Akshay A Jain

About Akshay A Jain

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with nearly 6 years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud. Currently working at IBM India as a Delivery Consultant, building resilient, scalable cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes (EKS), OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Helm, and Jenkins.I specialize in architecting production-grade containerized environments, implementing Infrastructure as Code, and enabling high-availability systems with 99.99% uptime. My work focuses on automation-first principles, reducing provisioning effort by 40% and improving deployment reliability across development and production environments.Experienced in designing secure cloud architectures including IAM, networking (VPC/VNet), storage, and monitoring solutions using CloudWatch and Grafana. Strong hands-on expertise in Linux environments (RHEL, Ubuntu), CI/CD automation, and microservices-based deployments.I collaborate closely with SRE, CloudOps, and Application teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-optimized platforms aligned with business SLAs.Additionally, I bring domain experience in Media Technology (IPTV/OTT, CDN architectures), supporting large-scale, performance-critical workloads.

Experience

1. Delivery Consultant

   IBM

   Jul 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Designed and deployed production-grade containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift, leveraging Portworx and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) for persistent storage, high availability, and scalable stateful workloads, alongside Amazon EKS for cloud-native deployments.• Automated multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning across AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud using Terraform modules and Ansible Playbooks. • Developed and managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, integrated with GitHub, enabling microservices-based deployments using Helm charts for Kubernetes environments.• Optimized cloud performance and cost-efficiency across development, staging, and production environments in AWS and Azure. • Implemented monitoring and observability using tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, and BigPanda, achieving 99.99% system uptime. • Collaborated with SRE, AppDev, and CloudOps teams to support reliable, secure, and scalable cloud operations. • Created and maintained reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using AWS CloudFormation, reducing manual provisioning efforts by 40%. • Operated under the ITIL framework, managing incidents, changes, and service requests via ServiceNow and Salesforce CSP. • Delivered robust, secure cloud infrastructure supporting business-critical applications across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud.

Education

• Jain PU College

  Pre-University Course (PUC), Science

  2014 — 2016

• Mohammadiya English Medium High School

  Secondary School (10th), General Studies

  2014

• Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science & Engineering

  2016 — 2020