Senior DevOps Engineer

Ashok Bhavanam

Sr. DevOps Engineer 980-***-**** **************@*****.***

Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience automating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Jenkins, and GitLab. Successfully migrated 250+ cloud resources to infrastructure-as-code with zero downtime, and built scalable deployment pipelines for containerized platforms. Proven ability to improve release reliability, security posture, and operational efficiency in enterprise environments through modern DevOps practices.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure:

Amazon Web Services (EC2, IAM, Lambda, EKS, Route53, ACM, ALB, SQS, SNS, RDS), Microsoft Azure (VMs, Storage, VNets, Load Balancers), Google Cloud Platform (GKE, IAM)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

Terraform (modules, remote backends, state management), AWS CloudFormation, Ansible (playbooks, inventory, automation scripts)

CI/CD & DevOps Automation:

GitLab CI/CD (pipelines, runners, artifact management), Jenkins (multibranch, pipeline-as-code, plugin mgmt), Maven, Gradle, MSBuild

Containers & Orchestration:

Docker (image creation, private registry), Kubernetes (manifests, Helm charts, EKS, GKE)

Monitoring & Observability:

Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics

Security & Compliance:

SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify, IAM policies, TLS with ACM

Scripting & Languages:

Bash/Shell, Python, Groovy

Version Control & Project Tools:

GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow

Professional Experience

Fannie Mae – Reston, VA

Senior DevOps Engineer

May 2024 – Present

Migrated 250+ AWS Lambda functions, 50+ SQS queues, 50+ SNS topics, 50+ Step Functions, and 100+ CloudWatch alarms from legacy tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, UCD) to GitLab and Terraform.

Built and maintained end-to-end GitLab pipelines to automate the packaging and deployment of Lambda functions and configuration files.

Created reusable and scalable Terraform modules to provision AWS infrastructure including Lambda, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Step Functions, ECS, and RDS.

Implemented security scanning and compliance checks within CI pipelines to ensure infrastructure and application hygiene.

Collaborated with developers and stakeholders to standardize DevOps practices and improve platform adoption across teams.

Equifax – Alpharetta, GA

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mar 2021 – Apr 2024

Provisioned and maintained AWS EKS clusters using Terraform and managed IAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC for secure access control.

Created Helm charts for standardized deployment of applications across Kubernetes environments.

Configured Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring metrics, alerting, and visualization across Kubernetes workloads.

Implemented TLS configurations on ALBs using ACM to secure application traffic.

Managed Terraform state and CI/CD automation through Jenkins, and maintained Jenkins infrastructure and user access.

Werfen – Bedford, MA

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2020 – Feb 2021

Established first fully automated CI/CD process for cloud-native apps, integrating Coverity and SonarQube scanning, container builds, and image publishing.

Deployed applications using Kubernetes manifests and enforced image tagging via ECR repositories.

Provisioned scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and configured networking and security groups for cloud environments.

Supported development teams with repository setup and CI/CD pipeline maintenance.

HMS – Danvers, MA

DevOps Consultant

Oct 2019 – Jun 2020

Automated multi-branch deployment workflows using Jenkins and implemented Jira integration to enable traceable and auditable release pipelines.

Created CloudFormation templates to provision VPCs, TGWs, and other AWS services in a multi-account environment using AWS Organizations.

Configured DNS using Route53 for ALBs with HTTPS routing via ACM certificates.

Integrated Veracode and SonarQube into CI pipelines for security and quality scanning.

SAIF – Salem, OR

Cloud Engineer

Sep 2018 – Sep 2019

Provisioned Azure VMs, Storage, and Virtual Networks using automation scripts and templates.

Developed Ansible playbooks to automate server provisioning and configuration tasks.

Created and deployed Docker containers for application environments.

Comcast – Philadelphia, PA

Build & Release Engineer

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018

Maintained Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and managed source control integration for Java and .NET applications.

Used Puppet for environment configuration, improving consistency and deployment reliability.

Synchrony – Hyderabad, India

System Engineer

Jul 2014 – Dec 2015

Deployed Java applications to Apache Tomcat across multiple environments.

Automated patch management and dependency installations on Linux servers.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems – New England College, NH

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication – JNTU, Hyderabad

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