AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
DevOps / Platform Engineer building scalable cloud infrastructure.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional with 5+ years building and running production infrastructure on AWS. Specialize in Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps (Flux), Terraform, and FinOps. Delivered $400K+ in annual cloud savings and led EC2 to EKS and self-managed MongoDB to Atlas migrations for business-critical platforms.
$400K+
Annual Cloud Savings
70%
Faster Provisioning via IaC
80%
Reduced Credential Rotation Effort
99.9%
Production Uptime Maintained
Technical Skills
Core technologies, tools, and platforms I work with
AWS Infrastructure
EKS
EC2
VPC
PrivateLink
IAM
ALB
S3
RDS
EMR
OpenSearch
SSM
WAF
CloudWatch
Kubernetes & GitOps
Kubernetes
Docker
Flux CD
Cluster Autoscaler
ExternalDNS
External Secrets Operator
IaC & CI/CD
Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
Jenkins
Codefresh
JFrog Artifactory
Blue-Green Deployments
Observability & Security
Datadog
New Relic
Splunk
Kubernetes RBAC
AWS WAF
Signal Sciences
CrowdStrike Falcon
Data Platforms & Scripting
MongoDB Atlas
mongosync
Amazon EMR
Apache Airflow
Apache Kylin
Kylo
Tableau Server
Python
Bash
Professional Experience
Career progression and accomplishments
Current Employer
PowerSchool India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, India
Jul 2021 – Present (5+ Years)
1
Cloud Operations Engineer I
Apr 2025 – Present- EKS & GitOps Migration: Migrated a production PHP application from EC2 to Amazon EKS end-to-end: containerized it with Docker, built the Kubernetes specs (HPA, PDB, Ingress, External Secrets), and shipped via Flux GitOps.
- MongoDB Atlas Migration: Migrated self-managed MongoDB replica sets to MongoDB Atlas using mongosync over AWS PrivateLink, with Terraform-provisioned clusters.
- Security Automation: Rolled out CrowdStrike Falcon to 100+ EC2 instances via AWS SSM and built it into AMI pipelines for default protection.
- Credential Rotation: Automated RDS credential rotation with Ansible and Jenkins plus IAM-based access, cutting manual effort by ~80%.
- OS Modernization: Migrated Jenkins executors from CentOS to Amazon Linux 2023, resolving dependency conflicts with zero pipeline disruption.
- Legacy Decommissioning: Decommissioned legacy platforms (Birst, EMR clusters, unused Redis/RDS/MongoDB), saving ~$14K/year.
2
Associate Cloud Operations Engineer II
Apr 2022 – Apr 2025- FinOps Impact: Cut AWS spend by ~$400K/year through rightsizing and idle-resource cleanup across accounts.
- Modular IaC: Built reusable Terraform modules adopted across 10+ environments, reducing provisioning time by ~70%.
- Zero-Downtime Releases: Enabled zero-downtime production releases with blue-green deployments using Terraform and ALB routing.
- Big Data Performance: Built and upgraded the Amazon EMR big data platform (Airflow, Kylin, Kylo, Tableau edge nodes); tuning cut ETL runtime by ~30% and saved ~$15K/year.
- Search Tuning: Improved OpenSearch performance by ~40% through shard, node-sizing, and index lifecycle optimization.
- Incident Response: Led incident response and RCA for high-priority issues, reducing mean time to resolution by ~35%.
- WAF Security: Implemented and tuned AWS WAF rules, blocking 500+ malicious requests per month.
3
Associate Cloud Operations Engineer I
Jul 2021 – Apr 2022- High Availability: Maintained 99.9% uptime across AWS accounts; expanded observability with Datadog, CloudWatch, and Splunk, increasing issue-detection coverage by ~50%.
- Patching & Compliance: Automated OS patching using SSM and compliance reporting using Ansible.
Certifications
Verified industry credentials
Professional Level
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services • Verified Badge
Education
Academic foundation and continuous learning
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Foundational Level, Programming & Data Science
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Remote)