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Harish Kanitkar

Cloud Engineer @ Amazon | SRE | DevOps | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Terraform • Kubernetes • Observability • Incident Response

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Amazon
Jun 20263 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sep 20241 yr 10 mosJun 2026

Bengaluru

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jul 20231 yr 3 mosSep 2024

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mar 20235 mosJul 2023

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Coursera
Dec 20218 mosJul 2022

Hubli, Karnataka, India

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Education

KLE Technological University - Hubballi (India)

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

KLE Technological University - Hubballi (India)

20194 yrs2023

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Headline

Cloud Engineer @ Amazon | SRE | DevOps | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Terraform • Kubernetes • Observability • Incident Response

About

Cloud Engineer at Amazon with 3+ years keeping AWS-based distributed systems reliable, observable, and cost-efficient. My work sits at the intersection of SRE, DevOps, and CloudOps: production incident response and on-call, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and the monitoring and SLOs that catch problems before customers feel them. What I focus on: • Reliability & SRE — Production incident response across EC2, EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch. I own high-severity escalations, drive root-cause analysis, write postmortems, and define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets tied to real customer impact. • Observability — Built and run Prometheus + Grafana + Loki stacks across distributed services, cutting mean time to detection by ~55%. Comfortable in PromQL/LogQL, alert tuning, and reducing noisy pages. • Automation & IaC — Terraform and CloudFormation for repeatable environments (~40% faster deployments), plus Python/Bash tooling that removes recurring toil (~30% less manual effort). • Cost & Performance — CloudFront caching, EC2 right-sizing, and Auto Scaling strategies that saved customers an estimated $200K+ annually. Recognized as a Linux Subject Matter Expert at AWS, advising 50+ engineers on system-level troubleshooting. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. Open to SRE, DevOps, and CloudOps roles. Let's connect. Core stack: AWS • Linux • Kubernetes • Terraform • Docker • Prometheus • Grafana • Loki • CI/CD • Python • Bash

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Cloud Engineer at Amazon, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru

Cloud Support Engineer - 1 at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sep 2024 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru

Cloud Support Assosciate at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jul 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Cloud Support Associate Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mar 2023 - Jul 2023 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Campus Ambassador at Coursera, Dec 2021 - Jul 2022 · 8 mos, Hubli, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, KLE Technological University - Hubballi (India)

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