Indra Behera

About Indra Behera

Having 22+ years of experience as Application Development / Operation Analyst that also includes 5 years of AWS based Cloud Services. A multi-skilled Cloud engineer experienced in AWS Cloud operations and infrastructure management - rehydration activities, IAM, security and compliance, availability, data protection, authentication and authorization, capacity and resource management, service metering and operational cost oversight, disaster recovery and mitigation.

Experience

1. Aws Cloud Engineer

   Fannie Mae

   Jan 2020 — Present · Reston, VA, US

   Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch, VPC, and Route 53.• Supported the administration, development, deployment, and operational management of over 50+ AWS accounts and environments.• Designed and deployed infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation to automate provisioning of services (e.g, EC2, ECS, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, Security Groups, AMIs, SNS, CloudWatch).• Collaborated with security teams to implement cloud security hardening (e.g, restricting HTTP ports on ALB, securing S3 buckets, hardening RDS and Lambda, managing Security Groups) using Python scripts (Boto3) and AWS Lambda automation.• Integrated CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, UrbanCode Deploy) with AWS to automate code deployments, troubleshoot pipeline failures, and implement infrastructure-as-code practices.• Managed IAM roles, users, and policies (identity-based, resource-based, and ACLs), including configurations for federated access.• Administered Route 53 DNS, including creating and managing hosted zones and DNS records (A, TXT, CNAME).• Updated and maintained CloudFront distributions, SSL/TLS certificates, and Route 53 record types for services such as API Gateway, ALB, EC2, and S3.• Developed AWS Lambda functions using Python and Boto3 to automate reporting and maintenance tasks (e.g, tagging EC2s, cleaning up old Lambda runtimes, auditing CW alarms and Security Groups).• Collaborated with development teams across multiple environments (Dev/Test/Prod) to support releases and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.• Monitored system performance and responded to technical issues, translating risks into actionable plans to ensure high system availability.• Demonstrated strong communication, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills across cross-functional teams.

Education

• Berhampur University

  Master of Science (MSc)

  1996 — 1998

• Utkal University

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

  1998 — 2001