Abhinandan Arya

About Abhinandan Arya

A highly motivated professional with a positive outlook, driven to achieve excellence in every area I work in. Recognized as an innovative, energetic, and challenge-driven individual, I thrive on bringing ideas to life and supporting teams to deliver impactful outcomes. As a Lead (Platform and Infrastructure Engineering), I am expected to justify multiple roles. I am responsible for designing cloud and network architectures for enterprise customers enabling them to run their Solutions with greater speed, reliability, and sustainability. I partner with global teams to design future-ready cloud architectures that deliver real business impact.I also specialize in IaC-driven automation, and zero-trust security, while embedding SRE and DevOps principles to ensure reliability and performance: • Leadership: Technical Vision & Roadmapping | Team Building & Mentoring | Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management | P&L Ownership • Technical: Cloud and Network Design, AWS, Azure, LAN, WAN, SDWAN, Cloud, CNF, Automation, DevOps, SDN, DC optimization and Application Migration | MLOps & CI/CD | Generative AI & LLMs • Business Impact: Predictive Analytics | Revenue Growth | Cost Optimization | Customer Experience TransformationI am eager to connect about opportunities to Lead and direct Cloud, Network and Infrastructure Tower that create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Experience

1. Lead Sre

   OpenText

   Jul 2022 — Present · Newbury, GB

   Designed and delivered cloud connectivity frameworks across AWS and Azure, covering Landing Zones, hybrid models, and IPv6 adoption.• Standardized routing, segmentation, and interconnect designs to support scalable and secure multi-cloud operations.• Translated business non-functional requirements (NFRs) into robust architecture principles to guide cloud deployments.• Built reusable Terraform and Terragrunt modules for provisioning network resources, enabling automated and self-service onboarding for applications and accounts.• Embedded network services into CI/CD workflows to accelerate delivery and reduce manual intervention.• Developed automation-first practices for routing, access control, and firewall policy management.• Defined and implemented SLOs, SLIs, and KPIs for public cloud workloads to measure and improve reliability.• Introduced observability mechanisms to monitor latency, health, and availability of network paths.• Applied SRE practices to optimize incident resolution, root cause analysis, and performance improvements.• Implemented network segmentation, encryption, and firewall controls aligned to zero-trust security models. Extensively worked on Cloud Network Security using AWS Firewall Manager, Network Firewall and Checkpoint firewalls deployed in Landing Zone environment.• Worked with enterprise customers, from technical teams to executives, to guide them on cloud networking, analytics, and AI adoption.• Acted as a strategic advisor, aligning connectivity solutions with transformation goals and workload needs.• Documented and shared best practices for deploying and operating cloud network and data platforms.• Conducted knowledge sessions on cloud networking, infrastructure, analytics, and AI services for students and professionals s and also promoted culture of cross team Knowledge transfer.• Collaborated with product groups to modernize architectures and drive innovation across cloud platforms.

Education

• Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering