Vinod K

Sr Technical Specialist

Zensar Technologies • Full-time

Sep 2025 - Present • 11 mos

• Preparing Low-Level Design (LLD) documents, solution design artefacts, and implementation plans aligned with client architecture standards and security best practices. • Engaging with stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements, translating them into scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS solutions. • Providing architecture reviews, design recommendations, and cloud adoption guidance across EC2, VPC, ALB, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, and WAF. • Collaborating with development, security, and platform teams to deliver production-grade, cloud native solutions with strong governance, observability, and resiliency. • Designed and implemented an Amazon EC2 Image Builder solution to standardize AMI creation, enforce security baselines, and streamline patch compliance across environments. • Configured and implemented Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and Secure Boot for both Windows and Linux EC2 instances to strengthen workload integrity and meet advanced security requirements. • Implemented an automated, multi-account patch management solution using AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup, ensuring centralized governance and compliance across environments. • Integrated application and infrastructure logs stored in Amazon S3 with Microsoft Sentinel using Amazon SQS for secure and scalable log ingestion and monitoring. • Contributed to the implementation and ongoing management of a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Control Tower, supporting landing zone governance, guardrail configuration, SCP updates, and centralized logging

Cloud Specialist

Accenture • Full-time

Jan 2022 - Sep 2025 • 3 yrs 8 mos

Designed and optimized AWS infrastructure (EC2, ALB, RDS, VPC, IAM) achieving 20% cost reduction and improved fault tolerance via Auto Scaling. • Redesigned the gateway layer, transitioning from EC2 based services to AWS API Gateway, improving scalability, security posture, and reducing maintenance overhead. • Migrated static Angular application content to Amazon S3 and integrated with CloudFront, reducing latency, improving global delivery, and minimizing EC2 costs. • Modernized load balancing layer by replacing CLB with ALB, enabling HTTPS termination, advanced routing, and observability. • Configured and maintained AWS WAF, enabling DDoS protection (AWS Shield) and Bot Control to secure APIs and web applications against malicious traffic. • Automated routine tasks using Python (Boto3), including EC2 key-pair rotation, EBS volume cleanup, and non production instance scheduling, reducing manual efforts and AWS spend. • Lead a production-grade RDS MySQL migration, ensuring schema compatibility, low downtime cutover, and improved performance in the target engine version. • Stabilized and tested multi-region failover from Ohio (us east-2) to California (us-west-1), improving disaster recovery readiness and reducing RTO. • Delivered ongoing L3 support, proactively identifying bottlenecks, optimizing resources for continuous improvement. • Deployed microservices using Amazon ECS, enabling container-based scalability, security isolation, and zero downtime deployments. • Created and managed ECS Task Definitions, Services, and Clusters, optimizing CPU/memory utilization and implementing seamless version rollouts. • Acted as a bridge between development, operations, and security teams, translating business requirements into secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions. Integrated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) with AWS • Integrated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) with AWS infrastructure for automated application deployments.

Tech Lead APS Engineer

NICE • Full-time

Jan 2015 - Dec 2021 • 6 yrs 11 mos

Lead technical support and platform stability for NICE solutions-including NICE Engage, NIM 4.1, and NTR deployed in hybrid environments with core components running on AWS Cloud infrastructure. • Maintained NICE voice recording systems with AWS backed components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost optimization through EC2, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancing for critical backend services. • Implemented secure storage and retention strategies using Amazon S3 for call recordings, with S3 lifecycle policies and Glacier Deep Archive for long-term storage compliance. • Supported NICE backend services (Application Server, Sentinel Server, Recording Server) hosted on Amazon EC2, and used Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) and Launch Templates to manage dynamic load during peak usage. • Implemented role-based access control using AWS IAM to ensure principle of least privilege for support engineers accessing NICE components in production. • Facilitated incident analysis and provide root cause to all Nice related issues.