RAKESH REDDY ALURU
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS Cloud Infrastructure and network security. Designs and implements scalable cloud solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS tools. Skilled in cloud migrations and performance optimization, focused on enhancing operational efficiency and supporting business success.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Engineer
Minfy Technologies
Hyderabad
03.2022 - Current
- Designed and developed AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, EC2 instances, IAM policies, and Route 53 configurations for optimized performance and security.
- Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for repeatable, scalable cloud deployments.
- Implemented AWS Landing Zone solutions, ensuring secure multi-account governance and compliance.
- Configured AWS networking components, such as VPC peering, VPNs, security groups, and NAT gateways to improve cloud connectivity and security posture.
- Designed and developed AWS monitoring solutions with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, and Grafana to enable proactive system performance monitoring.
- Led cloud migration projects, leveraging AWS DMS, MGN, and EC2 Image Builder for seamless on-prem to AWS transitions.
- Implemented containerization strategies using AWS EKS and Docker, deploying and managing microservices-based applications.
- Managed AWS cost optimization strategies, utilizing AWS Billing Management and usage monitoring to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensured cloud security best practices, implementing IAM roles, KMS encryption, WAF, and multi-account security policies aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Karunya University
Coimbatore06-2019
Skills
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- AWS well-architected framework
- AWS CloudFormation
- Terraform
- AWS Lambda
- AWS MGN
- On-premises migration
- Database migration
- AWS Organizations
- Identity and access management (IAM)
- Virtual private cloud (VPC)
- Security groups
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- Route 53
- AWS Control Tower
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Docker
- AWS ECR
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail
- Prometheus monitoring
- Grafana visualization
- Jenkins automation
- Bitbucket pipelines
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS landing zone
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, 06/01/22, 06/30/25
Accomplishments
Customer Success Award – Recognized for outstanding contributions to AWS cloud projects.
Projects
- POS Malaysia – AWS Cloud Migration, Successfully migrated on-premise applications and databases to AWS Cloud using AWS DMS and AWS MGN., Ensured zero-downtime database replication and application migration strategies., Coordinated with stakeholders to develop a migration roadmap and minimize service disruptions.
- NHA – Terraform-based AWS Infrastructure Deployment, Developed Terraform scripts to provision AWS services such as VPC, API Gateway, EC2, S3, Cognito, IAM, and EKS Clusters., Configured CloudWatch dashboards, alerts, and synthetic canaries for monitoring application performance., Automated deployment of applications from Bitbucket to AWS EKS with Network Load Balancer (NLB) exposure.
Languages
- Telugu
- English, Full Professional Proficiency
- Telugu, Native/Bilingual Proficiency
Timeline
Cloud Engineer
Minfy Technologies
03.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Karunya University