Open to Lead / Senior DevOps and Cloud Architect roles — permanent or contract.
Prasad Domala
Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Cloud Solutions Architect
Brisbane, Australia
I turn DevOps problems into reusable tools and self-service platforms — architecting AWS landscapes from the ground up for high-traffic, always-on products.
- Years in IT
- 20+
- AWS Certifications
- 12
- Azure Certifications
- 3
- Kubernetes Certifications
- 3
about
Professional summary
Accomplished Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Cloud Solutions Architect with 20+ years in IT and 10+ years specialising in AWS cloud architecture, DevOps automation and platform engineering. Fully AWS certified with 12 AWS certifications, plus 3 Azure and Kubernetes (KCNA, KCS, CKAD) credentials. AWS Community Builder and member of the AWS Dev/Cloud Alliance (ANZ). Currently the sole architect and technical authority for all cloud decisions on a high-traffic e-sports platform (300k+ monthly active users), leading a team of 5 engineers and designing the entire AWS landscape from the ground up. Expert in serverless and micro-services architectures, large-scale migrations, CI/CD automation and Infrastructure as Code, with strong full-stack development skills. Career spans cloud architecture, DevOps, middleware technical leadership and identity & access management across Australia, the UK, France and India.
// achievements
- Designed and built an entire production AWS landscape from scratch — 100+ repositories / microservices with blue-green, near-zero-downtime deployments.
- Single-handedly executed DocumentDB → MongoDB Atlas and Kafka → Confluent Cloud migrations with zero service disruption.
- Automated the full release pipeline for 50+ microservices and migrated them from EC2 to ECS/Fargate (Docker) with no downtime.
- Migrated a legacy application to serverless / micro-services, saving $200k+ in licensing and support costs.
- Led migration of 3,000+ workloads to AWS and 100+ middleware servers, saving £200k+.
- Repeatedly built internal tools and self-service portals that removed manual toil — including automation that saved 1.5+ FTEs.
skills
Core skills & toolset
The tools, platforms and languages I reach for when designing cloud landscapes and self-service platforms.
certifications
Certifications & credentials
Fully AWS certified with all 12 AWS certifications, plus Azure, Kubernetes and more.
experience
Professional experience
Two decades across cloud architecture, DevOps and middleware leadership in Australia, the UK, France and India.
Nov 2022 – Present
Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Sony Interactive Entertainment (Repeat.gg)Brisbane, Australia
Sole architect and technical authority for all AWS and DevOps decisions on an e-sports platform serving 300k+ monthly active users and 40k+ tournaments/month.
- Architected and built the high-traffic AWS infrastructure from scratch for 24×7 availability using EC2 Auto Scaling, ECS on Fargate, Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ, Lambda and API Gateway.
- Executed zero-downtime migrations — DocumentDB → MongoDB Atlas and Kafka → Confluent Cloud — using dual-run replication and controlled cutovers with tested rollback paths.
- Dockerised and migrated 50+ microservices from EC2 to ECS/Fargate and automated CI/CD for 100+ repositories with Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS CDK (TypeScript), applying blue-green deployments.
- Built the observability strategy on Elasticsearch and ETL pipelines from DocumentDB and MySQL into S3 and Snowflake for analytics.
- Lead and mentor a team of 5 DevOps engineers; own architecture governance, POCs and evaluation of new AWS services.
Sep 2019 – Oct 2022
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Origin EnergyBrisbane, Australia
Key member of the Digital Platform & Architecture team, designing cloud solutions across 9 product squads.
- Architected migration of a complex legacy application to serverless and micro-services on AWS, saving $200k+ in licensing and support costs.
- Designed and built “Digital Monitor” — a React dashboard consolidating CloudWatch alarms across 40+ AWS accounts and alerting the responsible squad.
- Established Azure DevOps CI/CD patterns across products, growing daily pipeline executions from tens to hundreds.
- Implemented a centralised tagging solution across 40+ accounts for accurate business-unit cost attribution.
Mar 2019 – Sep 2019
Senior Cloud Engineer
Virgin AustraliaBrisbane, Australia
Joined the Cloud Practice team to accelerate Virgin Australia's cloud migration journey.
- Key player in a major migration of 3,000+ workloads from on-prem to AWS; redesigned legacy applications into serverless and micro-services.
- Built internal tools to reduce manual effort — AWS Cloud Inventory, Megaport Dashboard, SSM Params CLI and a Backup CLI.
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines with Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer and Makefile; built custom Docker images for mission-critical apps.
Jan 2017 – Mar 2019
Cloud Engineer
DXC Technology — ANZ AWS PracticeAustralia
Supported multiple private and government clients across their cloud adoption journeys.
- Built an application to perform daily tasks and checks across all client AWS accounts, reducing manual effort by at least 1.5 FTEs.
- Implemented migration of SAP workloads onto AWS; served as client Account Manager presenting solutions to stakeholders.
- Developed Lambda-based automation for patching, backups and reporting; maintained CloudFormation templates for rapid deployment.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017
Cloud Technical Consultant · Middleware Technical Lead
DXC — BBC Capita TVL, UKUnited Kingdom
Led cloud migration and middleware engineering for BBC Capita's TV Licensing workloads.
- Led migration of 100+ on-prem servers (Oracle DB, Oracle IAM/SOA, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere) to AWS in 2 years, saving the client £200k+.
- Led a team of 5 middleware engineers; delivered DXC's first Oracle SOA implementation after self-driving a POC and securing investment.
- Defined DR strategies and recovery plans; implemented monitoring with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c.
May 2006 – Jan 2012
Middleware & IAM Consultant
DXC (France / UK / India) & TCS IndiaFrance · United Kingdom · India
Early-career roles across middleware, Citrix and identity & access management.
- Designed and implemented a Citrix solution migrating 300+ desktop environments at Arcelor Mittal, France.
- Consolidated scattered identity systems into a unified Oracle IAM and CA SiteMinder solution at Network Rail, UK.
- Built a Java auditing tool and an ASP.NET/MySQL reporting tool that cut a daily hour-long task to 3 minutes — awarded the GE Excellence Award.
community
Open source & community
Open-source tools, community building and side projects born out of real DevOps problems.
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