NIKHIL RAGHAV V B

Senior Associate | Cloud & DevOps | AWS| AZURE SQL | Multi-Cloud (Azure + AWS)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Results-driven Cloud Engineer with over 3+ years of experience specializing in the architecture and automation of scalable, highly available cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines. Proven ability to reduce deployment time and improve application reliability by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Terraform, orchestrating containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, and implementing comprehensive monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. Expertise includes managing scalable infrastructure on AWS and maintaining high-availability Linux systems, complemented by hands-on experience in Azure SQL and SQL Server administration, including version upgrades and migrations.

Experience

  • Senior Associate at BMW TechWorks India
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Infosys (Hybrid)
    • Senior Systems Engineer
      Apr 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Working as a DevOps Engineer for an enterprise client, responsible for automating CI/CD pipelines and managing scalable cloud infrastructure. Designed and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, reducing deployment time by ~40% and improving release stability. Built optimized Docker images and deployed microservices on AWS EKS, managing Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Ingress with zero-downtime rolling deployments. Provisioned AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, ALB, Auto Scaling) using Terraform modules and configured remote state with S3 and DynamoDB for state locking and drift prevention. Implemented monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, improving observability and incident response time. Developed Bash and Python scripts to automate operational tasks and collaborated using Git and ServiceNow workflows.

    • System Engineer
      Aug 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Worked as Database Administrator MSSQL On-premise, Azure SQL sever on VM and PAAS DB server. Installed various versions of SQL servers, Upgraded the versions, Migrated from on-premise to azure.