Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, IAM, CI/CD, IaC

UDAY KIRAN JALLI

+1-508-***-**** **************.*.***@*****.*** LinkedIn GitHub Boston, MA, USA PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Cloud DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience securing, automating, and optimizing AWS cloud environments. Skilled in IAM, KMS encryption, CloudTrail/CloudWatch/GuardDuty monitoring, and cost controls to meet HIPAA/NIST compliance. Strong hands- on expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins, CodePipeline), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), container platforms (Docker, EKS/ECS), Helm deployments, and end-to-end observability to improve reliability, reduce downtime, and accelerate delivery. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C#, Reactjs, Java, Python

Operating Systems and Scripting: Linux, Shell Scripting, Groovy Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM)

DevOPs & Automation Tools: Jenkins, GIT, Gerrit, Terraform, GitHub Actions Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana

Web Development or Frameworks: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Node.js, Django Databases: MySQL, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, neo4j Development Methodologies & Tools: Agile, Jira, Confluence PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud DevOps Engineer – United Health Group, USA March 2025 – Present

Managed AWS IAM for 25+ users/roles with custom policies using AWS CLI/Console, enforcing least-privilege access and achieving 100% compliance in quarterly HIPAA/NIST security audits.

Enforced encryption across S3, DynamoDB, and RDS using AWS KMS, improving overall cloud security posture by 15% based on internal audit findings.

Deployed centralized monitoring and threat detection using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and GuardDuty across 9+ AWS accounts, reducing MTTD by 43% and strengthening anomaly detection.

Implemented cost optimization controls and security alerts using AWS Budgets + CloudWatch alarms, cutting monthly cloud spend and detecting 5+ unauthorized access attempts/month.

Delivered sprint execution by translating feature needs into 20+ Jira stories per sprint and reviewing/merging 15+ GitHub PRs per sprint, improving velocity and reducing post-deploy defects by 19%. DevOps Engineer – Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India January 2022 – July 2023

Administered Git version control across AWS CodeCommit repositories, improving team collaboration, lowering merge conflicts, and accelerating overall delivery cadence.

Automated end-to-end deployment workflows with Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline, shrinking release cycles by 60% and boosting application performance by 30%.

Engineered reusable Terraform modules for AWS provisioning, cutting environment setup time by 80% and eliminating repetitive manual configuration.

Enabled scalable container operations using Docker with Kubernetes on EKS/ECS, leveraging autoscaling to reduce infrastructure spend by 25% while supporting microservices growth.

Standardized cluster rollouts through Helm, secured external ingress via ALB + IAM OIDC, integrated observability with CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana, and validated disaster recovery exercises to cut downtime by 50% while improving MTTD 40% and MTTR 35%.

PROJECTS

Booky Plaza – Cloud-Hosted Web Application

Built a responsive React.js frontend with voice-based search, and developed Node.js + Python backend services integrating third-party APIs. Deployed on AWS using Docker, automated CI/CD, and managed scalable configs via YAML + environment- based

SiliconOps – AIOps & Job Orchestration Platform (FastAPI, React, AWS-ready)

Built an AIOps job orchestration platform using FastAPI + React, exposing REST APIs for job runs, logs, and results with Swagger.

Modularized services (jobs/aiops/auth), added anomaly + trend prediction, and made it AWS-ready with JWT auth and Docker/Kubernetes planning.

EDUCATION

Clark University Worcester, MA August 2023 – May 2025 Master of Science in Information Technology

Panimalar Engineering College Chennai, India August 2018 – June 2022 Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering CERTIFICATION

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003), 2025

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Foundations Associate, 2024

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified AI Foundations Associate, 2024

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