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Sanjesh Kumar

Cloud and FinOps Engineer

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About

Hello! I am Sanjesh Kumar. Cloud engineer and FinOps expert.

Experienced cloud engineer with expertise in Cloud FinOps, operationalizing AWS accounts, and AWS network. Passionate about cloud financial management, KPIs, agile and process improvement.

Basic Information
Email:
kumar.sanjesh@outlook.com
Phone:
+1646-326-9613
Address:
Austin, TX, U.S.A
Language:
English, Urdu, Sindhi, Hindi
Professional Skills

  • Infrastructure as code (Cloudformation, Ansible, Terraform, Python)
  • AWS account setup and AWS organization (Landing zone, Control tower)
  • Network planning, configuration, subnetting, troubleshooting
  • Docker, Jenkins, Drone, Git, JIRA, Confluence
  • Monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Sumologic, Logic Monitor
  • AWS Services (EC2, RDS, TGW, VPC, Lambda, Dynamodb, RDS, IAM, Inspector, Guardduty Cloudfront, S3, DNS, Load Balancers and etc)
  • Azure cloud (VM, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Virtual Network, Identity Management)
  • Agile (Scrum and Kanban)
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Container technologies
  • Leadership, analytical, problem-solving ability, business communication, planning, budget management, team player, customer-centric, and go-getter

    • Work Experience

    Feb 2022 - Present

    Deloitte
    Senior Cloud Consultant FinOps

  • Manage daily and weekly updates to clients and track projects against deliverables
  • Lead FinOps practice in datacenter to GCP migration
  • Create excel models to show ROI and TCO of GCP migration from datacenter
  • Create interactive dashboards for finance team and IT Leadership view

    • March 2021 - Feb 2022

    LexisNexis
    Senior Cloud Engineer

  • Led Cloud business team in the areas of AWS cloud operation, security, and cost efficiency
  • Led weekly cost and security meeting to provide updates to business and IT Executives
  • Led multiple projects on AWS cloud cost efficiencies and AWS security guardrails
  • Led EDP/ cloud contract terms and private pricing negotiations with AWS to achieve better discounts
  • Practiced and led FinOps principals
  • Collaborated with engineering teams to better utilize Cloud resources
  • Created reports and dashboards to monitor daily cloud spend, utilizations and KPIs
  • Spread cloud cost conscious culture to help reduce cloud spend
  • Initiated Cloud guild and lead monthly cloud guild sessions as communities of practice
  • Saved over $2million/year in AWS Cloud cost by deleting un-utilized resources and covering resources with savings plan and reservations
  • Created environment to improve cross-team collaboration
  • Mentored team members and provided best practices in AWS
  • Implemented Cloud custodian policies to secure and increase efficiency of resource utilization
  • Implemented Cloudhealth in the organization
  • Integrated Athena and PowerBI to create dashboard and custom reporting
  • Managed $36+ million AWS budget and cost allocation

    • March 2017 - March 2021

    SPS Commerce Inc
    Senior Cloud Engineer

  • Helped leadership strategize and work with technical teams to execute the strategy
  • Acted as a catalyst to improve and modernize processes by utilizing cloud services
  • Worked with cross-functional teams in planning, research, and discovery of new cloud services
  • Mentored and onboard team members and interns
  • Developed risk management plans, support plans, change and incident management plans
  • Worked with product managers to build product roadmaps
  • Lead cloud cost management & drive cost improvement
  • Practice and lead FinOps principals at SPS
  • Met with business units, including Executives, VPs, Directors, and Managers, on a regular cadence to review AWS cost forecasts and identify deviations
  • Managed $5+ million AWS budget and cost allocation
  • Liaison between finance, accounting and technical team for monthly and yearly forecasting and budgeting
  • Developed and iterate on automated reports for billing, resource utilization, and rightsizing
  • Troubleshoot AWS issues using VPC flowlog, Cloud trail, LB logs, CloudWatch logs and metrics, network connectivity etc
  • Centralized AWS Networking using Transit gateway
  • Implemented and centralized Private CA and DNS
  • Implemented AWS Account pipeline using Control Tower
  • Supported and created Proof of Concept on AWS services
  • Managed IAM users, roles, groups and permissions using CloudFormation with CI/CD by using stacksets
  • Collaborated with networking team on hybrid networking solution

    • Jan 2016 - March 2017

    Logic Info
    Associate Infrastructure Consultant

  • Provided AWS infrastructure support for various activities from internal to client environment
  • Served as a database administrator for various operating systems running Oracle
  • Managed Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe cloud and provided operational services to various departments
  • Managed AWS IAM and monthly cost
  • Took responsibility for cloud servers and databases as part of the disaster recovery team
  • Provided 24X7 on-call support

    • Education

    2014 - 2016

    Master's Degree
    Master of Information Security

    St. Cloud State University

  • Program designated as National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/ Cyber-Security by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security
    Dean’s List, IS Academic Achievement Award

    • 2009 - 2012

    Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor of Finance

    Minnesota State University Mankato

  • Accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business
  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Minor in Economic, Finance Department Scholarship

    • Contact Me
    Feel free to contact me

    Address

    Austin, TX, U.S.A

    Phone

    +16463269613

    Email

    kumar.sanjesh@outlook.com