Himani Verma
Bengaluru
Summary
DevOps & Cloud Security Engineer with over 7 years of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. Skilled in cloud security, automation, and building scalable, resilient platforms. Committed to delivering secure, compliant, and efficient cloud solutions while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
VP - Lead Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Pune
01.2024 - Current
- Lead a team of cloud and security engineers, driving sprint backlog grooming, capacity planning, workload prioritization, and escalation management to ensure smooth delivery.
- Migrated 50+ microservices from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm, Jenkins pipelines, and Terraform, enhancing deployment consistency, scalability, and reliability.
- Directed the migration of cybersecurity workloads, performing gap analysis across security tools, establishing HTTPS/TLS ingress/egress via PrivateLink, and managing KMS-encrypted transfers across protected environments.
- Integrated Wiz (CSPM) and automated remediation workflows, implementing an SLA-driven framework that reduced compliance drift by 40%.
- Architected a container base image framework on RHEL, embedding SBOM, CoSign, and vulnerability-free images, with SLA-based compliance guardrails across the SDLC.
- Implemented security tollgates (SAST, container scans) within the shared SDLC library, ensuring early-stage security enforcement, and faster feedback loops.
- Designed a Golden Base AMI pipeline integrated with Nessus, AWS Inspector, and Trend Micro, enabling proactive patching and continuous platform hardening.
- Developed a pre-deployment cloud cost estimation model, integrated with ServiceNow and SDLC workflows, providing leadership with accurate forecasts and informed budget approvals.
- Engineered reusable AWS Lambda templates for credential rotation with Secrets Manager, supporting RabbitMQ, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and ElastiCache, ensuring zero-downtime security compliance.
- Authored governance playbooks and compliance documentation for Privileged Access Management (PAM) CRUD operations, strengthening audit readiness and meeting regulatory mandates.
Associate - Software Engineer III
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Pune
01.2018 - 01.2024
- pearheaded a Multi-Region Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy across 20 AWS accounts supporting 300+ microservices, Cassandra databases, RabbitMQ, and CI/CD platforms, ensuring business continuity and resilience.
- Executed chaos engineering programs using AWS Fault Injection Simulator, conducting annual chaos tests and producing detailed resilience documentation to validate fault tolerance.
- Deployed and managed distributed, fault-tolerant databases (Cassandra, Aerospike, Elasticsearch) leveraging Chef and Terraform, improving scalability and high availability.
- Implemented mTLS authentication with AWS Private Certificate Authority, securing inter-service communication for RabbitMQ and distributed databases.
- Developed Python-based automation scripts for proactive monitoring and governance, enforcing standards across Kubernetes clusters and GitHub repositories.
- Standardized Kubernetes infrastructure by building CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, Helm, and CloudFormation, streamlining deployments and reducing configuration drift.
- Integrated SonarQube into the SDLC, establishing code quality benchmarks and ensuring PCI DSS compliance across application development.
- Supported large-scale migration from AWS ECS to Kubernetes, enabling more resilient, portable, and cloud-native workloads.
Application Development Intern
Tavisca Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Migrated the QA environment from on-premises to AWS, designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Spinnaker, and CloudFormation, accelerating release cycles, and enabling scalable deployments.
- Built reusable .NET Core build and release pipelines, supporting 100+ microservices, standardizing delivery workflows, and reducing release effort.
- Championed the 'You Build, You Release' model, fostering a DevOps culture, and bridging gaps between developers and cloud engineers to increase deployment ownership.
- Developed Python automation scripts for server performance monitoring, integrating metrics into Grafana and CloudWatch for real-time observability, and faster incident response.
- Implemented Evident.io for continuous cloud security monitoring, automating the remediation of critical/high vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance without downtime.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Chitkara University
Chandigarh06-2018
Skills
Cloud platforms and services AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation, SSM, KMS, Inspector, Secrets Manager), Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Chef, Spinnaker, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
Security & Compliance
Nessus, Trend Micro, Wiz, DivvyCloud, AWS Security Hub, CrowdStrike, JFrog Artifactory, SBOM, CoSign, Container Hardening, Secrets Management, PCI DSS, PAM Complaince
Monitoring & Observability
AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Dynatrace, SonarQube, Chaos Engineering (AWS Fault Injection Simulator), Evidentio
DevOps & CI/CD
Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins Pipelines, Spinnaker, Helm, Golden AMI Pipelines, Python Automation
Containerization & Registries
Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Container Security, JFrog, Container Signing
Programming & Scripting
Python, Shell Scripting
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, 01/01/20, 12/31/23
Awards Recognition
Highflyer Award for Values in Action, JP Morgan Chase & Co., 12/01/23
Timeline
VP - Lead Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
01.2024 - Current
Associate - Software Engineer III
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
01.2018 - 01.2024
Application Development Intern
Tavisca Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Chitkara University
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