Baljit Singh

Result-driven Senior Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect Expert with over 20 years of verifiable success spearheading enterprise-scale cloud transformations, serverless application modernizations, and containerized platform migrations across highly regulated industries. Proven track record implementing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and architecting Enterprise Azure Landing Zones to enforce automated governance, zero-trust security compliance, and organizational self-service models. Expert in engineering resilient Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, orchestrating continuous delivery via multi-environment Azure DevOps (YAML) pipelines, and embedding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies via production-grade Terraform modules to maximize system availability, observability, and infrastructure predictability.

Senior Technology & Cloud Specialist at S.I. Systems (2023-06 – Present)

• Architected and established automated enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zones aligning strictly with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to provide structured self-service, standard naming conventions, and resource grouping governance across global organizational units.
• Engineered, scaled, and secured containerized environments utilizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS); engineered complex Kubernetes cluster deployments incorporating custom Helm charts, ingress controls, and internal networking policies to encapsulate microservice workflows safely.
• Authored and standardized robust production-ready Azure DevOps YAML CI/CD pipelines, fully embedding automated code testing, build parameters, and multi-stage deployment validation gates to streamline release management across staging and productive tiers.
• Implemented repeatable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architectures by designing reusable Terraform modules to automate provisioning, tracking, and recovery parameters of critical systems, including App Services, AKS infrastructure, and Service Bus integration layers.
• Engineered resilient, high-performance event-driven data pipelines and middleware backends utilizing C# and.NET; deployed Azure Function Apps and Service Bus architectures that processed millions of daily secure message transactions with maximum fault tolerance.
• Enforced a hardened Zero-Trust platform model by embedding strict Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), configuring Entra ID identity models, and migrating hardcoded configurations entirely into Azure Key Vault utilizing system-assigned Managed Identities.
• Supervised and optimized multi-region production Microsoft SQL Server and Cloud Database environments; designed high-availability disaster recovery (DR) plans, automated maintenance runs, and optimized performance queries to assure strict data consistency.

Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps Architect at CIBC (2021-05 – 2023-04)

• Maintained a 99.9% availability metric for critical tier-1 banking systems by designing end-to-end platform observability models utilizing Azure Monitor, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Log Analytics, and custom Application Insights tracking dashboards.
• Standardized organizational deployment paths by constructing comprehensive Azure DevOps release pipelines, mitigating historical misconfigurations, enforcing policy-as-code gates, and slashing downstream production incidents by 25%.
• Directed cross-functional defect triage and technical Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex distributed solutions, diagnosing system bottlenecks, and rolling out automated infrastructure self-healing and service alerts.
• Automated high-volume, multi-subscription enterprise cloud migration strategies using custom PowerShell/Azure CLI automation scripting and Microsoft DevTest Labs environments, cutting workload transition times in half.

Site Reliability Engineer at CDW (2018-07 – 2021-05)

• Modelled and automated delivery structures for high-performance multi-tier web architectures and secure hosting environments utilizing Ansible playbooks and Vagrant provisioning over hybrid cloud networks.
• Collaborated closely with software engineering squads to map secure cloud deployment patterns, executing rigorous compliance audits, and reinforcing deep data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption protocols.
• Created and optimized multi-subscription Azure DevOps software delivery paths, safeguarding product deployment life cycles from regression bugs while accelerating overall release patterns.

System Administrator at AT&T (2016-03 – 2018-06)

• Managed, patched, and troubleshot large enterprise server environments, administering core data infrastructure, domain routing policies, system backups, and network performance tuning.

B.Sc. in Computer Science – Punjab Technical University (2004)