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Piyush Patel

@piyushpatel3

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Senior Cloud & DevOps engineer specializing in Azure, GCP, Splunk, and cloud security with FinOps expertise.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior cloud/DevOps role where I can design secure, cost-efficient cloud platforms, lead cross-functional teams, and drive automation and FinOps practices.

I am a Senior Cloud and DevOps engineer with over 15 years of experience leading software development, cloud transformations, and security operations across Azure, GCP, and AWS. I design and implement secure, scalable cloud architectures, lead distributed teams, and drive FinOps-based cost optimization.

My hands-on technical strengths include Splunk architecture and customization, Kafka real-time streaming, CI/CD automation with Jenkins/Git, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Docker/Kubernetes. I have led POCs, migrations from on-prem to cloud, and enforced compliance with security standards like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FISMA.

I deliver measurable business value by translating requirements into implementable designs, producing cost/benefit analyses for cloud transformation, and mentoring teams to adopt repeatable, secure, and automated operational practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Cloud Engineer

Current

Panacea

Dec 2017 - Present (7 years 10 months)

Designed and implemented Azure and GCP cloud security and infrastructure, led Splunk and Kafka deployments, and drove cloud FinOps to optimize costs while ensuring compliance with HIPAA, PCI-DSS and other standards.

Azure GCP)Splunk Kafka Cloud Security FinOps PowerShell Arm Kubernetes GCP

Sr. DevOps Engineer

eBay

Jun 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years 5 months)

Built CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments to AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and architected real-time streaming with Kafka and Confluent while operating Splunk-based monitoring solutions.

Jenkins AWS Kafka Splunk Ansible Docker Git Maven

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Genentech

Sep 2013 - May 2015 (1 year 8 months)

Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform and Puppet/Chef, implemented CI/CD on Jenkins and Kubernetes, and deployed and monitored AWS services and containerized microservices.

Terraform Puppet Chef Jenkins Docker AWS Kubernetes Splunk

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sears

Jan 2011 - Aug 2013 (2 years 7 months)

Managed CI/CD and release processes using Jenkins, Git and Chef/Ansible, automated infrastructure on AWS, and enforced SCM and deployment best practices to improve release reliability.

Jenkins Chef Ansible AWS Git CI CD CloudFormation Shell Scripting

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cerner

Feb 2010 - Dec 2010 (10 months)

Implemented automated build and deployment pipelines with Jenkins, Docker and Puppet, managed cloud deployments on AWS and Azure, and provided 24/7 support for infrastructure and release automation.

Jenkins Puppet Docker AWS Azure CI CD Nagios Shell Scripting

DevOps Engineer

SEI Investments

Oct 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 3 months)

Automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using Puppet, Terraform and Jenkins, managed Docker deployments and private registries, and implemented infrastructure-as-code for AWS environments.