Cloud Platform Engineer III AWS & GCP Expert

DEEPESH NAIDU PALADUGU

Cloud Platform Engineer III (AWS & GCP)

+1-945-***-**** USA Email Git Hub: https://github.com/deepeshnpaladugu04-sys

SUMMARY

Cloud Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS, using Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines to support agile development teams. Handson in AWS products (EC2, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, RDS), infrastructureascode, and DevSecOps practices, with a strong focus on troubleshooting, security and performance best practices, documentation, and educating teams on effective cloud usage.

SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53), Azure (Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, Azure Monitor, IaaS, PaaS patterns).

AWS product offerings: EC2, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53.

Kubernetes & Containers: Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration (if true, mention; otherwise “learning/exposure”).

IaC & Cloud Dev: Terraform, (CDK/CloudFormation if any), GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI for infra and app deployment.

Programming & Scripting: Python, Bash (and any NodeJS/Java/Go if you’ve used them).

DevSecOps & Cloud Security: VPC architecture, subnet isolation, security groups/NACLs, encryption, policyascode, AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty.

Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, Prometheus (if used), logging/alerting.

Troubleshooting & Operations: Incident investigations, performance analysis, uptime ownership for production systems.

Collaboration & Communication: Architecture reviews, design documentation, runbooks, migration plans; presenting to engineers, product teams, compliance, and nontechnical business stakeholders.

Compliance and Risk: NIST 800-53, HIPAA, SOX, CJIS, IRS 1075, audit evidence collection, control mapping, risk assessment.

EXPERIENCE

FINRA – Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer III Apr 2025 – Present

Designed and matured defenseindepth cloud security architectures across AWS and Azure, supporting enterprisescale, highly available, and regulated workloads.

Work in a dynamic, agile team to design, develop, deploy, and maintain robust AWS and Azure cloud architectures for application and data science teams, supporting secure and scalable environments.

Collaborate closely with AWS engineers, architects, security, and support teams to make design decisions, perform new technology research, and prototype improvements to the shared cloud platform.

Promote great Kubernetes and AWS platform design by reviewing service architectures, network layouts, IAM patterns, and observability, and feeding standards back into Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines.

Continuously analyze and evaluate existing systems, products, and processes for performance, reliability, and security improvements, implementing policyascode guardrails and automation where possible.

Communicate with development teams to understand pain points (environment provisioning, access, monitoring) and implement solutions that improve developer experience and platform reliability.

Educate business stakeholders and product development teams on proper use of AWS services, IAM roles, and environment patterns through documentation, office hours, and design sessions.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deploy Terraform-defined infrastructure and application services via GitHub Actions (or Jenkins/GitLab), enabling automated, repeatable, and secure releases.

Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques using CloudWatch metrics/logs, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and Splunk dashboards to resolve performance and availability incidents in production systems.

Azure Monitor, and Splunk to support detection and investigations & Support application teams with secure API integration, authentication, and logging requirements across cloud platforms.

GE HealthCare – Cloud Platform & Security Engineer Jan 2024 – Mar 2025

Secured AWS cloud environments supporting healthcare applications and regulated workloads handling sensitive data.

Designed and supported AWS cloud environments for regulated healthcare applications, focusing on secure VPC architectures, subnet Built and maintained multiaccount.

AWS infrastructure using Terraform modules and baseline templates, automating secure environment provisioning and supporting application migration onto standardized patterns.

Collaborated with Cloud Platform Engineering and application teams to design secure VPC layouts, IAM patterns, and logging/monitoring integrations for cloudbased applications.

Centralized logging and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, and Splunk, improving incident detection, performance analysis, and operational readiness during migration.

Designed and supported AWS cloud environments for healthcare applications, focusing on secure VPC architectures, routing, private connectivity, and compliancealigned patterns (HIPAA).

Built Terraform stacks and integrated them into CI/CD pipelines to standardize networking, logging, and encryption baselines, automating environment creation and reducing timetodelivery for engineering teams.

Supported audit and compliance activities by providing evidence aligned with HIPAA and internal security controls.

Documented cloud security standards, architecture decisions, and operational procedures for healthcare workloads.

Support vulnerability remediation efforts by coordinating configuration fixes and infrastructure updates in AWS environments.

Review AWS service usage with application teams to ensure secure deployment patterns for healthcare workloads.

Support audit and compliance activities by gathering evidence aligned with HIPAA and internal security policies.

Comcast Engineering - Cloud Security Engineer Jul 2019 – Dec 2023

Implemented cloud security and networking controls across AWS infrastructure supporting largescale telecom and production systems.

Designed secure VPC topologies, subnet isolation, routing, and ingress/egress controls, integrating with perimeter defenses and telemetry.

Built Terraform templates to enforce standardized security baselines for networking, IAM, and logging across multiple environments, reducing misconfigurations by ~60%.

Integrated cloud telemetry (VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty data) into Splunk for centralized monitoring, helping reduce mean time to investigate incidents.

Supported DevSecOps efforts by embedding security and configuration checks into CI/CD workflows, enabling early detection of insecure infrastructure changes.

Supported audit and compliance efforts by providing control evidence and security documentation.

EDUCATION

Master’s Degree – Trine University, Detroit, USA

Bachelor of Technology – JNT University, India

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Automate the provisioning of cloud environments through the concept of pipeline engineering using Terraform, Chef, Puppet and other tools.

Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows in the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.

While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud.

Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.

Remain up to date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.

Lead and facilitate the creation of compliance automation and policy-as-code to streamline cloud governance.

Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.

Effectively communicate project health, risks and issues to the program stakeholders, sponsors and management teams. Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to senior management.

Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.

Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.

Work well in an agile environment

Build, implement, and support tools that improve customer experience

Qualifications

4+ years of Cloud development and support experience such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a bachelor’s degree or 3 years relevant experience and a master’s degree.

Experience developing design specifications, test plans, and protocols.

Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Professional level certification (AWS DevOps Professional, GCP Kubernetes Professional) or similar is a plus

Experience in software development (e.g. C#, .Net, .Net core) or scripting (e.g. Python, PowerShell, etc.).

Associate GCP Certification OR Associate AWS certifications (e.g. Developer, Solution Architect, or Sy sops Administrator Associate).

Good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS and/or GCP

Good knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies (e.g. repos, pipelines, Terraformed.).

Strong experience in Kubernetes. Knowledge of GKE, EKS

Innate desire to automate everything you touch.

Self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and execute on those solutions while coordinating with other teams.

Infrastructure experience is a plus

Ability to create system and process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence and UML diagrams, inter and intra system dependencies within the functional domain and across them Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.

Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

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