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I’m Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky), a Cloud Lead/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring highly available, automated, secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. I’ve stood up multiple environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, Preprod, PROD) and designed Azure and AWS landing zones, always focusing on cost-effective, scalable architectures. I automate IaC and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and I collaborate with application teams to uplift CICD capabilities. I also work on on‑prem connectivity (Azure/AWS) and cloud-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, and disaster recovery strategies. I am comfortable engaging with clients and stakeholders, and I pride myself on clear communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team. Over the years I’ve delivered across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, built data lakes and analytics pipelines (AWS Glue, EMR, MWAA, Redshift), enabled Snowflake integrations, and ensured security, monitoring, and cost management are baked into every design. I thrive in Agile settings and enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions that drive business outcomes.…I’m Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky), a Cloud Lead/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring highly available, automated, secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. I’ve stood up multiple environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, Preprod, PROD) and designed Azure and AWS landing zones, always focusing on cost-effective, scalable architectures. I automate IaC and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and I collaborate with application teams to uplift CICD capabilities. I also work on on‑prem connectivity (Azure/AWS) and cloud-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, and disaster recovery strategies. I am comfortable engaging with clients and stakeholders, and I pride myself on clear communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team. Over the years I’ve delivered across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, built data lakes and analytics pipelines (AWS Glue, EMR, MWAA, Redshift), enabled Snowflake integrations, and ensured security, monitoring, and cost management are baked into every design. I thrive in Agile settings and enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions that drive business outcomes.

Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky)

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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I’m Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky), a Cloud Lead/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring highly available, automated, secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. I’ve stood up multiple environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, Preprod, PROD) and designed Azure and AWS landing zones, always focusing on cost-effective, scalable architectures. I automate IaC and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and I collaborate with application teams to uplift CICD capabilities. I also work on on‑prem connectivity (Azure/AWS) and cloud-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, and disaster recovery strategies. I am comfortable engaging with clients and stakeholders, and I pride myself on clear communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team. Over the years I’ve delivered across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, built data lakes and analytics pipelines (AWS Glue, EMR, MWAA, Redshift), enabled Snowflake integrations, and ensured security, monitoring, and cost management are baked into every design. I thrive in Agile settings and enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions that drive business outcomes.…I’m Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky), a Cloud Lead/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring highly available, automated, secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. I’ve stood up multiple environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, Preprod, PROD) and designed Azure and AWS landing zones, always focusing on cost-effective, scalable architectures. I automate IaC and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and I collaborate with application teams to uplift CICD capabilities. I also work on on‑prem connectivity (Azure/AWS) and cloud-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, and disaster recovery strategies. I am comfortable engaging with clients and stakeholders, and I pride myself on clear communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team. Over the years I’ve delivered across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, built data lakes and analytics pipelines (AWS Glue, EMR, MWAA, Redshift), enabled Snowflake integrations, and ensured security, monitoring, and cost management are baked into every design. I thrive in Agile settings and enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions that drive business outcomes.

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I’m Rakesh Mahajan (Ricky), a Cloud Lead/DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring highly available, automated, secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. I’ve stood up multiple environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, Preprod, PROD) and designed Azure and AWS landing zones, always focusing on cost-effective, scalable architectures. I automate IaC and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and I collaborate with application teams to uplift CICD capabilities. I also work on on‑prem connectivity (Azure/AWS) and cloud-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, and disaster recovery strategies. I am comfortable engaging with clients and stakeholders, and I pride myself on clear communication, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Over the years I’ve delivered across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, built data lakes and analytics pipelines (AWS Glue, EMR, MWAA, Redshift), enabled Snowflake integrations, and ensured security, monitoring, and cost management are baked into every design. I thrive in Agile settings and enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions that drive business outcomes.

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Work Experience

Lead Cloud Consultant at Contino

August 1, 2021 - September 1, 2023

Designed and implemented AWS service patterns for Westpac and NAB programs. Defined security, logging/monitoring, backup/restore, and cost-management guidance; built Terraform modules for AWS Glue components (database, table, job, connection, schema, registry); authored Terraform unit tests and published modules to the Enterprise Terraform registry; collaborated with PCS and architects to produce design artifacts and obtain ISRF approvals; supported application teams in adopting the modules.

Lead Cloud Consultant at Contino

September 1, 2023 - Present

Westpac project ongoing from 2023-09; designed highly available, secure AWS patterns and landing zone integration; implemented Glue pattern security and monitoring; ensured on-going security, logging, and cost controls; led enterprise Terraform module development and adoption; provided architecture designs and artifacts for ISRF approvals.

Senior/Lead Devops Cloud Consultant at Worksafe

March 1, 2020 - August 1, 2021

Built a fault-tolerant Data Analytics and Data Lake platform on AWS for Worksafe Victoria. Implemented VPC/NACLs/Subnets, Transit Gateway, S3, RDS, EC2, and other services via Terraform; set up MWAA (Airflow) managed service; established S3 RBAC, Snowflake connectivity, and Data Engineer ETL tooling (Glue/Connections); ensured encryption in transit/rest and established on‑prem connectivity via Transit Gateway and Direct Connect; collaborated with stakeholders to deliver an compliant, scalable analytics stack.

Devops Cloud Consultant at Contino

February 1, 2018 - January 31, 2020

NAB Data Analytics/Data Lake platform on AWS; deployed JupyterHub, RStudio, ArcGIS, Superset, Airflow, and other data tools; automated infrastructure with Terraform; built Docker images with Packer and managed ECS clusters; implemented backup/restore strategies and blue/green deployment patterns; enabled CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub; integrated security, monitoring, and logging.

Senior Devops Consultant at Odecee Melbourne

June 1, 2017 - February 1, 2018

Worked with ANZ client to set up CI/CD pipelines; used OpenShift to manage Docker images; automated End-to-End testing with Selenium Hub; supported cloud-native deployments and DevOps practices.

Devops Lead at TotheNew

June 1, 2016 - April 1, 2017

Migration of Cloudwords application from Rackspace to AWS; designed cloud-based infrastructure with CloudFormation; established Night Build CI/CD; implemented centralized logging (EFK) and Kubernetes setup; configured OpenVPN for secure access; delivered POC on Packer to win projects.

Senior Devops Consultant at Odecee Melbourne

January 1, 2016 - May 31, 2016

CI/CD delivery pipeline projects using AWS CloudFormation, Jenkins, Nexus, Puppet, Git, Nagios; implemented PaaS with Cloud Foundry and AWS infrastructure for the Australia Post program.

Devops Engineer at Unico Melbourne

June 1, 2014 - January 31, 2016

Designed and implemented IaaS on AWS; migrated WordPress from on‑premises to AWS; built nested CloudFormation templates for VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, SGs, NACLs, routing; implemented 3-tier and 2-tier architectures; automated service installations with CFN-init and Puppet; set up HA across AZs; implemented EBS snapshot backups with Python scripts.

Devops Engineer at Department of Justice (DOJ), Melbourne

July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014

Implemented CI/CD and hosting of DOJ websites on AWS. Set up VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch via CloudFormation; hosted Drupal and WordPress; configured Route53 DNS; built Jenkins-based CI and Puppet-based deployment; managed j2ee environments (Tomcat/WebSphere) including server.xml and JDBC/JMS/JNDI resources; authored backup scripts and Disaster Recovery procedures.