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# Saravanan DhayalaRajan on Tal

## Headline

Director \- Cloud Engineering\| Ex Deloitte \| Platform Engineering \| SRE \| DevSecOps \| Release \| Kubernetes \| Terraform \| Mongo DB \| Big Query \| AWS \| GCP \| CI CD \| FinOps \| Audit \| Compliance \| Support \| Gen AI \| AI\-Agent

## About

Seasoned Technology & Cloud Engineering Leader with 17 years of experience in building and transforming high\-performing global cloud engineering teams, driving cloud strategy, modernization, and automation across AWS, GCP, Azure and OCI for GCC and India Center of Excellence\. Proven expertise in Site Reliability Engineering \(SRE\), implementing observability frameworks, incident management, Agentic Autonomous SRE AI Agents for auto heal and remediation, SLI/SLO\-driven reliability metrics to enhance availability, scalability, and performance of SaaS products\. Deep experience in DevSecOps & CI/CD process automation, leveraging Terraform,OpenTofu, Kubernetes, GitLab, Octopus, GitOps, and serverless architectures to streamline software delivery, security, and compliance across hybrid and multi\-cloud environments\. Have successfully implemented GenAI strategies for SaaS clients, deploying chatbots, conversational tools and AI agents across Google Cloud and AWS\. engineering philosophy centered on treating AI integration as a fundamental component of our daily development cycle\. Strategic leader in Cloud Migration & Infrastructure Modernization, successfully overseeing large\-scale migrations \(500–2000\+ servers\) and cloud transformation initiatives for enterprises with budgets up to $50M\. Expertise in FinOps & Cost Optimization, implementing cloud cost governance, auto\-scaling, and performance tuning strategies to reduce operational expenses & maximize ROI\. Passionate about team building, mentorship, and leadership, with a track record of hiring, training, and scaling cloud engineering teams from scratch, fostering innovation, and driving efficiency improvements\. Strong business acumen with RFP, Pre\-Sales, and Stakeholder Management experience, contributing to high\-value cloud deals \($5M–$35M\) and driving enterprise\-wide cloud adoption, automation, and operational excellence\. Creative, out\-of\-box\-thinker, leader, flexible & approachable with strong cross\-cultural, interpersonal, productive, communication, analytical and problem\-solving skills

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

langfuse

langgraph

n8n

Google ADK

## Work experience

Director \- Head of Cloud Engineering at Revionics, an Aptos Company, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Core Capabilities: ✅ Release & Deployment Management \| ✅ CI/CD & DevSecOps Platforms \| ✅ Infrastructure Automation & Cloud Enablement \| ✅ Site Reliability Engineering \(SRE\) \| ✅ GenAI & Agentic AI Assistants \| ✅ Advanced Cloud Cost Intelligence \| ✅ API Gateway & Lifecycle Management \| ✅ Compliance, SOC 2, ISO & CIS Controls \| ✅ Test Execution & Automation Strategic Initiatives & Impact: Leadership & Agile Transformation 🔵 Tech Roadmap: Executed a future\-ready platform strategy, securing executive sponsorship and aligning technical delivery with core business goals\. 🔵 Team Leadership: Cultivated a people\-first culture, rapidly transforming groups into high\-performing, co\-located, and agile\-first teams to improve speed and collaboration\. DevSecOps & Platform Engineering 🟠 DevEx & Security: Integrated GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, GitLab Ultimate, and Terraform for streamlined workflows, embedding automated compliance and security checks across the SDLC\. 🟠 Infra Automation: Built immutable infrastructure pipelines utilizing IaC and policy\-as\-code principles\. 🟠 Test Innovation: Created advanced test orchestration platforms for faster, reliable releases\. AI Innovation & Reliability \(SRE\) 🟢 GenAI Enablement: Deployed multi\-agent workflows to accelerate deployment readiness, reduce post\-deployment validation time, and elevate release quality\. 🟢 AIOps: Implemented self\-healing, agentic autonomous execution for P1 and P2 incidents, resulting in 100% SLA adherence\. 🟢 Site Reliability: Deployed OpenTelemetry\-based APM and infrastructure monitoring with Grafana, increasing SLI/SLO adherence and driving a 35% improvement in MTTR\. FinOps & Cost Intelligence 🟣 Strategic Cost Optimization: Delivered 30% in cloud cost savings via dynamic rightsizing, tool migration, license optimization, and automated resource scheduling \(auto\-stopping\)\.

Senior Engineering Manager \-Head of Cloud Engineering at Revionics, an Aptos Company, Dec 2023 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Head of Cloud Engineering Responsible for DevOps & SRE practices, supporting new and existing cloud deployments\. Build and deploy services in Google Cloud such as GKE, Big query , Data Proc, CLoud functions including big data, cloud ETL, core applications, data science, and more\. Support cloud infrastructure deployment automation including Gitlab CI/CD pipelines Driving the adoption and implementation of infrastructure\-as\-code methodologies using technologies such as Terraform\. Install, maintain, and support all enterprise tools necessary to operate the SaaS platform\. Collaborate with developers, product managers, software architects, and cloud operations engineers to build and deploy SaaS solutions\. Ensuring delivery supportable, scalable, cost\-effective solutions that exceed the needs of the customers now and going forward\.

Manager at Deloitte Consulting, Aug 2020 \- Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India,  Cloud expert,Key contributor in building the cloud practice from O to 2000\+ Engineers  AWS Affinity forum lead focused on building talent, training and up skilling with multiple hacathon challenge\.  Recruitment lead , have interviewed 1000\+ candidates in deloitte\.  Led Multiple Migration projects from scratch ranging from 500 servers to 2000 \+ servers successfully in a hybrid environment and taking them over to cloud managed services model end to end\.  Responsible for the uptime of production servers for 24/7 using Automated tools and monitoring as an Site reliability Engineer spanning for more than 10K virtual Servers\.  Automation lead for the Practice, have automated N number of manual tasks such as creating a automation hub for patching using AWX tower which reduces manual effort and human intervention to only 25 percent compared to 100 percent previously\. Creating reusable terrafrom and cloud formation as a single click deployments\. developing a platform which takes care of cloud deployment on each layer such as Security, Monitoring , IAM, Compliance on boarding and off boarding\.  SME in creating Landing zone with industry best practices for all cloud Platforms to achieve sustainability , Scale and Compliance\.  Part of multiple RFP across cloud platforms for deals upto $50M where my cloud infra and operate experience were key factors to price and bag it\.  Complete hands\-on experience in troubleshooting issues from infra to application layer across linux and windows platforms  Lead Architect advisor for large engagements on cloud\.  DevSecOps Expert for the practice and firm\.

Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, Jan 2017 \- Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos, bangalore, Part of the new practice Cloud Enginnering , Currently the Operations manager and architect of CLoud Managed Services specialty of deloitte\. Involved in high level cloud solutions following devops\. have refactored and transformed fortune clients to Cloud AWS as an SME\. Have Architect\-ed and implemented AWS Cloud Migration for a Bank from scratch to prod with compliance and security at its best\. have been part of many Penetration testing of the Environment successfully without any loops\. Have built a data lake from scratch using a hybrid model in AWS \. services includes EC2 direct connect,EC2,VPC, EMR,Oracle and MSSQl RDS, DNS of client network using Active Directory for domain joining , Kerberos , S3 , S3FS file system and big data technology like Informatica and Cloudera, finally a Analytic dashboard is brought up by using Tableau\. Also have been working on a Serverless architecture using AWS Lambda , API Gateway, Cognito ,S3 , Aurora to build a Analytic tool by using Tableau\. Currently leading a team of 12 Devops Engineers to deliver Enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP and Azure meeting the SLA and Compliance standards with focus on Automation at its core

Senior Devops Engineer at Numerify, Apr 2014 \- Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos, bangalore, My responsibilities include designing architecture, building, deploying and maintaining our SaaS offering on AWS EC2,VPC,REDSHIFT,RDS,S3,CLOUD WATCH etc Core technologies include \(but not limited to\) AWS, Ubuntu, RHEL,NginX, Ruby, MySQL, Jenkins, git,NFS,S3fs,SAML based SSO configuration using okta, ping\. also was responsilbe for handling Microstrategy installation and configuration on rhel linux instances , clustering microstrategy using NFS, troubleshooting microstrategy environment issues\. have used and configured many tools or servers like apache tomcat, jenkins, maven, groovy\. jetty etc

Software Engineer at Wipro, Dec 2009 \- Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos, bangalore, have worked in 4 different project, significantly in AWS cloud some of the projects Responsible for Migrating/replicating the on premised unix environment of customer to AWS cloud\. This Involves the use of following features of AWS\. 1\. AWS VPC, subnets, Security groups,ACLs\. 2\.\.EC2,AMI,EBS,ELB,Route53,RDS,S3,CloudWatch,Autoscaling\. 3\. Writing Automation scripts using AWS cloud formation\. 4\. Performing HPC on cloud with tools such as LAMMPS\. Also build Unix environments to cloud by setting 1\. Apache, php, webserver\. 2\. Web logic App server\. 3\. Wordpress setup for deployment 4\. Responsible for High availability and Automation across Multi AZ\. 5\. LDAP \(Light Weight Directory Access Protocol\)\.with replication\. 6\. Snort, Nagios, barnyard Monitoring agent\. 7\. Centralized logging using Rsyslog\. 8\. Database setup using RDS, setting up mysql using snorby database\. 9\. GlusterFs and S3fs with rsysnc for shared file system\. have done other projects for Netact, Alcatel lucent in Network management and solaris to linux migration

Graduate Engineering Trainee at BEML LIMITED, Nov 2008 \- May 2009 · 7 mos, Kolar Area, India, Network / IT Asset management and troubleshooting

## Education

Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

PUC, First grade college

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