Cloud Engineer - AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Madhuri Perala

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Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable, and high-availability cloud infrastructure.

Experienced in AWS cloud services, Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and container orchestration using ECS and EKS to support

production-grade workloads. Skilled in implementing secure network architectures, including VPC/VNet design, NAT Gateways, and Role

Based Access Control (RBAC) to strengthen governance and access management. Proficient in monitoring and observability using

Prometheus and Stackdriver to ensure performance optimization and system reliability.

Skills

Cloud Platforms & Services: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, KMS, EKS), Azure (VMs,

Virtual Network, NSG, Azure Monitor, Azure AD, Key Vault)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS

Palantir Foundry & Tools: Ontology Management & Object Modeling, Foundry Code Repositories (SQL-based transformations), Data

Lineage & Metadata Management, Data Integration & ETL Workflows, Data Governance & Access Controls, Spark-based Distributed

Process, Foundry Deployment & Environment Management, Integration with AWS/Azure Cloud Infrastructure

Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver

CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash, PowerShell

Security & Governance: IAM, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), SSO, Encryption (KMS/Key Vault), Security best practices

Databases & Storage: SQL, RDS, DynamoDB, Blob Storage, S3

Networking & Architecture: VPC/VNet design, Subnetting, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, Multi-tier Architecture

Troubleshooting & Optimization: Cost optimization, performance tuning, high-availability design, disaster recovery

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri

Work Experience

PNC Financial, Saint Louis, Missouri

Cloud Engineer

Nov 2024 – Presents

Designed highly available and fault-tolerant cloud architectures using ELB/ALB integrated with Auto Scaling, optimizing traffic

distribution, and failover mechanisms to ensure 99.9% application uptime and improved system reliability across production workloads.

Configured AWS CloudTrail with multi-region centralized logging to enable comprehensive audit tracking, real-time security monitoring,

and compliance enforcement, improving visibility and security operations efficiency by 45% across AWS environments.

Considered ETL pipelines for processing structured and unstructured datasets, implementing deployed data transformation, validation,

and orchestration processes that increased overall data processing efficiency by 50% and improved analytics readiness.

Organized route tables, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, and VPN/ExpressRoute connections to establish secure, high-performance

hybrid cloud connectivity, improving network efficiency, and enhancing secure cross-environment communication by 35%.

Built Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies across cloud environments, implementing fine-grained permission structures and access

management, improving compliance posture and access security efficiency by 40%.

Applied enterprise-level ontology management frameworks to standardize cloud-based data models, enhance semantic consistency,

streamline metadata governance, and improve cross-platform interoperability by 35% within distributed cloud ecosystems.

Deployed applications using Docker, optimizing container images, ensuring environment consistency across development, testing, and

production, and improving deployment efficiency by 50% through streamlined containerization practices.

Accenture, India

Cloud Engineer

Aug 2020 – Jul 2023

Intended secure, highly durable object storage solutions using Amazon S3, reducing storage costs by 32% through lifecycle policies,

intelligent tiering, versioning, and optimized bucket architecture aligned with enterprise data governance standards.

Developed serverless applications using AWS Lambda, reducing infrastructure management overhead by 45% by automating backend

workflows, integrating event-driven triggers, optimizing function performance, and implementing centralized logging and monitoring.

Architected containerized workloads using Kubernetes, improving deployment efficiency by 40% through auto-scaling, rolling updates,

self-healing mechanisms, namespace isolation, RBAC implementation, and optimized resource allocation strategies.

Managed Foundry Code Repositories, increasing deployment efficiency by 30% through structured version control, branch governance,

CI/CD pipeline integration, code review processes, and secure access management practices.

Implemented monitoring and alerting using Google Stackdriver, reducing incident response time by 38% through proactive performance

tracking, log aggregation, custom dashboards, alerts, and infrastructure health visibility improvements.

Constructed enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions, reducing access-related issues by 50% through centralized identity federation,

role-based access controls, multi-factor authentication enforcement, and secure authentication across multi-cloud environments.

Executed highly available NAT Gateway architecture, improving network security posture by 35% through secure outbound connectivity

for private subnets, optimized routing tables, multi-AZ redundancy, and controlled internet traffic management.

Created cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing manual configuration effort by 60% through Infrastructure as Code

(IaC), reusable module creation, remote state management, environment standardization, and deployment pipelines.

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