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Devops Engineer Cloud Security

Location:
Fort Collins, CO
Posted:
May 09, 2025

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Infrastructure as a Code GitOps

Cloud Computing Workflow Automation

Monitoring Solutions Data flow Architecture

Configuration Management Source Code Management

Architect Networking Solutions

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Hari Boddapati

Sr. CloudOps/DevOps Engineer

Proficient in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Networking Solutions and Cloud Security with proven success in automating, building and deploying process for operational excellence. Accomplished in guiding the classification,plan, implementation, growth, adoption and compliance to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sr. Cloud Developer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fort Collins — Mar 2023 - Present Experience in creating Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) by using terraform modules that work for multiple cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP.

Migrated all the Runbook and Automation jobs from Jenkins to GitHub Actions by using sharable GitHub Actions across the organization. Migrated our 250+ manual provision clusters in AWS and Azure to GitOps model of provisioning clusters by using terraform.

Engineering and implementing a three-month staged deployment to replace failing VMware 6.5 hosts with up to date 8.0 HA clusters with minimal downtime.

Deployed our infrastructure services into EKS clusters like Grafana, Prometheus, Consul, Kyverno, Vault by using own developed terraform modules integrated with Helm Charts. Automated manual tasks via different scripting languages like Python, TypeScript and used a ruby to create a bot that help our regular tasks.

Created a GitHub Action workflow that able to validate PR with JIRA tasks and integrated the JIRA with GitHub at enterprise level.

Implement and support of on-prem virtual environments (vSphere and Hyper-V). Experience with using Itential for multiple purposes like Workflow Automation for Device configuration, Change Management, Scalability, Analytics and Reporting.

Implemented more access control, authentication and protect from web application attacks in F5 load balancers. Used lot of APIs and integrations to orchestration tools with F5 load balancers. Experience using the NETSCOUT solutions for visibility into multi-cloud and hybrid environments and optimize performance in these environments.

Implement and maintain security controls to protect cloud infrastructure against cyber threats and unauthorized access.

Working on creation of new VMs based on the requirements and installing the required packages and maintain the kernel version based on the application that supports. Also, working on automation VM snapshot images and updating the packages based on releases tools like Auto Cloud, Morpheus.

Performing the regular patching by using tool like Chimera. Configurations are automated by using tool called Puppet.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sr. CloudOps Engineer

Pie Insurance Inc, Denver — Jan 2020 - Feb 2023

Experience in designing and implementing solutions on AWS using services like Fargate, Lambda, Step-Functions, Route-53, Secrets Manager,CloudFront, CloudWatch etc. Automated provisioning of lower environments on AWS, using Terraform, with services like EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM etc.

Designed the architecture for an enterprise level centralized video repository application on Kubernetes, for better visibility & improved mean timeto repair (MTTR), with other tools like RabbitMQ, MongoDB etc., in the eco- system.

Developed Ansible Playbooks to accommodate application deployments. Implemented Gitlab CI for different internal applications for improved and automated change push to production. Developed a Python web crawler application to automate Channel Launch activity on Video Controllers that contributed towards the time saving through the reduction of the channel launch time by 95%. Developed and implemented an Alarm correlation engine that suppressed the alarm noise from video network devices by 98%.

Instrumental in successfully migrating 5000+ clients from a 17TB Splunk environment to a larger Splunk environment of 52TB licensing capacity.

Devised and orchestrated the scaling plan for the Elasticsearch cluster, with 120+ servers and 400+ users, along with consulting in migrating multiple Elastic clusters into a single network space and in cluster upgrades. Performed periodical audits to identify security vulnerabilities and tech debts and led the initiatives to address them effectively.

Piloted security standard implementations through development and implementation of unified authentication and authorization mechanisms across different applications like Elasticsearch, Rundeck etc. Conceptualized and lead generic API Security implementation across several applications within the organization. Develop and implement a disaster recovery plan for the company's cloud infrastructure on AWS to ensure business continuity in the event of system failures or natural disasters. Implement and maintain security measures for cloud infrastructure to ensure data privacy and protection. Identify and implement cost-saving strategies for cloud infrastructure on AWS, such as optimizing resource allocation, utilizing spot instances, and implementing auto-scaling policies. Sr. DevOps Engineer

DaVita HealthCare, Denver — Oct 2017 - Jan 2020

Enhanced Configuration Management using CHEF to assist with automated, repeatable, and consistent configuration and application deployments.

Administrated Jenkins and Gitlab and instrumental in performing periodical upgrades of the applications and ensuring their health and high availability.

Implemented Chef best-practices and Integrated In Spec testing framework for infrastructure to meet compliance standards, security and other policy requirements. Developed code (ruby DSL) to manage configuration of different components of Elastic stack through configuration management solution Chef.

Developed end to end automation solutions using tools like Chef, Jenkins, JFROG Artifactory and Terraform. Review existing integration capabilities among different applications/systems and data, identify, design and implement additional integration possibilities for operational efficiency. Managed Chef Cookbook source code repos for deploying configurations and implementing chef Spec frameworks to identify cookbook issues at initial stages. Developed Terraform modules for enterprise Oracle VM provisioning using the vSphere provider and provisioners like Chef, local-exec and remote-exec etc.

Instrumental in standardizing the tools and practices across teams to ensure smooth delivery of code releases. Developed and implemented an orchestrator platform through Jenkins pipelines in managing the configuration of an application platform with 3000+ servers.

Worked with monitoring solutions like Icinga to monitor the health and performance of various applications & systems.

User Access and authentication management for the systems using LDAP authentication tools like FreeIPA. Assumed the role of Scrum master to implement Agile and Scrum best practices. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Linux Engineer

Intel, India — Apr 2013 - Dec 2015

Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups. Involved in managing the Gitlab server and maintaining the repositories and their access requests through an effective project groups hierarchy.

Developed Jenkins pipelines using groovy (Jenkins DSL) language for configuring Jobs by code using scripted pipeline model.

Instrumental in successful migration of Gitlab server from one datacenter to the other. Supported production systems on a 24/7 on-call rotation basis. Worked closely with developers in resolving conflicts while handling merge requests on GIT. Build, manage, and continuously improve the build infrastructure for software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts and managing continuous integration infrastructure and deployments. Experience in authoring POM.xml files, performing releases with the Maven release plugin, Mavenization of Java projects and managing Maven repositories.

Involved in Jenkins installation and setup and created a master and slave configuration to implement continuous. integration with nightly and on-demand build jobs. Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring CentOS Linux using Kickstart Servers. Developed multiple bash scripts to automate day to day activities and perform other critical tasks like system backups.

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Elastic Certified Engineer

Terraform Associate

Chef Principles Certified

LINKEDIN

www.linkedin.com/in/hari-b-7a4141142

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science

University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs — Jan 2016 - May 2017



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