Pragadheesh Waran

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) with 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps (Argo CD). Experienced in enterprise InfoSec tooling, vulnerability remediation, and audit compliance at scale. Adept at automating workflows to drive reliability, reduce toil, and maintain high availability in large production environments.

Cloud-DevSecOps Engineer - Bootlabs Tech - Bangalore, India

(2025-05)

• Designed and managed scalable AWS cloud infrastructure across 42+ accounts using Terraform and AWS AFT for automated multi-account provisioning.
• Architected enterprise-grade networking via centralised Transit Gateway, enabling secure VPC-to-VPC connectivity across all environments.
• Administered 36+ Amazon EKS clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Led enterprise InfoSec tooling (Qualys, Cortex XDR, F-Secure Agent) across 500+ VMs, enabling continuous vulnerability assessment and improved security posture.
• Implemented GitOps with Argo CD for Kubernetes deployments, enabling automated synchronisation, version control, and consistent deployment reliability.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline for automated, repeatable releases.
• Managed Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL) with Multi-AZ configurations, automated backups, and performance optimisation.
• Administered 600+ cloud servers; performed Linux patching, monitoring, and performance tuning at scale.
• Deployed enterprise patch management via BigFix, achieving compliance across large-scale heterogeneous infrastructure.
• Supported audit and compliance activities by maintaining logs, documentation, and security standards aligned with organisational policies.

DevOps / DBA Engineer - Promon Software - Chennai, India

(2023-09 - 2025-04)

• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, improving deployment speed by 40% across cloud environments.
• Integrated monitoring and alerting (Bugsnag, Grafana, Icinga) to enhance system availability, reducing support tickets by 30–50%.
• Automated server onboarding and configuration with Ansible, reducing deployment time by 30% across 100+ servers.
• Optimised Jenkins pipelines by scaling executors and managing Docker Swarm agents, increasing build throughput by 35%.
• Authored automation scripts for routine operations, cutting manual effort by 25% and saving 15 hours/week for the Operations team.
• Implemented SonarQube and Docker Scout for continuous code quality inspection and container vulnerability assessment.
• Led incident response for production systems, maintaining 99.9% uptime and reducing MTTR by 20%.

System Engineer – DevOps - Apdeops Tech - Chennai, India

(2022-08 - 2023-08)

• Engineered Jenkins master-slave CI/CD pipelines, cutting deployment times by 25% across 50+ applications.
• Integrated five API endpoints into Kong API Gateway, reducing server load by 40% and improving end-user availability.
• Optimised IIS site configurations, improving server response times by 20% and achieving 99.8% application availability.
• Implemented robust backup monitoring, reducing recovery times by 50% and ensuring 100% data integrity during restoration.
• Led incident resolution efforts, reducing recurring production issues by 25% and improving overall system reliability by 20%.

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering - Annamalai University (2018-08 - 2022-07) Chidambaram, TN