Pratiksha Mane builds cloud platforms that stay up.
Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Implementation Consultant — AWS, Azure, DevOps automation and Polarion ALM delivery.
Triple AWS-certified, with 5+ years running enterprise-grade AWS & Azure infrastructure at Siemens Digital Industries Software for 150+ clients across Europe and the Americas — with zero project failures along the way.
last verified against 180+ production operations, Jun 2021 – present
Cloud delivery with an operator's discipline
Pratiksha is a Triple AWS-Certified Lead Cloud Consultant with over five years of enterprise cloud and ALM delivery experience at Siemens Digital Industries Software, serving 150+ global clients across Europe and the Americas. Her work spans AWS and Azure infrastructure operations, automation, and observability — consistently delivered with 100% SLA adherence, 99.9% uptime, and zero project failures across 180+ infrastructure operations.
She builds the automation layer that keeps large Polarion ALM environments reliable: Python and Ansible scripts that cut manual effort by 60%, CI/CD pipelines that make deployments repeatable, and monitoring dashboards that shrink incident response time by 40%. She's also an award-winning trainer, having led 45+ global sessions on AWS, Azure, Linux and Polarion.
Areas of expertise
The platforms, tooling and operating practices Pratiksha works in day to day.
Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure — AWS
aws/Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure — Azure
azure/Networking
net/Automation, DevOps & Scripting
devops/Monitoring & ITSM
ops/Operating Systems
os/Key achievements
Outcomes measured across five years of production infrastructure work.
Professional experience
Lead Implementation Consultant — Cloud & Polarion Operations
jun 2021 → presentDelivered AWS & Azure-hosted Polarion solutions to 150+ enterprise clients across Europe and the Americas with 100% SLA adherence and zero project failures.
Executed 180+ infrastructure operations (EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, Route 53, ELB, IAM), maintaining 99.9% uptime through zero-downtime migrations, including RHEL 8/9 transitions and multi-node cluster deployments.
Automated Polarion installation and upgrade workflows on Azure with Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab CI/CD, with Datadog monitoring across VMs, VNet, NSG, DNS and Azure Monitor.
Built 14+ Python/Java scripts for log scraping, diagnostics, health checks and thread dump analysis, cutting manual effort 60% and improving incident response 40%.
Built 5 real-time observability dashboards combining Datadog, Apache logs and AWS CloudWatch metrics, cutting incident triage time by 40%.
Designed CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Lambda and CloudFormation for repeatable, automated deployments.
Architected secure, scalable AWS networking (VPC, Subnets, NACLs, VPN, Transit Gateway) and optimized cost through AWS Budgets and consolidated billing.
Led full Polarion cluster upgrades and cross-team data migrations across four teams with zero downtime, directing environment cloning and disaster recovery.
Resolved 75+ high-priority incidents with >95% first-call resolution through proactive alerting and root cause analysis.
Authored KMDB knowledge articles and led 45+ global training sessions on AWS, Azure, Linux and Polarion — awarded for Cloud Automation and Operational Excellence.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Education
Bachelor of Engineering — Mechanical Engineering
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Open to lead cloud consulting, infrastructure automation and Polarion ALM delivery opportunities.