AWS DevOps Platform Engineer with Terraform Expertise

Vamsi Krishna

DevOps Engineer

USA 913-***-**** **************@*******.*** LinkedIn

Professional Summary:

AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer with 4+ years of experience owning and scaling production-grade AWS platforms supporting containerized and serverless workloads. Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps, and DevSecOps practices. Proven record of reducing deployment cycles by 40%, improving security posture by 60%, optimizing cloud costs by 25%, and maintaining 99.99% availability across multi-environment AWS ecosystems. Trusted platform SME collaborating with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms.

Skills:

Cloud & Platform Engineering: AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail), Multi-account AWS architectures, High Availability / Disaster Recovery design, networking fundamentals CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD, Blue-Green & Rolling deployments, GitOps workflows

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Helm, ECS, ECR DevSecOps & Observability: SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP ZAP, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk Automation & Scripting: Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, HCL Version Control & OS: Git, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS)

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server Professional Experience:

DevOps Engineer - McKinsey & Company Feb 2025 – Present

• Led and contributed to the design and operation of AWS platform architecture supporting 40+ microservices across dev, QA, and production environments for multiple engineering teams.

• Designed and maintained Terraform and CloudFormation modules for VPCs, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, and Route53, enabling standardized, repeatable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure provisioning.

• Architected and operated multi-account AWS environments with centralized networking, logging, and security guardrails, improving governance and reducing blast radius.

• Led CI/CD platform modernization using Jenkins and ArgoCD (GitOps), reducing deployment time by 30% and enabling frequent, low-risk releases.

• Embedded DevSecOps controls (SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP ZAP) directly into CI/CD pipelines, improving pre- production security posture by 60%.

• Deployed and managed EKS clusters using Helm, improving service scalability, fault isolation, and overall platform reliability.

• Built event-driven AWS Lambda automations for S3 auditing and configuration validation, reducing cloud misconfigurations by 40%.

• Implemented centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting using CloudWatch and Splunk, improving incident detection and response times by 35%.

• Acted as the primary platform SME, partnering with application, security, and SRE teams to define IaC standards, CI/CD guardrails, and deployment best practices.

• Mentored junior DevOps engineers and conducted internal reviews of Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines to enforce platform consistency and quality. DevOps Engineer - Avenir Technologies Jan 2020 – Jul 2023

• Designed, deployed, and supported production EKS and ECS platforms monitored with Datadog and CloudWatch, achieving 99.99% uptime.

• Built and maintained Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications, reducing manual deployment errors by 70%.

• Developed reusable Terraform modules for multi-environment AWS provisioning, significantly accelerating infrastructure delivery and standardization.

• Implemented event-driven Lambda workflows for compute and resource optimization, reducing AWS operational costs by 25%.

• Architected auto-scaling EC2 and ECS environments to support variable production workloads and peak traffic conditions.

• Established security monitoring and compliance automation using CloudTrail, IAM best practices, and Lambda-based alerts.

• Played a key role in migrating legacy VM-based applications to containerized microservices on AWS, improving deployment speed and reliability.

Certifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2026 Education:

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Central Missouri, USA

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