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Kamlesh Chandracant

Founder · Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer & Azure Solution Architect

SC Cleared (Active)Peterborough, UK — working remotely across the UK

Cloud architect and platform engineer with over 15 years' experience across UK banking, public sector and financial services. I take complex architectural change — core platform migrations, regulated cloud adoption, container modernisation — and turn it into secure, production-ready outcomes. I design the target state, then stay hands-on to deliver it.

15+
Years in engineeringInfrastructure → DevOps → platform architecture
SC
Security clearanceActive — cleared for UK government programmes
6
Professional certificationsAzure Architect Expert, DevOps Expert, CKA
Regulated
Delivery environmentsUK banking, central government, justice, PCI

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Selected engagements

Delivery in environments where downtime, security failures and compliance gaps all carry real consequences.

OpsUnity Ltd

2025 — Present

Founder & Consultant

Peterborough

Founded OpsUnity to turn legacy infrastructure into cloud-native platforms and bring production-grade AI into software delivery.

  • Deliver Azure and AWS transformation, platform engineering and AI-driven automation across build, deployment and operations.
  • Blend architectural leadership with hands-on engineering to move designs into live production.
  • Built an internal developer platform managing an entire Azure DevOps organisation as code — projects, repositories, branch policies, environments and approval gates reconciled from version-controlled YAML.

Virtusa Europe

2021 — Present

Contractor Architect (Remote)

Assignment: Tier-1 UK building society and its banking subsidiary, Glasgow

Azure Platform Architect and Solution Designer for the Alfa v3 to v6 migration programme.

  • Shaped the target-state architecture and solution design for a large-scale core-platform migration at a major UK bank.
  • Delivered it hands-on as a platform developer — provisioning Azure infrastructure and building deployment pipelines.
  • Defined the integration patterns that carried the upgraded Alfa platform through to a successful production go-live.

Capgemini UK

2020 — 2021

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Assignment: UK central government department — core platform, Telford

Modernised a major UK government department's core engineering platform and enabled Azure adoption inside a regulated environment.

  • Led migration of containerised applications and internal tooling from Docker-based hosting to a managed EKS platform — improving scalability, security posture and deployment standardisation across the department's core engineering estate.
  • Enabled Azure-hosted products for consumption within a regulated government environment, delivering proofs of concept and pattern documents for new technologies.
  • Reviewed designs with the cyber-security team for compliance sign-off and supported wider engineering teams with implementation guidance to accelerate platform onboarding.

Meganexus Ltd

2018 — 2020

DevOps Engineer

London

End-to-end DevOps for UK justice-sector case-management applications.

  • Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes microservice deployments.
  • Hardened Azure environments with Key Vault and automated TLS across 20+ subdomains.
  • Provided 24/7 production support for services in active government use.

Cashflows Ltd

2017 — 2018

Issuing DevOps Engineer

Cambridge

Managed and monitored a fintech payments application hosted on AWS.

  • Delivered 3rd-line and on-call support for live financial transaction processing.
  • Built AWS infrastructure for test and production environments.
  • Diagnosed transaction issues using Splunk and automated software rollouts with Chef.

Pre-School Learning Alliance

2011 — 2017

IT System Administrator

London

End-to-end administration of Windows server and network infrastructure — installation, configuration and scheduled maintenance keeping day-to-day operations stable and secure.

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Technical capability

Grouped by what it does, not by logo count.

Cloud Platforms

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud

Containers & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • AKS
  • EKS
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Rancher
  • Portainer

CI/CD & Automation

  • Azure Pipelines
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • Spinnaker
  • Terraform
  • Chef
  • Git

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk

Security & Compliance

  • Azure Key Vault
  • TLS / mTLS
  • Let's Encrypt
  • Qualys
  • ZAP
  • Akamai
  • Deep Security
  • PCI & NCC audit

Data

  • Azure SQL
  • MariaDB / MySQL

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Certifications

  • Azure Solutions Architect ExpertMicrosoft
  • DevOps Engineer ExpertMicrosoft
  • Azure Security Engineer AssociateMicrosoft
  • Azure Administrator AssociateMicrosoft
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)CNCF
  • Microsoft Certified IT ProfessionalMicrosoft · 2011
  • Microsoft Certified Systems EngineerMicrosoft · 2011

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Education

London South Bank University

2007 — 2010

B.Eng (Hons) Computer Systems and Networks — 2:1

Engineering, London

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Available for platform and architecture work

Cloud migration, platform engineering, CI/CD modernisation and Kubernetes delivery.