Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with Terraform & Azure Bicep Expertise

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

Cloud Engineer with *+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure. Strong background in building highly available architectures, automating infrastructure using Terraform and Azure Bicep, and implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. Experienced in healthcare and enterprise environments, with a strong focus on security, compliance, monitoring, and cost optimization. Proven ability to improve reliability, reduce cloud costs, and collaborate closely with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable and resilient cloud platforms. SKILLS

Cloud Technologies AWS, Azure

DevOps Tools Git (Version Control), GitHub & Gitlab (Source Code Management), Jenkins (CI/CD), Docker (Containerization), Kubernetes (container orchestration) Azure VM, Virtual networks, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Azure Monitor, Azure Pipeline

AWS S3, EC2, VPCs, IAM (Identity and Access Management), CloudWatch, Route 53, SNS

(Simple Notification Service), Lambda

Analytic tools Tableau, Excel Analytics

Networking TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls and Security, Amazon VPC, Route 53, Load balancers, Route Tables

Linux Ubuntu, RHEL, Shell Scripting (Bash), Web Server (Apache, Nginx) Scripting&

Automation

PowerShell, Bash, python, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager (ARM) templates, VScode

Ticketing Tools Jira, ServiceNow

Monitoring Tools Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure monitor, Kibana Management skills Project Management, Collaboration & Teamwork, Problem-Solving & Proactivity, Innovation & Efficiency

EXPERIENCE

CVS Health. July 2024 – till date Role: Cloud Engineer

• Led the Enterprise Cloud Modernization Project by designing and deploying secure, highly available AWS and Azure workloads using EC2, VPC, Azure VNet, and App Services to support regulated healthcare applications.

• Architected infrastructure using Terraform and Azure Bicep, enabling standardized environment provisioning and reducing manual configuration errors by 40% across development and QA environments.

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, integrating Docker-based deployments and automated validation to streamline application releases.

• Strengthened cloud security posture by configuring IAM, RBAC, MFA, encryption at rest/in transit, and backup strategies aligned with healthcare compliance and internal governance standards.

• Enhanced platform reliability by building monitoring and alerting solutions with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics, driving faster incident detection and root cause analysis.

• Implemented observability dashboards and alerting in Datadog to monitor cloud-native workloads, enabling proactive detection of anomalies and reducing incident resolution time. DEEPIKA THANNA

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• Optimized cloud spends through FinOps practices, usage analysis, and rightsizing recommendations, contributing to an overall 25% reduction in monthly infrastructure costs

• Developed Python scripts to automate incident diagnostics, log parsing, and Kubernetes pod health checks, reducing manual effort and improving recovery times.

• Optimized Helm charts for OpenShift Kubernetes Service (OCP), fine-tuning resource requests and limits, implementing horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA), and ensuring high availability across node pools.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot hybrid cloud networking issues improving reliability, security, and performance.

Dell Technologies Jan 2019 – December 2022 Role: Cloud Support Engineer

• Contributed to the Customer Cloud Migration Support Project by assisting enterprises in stabilizing workloads during and after migration from on-prem infrastructure to AWS and VMware-based hybrid environments.

• Diagnosed complex Linux and Windows Server issues using log analysis, system metrics, and kernel-level troubleshooting to restore services within defined SLAs.

• Resolved cloud and data-center networking issues involving routing tables, firewalls, DNS, and site-to-site VPNs to maintain reliable hybrid connectivity.

• Developed automation scripts using Bash and Python to streamline recurring support tasks, reducing manual intervention by 30%.

• Partnered with escalation and engineering teams to perform root cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions for recurring infrastructure failures.

• Authored detailed troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and knowledge base articles, improving first-contact resolution rates by 18%.

• Supported customers with capacity planning, compute and storage optimization, and virtualization performance tuning across hybrid platforms.

• Monitored system health using enterprise monitoring tools to proactively identify risks related to resource saturation and performance degradation, cutting unplanned outages by 20%.

• Advised customers on security hardening, access controls, patching, and backup recovery strategies aligned with enterprise cloud best practices.

• Participated in a DevOps Centre of Excellence (CoE) to drive collaboration and implement best practices across development and operations teams in Azure and AWS environments.

• Integrated Azure Active Directory with Okta for seamless single sign-on (SSO) authentication across cloud- based applications.

• Implemented rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and Canary strategies for microservices hosted on Azure App Services and AKS.

• Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, incorporating SonarQube code quality checks and container vulnerability scanning with Azure Security Centre.

• Worked on AWS - EC2, Cloud watch, IAM and Elastic Beanstalk cloud for provisioning and managing infrastructure through automation.

• Utilized AWS Code Pipeline for staging deployments alongside Jenkins to enable discoverability and self- service automation for developers.

PROJECTS

Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance Initiative

• Designed and implemented cloud cost-control mechanisms using AWS Budgets, Azure Cost Management, and tagging standards to enforce governance across multi-account environments.

• Analysed usage patterns and rightsizing opportunities using cost reports, utilization metrics, and stakeholder reviews to drive proactive FinOps decision-making. Secure Cloud Observability & Automation Framework

• Built centralized logging and observability pipelines using Log Analytics, CloudWatch Logs, and custom alerts to improve visibility across distributed cloud workloads.

• Developed automation scripts using Python and PowerShell to standardize health checks, log retention policies, and security monitoring across environments. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science Jan 2023 – May 2024 Wichita State University, Kansas GPA: 3.9

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