BHARGAVA KASTHURI C S
Bengaluru
Summary
IT expert with more than 6 years of experience in cloud and DevOps technologies. Specialized in building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructures, employing Terraform and Ansible to drive automation. Dedicated to security best practices and high-availability solutions, with strong analytical skills to improve operational performance.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead Engineer
Cognizant
Bangalore
08.2022 - Current
- Architect and maintain AWS EC2 infrastructure within a managed services environment, covering multi-region deployments and lifecycle management.
- Design and operate Auto Scaling Groups and Elastic Load Balancers for fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and highly available environments.
- Deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform automation, including reusable TF module management.
- Automated EBS snapshot creation, AMI builds/deletions, and instance scheduling with AWS Lambda functions, improving operational efficiency.
- Manage S3 buckets with versioning, lifecycle policies, and access controls; configure EFS and mount on Linux EC2 instances.
- Monitor AWS resource health at scale with CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and CloudTrail audit logs.
- Enforce security best practices via VPC design, NACLs, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, and Bastion Hosts.
- Managed IAM roles, users, groups, and policies to enforce least-privilege access, enhancing security posture.
- Configure and manage AWS Backup service for EBS volumes, EFS, and other AWS resources.
- Extended capabilities to Azure through VM deployments, Azure Backup, and Auto Scaling, supporting hybrid cloud initiatives.
- Clients: Comcast & HybridSmartOps (HSO)
Systems Engineer
CGI
Bangalore
07.2019 - 08.2022
- Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, VPC) for a large telecom client.
- Configured and optimized EC2 instances for diverse workloads, enhancing system performance and reliability.
- Administered RHEL 6/7/8 server builds, YUM/RPM package management, and OS patching via Red Hat Satellite.
- Handled user and group administration, file-system permissions, LVM configuration, and process management.
- Monitored CPU, memory, and disk utilization, analyzing kernel (DMESG) and OS logs to resolve issues proactively.
- Performed LUN scanning, WWPN provisioning, and multipath file-system creation.
- Automated system updates, user account management, and service configurations with Ansible modules, streamlining operations.
- Conducted OS vulnerability assessment and mitigation for security compliance.
- Provided on-call support for AWS EC2 and Linux OS environments.
- Client: Bell Canada
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SVCE
Bengaluru06-2018
Pre-University Certificate (PUC) - Vijayapura
Vidyadri PU College
Vijayapura03-2014
10th Standard (SSLC) - Shidlagatta
BGS Public School
Shidlagatta03-2012
Skills
- AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Linux Red Hat 8 and CentOS 7
- Windows Server administration
- Terraform and Ansible
- Jenkins and CI/CD tools
- Version control
- AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail monitoring
- Shell scripting and Bash
- ServiceNow management
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Network security
Websites
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 02/04/97
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
- Telugu
- Kannada
- Hindi
- English, Advanced (C1)
- Telugu, Advanced (C1)
- Kannada, Advanced (C1)
- Hindi, Intermediate (B1)
Timeline
Tech Lead Engineer
Cognizant
08.2022 - Current
Systems Engineer
CGI
07.2019 - 08.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SVCE
Pre-University Certificate (PUC) - Vijayapura
Vidyadri PU College
10th Standard (SSLC) - Shidlagatta
BGS Public School