Vaishnavi Nawkhare

Results-driven AWS Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale. Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD pipeline development with Jenkins and ArgoCD, and container orchestration via Kubernetes (EKS). Hands-on experience building secure, multi-environment AWS architectures (dev/stage/prod) that achieve 100% reproducibility and 70% reduction in manual deployment effort.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with strong knowledge of cloud security, cost optimization, and GitOps practices.

Seeking Cloud

Engineer or IaC Engineer roles in Pune, Bangalore, or Nagpur.

Cloud Engineer at Cognizant (2023-03 – Present)

• Architected and deployed secure, multi-environment AWS cloud infrastructure (dev/stage/prod) using Terraform modules, achieving 100% infrastructure reproducibility and eliminating configuration drift across all environments.
• Engineered end-to-end CI/CD pipelines integrating Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Amazon EKS, automating containerized application deployments and reducing manual intervention by 70%, cutting release cycle time significantly.
• Implemented GitOps-based continuous delivery workflows using ArgoCD for Amazon EKS, ensuring consistent, auditable, and faster application releases across all environments.
• Strengthened DevSecOps posture by embedding SonarQube static code analysis and Trivy container vulnerability scans directly into CI/CD pipelines, achieving zero critical security vulnerabilities in production deployments.
• Automated provisioning of core AWS resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, ECR, IAM) using reusable Terraform modules, reducing infrastructure setup time from days to under 2 hours.
• Drove cloud cost optimization through S3 lifecycle policies, EC2 right-sizing, and AWS Savings Plans, achieving a 15% reduction in monthly cloud spend — delivering measurable cost savings to the organization.
• Conducted regular system health checks, compliance reviews, and cloud governance audits to maintain operational excellence and regulatory alignment.

Cloud Engineer Intern at Cognizant (2022-01 – 2022-07)

• Designed and implemented a scalable AWS 3-tier architecture incorporating EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and Amazon RDS, supporting high availability and horizontal scalability for production workloads.
• Built secure cloud infrastructure using VPC with private subnets, IAM roles with least-privilege access, and Multi-AZ RDS deployment, ensuring resilience and compliance with security best practices.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using AWS CloudFormation templates, improving deployment efficiency and reducing manual workload by approximately 40%.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering – Prof. Ram Meghe Institute of Technology and Research (2018-01 – 2022-01)