Ranjeet Rk Kumar

About Ranjeet Rk Kumar

Azure Cloud Platform Architect with 14+ years of enterprise IT experience, recognized for owning and governing Azure platforms that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes at scale. Proven track record of leading complex cloud transformation programs, including 500+ application migration and modernization initiatives, across regulated, mission-critical, and hybrid enterprise environments. Demonstrated ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into secure, resilient, and cost-optimized Azure architectures, enabling accelerated cloud adoption with reduced operational risk.

Experience

1. Azure Cloud Solution Architect Asoc Manager

   Accenture

   Jun 2024 — Present · IN

   Act as Platform Architect for enterprise Azure transformation programs, accountable for platform architecture, governance, security posture, and long-term sustainability. • Defined enterprise Azure target-state architectures aligned to customer business strategy, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite—enabling secure Azure adoption across multiple business units and environments. • Led portfolio-level migration strategy for 500+ applications, owning application rationalization, dependency analysis, migration waves, cutover strategy, rollback governance, and post-migration optimization. • Served as trusted advisor Influencing decisions on cloud strategy, security investments, operating models, and modernization roadmaps. • Architected identity-First Zero Trust security models, establishing Microsoft Entra ID as the primary control plane with Conditional Access, PIM, Managed Identity, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Key Vault. • Designed complex hybrid and multi-region networking architectures, including Hub-and-Spoke and Azure vWAN, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Private Endpoints, centralized DNS resolution, and egress control. • Established platform engineering and DevOps governance standards, enforcing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep), policy-as-code, secure CI/CD pipelines, and strict no-manual-production-change controls.Led Azure Well-Architected Reviews and architectural risk assessments, driving remediation initiatives that improved resilience, security posture, and cost efficiency. • Mentored architects and engineers, participated in Architecture Review Boards (ARB), and reusable Azure standards adopted across multiple enterprise programs. • Perform infrastructure audits against organizational and Microsoft best practices, ensuring continuous compliance. • Enabled operations readiness by training Ops teams, Defining runbooks, and aligning support models to enterprise standards.

Education

• Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)

  Matric

  2003 — 2004

• BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes

  Master of Technology - MTech, Software Engineer