Gowtham L

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Expertise in AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Bitbucket CI/CD. Skilled in building scalable, secure, and highly available systems with strong focus on automation, monitoring, and cost optimization

AWS DevOps Engineer at Advanced Structures India Private Limited (2024-02 – Present)

• Designed, deployed, and managed scalable AWS infrastructure including EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, Load Balancers (ALB), and Auto Scaling Groups.
• Configured secure AWS infrastructure by designing VPC networking (public/private subnets, security groups, NACLs), managing RDS with Multi-AZ and automated backups, and implementing KMS-based encryption across databases, storage, and application secrets.
• Developed and containerized microservices using Docker, stored images in ECR, and automated build-and-deploy workflows to EKS deployments via Bitbucket CI/CD.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines, enabling seamless code builds, Docker image pushes to ECR, and ECS/EKS deployments with zero downtime.
• Deployed and managed containerized applications on Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm charts, enabling automated, version-controlled releases with rollback capabilities and zero-downtime deployments.
• Automated resource optimization by configuring Auto Scaling for EKS node groups, ECS services, and EC2 instances, enabling dynamic scaling based on CPU and memory utilization thresholds.
• Implemented CloudWatch and CloudTrail for real-time logging, event tracking, and alerting, along with SNS notifications for AWS infrastructure events and system abnormalities.
• Built and maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform, covering networking, compute, and security services.
• Managed AWS security using IAM, WAF, GuardDuty, and Security Hub to strengthen access control, detect threats, block attacks, and maintain compliance visibility, supporting SOC 2 compliance through implementation of security best practices.
• Configured and maintained Grafana and Datadog dashboards for application and infrastructure monitoring, enabling proactive alerting, improved visibility, and faster incident resolution.
• Improved system uptime to 99.9 percentage by implementing proactive monitoring using Datadog, Grafana, and CloudWatch.

AWS Cloud Engineer at Htc Global Services (2022-02 – 2023-11)

• Automated S3 lifecycle policies and Intelligent-Tiering storage class transitions for optimal cost management of large data volumes and logs.
• Integrated AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for data encryption at rest across RDS, EBS, and S3
• Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) with target groups for automatic traffic routing, improving application availability, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Maintained and optimized AWS billing through budget alerts, usage monitoring, and cost-saving best practices.
• Implemented static website hosting using Amazon S3 integrated with CloudFront for global CDN delivery, enhanced performance, SSL encryption, and secure access to backend resources.

– Krapagam College of Engineering (2019)