Praveen Jindal

About Praveen Jindal

I am a Cloud Engineering Manager I and Azure Certified Solution Architect with over 11 years of experience in designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud platforms across multi-cloud environments.My expertise spans Cloud Architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps, and FinOps, with a strong focus on cost optimization and driving cloud cost efficiency. I specialize in enabling end-to-end automation using CI/CD pipelines across cloud and on-premise systems. I have led initiatives involving Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), multi-tenant platform design, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, AlertManager, Elastic Cloud, and PagerDuty. I have led various cost reduction initiatives, delivering up to 60% cost reduction and significantly improving infrastructure provisioning reliability.I have hands-on experience in platform engineering, enabling controlled self-service infrastructure using Kubernetes operators and Crossplane, allowing application teams to provision cloud resources in a governed and scalable manner. I have also worked on migrating observability platforms to Elastic Cloud and designing highly scalable and resilient architectures.In my current role, I lead and mentor a team of skilled engineers, driving engineering excellence and aligning delivery with business goals. I actively contribute to pre-sales, including solution design, estimation, capacity planning, staffing, and project scheduling across T&M and Fixed Price models.I focus on building future-ready teams by driving training initiatives in AI readiness, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps practices. I have hands-on experience in Applied AI, implementing RAG-based solutions using enterprise knowledge bases and LLMs, and developing MS Teams-based chatbot interfaces to enable users to interact with AI systems. I have also built Agentic AI solutions for troubleshooting and automation.I have worked with tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code, and hold certifications including Generative AI, AI-900, AI-102, and Claude Code CCA-F and others. Additionally, I bring strong experience in stakeholder management, client engagement, incident management, postmortems, RCA, escalation handling, Agile delivery, SRE practices, and managing L2/L3 teams to ensure high availability and reliability.I am passionate about solving complex problems, enabling high-performing teams, and building scalable, resilient, and intelligent platforms that deliver business value.

Experience

1. Cloud Engineering Manager i

   EPAM Systems

   Jan 2026 — Present

   Leading cloud and platform engineering initiatives across multi-cloud environments, with a focus on building scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Managing and mentoring a team of engineers, driving engineering excellence, and aligning technical delivery with business objectives.Responsible for designing and implementing cloud-native architectures leveraging Kubernetes (AKS), DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines to enable end-to-end automation. Spearheading platform engineering efforts using Custom Kubernetes operators, ArgoCD, GitOps and Crossplane to enable controlled, self-service infrastructure provisioning for application teams.Driving observability and reliability initiatives, including migration to Elastic Cloud and implementation of monitoring, alerting and self-healing solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PagerDuty and others. Strong focus on FinOps practices, achieving up to 60% cost optimization across cloud environments.Actively involved in pre-sales and solutioning, including high-level design, estimation, capacity planning, staffing, and delivery planning across T&M and Fixed Price engagement models.Leading adoption of AI-driven solutions, including implementation of RAG-based systems using enterprise knowledge bases and LLMs, and development of MS Teams-based chatbot interfaces for seamless interaction with AI systems. Building Agentic AI solutions to enhance troubleshooting and operational efficiency.Driving Agile delivery, incident management, postmortems, and RCA processes while ensuring high availability and reliability of systems. Experienced in stakeholder management, client engagement, and managing L2/L3 support teams in production environments.

Education

• Hindustan College of Science and Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2010 — 2014

• St. Andrews Sr. Sec. School

  Intermediate, Science

  1996 — 2010

• BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes

  Masters of Technology , Software Systems

Skills

• Javascript
• Html 5
• Python
• Unix Utilities
• Php
• Oracle Sql Developer
• Programming
• Ccna
• Apache Ant
• Sql
• Java
• Ibm Urban Code Deploy
• Splunk