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Daniel D.M

Certified Senior Cloud and DevOps Architect with over 11 years of experience designing, deploying and optimising cloud-first network and systems solutions on Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. Expertise spans infrastructure automation, high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures, and cost-efficient cloud strategies that drive operational excellence for global enterprises. A proven leader in mentoring engineering teams, delivering ISO 27001-aligned secure architectures, and reducing incident response times through advanced monitoring and observability.

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Based in
Aluva, Ernakulam, India
Email
daniel.mudanjara@gmail.com
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Website
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11+ Years experience
3,000+ Vessels supported
99.99% Uptime sustained
60% Azure cost reduction
Key achievements
Global automation Automated installation across 3,000+ vessels using MSI, PowerShell, Batch, Bash and C#, taking full environment setup under 30 minutes.
Resilience leadership Architected DR and HA solutions and led outage responses, sustaining 99.99% uptime for business-critical systems.
Cost efficiency Reduced Azure spend by 60% and managed budgets and vendor relationships to optimise cloud investment.
Monitoring innovation Built observability on Prometheus and Grafana, cutting incident response time by 40%.
Team development Mentored 20+ engineers in cloud-native and DevOps practice, setting architecture standards across teams.
Scalability impact Enabled growth from 1 to 90+ clients and 50 to 1,500 staff by delivering scalable cloud strategy.
Experience
Feb 2026 — PresentCurrent

DevOps Architect

Eastern Enterprise (Oostelijke Onderneming LLP)
  • Architected a multi-region hub-and-spoke Azure landing zone across UK South and UK West, to ISO-aligned security and compliance standards.
  • Designed availability and continuity to defined SLA, RTO and RPO targets, including business continuity planning for critical services.
  • Deployed a Palo Alto firewall HA pair with site-to-site VPN, and designed network segmentation across regions and sites.
  • Migrated workloads from public to private AKS, hardening cluster networking and access controls.
  • Automated provisioning with Terraform and Bicep for repeatable, version-controlled deployments.
  • Stood up a Victoria Metrics observability stack with SSO and OTLP for metrics, tracing and SLA visibility.
  • Drove cost optimisation through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.

Azure, private AKS, Terraform, Bicep, Palo Alto, site-to-site VPN, Victoria Metrics, OTLP, SSO, managed identity, SQL Server

Sep 2025 — Feb 2026

Senior Cloud Architect

Seaker Systems
  • Designed and deployed secure Azure environments for containerised applications, covering network, identity and access controls.
  • Architected cloud network and security topology including segmentation, ingress and secrets management.
  • Built Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines and DevOps branching strategies to automate build, test and release.
  • Implemented a data archival mechanism moving Azure SQL data to Parquet for cost-efficient long-term storage.
  • Trained a YOLO computer-vision model in Python to read vessel temperature-panel digits, with the supporting IoT data pipeline.

Azure, Azure SQL, Parquet, containers, Bitbucket CI/CD, Python, YOLO, IoT pipelines

Apr 2024 — Aug 2025

Senior Cloud Architect

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Architected a private cloud with HA and DR, achieving 99.99% uptime for ERP workloads across 3,000+ vessels.
  • Led platform architecture across network, compute, storage and security to meet enterprise reliability and compliance targets.
  • Implemented AKS with Helm and ArgoCD for containerised, GitOps-driven delivery.
  • Operated core platform services: ELK, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Vault and Consul.
  • Reduced monthly Azure billing by around 60% through right-sizing, reserved capacity and architecture changes.
  • Mentored 20+ engineers and set architecture standards for the team.

Azure, AKS, Helm, ArgoCD, ELK, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Vault, Consul, GitOps

Apr 2022 — Mar 2024

Cloud Architect

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Designed hub-and-spoke Azure architectures and enterprise landing zones aligned to ISO 27001 controls.
  • Built a one-click Terraform deployment tool enabling repeatable environment setup across 3,000+ vessels.
  • Led on-premises to Azure migrations, re-platforming applications to microservices with API management.
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana observability, cutting incident response time by around 40%.

Azure, Terraform, landing zones, VNets, API management, microservices, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD

Apr 2020 — Mar 2022

Solutions Architect

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Architected vessel update-management tooling deployed across 100+ clients, designing the application and infrastructure landscape end to end.
  • Developed vessel software-installation automation, standardising deployments across the fleet.
  • Designed DevOps strategies and CI/CD pipelines for maritime applications.
  • Led client-facing solution discussions, translating requirements into architecture decisions.

Azure, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Windows/Linux, SQL Server, networking

Apr 2017 — Mar 2020

Database Administrator

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Ran production SQL Server for maritime ERP across 3,000+ vessels — integrity, security, backup and performance.
  • Configured SQL Server HA using mirroring, Always On, replication and Windows failover clustering.
  • Designed vessel-to-shore replication to keep distributed data synchronised over low-bandwidth links.
  • Executed SQL Server upgrades (2012 → 2014 → 2016) with minimal downtime and full rollback plans.

SQL Server, T-SQL, Always On, replication, Windows Failover Clustering, VMware/Hyper-V, Active Directory

Jul 2016 — Mar 2017

Junior Database Administrator

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Administered SQL Server instances supporting maritime ERP and vessel applications.
  • Developed database extraction and migration tooling across production and vessel systems.
  • Wrote and optimised stored procedures, queries and indexes to improve response times.

SQL Server, T-SQL, SSMS, backup and restore, Windows Server

Nov 2014 — Jun 2016

Trainee Test Engineer

MariApps Marine Solutions
  • Designed and executed manual and automated tests — functional, regression, non-functional and database-level.
  • Built a Selenium automation framework in Java with an event-driven XPath design, BDD, Cucumber and TestNG.
  • Performed database-level validation and SQL query testing to verify data integrity.

Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, XPath, SQL Server, JIRA

Technical skills
Cloud platforms
Microsoft Azure, AKS, Azure SQL
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates
Containers
Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, Docker Compose, Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps)
DevOps & CI/CD
Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Git
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics, ELK, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, OpenTelemetry
Languages
C#, Python, Go, Node.js, PowerShell, Bash, T-SQL
Databases
SQL Server 2012–2022, Azure SQL, Redis; Always On, mirroring, replication, failover clustering
Messaging
Kafka, RabbitMQ
Security
HashiCorp Vault, Consul, managed identity, SSO, Active Directory, ISO 27001-aligned design
Networking
VNets, peering, hub-and-spoke, load balancers, Azure Firewall, Palo Alto (HA), Front Door, site-to-site VPN
Resilience
DR and HA design, SLA/RTO/RPO, business continuity planning, failover clustering
FinOps
Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing, budget and vendor management
Education
Bharathiar University MBA, Information Systems 2016 – 2021
Mahatma Gandhi University BCA, Computer Application 2011 – 2014
Govt Boys Higher Secondary School Plus Two 2008 – 2010
Languages
EnglishMalayalamTamilHindi