CHETHAN S.
Cloud Platform Architect | Platform Engineering, Governance & DevOps
Cloud Platform Architect with 15+ years of experience modernizing on-prem workloads and designing scalable cloud platforms. Specializes in CI/CD reference architectures, governance guardrails, and cost-aware cloud operations across enterprise-scale environments. Combines hands-on DevOps expertise with architectural decision-making to build secure, scalable platforms while mentoring teams and aligning engineering practices with ISO 27001:2022 security and compliance requirements.
Work Experience
SIENT TECHNOLOGIES
Cloud Architect
MAY 2026 - PRESENT
- Leading enterprise Azure modernisation, architecting hub-spoke network topology, defence-in-depth security controls, and automated IaC pipelines across a hybrid multi-workload environment.
- Driving ISO 27001:2022 compliance readiness, coordinating ISMS documentation and control-mapping work to run in parallel with upcoming migrations ahead of the certification assessment.
- Consolidated endpoint management across organization's devices to replace fragmented processes.
HEXAGON CAPABILITY CENTER INDIA PVT. LTD., HYDERABAD
Senior DevOps Lead
JAN 2023 - FEB 2026
- Helped define cloud architecture standards across 10+ Azure subscriptions supporting 200+ engineers and multiple product teams.
- Designed resilient CI/CD reference architecture leveraging Kubernetes job orchestration, container registry caching, and elastic autoscaling build agents, improving pipeline throughput and reducing external dependency failures.
- Guided on-prem to cloud migration architecture covering private connectivity, RBAC design, Azure Entra identity integration, and environment isolation strategies aligned to least-privilege principles.
- Implemented cloud governance guardrails using policy-as-code (Azure Policy) to control costs, standardize compute SKUs, and enforce platform compliance.
- Standardized infrastructure provisioning and observability using IaC and cloud-native monitoring, improving deployment consistency and reducing mean time to diagnose CI/CD and production incidents.
- Partnered with engineering leadership and audit stakeholders to align platform evolution with ISO 27001:2022 controls and compliance expectations.
Technical Lead
JAN 2020 - DEC 2022
- Designed and enforced platform security controls, automating Azure SQL firewall management and private connectivity to reduce manual intervention by over 90% while improving isolation and access governance.
- Implemented private connectivity using Azure Private Link and private endpoints to eliminate public exposure of critical cloud workloads.
- Defined scalable Kubernetes deployment patterns using Helm charts and manifests to support high availability, disaster recovery, and consistent application scaling.
- Re-architected CI execution capacity using elastic autoscaling agents (Azure VMSS), reducing build queue times from 15 minutes to under 2 minutes through on-demand scaling.
- Implemented cost-aware cloud runtime strategies by adopting Spot/preemptible VMs for dev/test workloads and introducing automated spend alerts to prevent uncontrolled resource consumption.
Software Analyst → Senior Software Analyst → Software Consultant
JULY 2011 - DEC 2019
- Early contributor to DevOps adoption at Hexagon SIG, where I helped establish automation and release practices that later formed the foundation for broader CI/CD adoption.
- Standardized build and quality pipelines by onboarding legacy applications to Azure DevOps and introducing containerization.
- Extended influence beyond the immediate team by serving as SPOC for Microsoft Gold Partner certification and authoring blog posts.
Technical Expertise
- Cloud Platforms & Governance: Azure, AWS, multi-subscription governance, RBAC, policy-as-code
- Platform Engineering & CI/CD Architecture: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible, PowerShell, Shell scripting
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Observability & DevSecOps: Cloud-native monitoring, Secure SDLC, SonarQube, Synopsys Black Duck
- Cost Optimization & Resource Strategy: Cost Analysis, Compute SKU governance, Spot/preemptible VMs
- AI-Assisted Engineering: LLM-assisted code generation, review, and technical documentation workflows
- Supporting Technologies: Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V
Volunteer Experience
- DevOps trainer for NASSCOM GCC Skills Development Initiative (200+ students)
Education
M.Tech, Remote Sensing & GIS, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
B.E., Civil Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi
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