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I am devops and cloud engineer with 8+ years of experience working on AWS Cloud covering design, Implementation, and deployment of Containerized Applications on standalone & managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Configuration Management tools and in developing the CI/CD Pipelines.I designed, implemented CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins. Implemented microservice architecture with continuous delivery on the AWS (EKS) Kubernetes Service and orchestrated Docker Containers.My tasks also involve designing and implementing stateful applications including persistence volumes (Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)), monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus & Grafana, securing by integrating Kubernetes RBAC with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), secrets with AWSSecrets Manager, and container registry security with Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Amazon ECR Public.I have worked on some of most complex and highly available deployments including High Availability (across regions & availability zones), Disaster Recovery (using backup/restore), Network connectivity with On-Premises (using VPN connectivity (P2S & S2S), connecting different AWS networks using VPC peering or with other Clouds like AWS Direct Connect.My task includes writing high /low level microservice designs for the Elastic Kubernetes deployment, working with project team on implementation, contributing to go-live cutover plan, writing operations manuals and automating deployments wherever possible using DevOps Tools (Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD orInfrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and ansible.I have designed and implemented compute solutions using AWS services like EC2, ECS, and EKS for virtual machines, web applications, and containerized workloads. I have also worked with AWS storage services such as S3, EBS, and EFS, and implemented security measures including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), WAF, AWS Security Groups, and AWS Firewall Manager. Additionally, I have experience with AWS database services like Amazon RDS and DynamoDB.As a DevOps engineer, I have collaborated closely with customers, users, and colleagues to support business solutions across various industries including insurance, finance, and government. My experience ranges from working with small companies to Fortune.