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Rishi Raj · Cloud DevSecOps Engineer · AWS · Azure · GCP
Bengaluru, India · rishi.raj4662@gmail.com
Summary
Cloud engineer with a strong background in both Cloud Security and DevOps. I architect, implement and optimize solutions on AWS, Azure and GCP — specializing in Terraform-driven automation, high availability, threat detection and incident response.
Experience
Deloitte USI
Feb 2024 — PresentSecurity Engineer III · Bengaluru
- Automated and maintained DMZ infrastructure deployments on AWS with Terraform, using Terraform Workspaces and Terraform Cloud for state management and team collaboration.
- Supported multiple application deployments within the DMZ, coordinating rollouts across teams.
- Worked with the networking team to troubleshoot connectivity and infrastructure issues across DMZ environments.
- Built Python automation to scan AWS-deployed services for security vulnerabilities.
- Wrote a Python-based policy checker for Terraform deployments, validating that provisioned resources followed security best practices before going live.
- Moved into a DevOps-driven part of the security practice — building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for CI and Argo CD for GitOps-based CD.
- Built Docker images and deployed/orchestrated containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
- Set up monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and integrated SonarQube for automated code scanning in the pipelines.
- Shipped multiple production applications end-to-end on this CI/CD, container, and monitoring stack.
- Cloud security engineering across AWS, Azure and GCP — threat detection, incident response and DevSecOps enablement.
Cognizant Servian
Mar 2023 — Jan 2024Associate Consultant — Cloud & DevOps · Bengaluru
- Led migration from on-premise to AWS, Azure and GCP, creating a versatile multi-cloud environment.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for automated provisioning of VMs, networking and container clusters across Amazon ECS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Established GitLab version control and CI/CD pipelines for collaborative development and automated deployment.
- Containerized workloads with Docker, orchestrated across Amazon ECS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE); drove security, compliance and cost-optimization audits.
CloudThat Technologies
Mar 2021 — Mar 2023Research Associate → Sr Research Associate · Bengaluru
- Ran AWS Cost Assessments and Cloud Security Assessments for client environments, surfacing savings and hardening opportunities.
- Executed application and database migrations, moving on-premises and third-party-vendor infrastructure onto AWS.
- Worked directly with clients to understand their problem statements and design AWS-based solutions.
- Continued leading AWS cost assessments, security assessments, and migration engagements at a senior level.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform for client environments.
- Architected cloud infrastructure for some of the practice’s largest enterprise clients, owning migration and deployment end-to-end.
- Infrastructure automation & migration for a cloud communications client — Terraform Cloud for centralized collaboration, AWS DMS and MGN for database and application migration.
- On-premises → AWS migration for one of India's largest insurers — highly available, fault-tolerant architecture on EC2, RDS MySQL, ALB, Auto Scaling, IAM, S3, ACM and Route 53.
- Built a Well-Architected Review automation tool for a logistics unicorn using API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch and IAM.
F13 Technologies
Sep 2020 — Dec 2020AWS Intern · New Delhi
- Built a foundation in cloud computing fundamentals — what the cloud model actually solves versus traditional on-premises infrastructure.
- Explored the breadth of AWS's service catalog hands-on, from compute (EC2), storage (S3), and databases (RDS) to networking (VPC) and IAM.
- Got real-time exposure to day-to-day cloud operations, laying the groundwork for everything that followed in my cloud career.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
- Azure Fundamentals
Skills
Cloud Platforms AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud
Infrastructure as Code Terraform
Containers & CI/CD Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Azure DevOps · Amazon ECS · Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) · Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Security & Monitoring Threat Detection · Incident Response · CloudWatch · Datadog · Grafana · SumoLogic
Scripting Bash · Python
Systems & Web Linux · Windows Server · Nginx · Apache · Tomcat
Education
GIET University, Gunupur (Odisha)
2017 — 2021B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering · CGPA 8.45