Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4+ Years Experience

VENKATA RAJESH CHANDRA

469-***-**** • ********************@*****.***• LinkedIn • Dallas City, TX (Open to Relocate) PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing multi-cloud AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, supporting 30+ microservices with 99.99% uptime. Proven impact delivering 60% faster provisioning, 45% deployment consistency gains, 35–40% incident reduction, and 22% cloud cost savings through DevSecOps, observability, and FinOps-driven optimization. SKILLS & CERTIFICATION

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Blob Storage), GCP

(Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build), Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Architecture, Cloud Migration, Cost Optimization (FinOps) Infrastructure as Code & Management: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Pulumi, Infrastructure Automation Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Container Orchestration CI/CD & DevOps Automation: CI/CD Pipeline Design, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, CircleCI Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash/Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Go (Golang), YAML, JSON Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitFlow Operating Systems & Networking: Linux/Unix Administration, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPC, Subnets, Routing, Load Balancers, Firewalls Monitoring, Logging & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Datadog, CloudWatch Security & DevSecOps: IAM (Identity & Access Management), DevSecOps Practices, Secrets Management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), Security Best Practices, Compliance Automation (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) Databases & Storage: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), Object Storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCS) Platform Engineering & SRE: Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), API Design, Microservices Support, Incident Response Certification: AWS Certified Cloud Practioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner WORK EXPERIENCE

CVS Health, USA Cloud / DevOps Engineer March 2025 – Present

• Designed and managed AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, AKS, Azure Functions) using Terraform and CloudFormation, improving deployment consistency by 45% and reducing provisioning time by 60%.

• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and ArgoCD, enabling automated build, test, and deployment for 30+ microservices with 99.9% deployment reliability.

• Implemented containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) with Helm and Fargate, increasing application scalability by 50% and reducing infrastructure costs by 22% through FinOps-driven optimization.

• Established monitoring, logging, and security automation using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, IAM, Vault, and AWS Secrets Manager, cutting incident response time by 35% and meeting SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance requirements. JP Morgan, USA Cloud Engineer March 2024 – December 2024

• Engineered multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across AWS and GCP (EC2, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build), supporting high-availability financial workloads with 99.99% uptime.

• Automated infrastructure lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi, reducing manual configuration errors by 70% and accelerating environment setup by 55%.

• Developed secure CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and CircleCI, integrating DevSecOps controls that reduced security vulnerabilities by 40% during releases.

• Enhanced observability and performance monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling proactive alerting and lowering production incidents by 30%.

iView Labs Pvt. Ltd., India DevOps Engineer September 2020 – December 2022

• Deployed and managed containerized microservices using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Helm, improving application deployment speed by 65% and supporting 20+ production services.

• Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, GitFlow, and Bash scripting, reducing release cycles from weeks to days and increasing deployment frequency by 3 .

• Administered Linux-based cloud infrastructure and networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, firewalls), ensuring secure and optimized traffic flow across environments.

• Implemented centralized logging, monitoring, and incident response using ELK stack and CloudWatch, improving mean time to resolution

(MTTR) by 40% and strengthening system reliability. EDUCATION

Masters of Business analytics and AI University of Texas, Dallas City, USA Bachelor of Business Administration Vellore institute of technology in Amaravati, India CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practioner

• Certified Scrum Product Owner

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