Cloud Engineer Solutions Architect

PENCHALALAKSHMI AMULYA CHAVALA Location: Texas, United States • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amulya-chavala/

(AWS DevOps DevSecOps Infrastructure Site Reliability) Mobile: 945-***-**** • E-mail: ***************@*****.*** PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished AWS Certified Solutions Architect with over 8 years of IT experience, specializing in Cloud Computing, Infrastructure Management, and DevOps. Demonstrated success in optimizing service delivery by designing and implementing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as AWS, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Proficient in end-to-end cloud migrations, CI/CD pipeline optimization, and infrastructure as code (IaC). Recognized for seamless execution under tight deadlines and working with cross-functional teams. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Cloud Engineer Eli Lily and Company Indianapolis, Indiana 06/2024 – PRESENT

• Spearheaded the migration of an eCommerce application to AWS using AWS MGN and DMS, ensuring seamless data replication and minimal downtime.

• Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies leveraging Terraform and CloudFormation to create repeatable, reliable cloud resource provisioning.

• Designed and implemented a secure AWS ecosystem with VPC, subnets, IAM roles, and security groups, bolstering data protection and secured access.

• Improved cloud security posture by implementing IAM policies and vulnerability scanning, achieving compliance with regulatory standards.

• Automated routine tasks using PowerShell and Bash scripts, reducing manual workload by 30% and improving team productivity.

• Developed Terraform scripts to provision and manage AWS infrastructure, ensuring automation and scalability.

• Engineered detailed monitoring and alerting systems with Nagios, Datadog, Prometheus, and Splunk, resulting in improved system visibility.

• Integrated Grafana with CloudWatch dashboards to improve incident response time through active alerting.

• Optimized post-migration performance by right-sizing EC2 and RDS resources, cutting operational costs by 15%.

• Implemented AWS Glue for ETL processing and AWS Athena for querying large S3 datasets, optimizing data transformation workflows. Senior Cloud Engineer – Cloud Consultant Citi Bank Dallas, Texas 11/2021 – 05/2024

• Led the migration of the on-premises Postgres database to Amazon Aurora using AWS DMS, achieving zero data loss and 50% faster query performance.

• Architected a multi-account AWS Landing Zone using AWS Control Tower, establishing a secure, scalable foundation for 50+ application workloads.

• Built Terraform and CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructure-as-code (IaC), automating the deployment of EC2 instances and S3 buckets.

• Utilized Ansible to automate configuration management across EC2 fleets, ensuring consistency and reducing manual configuration errors by 40%.

• Created IAM policies to grant permissions to S3, EC2, lambda functions, and other AWS resources using AWS CLI and Boto3 for Python.

• Worked on proof-of-concept (POC) for Blue-Green and Canary deployments, minimizing deployment risks for critical banking systems.

• Deployed and managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker, optimizing resource utilization and cutting infrastructure costs by 20%.

• Established version control with Git and GitLab, implementing GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, accelerating deployment cycles from weeks to days.

• Configured serverless architecture with AWS Lambda and AWS Glue, enabling ETL processes to transform transactional data stored in S3 buckets.

• Built dashboards using QuickSight, CloudWatch, Grafana, and Prometheus, enabling stakeholders to analyze 1 TB+ of S3 data in under 15 seconds.

• Conducted site reliability audits using Well-Architected Reviews (WAR) to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities.

• Created and maintained detailed technical documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for release management processes.

• Designed and implemented a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan, ensuring data integrity and rapid recovery for critical workloads. Cloud Engineer SANHARABS INDIA Private Limited Hyderabad, India 06/2016 – 10/2021

• Designed a High Availability Architecture by deploying application instances across multiple AWS regions, improving service delivery for global users.

• Migrated 10+ TB of data from on-premise databases to Amazon RDS, optimizing query performance and reducing infrastructure costs by 30%.

• Developed a regression-based model in Python, leveraging past lab test and equipment data to predict revenue with 20% improved accuracy.

• Implemented a Random Forest algorithm in Python, achieving a 15% reduction in diagnosis time for symptom-based cases.

• Deployed a scalable website using Amazon S3, AWS CloudFront CDN, and Route 53, ensuring high availability and compliance with WCAG 2.1 standards.

• Secured the site with Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM), implementing SSL/TLS encryption for data integrity.

• Configured Route 53 with latency-based routing policies, dynamically redirecting traffic to the nearest region for optimal performance.

• Implemented AWS Security Groups, Network ACLs, and AWS WAF to enforce granular access controls.

• Forecasted spending with AWS Cost, Amazon Forecast, and Usage Reports to predict resource utilization, optimizing costs by 18%.

• Collaborated with SRE and DevOps teams to implement Prometheus and Grafana into CI/CD pipelines to enable real-time performance monitoring. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Information Technology 08/2016 – 05/2018 The International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad Hyderabad, Telangana, India CERTIFICATIONS

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) – Amazon 2. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional – Amazon 3. Terraform Associate – HashiCorp

4. Certified Kubernetes Administrator – Linux Foundation TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Cloud Technologies: AWS (CDK, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Route 53, EBS, EFS, EKS, ECR, ECS, RDS, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CloudTrail, CLI), Azure (Azure Security Center, VMs, Active Directory, Azure DevOps), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMware, VSphere DevOps, CI/CD, and Containerization: Jenkins, Maven, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Subversion, BitBucket, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Fargate Networking & Security: Firewalls, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, ELB, ZTA, VPC, VPNs, IAM, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), API Gateway, SOC2, NIST Programming & Database: Python, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, YAML, Java, JUnit, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK Stack, Apache Tomcat Others: JIRA, ServiceNow, SharePoint, SAP, ITIL, RCA, SDLC, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Service Delivery, Microsoft Office, Excel, Agile (Scrum, Kanban)

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