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Aniket D Rao
Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer
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Professional Summary
Senior Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 7 years and 5 months of experience designing, automating, and managing multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). Skilled in cloud infrastructure deployments, Kubernetes, automation, and DevOps practices, with a track record of delivering secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-optimized infrastructure solutions.
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Cloud Services
Technologies & Tools
Core Skills
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Experience
- Designed and deployed scalable cloud infrastructure with standard and hub-and-spoke models using Terraform, Ansible, and Bash, cutting environment delivery time by over 70%.
- Worked closely with Technical Solution Architects to design and plan solutions aligned with business and technical requirements, ensuring infrastructure is distributed across multiple AZs to minimize failure risk.
- Automated cloud managed-services provisioning and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency.
- Set up a highly secure, scalable AWS environment for a banking client, ensuring compliance, implementing granular access controls, and successfully clearing an audit by a government banking authority.
- Provisioned and managed multiple Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) for containerized application deployments via Helm or YAML, configured for autoscaling using HPA and Node scaling extended with KEDA, plus standalone Rancher clusters for tools like syslog and proftpd.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitLab for build, test, and deployment workflows on Kubernetes, with security gates (Trivy Scan) and rollback mechanisms.
- Automated and maintained monthly report generation using Python, scheduled via Azure DevOps pipelines, eliminating manual effort and improving reporting consistency.
- Managed cloud operations — incidents, change requests, upgrades, patching, security policies, and compliance — with 99% SLA compliance, while leading Disaster Recovery and compliance projects for Fintech and healthcare clients.
- Built multiple cloud infrastructures on AWS from scratch — VPC networking, EC2, EBS, EFS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, and managed services like ECS, CloudFront, WAF, SQS, SNS, and Route 53 — through to complete environment delivery, and implemented cross-region backup automation using Python and Lambda.
- Designed and executed zero-downtime deployment pipelines on EC2 using blue/green deployment, golden AMIs, and ALB-based traffic switching, coordinating with three external teams.
- Implemented disaster recovery solutions for data-center-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud migrations for government and private sector clients using CloudEndure and Rackware Cloud Migration tool.
- Evaluated cloud accounts for security posture using Check Point and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Executed multiple environment migrations from data center to cloud and cloud to cloud, completing 90% within planned timelines and achieving around 30% cost savings.
- Developed a serverless AWS solution using Python and Lambda to automate cross-region AMI backups, ensuring business continuity and compliance with backup standards.
- Worked with third-party vendors on environment evaluations to optimize cloud costs, achieving over $3,000 in savings on AWS Organization accounts.
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Certifications
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Awards & Articles
ACE Award — The Extra Mile Category (Accenture)
Recognized for taking ownership of setting up a complex and highly secure AWS infrastructure for a banking client, ensuring full audit compliance with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) standards.
Troubleshooter Of The Year (Minfy)
Awarded for resolving the most incidents and being the team's go-to for complex issues.
Technical Articles