Devops Engineer Continuous Improvement

Veena Vaarala

Sr Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Phone Number: 251-***-****

Email: ************@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/veena-vaa

Professional summary

Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience architecting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments across AWS and Azure environments. Proven expertise in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and leveraging containerization technologies to drive scalable, reliable, and efficient cloud solutions. Adept in end-to-end DevOps lifecycle management, with a strong focus on collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement in software delivery and system reliability

Core Cloud & DevOps Skills:

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, KMS, IAM, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Lambda, RESTFUL API’S), Azure.

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS Code Pipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS, EKS

Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, CDK

Programming Languages: Python, Shell scripting.

Monitoring & Security: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Networking: Load Balancing, Firewall Configuration, VPNs, VLANs, Switches, route53, Routers

Version Control: Git, Bitbucket

Databases: SQL, MYSQL, POSTGRESQL

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat), Windows Server

DevOps Practices: Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, TDD

Employment History

Deloitte Sr.Cloud DevOps Engineer Austin, TX October 2024 – Present

Intensive involvement in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) automation using Terraform, Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.

Architect and deploy scalable microservices environments, ensuring high availability and performance.

Extensive hands-on experience with Jenkins X, building cloud-native, Kubernetes-based CI/CD pipelines with GitOps principles for fully automated deployment workflows

Deployed and managed containerized applications on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), ensuring high availability and scalability.

Designed and deployed scalable infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, managing resources such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPCs as code for consistent and repeatable environments.

Managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS)for container orchestration, implementing efficient auto-scaling, rolling updates, and high availability across environments.

Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, automating application deployment and synchronization, reducing manual intervention and improving deployment reliability.

Integrated security and compliance checks into the CI/CD pipeline, including container image scanning and infrastructure policy validation.

Developed custom GitLab CI/CD workflows using .gitlab-ci.yml files, defining multi-stage pipelines, environment variables, secrets management, and conditional deployments to improve release quality and speed

Developed custom monitoring and alerting solutions for Kubernetes workloads using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, improving incident response time

Wrote custom Terraform providers and modules to support non-standard resources and to enhance extensibility for internal tools and third-party services.

Developed Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments, streamlining microservices deployment and scaling.

Integrated Git with Jenkins to enable automated build and deployment processes, ensuring consistent and reliable software releases.

Wrote reusable Python modules and packages with proper documentation and version control, following PEP8 standards and best practices.

Managed servers on the cloud Platform Virtual Machines instances using Ansible Configuration Management and Created Ansible manifests, profiles and roles modules to automate system operations

Mercury Financial Sr. SRE DevOps Engineer Austin, TX Aug 2022-Sep 2024

Intensive involvement in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) automation using Terraform, Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.

Architect and deploy scalable microservices environments, ensuring high availability and performance.

Implemented Git with Argo CD to achieve continuous synchronization between Git repositories and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring a declarative and automated approach to application delivery.

Deep understanding of AWS services and how they integrate with each other to create scalable and reliable architectures. Proficiency in services such as IAM, EC2, Glue, Route53, EFS,Faregate, DynamoDB,S3, ALB,NLB,IAM, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, PostgreSQL.

Built end-to-end observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk to monitor system health, detect anomalies, and drive incident response.

Led incident management processes, including root cause analysis (RCA), postmortem documentation, and preventive action implementation to improve system uptime and reduce MTTR.

Developed and maintained Helm charts to standardize and templatize Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments, enabling consistent, scalable, and version-controlled application releases.

Kubernetes management and implementation on premise, including both the infrastructure provisioning and design and the software deployment strategy using Argo CD and Rancher.

Developed and enforced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies in Kubernetes to restrict access to critical workloads, ensuring secure operation across multi-tenant clusters.

Orchestrated containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS).

Architected and deployed complex infrastructure using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning of AWS resources, reducing setup time

Designed and implemented Python scripts for CI/CD pipelines, integrating with Jenkins and GitLab CI to automate code testing, building, and deployment, enhancing code quality and deployment speed

Proficient in using Argo CD for continuous delivery and deployment of applications in Kubernetes environments.

Integrated and maintained Kubernetes CSI (Container Storage Interface) plug-ins for object, file, and block storage vendors (e.g., AWS EBS, Azure Disk, NFS, S3-compatible storage).

Designed and implemented Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery solutions using tools like Velero, ensuring business continuity and rapid recovery in production environments.

Implemented automation process for Git code analysis, Code merge, pull request analysis, code quality check, vulnerabilities scan, Building Images, deploying them on Linux machines.

Integrated GitLab CI/CD with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation, streamlining cloud resource provisioning and enforcing environment consistency

Architected and deployed complex infrastructure using CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning of AWS resources, reducing setup time.

Developed numerous Python, shell scripts to automate routine tasks such as deployment, monitoring, and configuration management.

Implemented test-driven development (TDD) for Python applications using pytest, increasing code reliability and reducing bugs during production releases

Monitored and support alerts from PagerDuty, Datadog, cloud watch.

Provided 24/7 on-call support

John Deere Cloud Developer Milan, IL Aug 2019 - July 2022

Designed and implemented serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and AWS Step Functions to build scalable and cost-effective solutions.

Enhanced version control practices by implementing advanced Git strategies, including branching, merging, and rebasing, leading to more efficient code collaboration and integration.

Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling continuous integration and delivery of software release.

Integrated Python, Shell scripts within Jenkins pipelines to handle custom build, test, and deployment logic. This included tasks such as static code analysis, automated testing, and packaging applications for deployment.

Architected and secured AWS cloud infrastructure, managing network resources (VPCs, subnets, security groups), compute resources, storage solutions, and Kubernetes environments (EKS), ensuring scalable, efficient deployments with CI/CD pipelines using Ansible, Terraform, and Docker.

Automated AWS resource management with Python scripts utilizing the Boto3 SDK, enabling seamless interaction with AWS services.

Orchestrated containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS).

Integrated CI/CD automation with Jenkins to trigger Helm-based deployments via ArgoCD, achieving faster release cycles and improving team agility.

Experience in Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple name

spaced versions using Helm charts.

Deep understanding of AWS security groups and their configuration for controlling inbound/outbound traffic at the EC2 instance level, applying least-privilege principles to ensure robust security

Improved code quality and reduced defect rates in production by adopting Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices and using automated testing frameworks such as pytest

Designed and implemented reusable Terraform modules for common infrastructure components, streamlining deployment processes and enhancing code maintainability.

Designed and implemented Python scripts for CI/CD pipelines, integrating with Jenkins and GitLab CI to automate code testing, building, and deployment, enhancing code quality and deployment speed

Implemented Cost Optimization methods and savings plans to reduce the cloud cost .

Grainger DevOps Engineer Dallas, TX Apr 2019 - July 2019

Worked closely with QA Teams, Business Teams and Product Operations teams to identify QA and UAT cycles release schedule to non-prod and prod environments.

Designed and implemented Ansible playbooks and roles to automate configuration management and application deployments, reducing manual effort by 60%.

Integrated Git with Jenkins to enable automated build and deployment processes, ensuring consistent and reliable software releases.

Enforced security and compliance standards by incorporating policy-as-code tools within ArgoCD pipelines to validate Helm chart configurations pre-deployment.

Design and implement branching strategy based on release plan and prepare a CI/CD flow with Jenkins and Ansible, which fall in line with the release plan and communicate the same across dev teams.

Collaborated with development teams to integrate DevOps best practices, enhancing overall software quality and delivery.

Developed and maintained Helm charts to automate the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments.

Early Warning Services Cloud Developer Scottsdale, AZ Jan 2018 – Dec 2019

Involved in DevOps process Release management, Automation, and continuous delivery.

Architected and deployed complex infrastructure using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning of AWS resources, reducing setup time

Designed and Implemented CI/CD Process using GIT, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes.

Managed AWS Infrastructure IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, SQS, Licenses, STEP function, API Gateway, Virtual

Implemented automation process for Git code analysis, Code merge, pull request analysis, code quality check, vulnerabilities scan, Building Images, deploying them on Linux machines.

Automate infrastructure provisioning with CDK, Terraform improving deployment efficiency.

Implemented an application monitoring and infrastructure monitoring tool AppDynamics.

Created Python scripts for various automation tasks, such as backup scripts, system health checks, and automated deployment processes. These scripts helped improve efficiency and reduce human error.

Provisioning AWS resources with terraform to increase deployment efficiency.

Implemented a complete disaster recovery solution for cloud infrastructure.

Built Continuous Integration environment (Jenkins, Nexus) and Continuous delivery environment (Chef, yum, rsync) Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and Chef.

Automated the Apache Tomcat deployments using Shell scripts.

Standardized Git workflows across multiple teams, including feature branching, pull requests, and code reviews, enhancing collaboration and code quality.

Spectra Info Systems AWS Developer (Internship) Atlanta, GA Sep 2017 -Dec 2017

As member of AWS Developer group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software

builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.

Maintained the various project repositories using the GitHub and GIT.

Familiar with Atlassian tool stack such as Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket and confluence.

Documented project software release management procedures with input decisions.

Installed and configured Hudson for Continuous Integration

Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login

Authentication

Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading Patches, Configuration.

Worked with the Architects on SDLC Agile process being the owner of post development

Environments

Creating the Automation Build and deployment process for application, re-engineering setup for

better user experience and leading up to building a continuous integration system.

Build configured and support application team environments.

Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to apache web servers.

Established processes and tools to maintain code base integrity, including check-in validation rules

Global Foundries System Administrator Bangalore, India Sep 2014 - Nov 2015

Involved in installation, configuration, and administration of Apache Web server, BEA Web Logic, and IBM Web sphere and Samba Server in UNIX, Linux, and Windows environment.

Experienced in installing and configuring SSH (Secure Shell) encryption to access securely on Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux.

Day-to-day administration & operation of application components in a PaaS & IaaS environment (Windows & Linux).Linux/Windows/VMware Server and Storage Administration.

Experience on patching,upgrades and Experience on Vulnerability Reports and Managing Patching on Windows Server and MS SQL Server Instances: Proficient in analyzing and addressing vulnerability reports to enhance security posture.

Performed Configuration Management with Kickstart, Puppet.

Education

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus master’s in computer science Jan 2016 - May 2017

JNTUH - Bachelor’s Electronics and communication Engineering July 2010- Jun 2014

Certifications: AWS Certified Solution Architect

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