Girish Raj

Azure Cloud Engineer with 3 years of experience in Cloud Engineering,CI/CD Automation,DevOps Transformation,Site Recovery,Azure Migrate,GitHub Actions,Azure DevOps,Terraform,Azure Monitor,KQL,change management,Requirement Gathering

Cloud Operations Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting and maintaining cloud infrastructure across production environments, with a strong focus on uptime, monitoring, and incident management. Skilled in Azure with working knowledge of AWS/ GCP concepts, Kubernetes (AKS), containers, Linux/ Windows server administration, and datacenter operations. Proven ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, analyze logs, and resolve alerts using observability tools like Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

Experienced in automating repetitive operational tasks using scripting (PowerShell, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), improving system reliability and operational efficiency. Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/ IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and secure access controls. Adept at managing cloud environments, performing patching, upgrades, and configuration changes while adhering to SLA requirements.

Demonstrated success in maintaining high availability systems, supporting CI/ CD-driven deployments, and collaborating in globally distributed teams using Agile and ITSM practices. Passionate about improving system uptime, building SOPs, and enhancing operational excellence in cloud and hybrid environments. Highlights include 40% reduction in deployment lead time through CI/ CD pipeline automation using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and 60% improvement in infrastructure provisioning efficiency via a reusable, modular Terraform library.

MS/M.Sc(Science)