I am a Sr. Data Platform Engineer with a track record spanning Jenius Bank, Apple, and Palo Alto Networks. I specialize in Terraform automation and cloud infrastructure management, building resilient GCP and AWS services to support AI/ML workloads while ensuring robust security protocols. I thrive on cross-team collaboration, containerization, and ML Ops practices. I enjoy driving innovation, optimizing performance, and delivering scalable data platforms with secure, compliant operations across multi-region deployments.

Rahul Jain

I am a Sr. Data Platform Engineer with a track record spanning Jenius Bank, Apple, and Palo Alto Networks. I specialize in Terraform automation and cloud infrastructure management, building resilient GCP and AWS services to support AI/ML workloads while ensuring robust security protocols. I thrive on cross-team collaboration, containerization, and ML Ops practices. I enjoy driving innovation, optimizing performance, and delivering scalable data platforms with secure, compliant operations across multi-region deployments.

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I am a Sr. Data Platform Engineer with a track record spanning Jenius Bank, Apple, and Palo Alto Networks. I specialize in Terraform automation and cloud infrastructure management, building resilient GCP and AWS services to support AI/ML workloads while ensuring robust security protocols.

I thrive on cross-team collaboration, containerization, and ML Ops practices. I enjoy driving innovation, optimizing performance, and delivering scalable data platforms with secure, compliant operations across multi-region deployments.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Sr. Data Platform Engineer at Jenius Bank
April 1, 2022 - Present
Built infrastructure to support AI/ML workloads; provisioned GPU (H100/A100) and TPU-attached machines on GKE and GCE; developed reusable Terraform modules to provision private GCP services including Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Vertex AI Studio, GKE, and API gateway with Kong and APIM on Azure; hosted infrastructure for LLM on autoscaling GKE; set up multi-regional API endpoints; implemented MLOps practices via Azure DevOps pipelines; containerized microservices and deployed them with Blue/Green and canary strategies; collaborated with Infosec to maintain security compliance; maintained real-time Kafka pipelines on GCP.
Sr. Cloud Devops Engineer at Apple
June 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022
Built reusable Terraform modules to provision private GKE, EKS clusters and other GCP/AWS services (Cloud SQL, IAM, Filestore, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, KMS with CMEK, Networking, VPC, etc.); developed centralized system for provisioning Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds; containerized microservice applications and deployed them with Blue/Green and canary strategies; implemented Kubernetes best practices using GCP foundation toolkit; authored OPA policies and Calico network policies; created automation scripts with Python Google APIs and scheduled via CI/CD Jenkins pipelines; managed Secret Manager and rotation policies; partnered with Infosec to adhere to security guidelines.
Sr DevOps Engineer - Data Operations Team at Palo Alto Networks
August 1, 2017 - May 1, 2021
Architected and built a central IT Datalake in GCP with Kafka integration; built CI/CD automation pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible) to provision GKE, Docker, GCE, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery as code; implemented scalable Airflow infrastructure for workflow scheduling; maintained and scaled production Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark clusters; managed encryption at rest and Kafka security (SSL/Kerberos, ACLs); implemented certificate renewal with zero downtime and configured monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana.
Big Data Engineer at Infosys Ltd
September 1, 2015 - July 1, 2017
Wrote Spark-based Python code to extract pricing and sales data; developed Spark jobs to ingest real-time data from GAP stores via Kafka queues; tuned performance of Spark and Hive jobs; wrote monitoring scripts and integrated new data-nodes into production Hadoop clusters; installed and configured HDFS clusters and managed big data infrastructure (Hadoop 1.x/2.x with Hortonworks).
L3 Lead for DELL Clerity Legacy Mainframe system: DevOps/Operations at Infosys Ltd
January 1, 2012 - August 1, 2015
Managed critical mainframe applications for GAP; led migration of mainframe code to Clerity; mentored stakeholders on the new environment; collaborated with clients and vendors to resolve technical challenges and defects; served as primary technical contact for application teams.
Big Data Engineer at Infosys
September 1, 2015 - July 1, 2017
Wrote Spark-based Python code to extract pricing and sales data; developed Spark jobs to ingest real-time data from GAP online stores via Kafka; tuned Spark and Hive job performance; wrote Python scripts for cluster monitoring and maintenance; integrated new data-nodes into production and non-production Hadoop clusters (Hortonworks).
L3 Lead for DELL Clerity Legacy Mainframe system: DevOps/Operations at Infosys
January 1, 2012 - August 1, 2015
Managed critical mainframe applications for GAP, serving as primary contact for issues affecting a large portion of applications. Led migration of mainframe code to Clerity, mentoring stakeholders on the new environment and coordinating with clients and vendors to resolve technical challenges and bugs. Served as the primary technical escalation point for application teams.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Bachelor of Engineering at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026

Qualifications

CNCF - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
CNCF - Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
HashiCorp Certified - Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Machine Learning Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Big Data - Hortonworks HDP Certified Administrator - HDPCA
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Amazon Web Services - Solution Architect - Associate level
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Big Data: CCA175- Cloudera Spark and Hadoop Developer Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
SnowPro Core Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
CKS - Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Machine Learning Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
SnowPro Core Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Big Data - Hortonworks HDP Certified Administrator - HDPCA
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Amazon Web Services - Solution Architect - Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing