
Aatika-Kaleem
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, Cost Optimization

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Work experience
DevOps and SysOps Engineer
Educate Property • Full-time
Nov 2023 - Present • 3 yrs
• Managed and optimized multi-account AWS infrastructure covering EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, and Route 53 and other aws services across production environments. • Created, configured, and maintained AWS EKS clusters with full lifecycle management, autoscaling, NGINX ingress, tainting strategies, node group optimization, and EFS/EBS mounting. • Led EC2-to-EKS migration of production applications, achieving improved scalability and cost savings. • Integrated AWS RDS with EKS-deployed applications ensuring high availability and optimized database performance. • Built and maintained AWS CodePipeline (CodeBuild + CodeDeploy) CI/CD workflows, reducing manual deployment overhead and accelerating releasevelocity. • Configured AWS networking stack: Security Groups, NACLs, VPNs, WAF, CloudFront CDN, SES, API Gateway, and AWS Connect. • Led NOC/SOC operations with full observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch) maintaining 99.999% uptime SLA. • Managed CloudFlare DNS, Route 53, and GoDaddy/cPanel domain configurations for Kubernetes-hosted projects. • Enforced IAM least-privilege policies, WAF rules, and network segmentation across all accounts. • Administered G-Suite across multiple organizational domains including email migrations. • Mentored junior SysOps engineers through hands-on training sessions and documentation. • Compiled and delivered monthly multi-cloud billing reports (AWS, Azure, GCP, CloudFlare, and other third-party services) with detailed cost breakdowns and optimization recommendations to the finance team.