Manoj Sardana — Director of Engineering

A seasoned IT professional with 21+ years of diverse experience across Cloud Operations, DevOps, SRE, and application development. Currently serving as Director of Information Systems & Cloud Operations, HCL Software leading a team of SRE engineers to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of SaaS solutions across AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud. Skilled in leveraging observability tools like Grafana, Dynatrace, New Relic, and Elastic Stack, and driving automation with Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible to implement auto-healing and orchestration capabilities. Key Highlights: Expertise in Cloud-Native Tools: Skilled in Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, and OpenTelemetry, with a proven ability to guide teams in adopting and optimizing these tools to enhance operational efficiency and reliability. Drove Strategic Transitions:  Led the transformation from proprietary observability tools to vendor-agnostic OpenTelemetry-based solutions, enabling greater flexibility, cost efficiency, and long-term scalability across the department. Spearheaded the migration of ITSM solutions from IBM Cloud (Cloud Foundry) to AWS, leveraging Kubernetes-based deployments. Also implemented AWS Control Tower for streamlined AWS organization management, SSO, and access control, ensuring compliance and scalability. Successfully implemented greenfield CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, Helm, and Terraform, resulting in fully automated infrastructure orchestration and microservices deployments. Reduced new team onboarding times from weeks to mere hours, fostering a culture of rapid innovation and agility. Leading and managing a high-performing technical team of 25+ members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment. Emphasized mentorship, cross-training, and continuous learning to enable individual and team success. Advocate of "Everything as Code" philosophy, emphasizing scalability and efficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Operations and DevOps expert in the SaaS industry.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 21 yrs 6 mos