Aakansha Pandey

Cloud & Platform Engineer with 2+ years of experience in designing and managing AWS infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, security operations, and compliance monitoring. Skilled in ECS, IAM, Secrets Manager, WAF, RDS (Aurora PostgreSQL), DocumentDB, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch with strong expertise in SSL/TLS lifecycle, mTLS configuration, and production-grade monitoring.

Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini (2023-12 – Present)

Client: Redeban - Managed complete SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle, maintained TrustStore and KeyStore configurations, centralized database credentials, provisioned production-grade databases, designed custom database roles, implemented snapshot-based recovery strategy, configured AWS WAF rules, built AWS Config rules, managed IAM, built and supported Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, deployed containerized applications on Amazon ECS.

• Managed complete SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle (creation, rotation, renewal, revocation) across production and non-production environments.
• Maintained TrustStore and KeyStore configurations enabling secure mTLS communication between microservices.
• Centralized database credentials using AWS Secrets Manager with automatic rotation, eliminating hardcoded secrets and improving security posture.
• Provisioned and maintained production-grade databases including Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DocumentDB, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Designed custom Database roles including scoped API write roles and read-only reporting roles, enforcing least privilege access control.
• Implemented snapshot-based recovery strategy and configured CloudWatch alarms for storage, latency, and connection monitoring for proactive incident detection.
• Configured and managed AWS WAF rules aligned with OWASP improving security monitoring and threat prevention.
• Built and maintained AWS Config rules for compliance auditing and configuration drift detection with remediation support.
• Managed IAM users, roles, and permission boundaries with RBAC, policies and periodic access reviews.
• Built and supported Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated build/test/deployment workflows; supported migration activities from Jenkins/Git-based processes.
• Deployed containerized applications on Amazon ECS using Docker, monitored workloads via CloudWatch dashboards and alerts.

Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini (2023-12 – Present)

Client: Bank of Ireland - Worked with third-party tools such as NetScaler and Splunk, developed start/stop automation scripts using AWS Lambda, supported CI/CD pipeline repository migration from Bitbucket to GitHub.

• Worked with third-party tools/components such as NetScaler and Splunk for application delivery and log monitoring.
• Developed start/stop automation scripts using AWS Lambda to schedule resource shutdown/startup, helping reduce infrastructure costs.
• Supported CI/CD pipeline repository migration from Bitbucket to GitHub, ensuring smooth transition and minimal disruption.

Master of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management (2021-01 – 2023-12)

Bachelor of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – Dr. Ambedkar College (2018-01 – 2021-12)