Varun Gowda

AWS-focused Cloud DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineer with 5+ years hosting and running production applications on AWS (plus GCP and Azure) for enterprise clients including Tata Play and Intel. Strong in Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, hands-on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) with Helm and ArgoCD, VPC networking, Auto Scaling and load balancing. Built monitoring, alerting and centralized logging with CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus and ELK/Splunk, and automated cloud operations with Python, Boto3 and Lambda, backed by IAM governance and SOC 2 readiness experience.

Technical Support Supervisor, DevOps & Cloud Operations - Nextiva

(2025-06)

Client: Tata Play (IPL Digital Streaming & AI Chatbot)

• Hosted and operated Tata Play’s IPL streaming and AI chatbot applications on multi-cloud (AWS + GCP) infrastructure under high-volume, peak-event traffic; provisioned EC2 instances and EKS/GKE clusters with Terraform (IaC), including automated drift detection and zero-downtime provisioning.
• Ran hands-on production Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) microservices using Helm and ArgoCD GitOps, applying HPA/VPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, Network Policies and secrets management for resilience and security.
• Engineered Auto Scaling and VPC networking to absorb IPL traffic spikes, and built GitHub Actions and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for Docker image builds and rolling deployments.
• Established monitoring, alerting and centralized logging with Prometheus/Grafana and Splunk/ELK, defined SLIs/SLOs, led Sev-1/Sev-2 incident response, and automated runbook tasks with Lambda and shell scripts to cut manual toil.

Senior Technical Specialist, Cloud DevOps & SRE - Infosys

(2023-03 - 2025-03)

Client: Intel (Salesforce Integration Platform)

• Migrated manually provisioned AWS and Azure resources to modular, reusable Terraform (IaC), speeding up provisioning.
• Built Azure DevOps YAML pipelines integrating SonarQube SAST, Nexus artifact management and Helm-based deployments to AKS, embedding security scanning into every release.
• Owned AWS IAM governance with least-privilege access, SCPs, Config rules and CloudTrail, supporting SOC 2 audit readiness.
• Implemented monitoring, alerting and centralized logging with ELK/Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana and PagerDuty; automated patch compliance for Linux servers with Ansible and SSM; contributed to cloud cost optimization.

Engineer, Cloud & Platform Operations - HTC Global Services

(2022-01 - 2022-11)

Project: Centralized Security Operations Center (SOC)

• Managed AWS hosting for a 24x7 SOC monitoring platform: EC2 fleets, S3 lifecycle policies, IAM roles/policies and VPC networking (subnets, NACLs, security groups).
• Deployed Dockerized services through Jenkins pipelines into Auto Scaling groups, tuning scaling policies for continuous security workloads.
• Hardened and patched RHEL/Ubuntu servers (OS hardening, kernel patching, performance tuning) to keep the platform stable.
• Configured CloudWatch custom metrics, alarms and SNS alerting to support on-call monitoring and faster operational response.

Developer, DevOps & Backend Infrastructure - Wizlite Innovation Centre

(2020-09 - 2021-10)

Project: Cloud & Backend Infrastructure (Government)

• Provisioned AWS EC2, S3 and RDS environments and hosted Node.js and Python applications on Linux-based infrastructure.
• Containerized services with Docker for consistent deployments, and built Jenkins CI pipelines with Git webhooks to automate build and deploy workflows.
• Authored infrastructure runbooks in Confluence, making deployments repeatable and easier to hand over.

B.E. - Information Science & Engineering - Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Karnataka (2020)