Hi, I’m
Prakash Natarajan
Johns Creek,GA
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George Eliot
Summary
Efficient Cloud Engineer with years of experience assembling cloud infrastructure. Utilizes strong managerial skills by negotiating with vendors and coordinating tasks with other IT team members. Implements best practices to create cloud functions, applications and databases.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Security Benefit
Cloud Security Engineer
02.2023 - Current
Job overview
- The primary focus of this project was to use the protective, detective and monitoring controls in Security Benefit AWS Account to protect database backups in S3 from ransomware threats.
Schwinghammer Lighting
Solution Architect
06.2022 - 01.2023
Job overview
- The primary focus of this project was to migrate from on-prem to AWS & host their file server and future infrastructure as their hardware and IT support were both unsatisfactory because it’s old, slow and doesn’t have enough capacity for what the business requires.
Hennessy Automobile
DevOps Engineer
09.2021 - 03.2022
Job overview
- This stage's goal was to build the DevOps process by leveraging step-functions to automate the Adesa pipeline, allowing the application to always run as expected with efficiency and reduce in manual efforts from Hennessy resources, and to use serverless architecture to reduce cost and overhead.
Security Benefit
Cloud Infra and Database Engineer
04.2020 - 08.2021
Job overview
- Security Benefits would like to implement DevSecOps as per the business needs to improve SPEED to Market, Security, Ops Stability & Reliability and streamline operations, this implementation will be delivered in a multistage strategy.
Accushield
DevOps Engineer
08.2018 - 03.2020
Job overview
- Client hosts two applications on Heroku
- To support their growth with robust computing infrastructure, the client was in the process of upgrading the applications to AWS
- The client’s application, was hosted in QA environment pre-built on AWS, was not performing at an optimal level.
WatchOps
DevOps Engineer
01.2018 - 07.2018
Job overview
- Set up multi-account AWS environment and migrate their existing infrastructure
Trimble
DevOps Engineer
05.2017 - 12.2017
Job overview
- Client had a production application running with Python on an expired code version
- The application also had stability issues and a level of manual support needed currently that can be improved with code changes.
Education
University of Bangalore
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
06.2016
Skills
- Direct Server Support
- Script Maintenance and Updates
- Effective Communication
- Task Prioritization
- Meeting Participation
- Performance Evaluation and Optimization
- Amazon Web Services
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Programming Language: Python
- Source and Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Operational Analysis
- Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence
- Linux Environments
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Solution Development and Implementation
- Network Design Coordination
- Diagram and Chart Preparation
- Architecture Planning
- Infrastructure Planning and Design
- Infrastructure Automation: CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK
- Public Clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP
Certification
AccushieldSchwinghammerWatchOps
- AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Accomplishments
- Client Appreciations for handling migrations from on-premise to cloud
- Employee Recognition award for 2 consecutive years
Languages
English
Professional
Tamil
Professional
Hindi
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Availability
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Timeline
Cloud Security Engineer
Security Benefit
02.2023 - Current
Solution Architect
Schwinghammer Lighting
06.2022 - 01.2023
DevOps Engineer
Hennessy Automobile
09.2021 - 03.2022
Cloud Infra and Database Engineer
Security Benefit
04.2020 - 08.2021
DevOps Engineer
Accushield
08.2018 - 03.2020
DevOps Engineer
WatchOps
01.2018 - 07.2018
DevOps Engineer
Trimble
05.2017 - 12.2017
University of Bangalore
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
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