
Raees K
Cloud DevOps Engineer, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI CD and Docker on Azure and AWS
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Freelance Cloud DevOps Engineer
Self-Employed / Freelancer • Freelance
Oct 2026 - Present • 1 mo
Help teams with Azure and AWS infrastructure: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), monitoring and cost optimization. Available evenings IST and weekends. - Built an open-source AKS reference platform: Terraform (VNet, AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Log Analytics), Kustomize dev/prod environments, CI with Checkov/Trivy scans and an end-to-end deploy test, OIDC-based deployments
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Persistent Systems • Full-time
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024 • 11 mos
Provisioned and managed Azure infrastructure with Terraform building reusable modules. Deployed and operated AKS clusters running containerized microservices; managed node pools, autoscaling, and ingress. Built GitHub Actions pipelines and implemented ArgoCD GitOps across environments. Designed hub-and-spoke Azure networking with VNets, NSGs, and Private Endpoints.
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Cognizant • Full-time
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023 • 8 mos
Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Maven builds, SonarQube quality gates and Nexus artifact storage. Containerized applications with Docker and deployed microservices to Kubernetes. Automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform and server configuration with Ansible. Created and maintained AWS VPC, EC2, S3, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS and IAM.