Mani Kumar

About Mani Kumar

Passionate Cloud Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, deploying, and securing multi-cloud infrastructures across Azure, AWS, and GCP.I specialize in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation), CI/CD automation (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS, GKE, ECS).My focus is on building scalable, secure, and compliant cloud environments that meet regulatory standards such as HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, Dodd-Frank, CFPB, and FFIEC — driving efficiency, performance, and business continuity. Key Strengths:• Cloud Architecture & Migration (Azure | AWS | GCP)• DevOps, Automation & CI/CD Pipelines• Cloud Security, IAM, RBAC, KMS• Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus | Grafana | ELK | Azure Monitor)• Data Integration, Power BI, and Analytics Workflows I’m passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges, optimizing cloud performance, and enabling secure digital transformation for enterprises in healthcare, finance, and technology sectors.Let’s connect to discuss Cloud, DevOps, and Security transformation opportunities!

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   UnitedHealth Group

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Integrated FHIR Server on Azure with IoMT Connector for real-time patient vitals ingestion, enabling 99.9% uptime and seamless HL7/FHIR data exchange across clinical systems.• Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps using YAML scripts for microservices, ensuring high code quality with SonarQube and Aqua Trivy security scanning.• Reduced deployment lead times by 43% by implementing Terraform and Bicep for provisioning Azure resources with modular infrastructure templates.• Designed and enforced RBAC policies, Managed Identities and Private Endpoints, securing sensitive PHI data and achieving 100% compliance with HIPAA audits.• Enabled centralized monitoring via Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights, reducing incident resolution time by 38%.• Migrated legacy on-prem healthcare workloads to Azure VMs and App Services using Azure Migrate, reducing hosting costs by 22% and improving application performance by 35%.• Set up Azure Bastion, NSGs and Azure Firewall for layered perimeter security across virtual networks, limiting unauthorized access incidents to zero.• Enabled Prometheus and Grafana integration with AKS for proactive anomaly detection and alerting on critical healthcare workloads.• Configured Power BI Embedded dashboards powered by Synapse Link to provide self-service analytics for over 300 clinical staff members.• Containerized applications using Docker, scanned images with Trivy and deployed to ACR-backed AKS environments using Helm and Kustomize.

Education

• Rivier University

  Masters in Information systems