Gokul Natarajan

DoD Army Contract

AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes (EKS), GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Playwright, pa11y-ci, JMeter, Jira

• Administered AWS GovCloud, managing IAM roles and policies, EKS clusters, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring.
• Reduced deployment times by 70% by automating build, test, and release stages in GitLab CI/CD.
• Reduced compliance risk by engineering pa11y-ci scans in GitLab that produce automated WCAG accessibility reports.
• Built Playwright testing on EKS, launching test pods from the pipeline to validate UI.
• Integrated SAST, DAST, SCA, and container security scanning into CI/CD pipelines as automated quality and security gates.
• Automated compliance report generation, providing continuous SOC 2 evidence for audit readiness.
• Hardened AWS hosted systems to STIG and DoD technical standards, remediating findings and mitigating vulnerabilities.

DoD Navy Contract

AWS GovCloud, GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Tomcat, Elasticsearch

• Operated and maintained the My Navy Portal on AWS GovCloud, supporting millions of users in a Jira/Scrum environment.
• Provisioned and managed AWS dev and production environments end to end with Terraform and Ansible.
• Wrote Ansible playbooks and GitLab pipelines automating deployments, updates, and cert refreshes on RHEL servers.
• Managed TLS/SSL certificates and configured reverse proxies and load balancing across EC2 with AWS load balancers.
• Created a dashboard querying system software versions daily, giving teams shared visibility and streamlining coordination.
• Documented infrastructure, pipelines, and maintenance procedures in runbooks, streamlining onboarding and handoffs.

AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, EFK

• Built out a new AWS environment from the ground up, structuring IAM users, roles, and policies with AWS Config baselines.
• Secured AWS workflows with TLS, Shield, WAF, and Firewall Manager, reducing the environment's attack surface.
• Managed Jenkins and Vault user groups and access policies; maintained infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitHub.
• Onboarded centralized log monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and the EFK stack for the environment.

React, Java, GitHub

• Developed REST APIs following security best practices and consistent coding standards.
• Debugged 20+ React components and wrote ORM logic for a SQL database backend.