Prashant's CV
Prashant Jha
AWS Platform Engineering & DevOps Leader | SRE | Cloud Infrastructure
Profile summary
Strategic AWS Platform Engineering and DevOps Leader with 10 years shaping cloud infrastructure outcomes. Known for scaling engineering organizations and directing high-availability distributed systems. Committed to delivering reliable cloud-native architectures and secure deployment pipelines.
Career highlights
AWS Platform Strategy: Defined the cloud enablement strategy for gaming products on AWS supporting millions of monthly active users while sustaining 99.95%+ uptime through high-traffic events.
Infrastructure Automation: Drove enterprise CI/CD platform strategy and adoption of standardized Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation alongside ArgoCD, reducing manual operational effort by 35%.
Team Leadership: Scaled a 10+ member Platform, DevOps, and SRE organization by hiring and mentoring managers and senior engineers while providing technical direction across globally distributed teams.
Professional Certifications: Earned industry credentials including Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Key skills
Professional experience
Defines the AWS platform and cloud enablement strategy for gaming products supporting millions of monthly active users, partnering with product and engineering leadership to align platform investment with growth priorities. Scales a 10 member Platform, DevOps, and SRE organization, hiring and mentoring managers and senior engineers while providing technical direction across globally distributed teams.
- Acts as Subject Matter Expert for AWS platform engineering, setting technical direction for distributed systems like EKS, RDS, Redis, and VPC while sustaining 99.95% uptime through high-traffic events such as IPL.
- Drives enterprise CI/CD platform strategy and adoption of standardized Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation and GitOps with ArgoCD, improving pipeline reliability and reducing manual operational effort by 35%.
- Leads the internal developer platform initiative on Backstage, simplifying cloud onboarding and enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning and golden-path service onboarding across application teams.
- Strengthens Kubernetes governance and security controls via Kyverno policy-as-code, enforcing compliance guardrails across clusters in line with enterprise standards.
- Owns infrastructure cost governance and cloud security strategy, including Redis migration, right-sizing, IAM governance, policy enforcement, and code scanning, while creating technical documentation and training materials.
Directed platform and DevOps functions for gaming products on AWS, overseeing daily reliability, CI/CD delivery, and cloud operations. Collaborated with engineering leadership to shape team structure, hiring plans, and operational roadmaps.
- Established foundational SRE practices, including incident response processes, structured on-call rotations, and initial SLI and SLO definitions.
- Partnered across application, security, and networking teams to coordinate cross-functional work and mentor senior engineering staff.
- Executed cost and reliability improvements on AWS infrastructure by performing early right-sizing and refining IAM governance.
Directed site reliability engineering and platform reliability for distributed SaaS workloads, collaborating with application teams on scalable cloud architectures and enterprise security controls.
- Migrated production workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes to support cloud modernization.
- Redesigned observability architecture with OpenSearch for improved service monitoring.
- Built internal Go automation tooling to decrease repetitive operational tasks.
Directed infrastructure reliability and scaling operations for core educational technology workloads running on Amazon Web Services. Managed the production lifecycle of Kubernetes container environments, continuous integration systems, and monitoring platforms to support engineering teams.
- Designed and managed Jenkins continuous integration and deployment architecture within Kubernetes, enabling scalable cross-account release management.
- Implemented a centralized observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenSearch for operational analytics, logging, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Developed internal self-serve deployment tooling to support developer workflows and release speed.
- Troubleshot and resolved complex production issues across customer cloud workloads by performing root-cause analysis and recommending preventive measures.
- Earned professional certifications in CKA, Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps.
- Automated routine operational tasks by writing Python scripts.
- Resolved production incidents and managed monitoring and alerting systems.
Education
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