I am a DevOps & Cloud Engineer with a strong background supporting public and private sector organizations throughout New Zealand. I specialize in AWS cloud services and DevOps methodologies, and I have hands-on experience in cloud architecture and management to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.\n\nI’m skilled in a wide range of DevOps tools and technologies to enable scalable software development practices while maintaining security and compliance. I value collaboration, mentoring teammates, and continuously improving processes to reduce toil and boost resilience.

SHAILENDRA SODHI

I am a DevOps & Cloud Engineer with a strong background supporting public and private sector organizations throughout New Zealand. I specialize in AWS cloud services and DevOps methodologies, and I have hands-on experience in cloud architecture and management to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.\n\nI’m skilled in a wide range of DevOps tools and technologies to enable scalable software development practices while maintaining security and compliance. I value collaboration, mentoring teammates, and continuously improving processes to reduce toil and boost resilience.

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I am a DevOps & Cloud Engineer with a strong background supporting public and private sector organizations throughout New Zealand. I specialize in AWS cloud services and DevOps methodologies, and I have hands-on experience in cloud architecture and management to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.\n\nI’m skilled in a wide range of DevOps tools and technologies to enable scalable software development practices while maintaining security and compliance. I value collaboration, mentoring teammates, and continuously improving processes to reduce toil and boost resilience.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

DevOps and Cloud Engineer at Accenture Technologies (Client: Ministry of Health, Wellington)
January 1, 2022 - November 10, 2025
Led reliability and performance improvements across AWS infrastructure, minimizing operational toil through automation. Built and managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, including cross-account deployments and standardized delivery workflows for Java-based microservices. Implemented event-driven automation with AWS Lambda, EventBridge and API Gateway; integrated Keycloak and Cognito for secure authentication and access control. Deployed RESTful microservices on AWS ECS (Fargate and EC2) with Auto Scaling Groups for scalability and resilience. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation. Implemented CloudWatch and Datadog monitoring, and integrated with Microsoft Teams for real-time incident response. Strengthened security and compliance with AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, NZISM policies, and Tenable Enterprise Security. Deployed Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics; managed and scaled containerized ap
Infrastructure Engineer & DevOps Engineer at Crown Research Institute – GNS Science, Wellington
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022
Led major VMware and Storage infrastructure migration and upgrade projects with zero business disruption. Developed reusable Terraform modules to automate infrastructure provisioning across AWS, vSphere, Puppet, Fastly, and Datadog. Migrated public web services to AWS ECS, optimizing scalability and reliability. Deployed and managed containerized applications using Docker. Managed CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation with Travis-CI, GitHub, Puppet, Packer and Ansible. Integrated and managed monitoring, observability, and alerting with Datadog and PagerDuty for automated incident response; used Fastly for CDN optimization. Administered FreeIPA and FreeRADIUS for centralized authentication. Managed Linux environments (CentOS, Red Hat, Amazon Linux) across enterprise-scale infrastructure. Scripting in Bash and Python; wrote Ansible playbooks for automation. Provided 24/7 on-call support, resolving production incidents efficiently.
Systems Engineer at Endace Technologies Ltd, Hamilton
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2015
Customized Linux CentOS-based OS for network monitoring solutions. Automated Linux OS and VMware VM/OVA provisioning and RAID configurations to improve deployment efficiency. Enhanced security through firewall hardening, vulnerability scanning, and access controls. Managed networking, system patching, and performance tuning for critical production systems.

Education

Bachelor of Computing Systems at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2009

Qualifications

ICAgile Certified Professional – Project and Delivery Management
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2023
AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional
January 1, 2022 - November 10, 2025
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
January 1, 2015 - November 10, 2025
Linux Performance Tuning (LFS426)
January 11, 2030 - November 10, 2025

Industry Experience

Government, Professional Services, Software & Internet