alok-mishra.infra
immediate joiner
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Cloud infrastructure status

Alok Mishra

AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer — infrastructure that stays up, and costs less

I design, secure, and run AWS environments for fintech-grade workloads — cutting cloud spend, hardening security posture, and keeping systems observable end to end.

Total experience
calculating…
across EarlySalary & Accept/Pay Global
Availability
Immediate joiner
contract with Accept/Pay Global concluded Jul 2026
Impact metrics
measured, not estimated
$8,000/mo
Cut from AWS spend via NAT Gateway fixes, S3 lifecycle policies, EC2→ECS migration, and Reserved Instance / Savings Plan purchasing.
25%
Reduction in overall infrastructure expenses through automation and process improvement at EarlySalary.
3
Compliance frameworks maintained end-to-end: PCI DSS, ITGC, and ISO 27001.
IDS/IPS
Security posture upgraded with GuardDuty, Security Hub, and custom Lambda automations.
Deployment history
most recent first
DevOps Engineer · Accept/Pay Global, Remote
Jul 2025 — Jul 2026 contract completed
  • Led migration from a Windows IIS-hosted application to a containerized architecture for frontend and backend on AWS.
  • Built and automated CI/CD pipelines, raising software delivery speed and consistency.
  • Applied infrastructure-as-code principles across environments to improve reliability and scalability.
  • Ran continuous monitoring of system performance, catching and resolving issues before they affected uptime.
  • Operated container orchestration for seamless, repeatable application deployment.
  • Designed disaster recovery strategies to protect data integrity and minimize downtime.
  • Automated manual operational work with Python and Shell scripting to boost team throughput.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · EarlySalary Pvt Ltd., Pune
Feb 2021 — Jun 2025 completed
  • Owned cloud infrastructure for a fintech lending platform, including loan management and lending operations systems.
  • Cut AWS costs by optimizing network architecture and implementing S3 storage lifecycle policies.
  • Hardened security from the network layer to the firewall, standing up alerting for GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Lambda-based automations.
  • Built and maintained monitoring infrastructure aligned to PCI DSS, ITGC, and ISO 27001, with regular audits of cloud security and compliance posture.
  • Managed the full VM lifecycle — patching, provisioning, and decommissioning — against the Business Continuity Plan, minimizing recovery time on node or service failure.
  • Enforced least-privilege access with periodic access reviews.
  • Built real-time alerting for systems and microservices using Python and a Telegram bot.
  • Reviewed and maintained policy documents with audit and compliance teams, implementing standards at the organization level for PCI DSS, ITGC, and ISO 27001 audits.
  • Worked across EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, WAF, IAM, SQS, CloudWatch, Cognito, QuickSight, Glue, and EventBridge.
Stack
grouped by function

Compute & containers

EC2ECSEKSLambda LightsailDockerKubernetes

Storage & data

S3EBSRDSAurora DynamoDBGlue

Networking & delivery

VPCRoute 53CloudFront WAFSNSSESSQS

Security & identity

GuardDutySecurity HubIAM Trusted AdvisorIDS / IPSKMSSecrets Manager

Monitoring & observability

CloudWatchCloudTrailGrafanaPrometheus DatadogQuickSight

Databases

PostgreSQLSQLSQL Server Qdrant DBNeo4j (Graph DB)

Web servers

NginxApache HTTPDTomcatCatalina

Automation, IaC & scripting

CloudFormationPulumi (Go)Pulumi (Python)Boto3CodePipelineEventBridge PythonShell / BashPowerShellLinuxCognitoAWS Billing
Recognition
Outstanding Performer Award — EarlySalary Pvt Ltd.
Recognized for exceptional performance in optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure, upgrading security posture, and implementing monitoring mechanisms.
Education
B.E.
Government Engineering College, Jabalpur
2010 — 2014