Raju Ranjan

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ABOUT RAJU RANJAN

I am a seasoned IT professional with over 20+ years of industry experience delivering expert guidance, strategic solutions, and hands-on leadership across 10+ years in DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Automation domains. With proven onsite experience in Canada and the USA.I specialize in designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise technology architectures using cutting-edge cloud platforms (GCP, Azure). Key Achievements:Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Deployments:Designed and deployed GCP GKE and AzureAKS clusters for Canadian retail pharmacy and ensuring high availability and scalability.Infrastructure as Code (laC): Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, embedding best practices for reliability and repeatability.CI/CD Excellence: Built robust pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and Azure DevOps, enabling seamless microservices deployments and legacy system migrations to GCP.Cloud Cost Optimization: Implemented FinOps-driven auto-scaling and on-demand provisioning, reducing operational costs.Monitoring & Incident Management:Deployed Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Cloud Monitoring, cutting incident resolution times significantly.Leadership in Large-Scale Projects: As a Cloud/DevSecOps Architect, managed cross-functional teams (Release & Deployment, Store Acquisitions, Monitoring & Alerts) for automation and deployments across 1,500+ Canadian retail pharmacy Stores.Google Cloud - GenAl & Vertex Al Skills• Configured Al-powered search optimization using Vertex Al Search to improve relevance and ranking of enterprise search results.• Created and maintained Vertex Al Search data stores, including schema design, indexing, and dataset ingestion for scalable search solutions.• Built media search & recommendation applications leveraging GenAl Search, embeddings, and content-based retrieval.• Implemented vector search & embeddings using Vertex Al Matching Engine to enable similarity search and semantic retrieval.• Developed search and recommendation pipelines using Vertex Al Applications, integrating LLM-based query understanding and content enrichment.• Applied Gemini Enterprise for knowledge acceleration, document understanding, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).Utilized generative Al tools (Gemini models) for text generation, summarization, and conversational Al workflows within Google Cloud Certifications: • Gen AI Google Cloud Leader• Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified• Azure DevOps Expert Certified• Azure Administrator Certified• Terraform Associates Certified• Certified Scrum Master