Abhijeet Kumar Srivastava

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Manager | Senior DevOps Engineer | SRE

Greater Noida, Delhi/NCR • +91 9321191745 • abhijeet.k.srivastava@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/abhijeet-k-srivastava

Azure Certified • AWS Certified • ITIL V3 Foundation • Splunk • 15+ Years Experience


Professional Summary

Results-driven Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling mission-critical platforms in global financial services. Proven track record leading large distributed teams, executing multi-cloud migrations (AWS & Azure), and implementing SRE principles to drive availability, reliability, and automation. Deep expertise across the full DevOps toolchain — Docker,Kubernetes,Terraform, Ansible, AWX, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes-orchestrated workloads, and observability stacks (Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics). Consistently recognized for reducing MTTR, eliminating toil through automation, and aligning infrastructure strategy with business objectives across Engineering, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders.


Core Competencies

Area Skills
Cloud & Infra AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) • Azure (VMs, AKS, Monitor, DevOps) • Multi-cloud Strategy • Cloud Migration • Docker • Kubernetes
DevOps & SRE Terraform • Ansible • AWX • CI/CD Pipelines • GitOps • SLO/SLI/Error Budgets • Chaos Engineering • Toil Reduction
Observability Grafana • Splunk • AppDynamics • Alerting & Dashboarding • Log Analysis • AIOps
Operations Incident / Problem / Change Mgmt (ITIL) • DR & BCP • Capacity Planning • Production Support • Release Mgmt
Leadership Team Building • P&L Ownership • Vendor Mgmt • Stakeholder Communication • Hiring & Mentoring • OKRs
Scripting Shell Scripting • Python (basic) • PL/SQL • Automation Frameworks
AI & Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot (Teams, ServiceNow) • Google Cloud Generative AI • Prompt Engineering (Vertex AI) • AI-assisted RCA & Incident Docs • SQL Query Engineering • Ansible Playbook Dev • Log Monitoring Automation • AIOps

Work Experience

VP – Infrastructure, Cloud Operations & DevOps | BlackRock

Gurgaon • Feb 2015 – Present

BlackRock Aladdin Platform | Global Financial Services | 800+ Team Members Globally - Spearheaded SRE transformation for BlackRock Aladdin — driving 99.95%+ availability through SLO enforcement, error budget tracking, and blameless post-mortems across globally critical financial systems. - Led Azure cloud migration for 100+ application servers with zero downstream impact; decommissioned on-premise infrastructure ahead of schedule and within budget. - Designed AWX/Ansible automation workflows eliminating 40% of manual toil and reducing MTTR by 35%; built Grafana/Splunk/AppDynamics observability stacks cutting alert noise by 30%. - Served as Strategic Incident Commander for P1/P2 outages — led global bridges, stakeholder comms, RCA sessions, and IPR-driven problem elimination to prevent recurrence. - Pioneered Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption across ops workflows — AI-assisted RCA authoring, ServiceNow ticket triage, Teams communications, SQL query engineering, Ansible playbook development, and log/filesystem monitoring scripts — reducing documentation and scripting effort by ~40%. - Owned change & release governance for mission-critical deployments; established operational standards, runbooks, and on-call processes while mentoring and scaling a high-performing distributed team. - Integrated Docker and Kubernetes into cloud migration and automation workflows, enabling containerized deployments, streamlined CI/CD delivery, and scalable orchestration across mission-critical financial applications.


Application Engineer | Polaris Financial Technologies (Client: Deutsche Bank)

Mumbai • Aug 2013 – Feb 2015


Assistant Manager – IT Operations | Reliance Tech Services Pvt. Ltd

Mumbai • Aug 2010 – Aug 2013


Education

MCA, Software Engineering U.P.T.U, Greater Noida

B.Sc. (Maths Hons.) D.U, New Delhi


Certifications


Availability & Preferences

Based in Greater Noida • Open to: Delhi/NCR (preferred), Hybrid, or Remote across India • Notice Period: Open to discussion