Govind Raj

I design scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud platforms on AWS for high-growth organizations.

About

Cloud Architect with 16+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS environments. I specialize in cloud migrations, DevOps transformations, and building resilient platforms using modern cloud-native technologies. Since launching my first AWS EC2 instance in 2010, I have led 50+ cloud migration and modernization initiatives across industries including Media, FinTech, E-Commerce, and Analytics. My work focuses on enabling organizations to scale efficiently, improve reliability, and optimize cloud costs. I have worked with global clients across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, partnering with engineering teams and business leaders to deliver production-grade cloud solutions.

Cloud Architect | AWS | Kubernetes | DevOps

AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Certified Kubernetes Administrator with deep expertise in cloud-native systems, automation, and platform engineering.

  • Website: www.govindraj.me
  • City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I work across architecture design, cloud automation, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations—ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and cost-optimized.

Facts

Few Facts about Tenure and Skills

16+ Years Experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, and Cloud Architecture

High-Scale Systems Designed and operated platforms handling up to 400 TPS

Industry Experience Media, FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Analytics platforms

Greenfield Projects Built end-to-end cloud platforms including CI/CD, monitoring, and disaster recovery

Certifications AWS, CNCF (Kubernetes), and Agile (Scrum Alliance)

Key Skills

My Keys Skills or Areas of interest

AWS 100%
K8s 90%
CI/CD with Jenkins 75%
Cloud Security and Cloud Migrations 90%
Ansible, CloudFormation, CodeDeploy 80%
Docker 90%
ELK 55%
Linux 85%

Resume

I am a Cloud Architect and DevOps leader focused on building scalable, highly available, and automated cloud platforms. My expertise spans cloud migration, infrastructure design, CI/CD implementation, and cost optimization across AWS environments.

Skill Sumary

Govind Raj

Devops Engineer by profession with 16 years of industry experience

  • 16+ years of experience in IT with a strong focus on Cloud Architecture and DevOps.
  • Led 50+ cloud migration and modernization initiatives on AWS.
  • Expert in designing scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available cloud systems.
  • Strong experience in DevOps transformation and CI/CD implementation.
  • Specialized in cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
  • Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience in Kubernetes, automation, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experienced in building disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

2004 - 2008

University of Calicut

Bachelor of Engineering with Information Technology as Major

Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2001 - 2004

Dept of Technical Education

Diploma in Engineering with Electitcal Engineering as Major

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud Architect (Consulting)

2024 - Present

Intigral Middle East, Dubai

  • Designed and delivered cloud migration strategies for large-scale platforms on AWS.
  • Improved platform reliability and scalability through optimized cloud architecture.
  • Led cost optimization initiatives across multi-account AWS environments.
  • Ensuring Cloud Platform optimization and resiliency.
  • Design and develop solution on public cloud infrastructure.
  • PoC and Cloud Migration Solutions.
  • Management of end-to-end cloud environments.
  • Cost Analysis on multiple public cloud platforms.
  • Public Cloud Cost optimizations.

Professional Experience

Senior Technical Account Manager

2022 - 2024

Amazon Web Services, London, UK

  • Drive our customers’ adoption and use of AWS services.
  • Provide advocacy and technical guidance to plan and build solutions using best practices.
  • Proactively keep your customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy.
  • Advocate to overcome cloud adoption blockers.
  • Improve customer capabilities by running workshops and architecture reviews.
  • Ensure customers’ AWS environments remain operationally healthy.
  • Mitigate risks in customer operations plans and product adoption.
  • Work with customers across all levels from developers through to C-Suite executives.
  • Conduct regular strategic business review with key decision makers.
  • Drive Cost Optimization engagements across cloud estates.
  • Conduct operational reviews.

Devops Engineer Lead

2016 - 2022

Intigral Middle East, Dubai, UAE

  • End to end Platform management of OTT Backend Service

Devops Engineer

2015 - 2016

CitrussTV , Dubai, UAE

  • Designed and delivered cloud migration strategies for large-scale platforms on AWS.
  • Improved platform reliability and scalability through optimized cloud architecture.
  • Led cost optimization initiatives across multi-account AWS environments.
  • Management of AWS components
  • Implementing the solution for platform consistancy
  • Back and Recovery planning and implementation

Devops Engineer / System Analyst

2014 - 2015

UST Global Inc, India

  • Management of AWS components
  • Implementing the solution for platform consistancy
  • CI/CD implementation for automation of build and release
  • Automation of Operation actitivies to improve TAT

Devops Engineer/ System Administrator

2010 - 2014

QBurst Technologies, India

  • Management of AWS components
  • Developer Support on Development Stages
  • Provisioning services and APIs on multiple Projects and Account
  • CI/CD implementation for automation of build and release
  • Implementation of Version Control, Infra Monitoring , Back up and Restore
  • Automation of Operation actitivies and On Call Rotation Support

Founder / System Engineer

2008 - 2010

Maguzlabs Technology Services, India

  • End to End of all Client handling
  • Sourcing and Delivery
  • Team Management
  • Infra and Hosting Management

Contact

Interested in cloud architecture, migration, or optimization? Let’s connect.

Location:

London, UK