Kanishk Thakur

About Kanishk Thakur

I’m a DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience building secure, scalable…

Experience

1. Devops and Cloud Engineer

   Deloitte

   Mar 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Modernizing Application Delivery with Microservices on AWS•Migrated apps from monoliths to microservices on Amazon EKS with Docker, Helm, and ArgoCD, enabling zero-downtime rollouts and rollbacks.•Automated infra with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation for VPCs, IAM, and RDS, cutting setup time from days to hours.•Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines (Shared Libraries in Groovy) to standardize builds and reduce failures.•Introduced GitHub Actions for faster iteration, automating deployments, secrets, and validations.•Deployed monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch tied to SLIs/SLOs, integrated alerts into Slack/Teams, reducing MTTD/MTTR.Scaling and Delivering Services on GCP•Built pipelines for Python and React apps on Cloud Run and GKE with Cloud Build & Artifact Registry.•Secured Cloud SQL with native secret management and automated smoke tests.•Tuned images and probes, reducing cold-start latency and improving UX.•Supported multi-cloud governance by embedding CI/CD in Jenkins (enterprise) and GitHub Actions (lightweight).Automating Security and Compliance•Automated OS hardening across 15K+ Linux/Windows servers on AWS, GCP, Azure using Ansible, aligned to CIS, STIG, and FedRAMP.•Embedded compliance gates into Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines, enforcing checks pre-release.•Partnered with security teams to manage secrets with AWS Secrets Manager and Vault, reducing exposure risks.Keeping Production Reliable•Acted as escalation during incidents, troubleshooting Linux servers, DNS, TLS, and Kubernetes scaling.•Improved recovery with runbooks, probes, autoscaling, and log correlation in Splunk/Dynatrace.•Enhanced pipelines with rollback and health-check stages, reducing outages.Resilience and Cost Optimization•Designed multi-region EKS clusters with automated RDS backups, meeting RPO/RTO in failover drills.•Drove cost optimization via rightsizing, autoscaling, and S3 lifecycle policies, reducing spend by 18%.

Education

• SRM IST Chennai

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2017 — 2021