ahmad bardolia

Platform Delivery & Team Leadership
• Manage a team of 5 vendor engineers accountable for Azure cloud operations, infrastructure
automation, and managed services — defining sprint priorities, delivery milestones, and quality
standards aligned to Orbias global IT roadmap.
• Mentor incoming engineers and interns through structured knowledge-transfer, code reviews, and
capability development plans; serve as technical escalation point between engineering teams,
business leadership, and vendors.
FinOps, Automation & Infrastructure Standardisation
• Reduced Azure monthly infrastructure spends by 30% by evaluating committed-use vs. pay-as-you
go trade-offs, implementing reserved instances for stable workloads, automating ephemeral
resource cleanup, and enforcing subscription-level tagging for cost attribution — replacing a manual
review process that had no consistent ownership.
• Cut infrastructure provisioning time from 5 days to 1 day by standardising IaC delivery via
reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks; chose Terraform over ARM templates for
provider-agnostic portability across Azure and VMware on-premises.
• Integrated Azure DevOps pipelines with ServiceNow change management to enforce pre-approved
change governance, replacing ad-hoc deployment practices with auditable release records for
pharma manufacturing environments.
SAP-to-Azure & Application Modernisation Designed a Azure Landing Zone SAP
VNet egress control requirements, and growth; included dedicated SAP HANA subnets, placement groups, and Azure
Policy-enforced governance from one.
• Partnered with SAP BASIS team, network engineers, and Finance stakeholders; produced migration
runbooks and rollback procedures that cleared Architecture Review Board sign-off with zero
production downtime.
• Re-platformed legacy pharma manufacturing applications onto AKS and App Service; coordinating
DR gap remediation for business-critical workloads — defining RTO/RPO targets, implementing
Azure Site Recovery, and presenting remediation roadmap to IT Steering Committee.
• Deployed Azure AI Foundry using private endpoints and VNet integration — selected after
evaluating data residency and regulatory constraints in pharma manufacturing; partnered with data
science and supply chain teams to deliver LLM-ready infrastructure for production use cases.

Private & Engineering Standards
• Introduced Ansible-based configuration management and Azure DevOps pipelines for OpenStack
infrastructure lifecycle management, replacing manual runbook-driven provisioning; automation
patterns subsequently adopted by adjacent infrastructure teams.
• Designed and delivered a hardened OS image CI/CD pipeline producing security-compliant VM
images pre-baked with Tenable, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Scalyr, and OTEL agents; selected Azure
DevOps over Jenkins after evaluating integration depth and long-term maintenance cost.
• Built a private container image registry using Quay — chosen over Harbor after evaluating
RBAC granularity and OpenShift compatibility — providing security-scanned, provenance-controlled
images and eliminating reliance on public registries for production workloads.
• Served as Scrum Master for a 6-engineer team; established sprint cadence and retrospective-driven
delivery metrics that reduced sprint carry-over from a persistent issue to a managed exception.
Enterprise Security Programme & Vendor Evaluation
• Evaluated three competing EDR/vulnerability management vendors on detection coverage, API
integration, and agent overhead before recommending CrowdStrike; led enterprise-wide Tenable
and CrowdStrike deployment including policy definition, Azure DevOps integration, and AAD-based
centralised IAM.
• Ran cross-functional vulnerability remediation cycles across development, infrastructure, and
security teams; defined severity triage framework, tracked closure rates, and reported posture
improvements to engineering leadership quarterly.
Private-to-Public Cloud Migration & Operations
• Designed repeatable migration patterns for strategic private-to-public cloud transition; selected
Terraform and Ansible over proprietary tooling based on portability and TCO assessment, enabling
distributed team execution with minimal central support.
• Delivered PeopleSoft migration (WebSphere + Oracle SQL → Azure + PostgreSQL); containerised
15+ legacy workloads onto Azure, reducing cloud costs by 20% through automated ephemeral
resource cleanup.
• Governed 3+ PB storage and OpenStack services (5 AZs, Stein-based with TLS encryption and
autoscaling); decoupled RabbitMQ from control plane to remove single point of failure; patched
400+ KVM hypervisors in rolling sequence with zero downtime.

GCP Architecture & Enterprise Cloud Delivery
• Served as primary architect on GCP-led engagements, designing scalable and cost-efficient cloud
solutions on Google Cloud Platform — including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud IAM,
and VPC networking — for enterprise clients migrating from on-premises data centres (Netmagic
and co-location facilities).
• Designed and delivered a Google NLP proof-of-concept for one of Indias largest brokerage
firms — built a call centre conversation auditing pipeline using Google Cloud NLP API for real-time
sentiment and intent analysis, enabling the client to identify service quality gaps and escalation
patterns across thousands of daily interactions.
• Led end-to-end infrastructure migrations from on-premises data centres to public cloud (GCP, AWS,
Azure); conducted Well-Architected Reviews across engagements and delivered cost optimisation
and performance improvement recommendations to client engineering and finance stakeholders.
Presales, DevOps & Client Enablement
• Partnered with pre-sales teams on client discovery, architecture proposals, and custom POC
delivery; engaged directly with enterprise prospects to translate business requirements into cloud
architecture recommendations across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Championed Agile and DevOps adoption across client delivery engagements, designing structured
cultural transformation roadmaps and mentoring cross-functional client teams to ensure successful
adoption and handover of cloud solutions.

• Architected and delivered Nepals first national public cloud in Kathmandu (2015-16) — end-to
end strategy, infrastructure design, and execution lead for a government-scale deployment,
establishing sovereign cloud capability for the country.
• Delivered multi-region OpenStack Ocata private cloud for MakeMyTrip (Mumbai & Chennai,
2018) with auto-scaling enabled via Gnocchi and Aodh, supporting high-availability production
workloads across two geographic regions.
• Implemented private cloud on NetApp HPC hardware for Infosys using Red Hat Cloud
Platform (Bangalore, 2018) and deployed CloudStack private cloud for Karnataka State Police IT
(2015-16) including full application migration from Hyper-V to CloudStack.
Public Cloud Migrations & Application Delivery
• Led infrastructure migrations from on-premises data centres (Netmagic) to public cloud (AWS, GCP,
Azure); conducted Well-Architected Reviews and delivered performance and cost optimisation
recommendations for enterprise and government customers.
• Delivered AWS infrastructure migration for Eoutlet.com (Riyadh, 2017); established CI/CD pipeline
environment for Al-Tayyar (Riyadh); containerised applications for a leading international bank
(2018) and patched ESXi clusters via vSphere/vCenter for production continuity.
• Onboarded enterprise and government customers onto public and private cloud environments,
delivering technical training, adoption support, and operational handover documentation to ensure
self-sufficient post-deployment operations.