Rahul Kotian — Director of Engineering

💼 **Cloud & DevOps Architect | DevSecOps | Platform Engineering | Data Engineering | BFSI Domain Expert** Experienced cloud architect with a proven track record across top-tier firms including Reliance, TCS, Hopscotch, and HDFC Life. AWS Certified Solution Architect with hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, and managing highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions. Specialising in DevOps and DevSecOps practices, build robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions, enabling automated deployments, testing, and compliance. Strong command over Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Pulumi, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure provisioning. Deep experience in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS) with advanced tooling such as Helm, Istio, JFrog Artifactory, and Twistlock for secure, scalable deployments. Implement comprehensive DevSecOps frameworks by integrating security at every pipeline stage using SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk, OWASP ZAP, and policy-as-code tools like OPA and Conftest. As a platform engineer, built scalable, observable systems with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks, and AWS-native monitoring tools, ensuring performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. Also proficient in cloud-native data engineering, designing and managing data pipelines and lake architectures with AWS Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, and Apache Airflow. Skilled in streaming and real-time processing using Kafka, Kinesis, and MSK, with integrated data security and governance aligned to GDPR, PCI DSS, and RBI/SEBI/IRDAI directives. Driving digital transformation across the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector with a strong focus on regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, and enterprise-grade security—delivering secure, resilient, and future-ready cloud solutions with a commitment to excellence and integrity. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - Strategically planned and executed Disaster Recovery (DR) drills to ensure application continuity in cloud environments, including regional failover and failback operations for high availability and resilience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and DevOps Architect with a strong focus on BFSI compliance and digital transformation.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 12 yrs 4 mos