Girish K Gowda
I’m a senior AWS DevOps engineer with 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and large-scale migrations in finance.
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I’m a senior AWS DevOps engineer with 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and large-scale migrations in finance. I’m passionate about building secure, compliant architectures and helping teams automate complex workflows. I specialize in designing scalable AWS-based systems, automating provisioning and patching with Ansible, and delivering reliable pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.
- 14 years' experience
- Joined January 2026
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
- Computers & Electronics
Work experience· 6 roles
Automated RHEL provisioning, patching, and compliance with Ansible playbooks/roles; Developed Python/Bash scripts for storage inventory and monitoring (NetApp, Dell EMC); Led Ansible adoption; migrated legacy scripts; trained junior engineers; Managed zero-downtime VMware + storage migrations with AWS integration; Implemented auditing, RBAC, and encryption aligned to financial regulations
Architected scalable 3-tier microservices on Amazon EKS using Terraform IaC; Built GitLab CI/CD + ArgoCD pipelines for Java applications on EKS; Deployed serverless (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge) and containerized workloads; Configured VPC, Security Groups, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch; Managed AWS RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena for data analytics; Optimized costs and performance post-migration with AWS Cost Explorer
Automated AML system deployments via GitLab CI/CD pipelines; Provisioned hybrid AWS infrastructure with Ansible + Terraform; Achieved 98% automated patching compliance; Implemented HashiCorp Vault + Ansible Vault for secrets in CI/CD; Built custom Ansible execution environments for secure RHEL deployments
Certifications and awards· 6
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