Shiv Naik

DevOps Engineer with 3.6 years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform, CI/CD automation, Docker, and DevSecOps practices. Skilled in designing highly available architectures, automating deployments, implementing RBAC/SSO, and optimizing cloud costs. Currently upskilling in Kubernetes fundamentals and cloud-native tooling.

DevOps Engineer - Thinkbiz Technologies Pvt Ltd - Ahmedabad, Gujarat

(2022-10 - 2026-05)

• Scale & Deployment Management: Managed automated deployments for 15+ microservices across development, staging, and production environments supporting high-traffic production workloads.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provisioned immutable infrastructure using Terraform modules enabling consistent, repeatable, and environment-independent deployments.
• Security & Identity Access Control: Administered AWS IAM and AWS SSO for 50+ users implementing secure role-based access control (RBAC) across multiple AWS accounts.
• DevSecOps Integration: Integrated SonarQube and OWASP security compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines, enforcing automated code quality gates and security vulnerability scanning.
• Leadership & Operational Standards: Mentored a team of 3 engineers and established DevOps operational standards, significantly improving release quality and deployment reliability.
• Serverless Architecture: Designed scalable serverless microservices using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to optimize compute efficiency and minimize cold starts.
• FinOps & Cost Optimization: Optimized AWS infrastructure costs using Reserved Instances, instance rightsizing, automated resource scheduling, and granular cost-per-request monitoring.
• Workflows & Standardization: Created comprehensive architecture documentation, disaster recovery (DR) plans, and operational runbooks to standardize workflows across engineering teams.
• High Availability & Load Balancing: Built highly available multi-AZ architecture using ALB (Application Load Balancer), Auto Scaling Groups, and RDS failover achieving 99.9% uptime.
• Observability & Log Analysis: Implemented centralized logging and analysis using CloudWatch Logs and AWS Athena to proactively detect performance bottlenecks and improve reliability.
• CI/CD Lifecycle & Release Engineering: Built automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins supporting blue-green and canary deployment strategies with robust rollback capabilities.
• Edge Security Hardening: Configured AWS WAF security rules protecting public-facing applications and APIs from common web vulnerabilities and malicious exploits.

MCA - Veer Narmada South Gujarat University (2022)

BCA - Naranlala College of Professional and Applied Science (2020)