Meenakshi Rajbar

-Design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures for enterprise customers using AWS best practices, with focus on security, cost optimization and performance efficiency.

-Led workload discovery and requirements gather fro AMS onboarding and operational readiness initiatives. Delivered architectural walk-throughs, POC demonstrations, and AWS Managed Services deep dives to support customer onboarding and alignment.

-Creation of infrastructure as code templates using CloudFormation/Terraform, establishes CI/CD pipelines, and implements automated deployment strategies across multi-account environments using services like EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS etc.

-Architects networking solutions including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and hybrid connectivity while ensuring secure and efficient communication.

-Collaboration with customer teams to understand business requirements, provides technical consultation, and develops solution proposals aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework and performed well architected reviews for AWS Managed Services.

-Established a structured engagement cadence with Customer Experience (CX) teams to align on priorities, track progress, and drive outcomes.

- Managed business continuity strategies, implemented high availability solutions using AWS services within SIR framework.

-Mentored technical teams, conducts architecture reviews, and drives adoption of cloud-native services and best practices across the organization.

-Identified Cost optimization avenues and helped customers to save cost by right sizing activities quarterly.

-Helped customer achieve best security posture using AWS guardrails and services like IAM,security hub, guard duty and its integration with external tools like wiz.

-Maintained compliance regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes using AWS Config.

-Drove automation of cloud operations, reducing manual effort by 40% and significantly improving customer responsiveness by leveraging AWS systems manager automation.

• Monitored, troubleshot, and resolved incidents across AWS infrastructure while maintaining SLA compliance and performing root cause analysis.
• Implemented and managed changes in AWS environments, including infrastructure modifications, security patches, and configuration updates.
• Managed critical AWS services including EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, and CloudWatch, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts using Python, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation to improve operational efficiency.
• Implemented security controls and responded to security incidents using AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and AWS Config.
• Managed alerting, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery processes, ensuring data integrity and system resilience.

Associate consultant at HCL working as a part of AWS CLOUD COE(Centre of excellence) since 31st January 2019 focussing on design, deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS and Azure Cloud Platform.

AWS and VMware certified Platform and Cloud Consultant with over 7 years of experience delivering Data Centre infrastructure and Cloud Solutions, providing leadership and expertise, using innovative and emerging technologies to develop customized innovative solutions on multiple vertical’s client engagements and then taking those solutions to market. Excelling in all phases of enterprise-wide deployments – pre-engagements, planning, development, implementation and ensuring project management. Expertise in leading teams in extremely large and challenging infrastructure projects, developing and driving the migration of a legacy infrastructure.

VCP6-certified VMware engineer and NetApp storage administrator with four years and nine months of experience in the IT industry managing mission-critical operations. Worked as a member of the Infrastructure team, responsible for system tuning, account management, security and performance monitoring, new system and server installations, software and hardware upgrades, and managing disk configurations in virtual environments. Gained additional experience managing Windows-based server operating systems, Citrix Farm version 5, and XenApp 5.