Ashish Rathour

About Ashish Rathour

Cloud Security & Infrastructure Engineer with 5 years of hands-on experience…

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer Ii

   Insight

   Sep 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   I design and secure enterprise-scale Azure environments with a balance of infrastructure reliability, security, and automation. • Strengthening cloud security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Rapid7 CSPM, and Azure/Barracuda Firewalls, including monitoring, threat detection, and remediation. • Implementing Policy-as-Code using Terraform and Azure Policy integrated with Azure DevOps pipelines, enabling automated compliance and governance. • Building resilient and scalable infrastructure – VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Private Endpoints. • Managing and securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with RBAC, network policies, and DevSecOps practices integrated into CI/CD pipelines. • Enhancing identity and access management with Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, and Key Vault for secrets and certificate lifecycle management. • Supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity with Azure Site Recovery, Backup, and monitoring (Log Analytics, Alerts, Dashboards). • Preparing compliance and audit reports aligned to PCI DSS, NIST, ISO 27001, and assisting clients in closing security gaps. • Collaborating across teams to deliver secure, automated, and cost-optimized cloud operations for enterprise workloads.

Education

• SRM IST Chennai

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2017 — 2021