Juned Memon
DevOps | Platform Engineering | Cloud-Native Systems | System Engineer | Cloud Architect | LLM Integrator | AI/ML Systems
About
Versatile DevOps and Platform Engineering expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-native solutions, Kubernetes-first architectures, and AI-integrated developer platforms. Adept at leading cross-functional teams.
Work Experience
DevSecOps Lead & Platform Architect
Led the architecture and development of Open Source platform ENBUILD a human-centered UI accelerator that simplifies and automates the deployment of P1's Big Bang DevSecOps platform enabling secure, compliant, and rapid Kubernetes-based software factory setups across cloud or on-premises environments
Highlights
- Architected, built, and stabilized the ENBUILD platform as part of the VivSoft Platform Team to support secure deployment of Kubernetes clusters and solutions on kubernetes.
- Integrated opinionated installations of DoD's Platform One Big Bang and Kubeflow into the ENBUILD platform to accelerate secure, ML-ready environments.
- Developed backend microservices in Golang for the ENBUILD platform, including LLM-powered chatbots and Terraform code generators
- Designed and implemented the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to integrate AI-driven insights with observability tools such as Grafana.
- Created infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, Helm Charts, and Crossplane Packages to deliver reusable ENBUILD Catalog items for federal clients.
- Built and later transitioned from a custom Kubernetes operator in Golang to Crossplane to streamline application deployments.
- Implemented GitOps workflows using Argo CD and Flux CD for consistent, version-controlled CI/CD across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
- Created and maintained hardened AMIs and Docker images aligned with federal security standards to ensure secure software deployments.
- Secured ENBUILD containers and achieved Iron Bank approval, meeting stringent DoD compliance requirements.
- Deployed robust monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus and Grafana to support real-time observability of platform services.
Hitachi Vantara / ReanCloud
September 2016 – September 2021
Principal Cloud Architect
Led the global DevSecOps transformation for REAN's accelerator platform, driving its migration to Kubernetes with scalable CI/CD, air-gapped deployments, and federal-grade compliance.
Highlights
- Architected and executed a full platform migration to Kubernetes, including Helm packaging and automated CI/CD pipelines for SaaS and client-side deployments.
- Developed Terraform-based automation to provision EKS clusters for HCAP platform deployment in both cloud and air-gapped environments, including for US Transcom.
- Developed Custom Terraform Providers in Golang for custom tools to be used within HCAP DEPLOY
- Designed and implemented secure, Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliant hardened AMIs and Docker containers, aligning with federal compliance standards.
- Built and deployed cloud accelerator platforms in air-gapped environments, handling installation, configuration, and compliance automation.
- Defined resilient microservices deployment strategies for large-scale online portals, improving availability and operational robustness.
- Delivered Kubernetes-based CI/CD automation for Independent Software Vendor (ISV) projects, accelerating containerized software delivery.
- Migrated legacy workloads to containerized microservices, enhancing scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Architected multi-region, cost-optimized AWS infrastructure with configuration management.
- Led REAN Cloud's Managed Services team, mentoring L1/L2 engineers and establishing standardized processes for cloud operations and support.
Senior Manager - Technical Operations
Led infrastructure operations, cloud migration, and site reliability engineering for a high-traffic media platform serving over 200M monthly users.
Highlights
- Led a global team of system engineers to manage and maintain large-scale production infrastructure of around 3000 physical servers and 3000 LXC containers running complex microservices.
- Migrated ad-serving platforms from colocated data centers to AWS, re-architecting them into microservices using Docker for enhanced scalability and reliability.
- Supported the transition of infrastructure from Ning-managed data centers to Mode Media colocations, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless operations.
- Automated bare-metal provisioning and LXC container virtualization using Cobbler, Ansible, and built in tool called Ning Galaxy, significantly reducing infrastructure deployment time.
- Implemented a distributed monitoring solution for over 3,000 servers and 50,000+ services using Check_MK and Nagios with custom plugins to improve observability and proactive issue resolution.
- Standardized DevOps automation tooling using GitLab, HAProxy, Hadoop, DNS, Slack integrations, private Yum repositories, and custom inventory management.
- Centralized cron job orchestration by replacing fragmented scheduling across servers with Jenkins pipelines, improving reliability and auditability.
- Built real-time executive dashboards using Dashing to provide unified visibility into infrastructure and application health across the enterprise.
Team Lead - Technical Operations
Led infrastructure operations and delivery transitions for clients in media, travel and e-commerce sectors.
Highlights
- Managed cross-functional technical teams, implemented robust monitoring systems, and played a strategic role in business development initiatives.
- Led infrastructure operations across multiple Remote Infrastructure Management System (RIMs) projects, ensuring SLA adherence and 24x7 uptime.
- Successfully transitioned four global operations projects (Rubicon, Proviner, KN-Dimestore, DivXTV), including onboarding, tooling, and knowledge transfer.
- Deployed and maintained enterprise-grade monitoring and visualization tools including Nagios, BigBrother, Cacti, Munin, RRDtool, Graphite, and Grafana.
- Managed resource allocation, team rosters, and leave planning across multiple support teams to maintain high operational continuity.
- Collaborated with Delivery Managers on proposals and client capability presentations, contributing to successful business development and project wins.
DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
February 2005 – October 2005
Technical Support Engineer
Provided L2-L3 technical support for Linux server environments and application monitoring solutions
Highlights
- Installation, maintenance and support of Linux Servers and applications ( DXContent Factory, DX-Reader etc )
- Delivered L2-L3 technical support for Linux server environments, ensuring high availability and performance.
Projects
- ENBUILD: ENBUILD is a turnkey DevSecOps platform simplifying Kubernetes and Platform One Big Bang deployments across multi-cloud and on-premise environments.
- Hitachi Accelerator Cloud Platform (HCAP): HCAP is a suite of products to accelerate the migration and deployment, assessment of applications on Public Clouds.
- Terradata TMC: At REAN Cloud, contributed to the design and implementation of an automated, API-driven provisioning system with a management UI for deploying VLAN-segregated TMC application instances across IntelliFlex™, IntelliBase™, and AWS for the Teradata TMC team.
- LiteNing: LiteNing was an effort to merge the infrastructure and tooling of Ning Inc and mode media/glam media, after it was acquired.
Contact
Pune, Maharashtra IN
+91-98238-41436
Education
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2000 2004
North Maharashtra University
Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science
Grade: 65.71% (First class with distinction)
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1998 2000
Nashik
HSC
Higher Secondary Certificate
Grade: 71.83% (First class)
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1996 1998
Nashik
SSC
Secondary School Certificate
Grade: 68.53% (First class)
Certificates
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November 2020
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October 2018
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July 2018
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June 2018
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October 2011
Skills
Cloud & Platform Engineering
AWS (Commercial & GovCloud)
Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture
Cloud-Native Platforms
Air-Gapped Infrastructure
Backstage Developer Portal
Cloud Cost Optimization
Linux, Systems & Infrastructure Administration
Linux System Administration
Shell Scripting
System Monitoring & Hardening
Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, K3S, OKE)
Development of Helm Charts & Custom Kubernetes Controllers/Operators
Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno
Platform One Big Bang
Docker, ECS , Compose and Swarm
DevSecOps, GitOps & Automation
GitOps (fluxCD, ArgoCD)
CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
Secrets Management (Vault, SOPS)
Observability, Monitoring & SRE
Prometheus & Grafana
OpenTelemetry
KubeVela
Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp
Nagios, Check_MK, Datadog
Jaeger & Distributed Tracing
ELK Stack, Fluentd, Loki
Alerting & Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie)
SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets
Security & Compliance
DISA STIG Compliance
CIS Benchmarks
Container Security (Trivy, Twistlock, Anchore)
Infrastructure Security Scanning (Checkov, tfsec)
AI/ML & LLM Integration
Kubeflow , MLFlow
LangChain, LangFlow, LLM Agents
OpenAI API, HuggingFace Transformers
Prompt Engineering
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Vector Databases (Chroma, Pinecone)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Programming, Scripting
Bash
Python
Golang
Product & Team Leadership
Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Design
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Mentoring & Coaching
Stakeholder Communication
Agile & Scrum Practices
Roadmap Planning & Delivery
Hiring & Performance Reviews
Conflict Resolution
Languages
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
- HindiNative or bilingual proficiency
- MarathiNative or bilingual proficiency