Hi, I'm NAVEEN KUMAR
AWS DevOps Engineer
I design and automate cloud-native infrastructure on AWS with a strong focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability. I use Terraform and CloudFormation to provision consistent environments and work with Amazon EKS to deploy secure, highly available containerized applications. I build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions and apply modern deployment strategies to deliver fast, zero-downtime releases while maintaining strong observability and performance.
Who I Am
A snapshot of my professional journey, technical expertise, and how I help teams build secure and reliable cloud platforms.
I’m an AWS DevOps Engineer with 3.6 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. I specialize in building secure, scalable, and highly observable systems that enable teams to ship faster and operate with confidence.
My expertise spans CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, Kubernetes, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization. I focus on creating production-ready environments driven by automation, security best practices, and clear operational ownership.
Key Focus Areas
Career Goals
Tech stack & tools
A snapshot of the technologies I use to design, secure, and operate production-grade cloud platforms.
AWS Cloud
Azure Cloud
DevOps, IaC & Containers
Security & DevSecOps
Monitoring & Observability
Scripting & Databases
Professional journey
A summary of the roles where I've helped teams build and operate cloud-native systems.
AWS DevOps Engineer
- Designed, deployed, and managed secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, automating build, test, security scanning, and deployment workflows.
- Integrated DevSecOps practices by implementing SAST, dependency scanning, and container image vulnerability scanning (Trivy, AWS ECR scanning) within CI/CD pipelines.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications on Amazon EKS using Docker and Kubernetes, implementing RBAC, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and secure service accounts.
- Implemented modern deployment strategies including rolling updates, blue-green, and canary deployments to achieve zero-downtime releases.
- Enforced cloud security best practices using IAM least privilege, security groups, NACLs, and secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager and Kubernetes Secrets.
- Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, and centralized logging to improve system reliability and incident response.
- Enabled compliance and audit readiness by configuring AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and resource tagging standards across environments.
- Optimized cloud costs using AWS Budgets, cost allocation tags, rightsizing, and monitoring usage trends across compute and storage services
Highlights
Selected Work
Production-grade projects demonstrating my hands-on experience in AWS, DevOps, security automation, and cloud scalability.
End-to-End CI/CD Platform on AWS EKS
Designed and implemented a production-ready CI/CD platform for a Java-based microservice application. Automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment workflows using Jenkins, Docker, and AWS ECR, with Helm-based deployments on Amazon EKS. Enabled zero-downtime releases and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.
Cloud Cost Optimization & Monitoring Dashboard
Built centralized dashboards to monitor infrastructure health, application metrics, and cloud spend across environments. Implemented proactive alerting, budget thresholds, and usage reports to improve incident response and optimize AWS costs.
IAM & DevSecOps Automation Framework
Developed reusable Terraform modules to automate IAM users, roles, and policies across AWS accounts. Enforced least-privilege access, integrated audit logging, and enabled compliance-ready configurations aligned with security best practices.
Let’s work together
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Details
Email: navenkumarvelanati@gmail.com
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I’m open to opportunities in India and remote roles globally focusing on Cloud, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering.
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