Abhishek Kumar Ak

About Abhishek Kumar Ak

Strategic and hands-on leader with 18+ years of experience driving platform reliability, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence across global cloud environments. Proven success in scaling multi-region Kubernetes platforms, leading SRE and DevOps transformations, and aligning engineering velocity with business outcomes. Adept at building high-trust teams, instituting observability and compliance frameworks, and delivering resilient, cost-optimized cloud ecosystems. Passionate about developer experience, data governance, and platform-as-a-product strategy. Decisive support during major customer-impacting incidents to ensure resilience and continuity.Skilled in cloud operation, DevOps, SRE, Change management, Incident management, Oncall management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud Infra, Test Strategy, Agile Methodologies, and container management like Kubernetes, docker etc. Strong professional with a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya.

Experience

1. Senior Development Manager

   Oracle

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Lead SRE, devOps and Operations of Identity and Access Management/IDCS service.•Spearheaded multi-region cloud infrastructure programs across 100+ data centers. Accomplished 40% cost savings on a $2M+ annual budget through strategic resource planning.•Engineered Remote Disaster Recovery (RDR) architecture for IDCS services on OCI. Boosted service uptime to via automation and architectural upgrades.•Automated patching, certificate rotation, and scaling, saving 5 FTEs worth of manual effort. Technical•Drive strategy, set goals, mentor managers and senior technical leaders. Lead 30+ resources across geographies.•Foster team innovation through emerging tech and AI in operations.•Executive program management. Coordination and collaboration across team and business units.•Cost governance, optimization & Budget Management, Change Management.•Resiliency engineering, disaster Recovery & High Availability. Risk management, Change leader, Incident command.•Platform engineering and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes)•DevOps Strategy & CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins, Python, shell, Java), progressive delivery, golden paths, chaos engineering•Database provisioning, high availability, Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Kibana, Telemetry, Prometheus)•Security and compliance basis SOC2 (FedRAMP, FIPS, HIPAA, Policy as Code.)•SLAs / SLOs / Error Budgets and business continuity. Focus MTTR, Lead time, failure rate.•OCI, AWS, service meshes, WAF/CDN, secrets management, VPC, subnets, routing, load balanceproduction, ensuring consistency and scalability.•Integrated Generative AI, MCP agentic workflow into platform and SRE, improving MTTR by 25%.•Manage SLAs, SLOs, Error Budget. Reduced IAM region build SLA from 15 days to 12 hours using MFO.•Partnered with Security and Legal to embed SOC 2/HIPAA controls and regional compliance playbooks.• Shaped strategy, mentor leaders, manage region builds, and ensure resilience during critical incidents.Tec

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE