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Vijaya Raghavan Lakshman

@vijayaraghavanlakshm

Senior AWS Platform Engineer at NewDay building secure, reusable cloud platforms across 70+ AWS accounts.

At NewDay, I engineer and operate a regulated AWS platform spanning 70+ accounts, building reusable Terraform components and automated account provisioning with security guardrails.

I also develop GitHub Actions workflows and cross-account platform integrations, including central SSO for Amazon MWAA. Previously, at Santander UK, I contributed to an enterprise AWS Landing Zone across 200+ accounts and supported five DevOps engineers while staying hands-on.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Current

NewDay

May 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Engineer and operate a regulated enterprise AWS platform spanning 70+ accounts, supporting multiple engineering teams with reusable, secure cloud capabilities. Develop modular Terraform components, automated account vending, and governance controls.

AWS Terraform Python AWS SDK (Boto3)GitHub Actions IAM AWS Organizations SCP AWS MWAA Airflow Amazon Cognito ALB Lambda STS S3 EventBridge Amazon SQS SNS Cloudwatch Vault Consul CI CD SRE

Senior Digital Transformation Manager - AWS

Santander UK

Jan 2021 - May 2024 (3 years 4 months)

Designed and implemented highly available AWS architectures across 200+ accounts in a regulated financial services environment. Contributed to enterprise AWS Landing Zone and built CI/CD pipelines for Terraform deployments.

AWS Terraform Python AWS SDK (Boto3)Lambda GitHub Gitlab Checkov CI CD AWS Organizations Control Tower SCP VPC EC2 Route 53 ELB S3 Amazon EKS Fargate ECR

Tech Lead Software Engineer

Refinitiv

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 11 months)

Led cloud and DevOps automation initiatives for SaaS platforms, focusing on reliability, monitoring, scaling, and configuration management. Developed automation frameworks for public cloud infrastructure and CI/CD.

Git Docker Ansible Jenkins GoCD Terraform Python CI CD Cloud Computing DevOps Monitoring Incident Management

Senior Software Engineer

Fizzback

Progressive software engineering, infrastructure automation and DevOps experience covering Linux provisioning, golden images, Ansible/Molecule, Terraform/Packer, HashiCorp Vault/Consul, CI/CD, containerisation, monitoring, logging, incident support and automation with Python/Bash.