Shekar Reddy Sama

About Shekar Reddy Sama

I am a Senior Cloud Engineer with experience delivering large scale cloud solutions for enterprise customers in the information technology and services industry. I work at Informatica, focusing on multi cloud infrastructure, cost optimization and automation across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. I have led end to end cloud migration projects from on premises to Azure, implemented disaster recovery setups, and driven cloud cost optimization through rightsizing, eliminating orphan resources, enforcing tagging and chargeback, and building automation driven solutions with AI teams. I am skilled in Amazon, Azure, GCP, OCI, Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, and cloud governance and billing across multiple providers.My work includes designing and managing secure networking, VPN and hybrid connectivity.Building infrastructure as code with Terraform, automating deployments using Jenkins, Bitbucket and AWS services, Azure and GCP services and creating Python based tools for operational efficiency. I have hands on experience with tools such as Cloudability, Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow, and basic working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes to support modern application architectures.

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Engineer

   Informatica

   Apr 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading cloud migration, cost optimization and automation initiatives for Informatica across Azure, AWS, GCP and OCI.• Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy to move production workloads from on premises to Azure, including planning, execution and post migration optimization.• Designed and implemented disaster recovery for critical on premises servers in the cloud, improving resilience and recovery objectives.• Achieved significant cost optimization by rightsizing resources, eliminating unused assets and leveraging optimized pricing and reservations with cloud vendors.• Collaborated with the AI team to build “Cloud Minder,” an automated cost saving solution that detects underutilized instances across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, notifies owners and decommissions resources on approval, with savings tracked in BI reports.• Managed reservations and committed use across multiple cloud providers to maximize savings while maintaining performance.• Deployed AWS SSO in the master tenant and managed secure, role based access and user permissions across accounts.• Automated application deployments using AWS CodePipeline and Elastic Beanstalk to standardize and accelerate releases.• Designed and managed networking across multiple clouds, including VPC/VNet design, VPNs, transit deployments and peering connections between cloud and on premises environments.• Worked closely with customers and stakeholders to make technical decisions on private and public cloud infrastructure solutions.• Managed projects and changes using Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow (Change/Incident/Problem management).• Built and managed multi cloud infrastructure using Terraform for repeatable tasks• Created Python automation scripts to streamline cloud operations and recurring tasks across environments.• Developed and maintained cloud automation jobs in Jenkins with code stored in Bitbucket.• Delivered and managed IaaS and PaaS infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms.

Education

• Sri Vani Vidyanikethan High School

  Ssc

  2002 — 2008