Mandar Tamboli

AWS DevOps Engineer

I build and run secure, scalable cloud platforms — from provisioning EKS clusters with Terraform to hardening the pipelines and gateways that put code into production. Currently keeping Kotak Mobile Banking's infrastructure resilient, one deploy at a time.

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Years in DevOps

Enterprise employers

EKS

Core specialization

2×

Yearly DR drills

Live from the terminal

What a deploy actually looks like

mandar@kotak-eks — deploy.shlive

Work log

Experience

Project: Kotak Mobile Banking

▸Created and managed Amazon EKS clusters using Terraform, deploying and managing applications via Helm charts.
▸Integrated EKS application pods with Istio for secure service-to-service communication using mTLS and OIDC.
▸Configured IAM roles and IRSA so EKS pods could securely access AWS Secrets Manager.
▸Automated EKS application deployment and upgrades through CI/CD pipelines.
▸Built CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, integrating SonarCloud, Checkmarx, and Prisma for code quality and security checks.
▸Implemented Docker image scanning and managed image storage and promotion across environments using Amazon ECR.
▸Set up self-hosted GitHub and Azure DevOps agents on EC2 for secure pipeline execution.
▸Built a shell-scripted JMeter automation pipeline for regression API testing, letting the QA team upload JMX files and run tests independently.
▸Configured Fluent Bit for centralized log collection, integrated with Kibana dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting.
▸Participated in DR drills every six months, handling production replica setup and traffic switch from Mumbai to Hyderabad.
▸Configured Kong Enterprise API Gateway (v3.4) with rate limiting, X-API key validation, SQL injection protection, and IP whitelisting.