Preeti Uppal
Eindhoven
Summary
AWS Devops Engineer with 14+ years of experience in cloud computing, Devops, Linux administration and infrastructure automation.Expert in AWS services, Terraform, and Python scripting with a strong focus on building scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions. Proven ability to streamline operations, enhance security, and drive continuous delivery across enterprise environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS DEVOPS Engineer
Telefonica
10.2020 - Current
- Engineered infrastructure-as-code solutions, automating the provisioning of shared VPCs, IAM users, and VPC Endpoints using Terraform and Terragrunt; reduced infrastructure deployment time by 75%
- Implemented Terraform modules and Terragrunt configurations to automate AWS account provisioning, standardizing security configurations and reducing manual configuration errors by 90%
- Implement/Monitor CI/CD pipelines in AWS Code Commit and integrating it with Teams
- Creating PRs in Codecommit
- AWS health dashboard Events monitoring
- Strong experience on mitigating security issues
- RHEL Patching using System Manager
- Hands on experience in gitlab
- Configured AWS cloudwatch Dashboard like Direct Connect, Step Functions, and SAML certificate expiry, ensuring 99.99% uptime and minimizing service disruptions
- Implemented Python script in Lambda function for audit purposes saving 10 hours/week of manual checks
- Wrote and executed Python-based automation to shutdown EC2 instances in off-business hours
- Implemented integrating BMC discovery tool setup with AWS
- Configured AWS cloudwatch Dashboard to monitor critical AWS services
- Strong hands-on experience on IAM, KMS, Cloudwatch, VPC, EC2, EBS, AWS code commit, lambda, S3, AWS Step functions, Security Groups, AWS config etc
AWS DevOps Engineer Technical Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
11.2018 - Current
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure that cloud environments are secure, compliant, and optimized for cost-efficiency
- Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing manual intervention by 40% and ensuring 100% consistency in deployments
- Implement and maintain monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other AWS monitoring tools
- Ensured data security by configuring IAM policies, CloudWatch logs, and encryption services and VPC configurations
- Developed CI/CD pipelines for faster deployment cycles using AWS Codecommit
- Integrated Python scripts with AWS Lambda to automate monitoring and alerting systems, reducing manual work and improving incident response times
Linux&Storage Admin/AWS Engineer
Virgin Atlantic
11.2018 - 09.2020
- Handling users, Swap space, file systems, CPU utilization, memory utilization and disk space related issues
- Worked on vulnerability assessment /vulnerability scan reports
- Patching Linux servers using Redhat satellite
- Provision New VM's, storage, creating new domain in RHEV
- Managed and provisioned 100+ VMs in AWS, ensuring 99.98% uptime for critical business applications
- Volume Management using LVM in linux, VXVM, SVM in Solaris
- Worked on Incidents, Change Requests, Problem Tickets, Service Requests on Service Now Tool
- DB migrations, NFS migrations to new storage-Unity and Powermax
- Creation of IAM user, EC2 instances instance key pairs and VPCs using terraform
- Storage and Server Migration in AWS
Linux System Administrator
CVS
04.2016 - 10.2018
- Installed and upgraded patches and packages on Linux 5,6,7 servers using YUM, RPM
- Automated patching of Linux servers using Ansible, reducing manual intervention by 40%
- Troubleshooting performance/capacity issues, booting issues on Linux and Solaris Servers
- Resizing file systems and new filesystem creation Linux OS
- Resolved system errors and crashes, disk space problems, file system full errors
Linux and Storage System Administrator
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2011 - 10.2018
- Strong background experience on Linux OS patching using YUM and Redhat Satellite Server
- Deploy and configure Linux operating systems and associated software to meet organizational requirements
- Experience on User/Group Management, Filesystem Management, Process Management
- Remediated security issues on Vulnerability scan reports
Linux and Solaris System Administrator
Wyndham Hotel Group
05.2011 - 03.2016
- Perform day-to-day Technical Support, Troubleshooting and Resolving Technical Problems related to H/W and OS
- Managing Swap space, filesystems, CPU utilization, memory utilization and disk space related issues on Linux/Solaris Servers
- Created Users accounts and groups, setting up User environments
- Access management and Troubleshooting access and authentication issues Using Quest Authentication Services Shell Scripting and cron jobs
- Volume Management using LVM, VXVM and resizing existing volume/Filesystem
- Handling VMware servers Linux Patching, using RHN satellite, and administering Software Packages
- Analyzed vulnerability assessment reports from Qualys and Rapid7 to identify and mitigate high-risk vulnerabilities
- Experience on VMware consoles, IDRAC, SUN ILOM, ALOM consoles and Identifying hardware failure issues using Consoles eg
- Disk failures, CPU Failures
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Apeejay College of Engineering
Gurgaon07.2010
Skills
- AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation)
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automation scripting (Python, Bash)
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- Prism Cloud tool
- Linux
- Windows
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- VPC
- Subnets
- Security Groups
- Direct connect
- Redhat virtualization Manager
- Jira
- Confluence
- BMC
- BMC remedy
- ServiceNow
Certification
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator - RHCSA, RedHat, 2018
- Red Hat Certified Engineer - RHCE, RedHat, 2019
- AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS, 2019
- AWS Terraform Associate Certification, Terraform, 2023
- AWS Developer Associate, AWS, 2024
Timeline
AWS DEVOPS Engineer
Telefonica
10.2020 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer Technical Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
11.2018 - Current
Linux&Storage Admin/AWS Engineer
Virgin Atlantic
11.2018 - 09.2020
Linux System Administrator
CVS
04.2016 - 10.2018
Linux and Storage System Administrator
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2011 - 10.2018
Linux and Solaris System Administrator
Wyndham Hotel Group
05.2011 - 03.2016
Bachelor of Engineering -
Apeejay College of Engineering
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