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PRABHU VELUSWAMY

PRABHU VELUSWAMY

Senior Cloud Engineer
Dubai

Summary

Senior Cloud Engineer with over 16 years of industry experience, including 7+ years in cloud architecture and engineering. Specialized in cloud-native services, cloud infrastructure operations, and large-scale cloud migrations, with a strong focus on DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and Agile delivery models. Skilled in implementing multi-account cloud governance, shared services architectures, and landing zone frameworks. Adept at aligning cloud strategies with business goals using Design Thinking and continuous improvement practices to drive operational efficiency and innovation. Proven expertise in designing and delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions across AWS and Azure environments.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Specialist - Cloud

Al-Ghurair Investment Corporate Office
Dubai
05.2023 - Current

AWS Multi-Account Management & Governance

  • Managed and governed over 70 AWS accounts across multiple business units using AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations, establishing structured environments for Production, Development, and QA.
  • Collaborated with Information Security teams to implement and maintain Service Control Policies (SCPs) and guardrails, ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards and best practices.

Shared Services Architecture & Cloud Networking Design

  • Designed and maintained shared services architecture in AWS, enabling multiple production workloads across business units.
  • Built hub-and-spoke VPC architecture using AWS Transit Gateway and Resource Access Manager (RAM) for efficient and consistent cross-account network connectivity.
  • Deployed Cisco Meraki vMX in Azure as a central SD-WAN VPN hub, ensuring secure connectivity between cloud and on-premises networks.
  • Implemented Azure Traffic Manager and Private DNS Zones within the Azure Hub Management Account for intelligent traffic routing and secure DNS resolution.
  • Designed and deployed Azure Landing Zone architecture to support scalable, secure multi-subscription environments with centralized connectivity and governance.
  • Strengthened security posture by isolating network boundaries and enforcing standardized routing, firewall policies, and access controls across cloud environments.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

  • Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate provisioning of AWS and Azure resources, including EC2, Azure VMs, networking, security groups, and more.
  • Led end-to-end deployment of infrastructure stacks, including Kubernetes clusters, RDS databases, App Services, Lambda functions, Storage Accounts, CloudFront, Transit Gateways, and other core services.
  • Integrated Terraform with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning triggered by code changes and infrastructure updates.
  • Managed environment-specific configurations using Terraform Workspaces and automated server image deployment with AWS AMIs and Azure Images to ensure compliance, security, and optimization.

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

  • Centralized user access across AWS using IAM Identity Center (formerly AWS SSO) with Azure AD integration for seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) and identity federation.
  • Defined and managed custom permission sets based on least-privilege principles and aligned access roles with environment-specific requirements.

Cloud Cost Optimization & Financial Governance | AWS & Azure

  • Enabled centralized cost visibility by configuring the Cost Optimization Hub in the AWS Management Account for actionable cost insights across member accounts.
  • Utilized AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and Budgets to track spend, forecast usage, and identify cost-saving opportunities (e.g., rightsizing, Reserved Instances, savings plans, workload migration).

Cloud Operations & Monitoring

  • Maintained comprehensive cloud infrastructure documentation, including high-level and low-level design diagrams, in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture teams (via Confluence and SharePoint).
  • Led the onboarding and migration of workloads (applications, databases, file servers) from 13 on-prem data centers to AWS and Azure.
  • Implemented Lambda-based automation for non-critical VMs to shut down during off-business hours, reducing operational costs.
  • Deployed Commvault SaaS Backup across AWS and Azure production workloads, including configuration of backup plans and retention policies.
  • Onboarded AWS and Azure environments to ManageEngine OpManager for centralized cloud infrastructure monitoring.
  • Ensured 99.99% uptime for critical applications by implementing resilient cloud architectures and high-availability setups.
  • Configured automated monitoring and alerting for system health and availability using AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor.

Cloud Engineer

MAERSK GLOBAL SERVICE CENTRES (INDIA) PVT PTD
10.2022 - 03.2023
  • Migration of infrastructure, data, and applications from on-premises to AWS cloud
  • Design & Implement migration strategies for traditional systems on AWS (AWS Migration Services & other third-party tools)
  • Executed the migration and implementation of multiple applications from on-premises to AWS
  • Adherence Cloud Migration & Modernization methodologies (proposal writing, runbooks)
  • Leveraged Open-source technologies (Terraform & Ansible) to automate the Design and Management of the infrastructure including servers, networks, load balancers, and databases in VMware & other cloud platforms
  • Managed successful Design & Delivery of cloud-native, optimized solutions for our ERP Customers by utilizing re-usable terraform templates across AWS and Azure architecture patterns.

Senior Consultant

Capgemini Technologies
05.2017 - 10.2022
  • Infrastructure as a Code - Good hands-on with Terraform - Deploying the AWS stack including VPC, bastion server, creation of cluster, installing Kubernetes, autoscaling group, EFS using terraform template & ZDT update for ASG using Terraform, Managed AZURE/AWS infrastructure with automation and configuration tool such as Ansible and AWS System Manager
  • Migrating on-premises data centers servers to AZURE / AWS / Private cloud / VMware for IAAS/PAAS
  • Had responsibility for migrating 4500+ workloads to CapGemini infrastructure from Pittsburg / Leverkusen / Singapore/ Monsanto DC (BAYER – GERMANY) Had responsibility for migrating 1800 workloads to CapGemini infrastructure (IKANO BANK – SWEDEN) Tools used for migration, Azure Site Recovery, AWS Server Migration Service, VMware Site Recovery and VMotion


Senior Systems Engineer

Cerner Health Services, India (Acquired from Siemens)
08.2012 - 05.2017
  • Support product teams in adopting best practices for configuration management, build and release management, and immutable infrastructure
  • Administer customer environments for over 70 hospitals across the US hosted on Siemens Retail Healthcare Cloud
  • Developed an E-Notification tool automating maintenance emails for clients, resulting in a time savings of nearly 700+ hours and earning the Cerner Masters award at the global level.

Wintel Administrator

Gas Turbine Research Establishment, DRDO
08.2008 - 03.2012
  • Manage the configuration and operation of client-based computer operating systems
  • Deployment of OS, Patches & Software through SCCM
  • Installing, configuring, managing, and updating McAfee antivirus (8.7i) to client machines through server using E-Policy Orchestrator.

Education

Bachelor's - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Anna University
05.2008

Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure

Orchestration/Infra As Code: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

Monitoring: Grafana, Apps Manager, Dynatrace

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Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

LINKEDIN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabhu-veluswamy

Timeline

Specialist - Cloud

Al-Ghurair Investment Corporate Office
05.2023 - Current

Cloud Engineer

MAERSK GLOBAL SERVICE CENTRES (INDIA) PVT PTD
10.2022 - 03.2023

Senior Consultant

Capgemini Technologies
05.2017 - 10.2022

Senior Systems Engineer

Cerner Health Services, India (Acquired from Siemens)
08.2012 - 05.2017

Wintel Administrator

Gas Turbine Research Establishment, DRDO
08.2008 - 03.2012

Bachelor's - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Anna University
PRABHU VELUSWAMYSenior Cloud Engineer