Saurabh Patil

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

London, United Kingdom

#OpenToWork

About

I am a DevOps Engineer with over 18 years of experience specializing in Cloud Security and Architecture. Most recently, I have been working as a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer at Solvd contracted to Allianz Partners, leading cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled platform initiatives. My work spans AWS Landing Zones using Account Factory for Terraform, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, and AI-powered voice agents using LiveKit and Azure OpenAI. I have built secure, compliant platforms with tools like Hashicorp Vault, SysDig CNAPP, and Cloudflare Zero Trust, and managed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Terragrunt across multiple AWS environments.

What I'm looking for

Senior AWS engineering roles specialising in kubernetes, cloud security

Experience

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer/ AI Agentic/ Landing Zone

Solvd - Allianz Partner

Jun 2025 – Present

Lead engineer within a lean platform engineering team, solely responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled platforms across multiple portfolio companies within a global insurance group Spearheaded AWS Landing Zone design and implementation using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), establishing scalable account vending, governance guardrails, and account customisations across the full AWS estate Architected and operate a Container-as-a-Service platform on Amazon EKS, serving as the shared production-grade compute backbone for multi-portfolio workloads Pioneered AI infrastructure from the platform team — designed and deployed an AI-powered voice agent for insurance claims handling using LiveKit, LangGraph, and Azure OpenAI, enabling automated claim intake, repair shop booking, and multi-agent orchestration for vehicle repair use cases Architected and delivered Cloudflare Zero Trust infrastructure across multiple Kubernetes clusters: ○ Implemented Cloudflare Tunnels for private application exposure and Zero Trust Access policies for 20+ internal tools (ArgoCD, Grafana, Kibana, Airflow). ○ Established Layer 4 Gateway Network Policies with default-deny and per-team allow rules using EntraID group-based identity. ○ Deployed M2M Service Token authentication for CI/CD and service-to-service access, with credentials managed via AWS SSM and full GitOps audit trail. Design and build Databricks infrastructure for data platform teams — provisioning and managing workspaces across 4 AWS regions and multiple business domains using Terragrunt, deploying Unity Catalog metastores and data catalogs with fine-grained access control, and managing service principals for CI/CD automation across nonprod, preprod, and prod environments Own CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure design, and platform governance end-to-end across 4 portfolio company AWS environments

AWSTerraformKubernetes

Certifications

Incident Commander by Secureworks

Secureworks

Introduction to GitOps (LFS169) by Linux Foundation

Linux Foundation

Technology Architect - Accenture (MTA program)

Accenture

Certified DevOps Master ®Exin

Exin

Nomad Associate

Hashicorp

Consul Associate

Hashicorp

Vault Advanced

Hashicorp

Terraform Advanced

Hashicorp

AZ-900 Microsoft Azure fundamentals

Microsoft

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS

AWS Developer Associate (DVA)

AWS

AWS Solution Architect Associate (SAA)

AWS

AWS Security Specialty (SS)

AWS

AWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP)

AWS

ISC2- Certified in Cybersecurity

ISC2

AWS AI Practitioner

AWS

Skills

Helm chartsGrafanaPrometheusAnsibleJenkinsGitLab CICI/CDDatabricksAzure OpenAITerragruntPrisma CloudSysDigCloudflareEKSDockerGitHub ActionsHashicorp VaultTerraformKubernetesAWS

Languages

English