Rahul Raj V V

Xebia Middle East | UAE

• Directed enterprise-wide DevOps & Cloud transformation, shaping strategy, engineering culture, and technology adoption as both a technical leader and IC
• Designed the enterprise MLOps strategy and led the AIHUB Platform architecture for Innovation & R&D, delivering 5 modern AI/ML use cases enhancing operational efficiency and customer experience
• Architected Azure Landing Zones with Hub-and-Spoke topology, Zero-Trust security using Akamai, OKTA, Azure Front Door + WAF, API Management, and Kubernetes
• Deployed mission-critical microservices on AKS with Helm, Istio service mesh, and Argo Rollouts for zero-downtime progressive delivery
• Led enterprise-wide GitHub Enterprise Cloud & Copilot onboarding — migrated 1,400+ repos, 390 devs, 50+ teams with zero pipeline downtime; rolled out Copilot to 150+ engineers
• Architected observability ecosystems using Azure Monitor, Grafana, App Insights, ELK, Dynatrace
• Built an AI-driven cloud cost monitoring platform with proactive alerts and automated optimization recommendations
• Strategized CI/CD with DevSecOps: SonarQube, Checkmarx, CrowdStrike, SBOM, Chaos Engineering, Jira integrations
• Administered Confluent Cloud for Flink-based event streaming and real-time data processing
• Led a 4-member DevOps team for digital banking products, modernizing DevSecOps and on-prem delivery

Accenture | Bengaluru, India

• Consultant and implementation lead for DevOps & Cloud Automation projects
• Designed CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for complex containerized applications
• Azure Cloud and AWS administration with infrastructure automation using Terraform
• Kubernetes (AKS) administrator — Helm deployments, storage classes, PV/PVC, SSL, Nginx Ingress
• Migrated on-premises infrastructure to Azure Cloud; SVN to Git migrations
• Deployed Datadog and Prisma using Helm charts in AKS
• Implemented Kube Downscaler and automated synthetic monitoring with Grafana APIs
• Ansible Playbook scripting and Ansible Tower administration

Ernst & Young | Trivandrum, India

• DevOps & Cloud Automation consultant and implementation lead
• CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for containerized applications; AKS administration with Helm
• Azure & AWS infrastructure automation using Terraform
• On-prem to Azure Cloud migration; SVN to Git migration
• Let's Encrypt certification automation; SonarQube integration
• Disaster Recovery setup; automated backup/restore for databases and Azure Storage

H&R Block GTC | Trivandrum, India

• Designed CI/CD processes using Azure DevOps
• Cloud infrastructure automation on Azure with Terraform and Packer
• Docker, AKS, and Helm integration in Azure DevOps pipelines
• Azure Monitoring, Application Insights, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage
• Code quality with SonarQube; NuGet, Cake, Maven build integrations
• Led DevOps practice adoption across the organization

IBS Software Services | Trivandrum, India

• Built and deployed internal/external releases with the engineering team
• Implemented continuous integration systems using Jenkins
• Rational ClearCase and SVN administration; version control & release management
• Created automation scripts in Bash, Shell, and Java
• Configured Tomcat and WebLogic web servers
• Developed a Java/MySQL tool for tracking internal servers and team activities

Negocious IT Solutions | Trivandrum, India

• Windows & Linux/Unix server administration
• Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policies, networking
• Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, NFS on Linux — installation, config, maintenance
• Enterprise-wide Linux production support and performance tuning