Shabadh Ellath
Hoogvliet,ZH
Summary
Dynamic Cloud Consultant and Architect with 15 years of experience in hybrid cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, and Azure, focused on delivering innovative cloud solutions and driving digital transformation. Expertise in DevSecOps, Linux, Terraform, and modern DevOps tools supports the creation of robust infrastructures that meet evolving business needs. Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders and align technology initiatives with strategic objectives has resulted in successful outcomes across diverse industries. Strong skills in stakeholder management and customer advisory ensure the implementation of best practices in sectors such as Fintech, Semiconductor, and Media.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Security Consultant
The.NextGen | ING
09.2025 - Current
- Build Policy as code security controls and ensuring compliance on Google Cloud platform.
- Conducting regular meetings with CISO and stakeholders to ensure the platform is compliant and secure with policy enforcement.
- Reviewed existing organizational policies to ensure alignment with current security best practices, making revisions as needed to close gaps in protection.
Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP
Payse Flex B.V | Rabobank
08.2024 - 08.2025
- Designed BigQuery-Azure Blob integration for automated data transfer and analytics.
- Organized and led Architecture Decision Record (ADR) sessions on multiple topics.
- Recommended best Data Transfer solution to move data from Azure to GCP BigQuery.
- Assessed the risks and resolved vulnerabilities in the Google Cloud Identity.
- Designed and implemented CheckOV, Policy as Code across environments with Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Automated Terraform operations with CI/CD workflows.
- Developed workflows for continuous integration to automate Terraform operations.
- Conducted a comprehensive assessment of the GCP platform for compliance with DORA standards.
- Reviewed and improved Security posture for Google Cloud Identity and GCP services using Risk Reducer.
- Optimized Google Cloud costs by identifying and eliminating unused GCP projects.
- Created Google Pub/Sub topics and subscribers for integrating it with Sentinel.
Senior Cloud Consultant/ Architect
Rackspace Technology
11.2021 - 07.2024
- Led delivery team in building GCP landing zones and workloads using Terraform IaC.
- Translated HLD to LLD, scoped projects, and planned resources/risk under Agile/SAFe frameworks.
- Built reusable Terraform modules for BigQuery, GKE, Workload Identity, and Monitoring across GCP.
- Implemented CloudWatch alerts, dashboards, and SNS notifications integrated with ITSM HP SM9 for Rabobank.
- Established Google Cloud VPC Service Controls, IAM, JIT access, and Zero-trust security in GCP.
- Designed Cloud operations using CloudWatch to build proactive alerting systems and notification channels for Rabobank.
- Managed AWS workloads including EC2, ELB, Lambda, ECS, RDS, and more with advanced monitoring and cost optimization.
- Migrated critical applications to AWS using Lift-and-Shift for Rabobank.
- Advised on Policy as Code and Integrated CheckOV for code scanning and configured git pre-commit hooks for secure workflows.
- Automated operational tasks and enhanced documentation for ASML's CCoE team.
- Configured Microsoft Defender for GCP with Workload Identity pools.
- Designed JIT access management and IAM policies adhering to Zero-trust principles.
- Developed toolbox images for container environments.
- Implemented an Internal HTTPS load balancer using TF modules.
- Provided guidance and mentorship to team members, assisting them in resolving technical challenges effectively.
Senior Platform Engineer
Exact Cloud Development Benelux B.V.
03.2020 - 10.2021
- Managing the EXACT cloud infrastructure and the application hosted in AWS/ Azure cloud providers.
- Optimized EBS volumes, reducing costs by €70K monthly.
- Performed Splunk Enterprise upgrades and regular MS SQL databases patches.
- Ensured system security with proactive maintenance.
- Audited cloud workloads, provided evidence, and delivered required information.
- Delivered on-call support, resolved critical incidents, and created RCA reports per ITIL processes.
- Expertise in DevOps tools: Jira, GitHub, CircleCI, Akamai, Terraform, Splunk, VictorOps, Apigee, XL-Deploy, XL-Release, Cloudability, and Slack.
- Managed the CDN via Akamai.
- Assisting the DevOps teams to fix issues/incidents and coordinating to achieve business goals.
- Involved in RFI process for assessing some of the DevOps tools and recommended the tools required for development teams.
- Assisting team members and getting documentation up-to-date for the knowledge base.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Rabobank)
Cognizant
07.2016 - 02.2020
- Supporting Pega Application (Java) which is hosted on Linux machine with IBM WAS as the middleware platform.
- Working in DevOps Tools like Jenkins, GitHub, XL Deploy and XL Release, Confluence & Jira.
- Monitoring the infra structure using DynaTrace and Log analysis through Splunk.
- Good understanding of Agile Methodologies
- Working on CI : CD setup for automation with the help of Jenkins, Git, Maven, Nexus, XL-D & XL-R.
- Managing the infra structure on public cloud and physical servers.
- Created Stub framework for testing with the help of IBM RIT tool.
- Deployment and Releases are managed with XL-Deploy and XL-Release tools.
- Analyzing the logs with the help of Splunk and created dashboards for monitoring the application.
- Created multiple dashboards in DynaTrace tool related to the application and resource utilization for multiple nodes.
- The knowledge sharing was documented in Confluence.
- Jira is been used for project management and for bug tracking to ensure the Agile way is been followed.
- End to End code deployment and managing the java based application.
- Working on Apache webserver and IBM WAS platform.
- Setting up the end point URL’s and configuring the application specific values using XL-Deploy.
- Intakes and evaluating the application (logs monitoring & performance) is always been carried out.
Professional 1 – Application Delivery (DevOps)
CSC
09.2015 - 07.2016
- Provisioning EC2 instance and managing linux servers.
- Designed blueprint on Implementing Openstack standalone setup.
- Worked on RedHat Openstack.
- Configured Chef and Ansible for Continuous Integration for in house Cloud platforms for CSC.
- Working on Agility Factory platform, which offers provisioning of VM’s to different, target cloud providers.
- Handling documentation with the help of MS word, PPT’s etc.
- Mentoring juniors for technical assistance and trainings.
Cloud Support Engineer
SDL Technologies
12.2014 - 09.2015
- Administration and Trouble shooting of VMware vSphere Esxi 5.5.
- Cloud Computing hands on for IAAS and SAAS platform for both Public and Private Clouds.
- Worked on AWS EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, IAM services.
- Monitoring the Alerts and takes necessary steps for resolving the issues.
- Follows SLA and have ticketing tool system like E-helpine, BMC, Service Now to ensure each ticket in the bucket is acknowledged and taken necessary actions.
- Worked on windows PowerShell.
System Administrator (Linux / Unix)
Wipro
09.2011 - 12.2014
- System Administration in LINUX, Installation, Configuration, Management, Maintenance, Backup, Restore Linux Desktop and Server.
- Performs End to End Server Deployment and Configuration.
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Migrations of VM in VMware.
- Evaluating the system logs with the help of TCPDUMP and other commands.
- SSH, POSTFIX, FTP, SFTP, NFS, NTP, DNS, SQUID, LVM and Disk partitions are managed and configured.
- Managing Users and Groups Accounts assigned permission to users.
- Hardening of Linux servers along with regular updates of patches and bugs are updated.
- Creating Technical Documents for knowledge base.
- Configuration of monitoring tools like NAGIOS has configured.
- Have knowledge in bash scripting.
- CRON and AT jobs are configured for running scheduled tasks.
- X11 configurations done by installing VNC in Linux servers.
- Network Monitoring and configurations are performed to enhance the performance.
- Have been a Team player and supported more than 500 Servers in the infra-structure.
- Linux OS installation and configuration
- Hardware and software RAID
- User administration
- Backup and recovery
- LVM configuration and maintenance
- Network management on OS
- IP tables management
- Mail server ,DNS, and DHCP configuration
- NFS file system configuration
- Trouble shooting and performance tuning
- Performance monitoring
- Cluster monitoring
- AWS and VMware infrastructure Administration.
- Installing, configuring and administration Virtual Infrastructure ESXi 5.1, Vcenter, Vsphere
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
- Creating templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
- Creating duplicate VMs using Cloning feature.
- SSL binding in Jboss and Apache servers has been carried out.
- Installation of RabbitMQ in Linux servers has been configured.
- Knowledge in MySQL installation with some basic trouble shooting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Calicut
Skills
- Cloud strategy development
- Expertise in DevOps practices
- Cloud architecture design
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Mentoring teams for project success
- Effective communication abilities
- Effective team contributor
- Effective leadership and communication
- Motivated to learn
- Confident interpersonal skills
- Quick problem-solving skills
- Scripting languages
- Security vulnerability assessment
- Identity and Access management
- Threat intelligence
- Infrastructure as Code
- AWS expertise
- Incident response
- Cost optimization
- Google cloud platform
- Disaster recovery planning
- Docker and Kubernetes
Certification
- Google Cloud Certified: Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Cloud Certified: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified: Professional Cloud Database Engineer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- Rackspace MultiCloud Practitioner
- VMware Certified Associate Cloud
- VMware Certified Associate Data Center Virtualization
- ITIL 2011 Foundation Certified
Timeline
Cloud Security Consultant
The.NextGen | ING
09.2025 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP
Payse Flex B.V | Rabobank
08.2024 - 08.2025
Senior Cloud Consultant/ Architect
Rackspace Technology
11.2021 - 07.2024
Senior Platform Engineer
Exact Cloud Development Benelux B.V.
03.2020 - 10.2021
Senior DevOps Engineer (Rabobank)
Cognizant
07.2016 - 02.2020
Professional 1 – Application Delivery (DevOps)
CSC
09.2015 - 07.2016
Cloud Support Engineer
SDL Technologies
12.2014 - 09.2015
System Administrator (Linux / Unix)
Wipro
09.2011 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Calicut