Ram Kumar J

Chennai

Summary

A Cloud Delivery Engineer with nearly 3 years of experience in designing, automating, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. Strong hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, CI/CD automation, and cloud operations. Experienced in implementing three-tier architectures, disaster recovery strategies, site-to-site VPN connectivity, and secure data transfer. Proficient in Linux system administration, cloud monitoring, and cost optimization. Focused on building reliable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions while improving deployment efficiency and operational stability. A collaborative team player, dedicated to continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps best practices, driving innovation and efficiency in cloud operations.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Senior Executive – Cloud Operations

Redington Group

12.2024 - Current

Project: Hybrid Cloud Connectivity & Disaster Recovery (AWS–Azure)
Designed and deployed a secure AWS VPC architecture for hybrid workloads.
Implemented Site-to-Site VPN connectivity between AWS and Azure to enable secure cross-cloud communication.
Installed and configured AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) agents on EC2 instances, ensuring kernel compatibility and successful registration.
Implemented a pilot light disaster recovery strategy, minimizing standby infrastructure costs.
Executed and validated manual failover testing to ensure disaster recovery readiness and business continuity.
Project: Credelio – AWS / Terraform
Led the migration of infrastructure from GCP to AWS using Terraform, achieving a 50% reduction in deployment time.
Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including VPCs, RDS, ElastiCache (Redis), MSK, Elasticsearch, S3, and leveraged Terraform import for existing resources.
Deployed Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS) clusters for containerized workloads and configured CloudFront distributions and data synchronization pipelines from GCP to S3.
Used AWS Security Hub findings to identify risks and optimized resources to comply with security standards and best practices.
Project: Access Curve – AWS / DevOps
Built and deployed Docker images to Amazon ECR using GitHub Actions for automated CI/CD.
Deployed containerized workloads on Amazon ECS in Fargate mode for serverless, scalable orchestration.
Implemented Lambda functions triggered via scheduled cron expressions for automated, periodic tasks and scaling.
Optimized infrastructure to automate scaling and reduce manual intervention, improving system efficiency and responsiveness.
Additional Responsibilities:
Designed and implemented an automated file transfer solution from SharePoint to Amazon S3 using Rclone, including secure credential configuration and connectivity validation.
Performed scheduled and incremental file synchronization using Rclone with task schedular.
Implemented centralized log archival using AzCopy, transferring application and system logs from Azure VMs to Azure Blob Storage.
Analyzed and estimated storage costs across Amazon S3 storage classes, recommending optimal lifecycle transition timelines based on access patterns.
Achieved significant cost reduction by aligning long-term data retention with lower-cost cloud storage tiers while maintaining data availability and integrity.
Designed and implemented a centralized cross-account CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and GitHub, automating multi-account AWS resource deployments using terraform scripts and reducing deployment time by 50%.

Cloud Engineer

Cloud Kinetics

08.2022 - 04.2024

Project: Infrastructure Automation with Terraform
Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, implementing secure VPC architecture with public jump hosts.
Deployed scalable application servers, load balancers, databases, ACM certificates, and AWS Config rules.
Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, integrating CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and manual approval stages.
Project: Terraform Code Modernization for Banking Applications
Refactored Terraform code into reusable modules using for_each and conditional logic to support multi-environment deployments.
Modularized API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and Lambda configurations to improve scalability and maintainability.
Implemented Lambda modules for user creation, password hashing, and validation workflows.
Additional Responsibilities:
Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, integrating Maven-based testing, Docker image creation, and Docker Hub deployments.
Implemented EventBridge-triggered Lambda functions to report unused EIPs and stopped EC2 instances via SNS notifications.
Managed EC2 and RDS backups using AWS Backup and performed patching via AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager.
Authored CloudFormation templates and basic Python (Boto3) scripts for AWS automation.
Configured VPC peering to support Ansible-based automation workflows.
Managed project tasks and workflows using Jira in agile environments.

Education

B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Panimalar Engineering College

Chennai

01-2020

Skills

Technologies: AWS
DevOps Practices: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, Eventbridge, AWS CodePipeline
Infrastructure Management: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation

Monitoring: Cloudwatch, Nagios
Operating Systems: Amazon Linux, Ubuntu
Version Control: Git, GitHub

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Languages

English

Upper intermediate (B2)

Tamil

Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline