AKASH GURUVANNAVAR

💼 Work Experience

Cloud Engineer
CogniSure Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
May 2022 – Present

• Maintained 99.99% application uptime across production servers by designing proactive monitoring workflows using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Site24x7.
• Automated patching and maintenance of EC2 instances using PowerShell, Bash, and Task Scheduler, reducing manual hours by 33% and improving compliance with CIS benchmarks.
• Created custom EBS monitoring workflows that cut down storage expansion requests, optimizing cloud costs and improving team agility in resource scaling.
• Implemented cross-region replication for AMIs and EBS snapshots, establishing a disaster-resilient backup architecture in compliance with Disaster Recovery/Backup standards.
• Managed user lifecycle using Active Directory, Azure Entra ID, and Office 365 with secure GPO policies, maintaining audit-ready access control.
• Provisioned and secured crucial insurance data with encrypted S3 buckets with SSE-KMS, applied granular IAM policies, and enabled versioning to safeguard business-critical data.
• Streamlined CI/CD workflows using Git and shell scripts, accelerating releases across development and production environments.
• Strengthened infrastructure security by implementing IAM roles, Security Groups, NACLs, and MFA, minimizing attack surfaces and enforcing least privilege.
• Led successful vulnerability assessments on internal and client apps using OWASP ZAP, remediating 9+ critical issues and reducing potential website breaches.
• Prepared and maintained detailed SOPs and troubleshooting runbooks, improving L1/L2 team efficiency and onboarding effectiveness across tech operations.
• Delivered organization-wide security awareness training and compliance walkthroughs, contributing to a 20% drop in phishing and misconfigurations.
• Built secure, scalable AWS environments using Auto Scaling Groups, ALB, and VPCs, ensuring load distribution, high availability, and cost control.
• Worked on AWS Lambda, SNS, Route 53, and KMS to enable automation, high availability, and secure service integrations across the infrastructure.
• Collaborated across DevOps, Application, and Security teams to meet SLAs, improve incident response times, and deliver under ITIL-aligned processes.
• Utilized SQL for production log querying and RCA investigations during critical incident handling.
• Used tools like ZohoDesk, PuTTY, RDP, and VirtualBox for end-to-end technical support and lab environments.