Aneesh K.
AWS DevOps Engineer | DevSecOps | Terraform & Kubernetes | CI/CD
𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, & 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻; 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 & 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗢𝗽𝘀 / 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 | 𝗔𝗪𝗦 & 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 | 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗, 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 & 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 (𝗘𝗞𝗦) | 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝟮, 𝗣𝗖𝗜 𝗗𝗦𝗦 & 𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 👋🏻 Hi, I’m Aneesh, a senior 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 / 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 with 15+ years of experience building secure, automated cloud infrastructure on 𝗔𝗪𝗦 & 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲. I help companies ship faster and pass audits stress-free by building secure, automated AWS & Azure cloud infrastructure. I help companies ship faster and pass audits stress-free, with 35+ jobs delivered and consistent five-star reviews across AdTech, SaaS, and Payments. ➡️ 𝗠𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲: security and compliance belong inside the pipeline, not bolted on at the end. I focus on automation, reproducibility, and least-privilege design so your infrastructure is fast to change, easy to audit, and safe by default. ➡️ 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗢𝗽𝘀, & 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 I build secure pipelines in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps with compliance checks built in, so every release is tested, scanned, and ready to ship. ➡️ 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀, I architect and manage AWS EKS clusters across dev, stage, and prod environments. They are scalable, highly available, and secure, with zero-downtime releases via blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: • Build secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) with compliance checks built in • Architect & manage AWS EKS clusters across multi-stage dev/stage/prod environments — scalable, highly available, secure • Automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible & CloudFormation — reproducible and version-controlled • Deliver PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA & GDPR-ready architecture: IAM least-privilege, KMS/S3/RDS encryption, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub & Inspector • Design cost-optimized cloud on AWS, Azure & GCP with automated scaling • Set up observability & incident response with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch & the ELK stack • Ship zero-downtime releases via blue-green, canary & rolling deployments Recent work: • Architected a multi-stage AWS EKS microservice platform for a US-based AdTech company • Delivered PCI DSS–compliant AWS architecture for a POS / payments platform • Ran AWS security & DevSecOps gap assessments that clients said “exceeded expectations” Core stack: AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudWatch), Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux. Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional & Associate, plus Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert & Azure Administrator Associate. If you need a secure AWS/Azure setup, a compliance-ready architecture, or a full DevSecOps transformation, message me with your goal and I'll reply with how I'd approach it. 🔑 Search Tags: DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, Release Engineer, CI/CD Pipeline, CI/CD Automation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, ArgoCD, GitOps, AWS CodePipeline, Build Automation, Terraform, Terraform AWS, Ansible, CloudFormation, Infrastructure as Code, Pulumi, Terragrunt, AWS CDK, Configuration Management, Packer, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, EKS Cluster, Docker, Helm, Docker Compose, Container Orchestration, Amazon ECS, Kubernetes Migration, Istio, Service Mesh, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS VPC, AWS RDS, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Fargate, Route 53, AWS Load Balancer, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Migration, Cloud Migration, Serverless, AWS Well-Architected, Cloud Security, AWS Security, AWS Security Assessment, DevSecOps Gap Assessment, SOC 2 Compliance, PCI DSS Compliance, HIPAA Compliance, GDPR Compliance, ISO 27001, Compliance Automation, Audit Readiness, IAM Least Privilege, AWS IAM, KMS Encryption, AWS WAF, GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, Vulnerability Scanning, Secrets Management, HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Observability, Datadog, Monitoring and Alerting, Incident Response, Log Management, OpenTelemetry, Zero Downtime Deployment, Blue-Green Deployment, Canary Deployment, Cloud Cost Optimization, AWS Cost Optimization, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-Cloud, GCP, Linux
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $3k
Billed in all: $22,030$22k
$499 in the last 6 months
Across 7 contracts
Across 50 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Read once a week before Nov 5, 2026, daily since. Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.
Skill rankings: Top 15% in Jenkins
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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