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Girish K Gowda

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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.

About

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

Senior Cloud/DevOps Consultant · UBS / DELLJan 2024 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

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

Senior DevOps / AWS Cloud Engineer · Crypto Finance GroupJan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

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

DevOps Engineer · UBS / EPAMJan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

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

Cloud Migration & Storage Consultant · Credit Suisse / DELLAug 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos
AWS Cloud Consultant · Clyde & CoSep 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Certifications and awards· 6

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science2030 – 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional (experienced)2030 – 2026
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)2030 – 2026
Microsoft Azure Certified2030 – 2026

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