Siddhesh Arondekar

AWS and Kubernetes Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience and 5+ years in Linux administration, networking, and cloud operations. Skilled in designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable, high-availability cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and automation workflows. Experienced in troubleshooting, performance optimization, and zero-downtime deployments for mission-critical environments.

Service Management NOC Engineer - Vodafone Idea Limited

• Monitored and maintained telecom systems (AIR, SDP, CCN, OCC, EMM, ECMS, FPS, VS) ensuring high availability.
• Conducted real-time monitoring using TeMIPClient, resolving critical production issues.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent recurring incidents and reduce downtime.
• Captured and analyzed network traffic using TCP dump and Wireshark for issue diagnosis.
• Executed and validated Change Requests (CRs) for system upgrades and fixes.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams and vendors to resolve technical issues efficiently.
• Provisioned and managed EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, and VPCs for high availability and performance.
• Configured IAM roles and policies following security best practices.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation templates, reducing manual errors.
• Monitored infrastructure using CloudWatch and configured proactive alerts.
• Deployed containerized applications using Docker on Kubernetes clusters (Minikube & AWS EKS).
• Managed Pods, Deployments, Services, implementing auto-scaling and LoadBalancer for dynamic workloads.
• Performed rolling updates and zero-downtime deployments.
• Collaborated with development teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments.
• Developed shell scripts for log analysis, system monitoring, and task automation.
• Scheduled automated tasks using cron jobs, improving operational efficiency.

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology - Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) (2020)