Kshitij Ambre - Resume

Summary

Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer with 3+ years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and automated cloud environments. Skilled in Microsoft Azure, DevOps, scripting, infrastructure as code, and identity/access management. Adept at hybrid cloud support and delivering IT solutions with CI/CD, M365, and AWS exposure.

Experience

IT Infrastructure Engineer / Associate – Platforms Blenheim Chalcot India | Mumbai | Nov 2020 – Present

Led Azure cloud ops for 5+ prod environments, achieving 99.98% uptime and reducing incidents by 35%.
Managed 50+ VMs and 4 AKS clusters using ARM templates and CLI; cut provisioning time by 60%.
Built CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, reducing errors by 70%.
Improved access security via Azure AD, RBAC, and B2C; ensured 100% audit compliance.
Reduced MTTD by 45% using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
Saved ₹6.5 lakhs annually through blob lifecycle cost optimizations.
Implemented DR with Site Recovery & Backup (RTO < 4hr, RPO < 30min).
Achieved 100% patch compliance, eliminating high-severity vulnerabilities with Azure Security Center and Sentinel.
Trained juniors and authored 50+ technical documents on automation and governance.
Managed Intune compliance for 500+ devices; 99.9% compliance rate.
Administered Microsoft 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Purview); enforced DLP across 4 BUs and 300+ users.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
VSIT, Mumbai University – 9.12 CGPA

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master
KodeCloud Engineer (AWS) - Level 1
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell (Udemy)

Skills

Cloud: Azure, AWS (Basic)
Azure Services: VMs, AKS, AD/B2C, Functions, Blob, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Site Recovery
Networking: VNets, NSGs, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute
Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
Security: Security Center, Key Vault, DDoS, Sentinel, Qualys
Automation: ARM Templates, CLI, Blueprints
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins (basic)
Scripting: PowerShell, Bash
M365 Admin: Intune, Exchange, SharePoint, Purview
IaC: ARM, Terraform
OS: Windows Server, Linux
Tools: JIRA, Git