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ASHIK KUMAR JENA

Senior Cloud Specialist
Bengaluru

Summary

Highly skilled and certified Cloud & DevOps Tech Lead with over 10 years of hands-on experience in designing, automating, and managing cloud-native infrastructures on AWS.Specialized in multi-account automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipeline development, and cloud security compliance. Proficient in tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, EKS, Jenkins, and Python. Strong background in centralized monitoring, cost optimization, and data pipeline integration using services like Glue, Athena, and Power BI. Adept at leading agile teams, driving DevOps transformations, and delivering scalable and secure cloud solutions aligned with business goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead

BOSCH Limited
09.2024 - Current
  • Led the implementation and configuration of AWS Landing Zone, establishing a secure, scalable, and compliant multi-account architecture under AWS Control Tower.
  • Spearheaded the development of a centralized monitoring solution for over 1,000 AWS accounts, integrating AWS CloudWatch, AWS Config, Security Hub, and CloudTrail, ensuring continuous compliance and operational visibility across all environments.
  • Designed and implemented cross-account logging and alerting for centralized security and operational monitoring, leveraging CloudWatch Metric Filters, SNS topics, and Lambda-based notifications.
  • Designed and developed Azure Pipelines to automate infrastructure deployments, enabling reliable, repeatable, and efficient CI/CD workflows.
  • Developed and optimized multiple AWS Lambda functions in Python, automating critical business processes and increasing operational efficiency.
  • Architected and implemented robust data pipelines using AWS Glue Crawlers, ETL Glue Jobs, Amazon Athena, and Amazon S3, providing seamless integration with Power BI for near real-time reporting and business analytics.
  • Orchestrated complex workflows using AWS Step Functions, improving system reliability and significantly reducing processing latency.
  • Implemented cost optimization strategies across AWS accounts, including rightsizing of EC2 instances, identification of idle resources, and storage class transitions, resulting in substantial cost savings.
  • Utilized AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and custom Lambda scripts to generate cost insights and alerts, ensuring proactive cost management.
  • Played a key role in optimizing cloud infrastructure through the development of serverless applications, minimizing operational overhead while enhancing scalability and reliability.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with data engineering, security, and DevOps teams to ensure end-to-end automation and adherence to governance best practices in cloud infrastructure.

Tech Lead

Wipro
02.2024 - 08.2024
  • Deployed and managed cloud infrastructure using AWS Control Tower AFT to ensure secure and compliant multi-account AWS environments.
  • Managed more than 300 accounts using control tower Account Factory for Terraform(AFT).
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning of cloud resources on individual application accounts.
  • Created and maintained serverless applications with AWS Lambda, optimizing performance and cost-efficiency.
  • Deployed a centralized logging solutions(Cloudtrail, guardduty, vpc flow log, ALB logs etc) for All AWS accounts.
  • Integrated CrowdStrike XDR (Extended Detection and Response) and CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) with AWS to enhance the security, visibility, and management of cloud environments.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design scalable and resilient cloud architectures.
  • Implemented Detective and preventive AWS controls in Organization level.
  • Conducted regular security assessments and audits to maintain cloud infrastructure integrity.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, codestar and AWS Code pipelines for seamless infrastructure deployment.
  • Migrated Applications from isolated AWS account to AWS Organization based OU.
  • Worked with AWS Professional Services team for Control tower deployment and enhancement of the AWS services.
  • Monitored cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and Prometheus, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Provided technical guidance and leadership to devops team on cloud best practices and devops methodologies.

Senior Software Engineer

Legato Health Technologies
11.2020 - 02.2024
  • Managing multi account (AWS) vending using AWS Landing Zone Solutions and creating shared resources (i.e., IAM user, group, monitoring, Logging, Config, service integration) across all vended accounts
  • Managing more than 500 + AWS accounts and corresponding AWS services using Landing Zone solutions and automation using CloudFormation
  • Deploying Aws services using Enterprise Terraform Workspaces methodology in individual application Account
  • Creating & Automating pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline
  • Migrated AWS Landing Zone Solutions to latest version
  • Deploying shared service resource in all account using Cloud Formation
  • Responsible for integration of infrastructure monitoring tools Datadog with All AWS accounts and centralized the application logs along with Database Access logs, VPC flow logs with Splunk enterprise server log
  • Integrating Prisma Cloud with AWS accounts and IAC for Vulnerability scanning
  • Worked AWS development using python Boto3 SDK for Custom config automation, CloudWatch dashboard creation, Resource Tagging automation and other automation feature
  • Used AWS SCP policies in Organization for security compliance
  • Also created Permission boundary for each IAM role on vended Accounts
  • Worked on centralizing the logs to a single account using Kinesis and Lambda, S3, SQS
  • And Splunk
  • Worked on Agile Methodologies and well versed with JIRA tool.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Quess Corp Limited
04.2020 - 10.2020
  • Managing VVA (Vodafone voice Assistant) applications using cognitive services and integrating voice devices like Alexa, Google Assistant and Facebook messenger on AWS environment
  • Responsible to on board multiple operating countries (OpCos) to Chatbot and VVA platforms Creating and managing Code pipeline, VPC, Codebuild, Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, IAM (roles and policy), S3 and Dynamodb by AWS cloud formation template for VVA platform
  • Designed and Automated the End to End integration/Deployment/Delivery pipeline using code commit, Codebuild, Codepipeline, Cloudwatch, SNS,Cloudformation
  • Configured Lambda function to send an SNS notification if any resources are non-compliant on daily basis for AWS config
  • Implemented CIS Benchmark in AWS
  • In AWS Force MFA policy to restrict users without MFA and integration with SSO
  • Configured AWS Config rules to monitoring configuration changes and compliance.

Senior Associate Consultant

INFOSYS Limited
10.2017 - 03.2020
  • Managing full AWS lifecycle, Provisioning, Automation & Security
  • Creating & Automating pipelines using Jenkins
  • Responsible to create the AWS infrastructure using Terraform
  • Configured and Managed ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, DynamoDB, IAM role,VPC, Security Groups , Load Balancer, Auto-scaling through Terraform script
  • Responsible for creating VPC, Security groups including opening different ports and also Network ACL's
  • Responsible for the provisioning of AWS services including Ec2, ECS, S3 and dynamodb using terraform script Responsible for creating SNS topic and sending the alerts to defined subscribers as per business standard
  • Responsible for maintaining SSL certificate for REST API application
  • Designing a backup solution and Disaster Recovery for the product and infrastructure in the cloud
  • Automated CI process using Jenkins, build-pipeline-plugin,GIT
  • Created a CD process for application deployment using terraform script
  • Worked on creating the infrastructure for different environments such as TEST, DEV, PROD
  • Implement best practices and maintain Source Code repository infrastructure Using GIT
  • Worked on Shell script to automate the infrastructure configuration
  • Responsible for maintaining development servers (Amazon Linux servers) as well as ensuring the health and stability and patching of the server
  • Managed, maintained and deployed to TEST, DEV and PROD environments
  • Responsible for configuring Application monitoring (New relic) and log monitoring (Cloudwatch , Splunk)
  • Experience in Agile practices
  • Responsible for joining sprint call and achieving the sprint window within timeline
  • Good knowledge on Agile implementation on Devops life cycle.

Technical Services Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 09.2017
  • Design, Create & Implement Database systems based on the end user's requirements
  • Involved in designing and provisioning infrastructure as per business requirement using AWS services (EC2, Route53, S3, VPC, ELB, SNS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
  • Managed the provisioning of Ec2 instances including auto scaling and load balancing
  • Created VPC, subnets, route table and Network ACL as per VPC specific environment and Responsible for Security including opening different ports on security group as per application requirement
  • Experience on User and group administration on AWS resources using IAM service and provisioning of AWS EC2 instances through various IAM Roles
  • Responsible for creation of S3 buckets to store application images and snapshots and provided the provisioning including versioning, Cross region replication, lifecycle management
  • Worked on Configuration and management tool Ansible
  • Created an automation set up for cloud infrastructure
  • Managed & Resolved disk space issues
  • Increased EBS backed volume storage capacity using AWS EBS feature
  • And configured Elastic IP to ec2 instances if required
  • Responsible for creating SNS topic and sending the alerts to defined subscribers as per business standard
  • Worked with application developer team for application deployment in AWS infrastructure
  • Experience with configuration and maintenance of monitoring tools such as Cloud Watch, Nagios
  • Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions
  • Created load balancers and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance
  • Worked on Incident & Change Management issues within SLA
  • Performed change activity, patching activity based on CAB approval
  • Provided on-call support for production environment.

Education

B. TECH - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Bhubaneswar, ODISHA
01.2014 -

Skills

Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure

IAC: CloudFormation, Terraform

AWS Development: Python

Multi Account Automation: AWS Control Tower/ Landing Zone

Microservice: AWS Lambda, Docker, EKS

CI/CD Tool: AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, Azure Devops

Scripting: Python, Shell Scripting

Security and compliance tools: CrowdStrike XDR and CSPM

Logging and Monitoring: Datadog, Splunk, AWS Cloudwatch

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead

BOSCH Limited
09.2024 - Current

Tech Lead

Wipro
02.2024 - 08.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Legato Health Technologies
11.2020 - 02.2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Quess Corp Limited
04.2020 - 10.2020

Senior Associate Consultant

INFOSYS Limited
10.2017 - 03.2020

Technical Services Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 09.2017

B. TECH - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
01.2014 -

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