help us reduce the spends on Cloud Platform with options of server-less or micro-services implementation which help business units significantly reduce costs and go for a OnDemand model