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Overview
Work History
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Certification
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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
Chandigarh
06-2018

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
Himani Verma