DevOps Engineer with Cloud, CI/CD, IaC Expertise

SHIVA KUMAR CHERPALLI

DevOps Engineer

New Berlin, WI, USA Mobile: 414-***-**** **************@*****.*** Linkedin PROFILE SUMMARY

• Dynamic DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience in designing, automating, and managing scalable cloud infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines.

• Expert in AWS and Azure environments, deploying containerized applications with Kubernetes and Docker to ensure high availability and performance.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible, reducing environment provisioning times by up to 50% across hybrid systems.

• Built automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI, accelerating multi-environment deployments and reducing release failures by 35–40%.

• Skilled in database DevOps, automating SQL Server, Teradata, and MongoDB migrations, backups, and versioncontrolled deployments, ensuring 99.99% uptime.

• Experienced in monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using CloudWatch, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, SCOM, and Nagios for rapid incident detection

• Developed Python and Bash automation scripts to optimize data workflows, improve reconciliation accuracy, and enhance operational efficiency across finance and healthcare domains.

• Collaborated in Agile/Scrum environments using Jira and TFS/Confluence, aligning DevOps best practices to accelerate software delivery and data-driven insights. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Version Control & Collaboration Git, GitHub, GitLab, TFS, Jira, Confluence Containerization and Orchestration Kubernetes (EKS, Fargate), Docker, ArgoCD Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Configuration Management

Terraform, Pulumi, Cloud Formation Template, CDK, Helm Ansible, YAML, JSON

CI/CD & Build Tools

Databases & Data Tools

Bug Tracking Tools

EDI & Integration Tools

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI,Maven, MS Build, Gradle, ArgoCD, TeamCity SQL Server (2012/2014/2016), Teradata, MongoDB, SSIS, Tableau Jira, Clear Quest, Junit, Data Architect

Edifecs v9.1, BizTalk 2016, HL7, X12N, FHIR

Monitoring & Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Nagios, ELK Stack, Splunk, SCOM

Cloud Platforms

Scripting

Networking

Project Management

Programming / Development

Methodologies

Operating Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, KMS), Microsoft Azure, GCP. CloudFormation,

Microsoft Fabric, Python, Bash, PowerShell

Shell, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovv

TLS, ACM, HTTP, TCP/IP, Route53, ALB/Ingress

C#, .NET Framework, WCF, Web Services, Java

Agile, Scrum, Slack, SAFe

Unix, Linux, Windows Server

DevOps Engineer Cigna Healthcare, WI Oct 2023 – Present

• Designed AWS infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) using Terraform, cutting provisioning time by 45% while improving cost efficiency.

• Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, automating multi-environment deployments, reducing release cycles by 40%, and improving deployment success rates.

• Automated SQL Server migrations, schema versioning, and backups via PowerShell and GitHub Actions, ensuring 99.99% database uptime and compliance.

• Engineered Tableau dashboards with SQL Server and Teradata data, enhancing healthcare claims reporting accuracy by 25% for executive stakeholders.

• Implemented CloudWatch, Splunk, and SCOM monitoring, achieving 35% faster incident detection and reducing mean-time-to-recovery across production workloads.

• Automated patching, logging, and compliance audits with Python and Bash scripts, improving release reliability and strengthening HIPAA/SOC2 governance.

• Optimized EDI workflows with Edifecs v9.1 and BizTalk 2016, accelerating X12N and HL7 transaction processing by 20%.

• Partnered with Agile teams using Jira and TFS, aligning DevOps best practices to accelerate product delivery across healthcare applications.

• Established Terraform state management and reusable modules, enabling standardized multi-region deployments and improving environment consistency across 12+ business-critical systems.

• Integrated SSIS pipelines with MongoDB and SQL Server, streamlining healthcare data exchanges and reducing processing errors by 30%.

• Strengthened AWS security posture using IAM roles, KMS encryption, and VPC segmentation, enhancing compliance with healthcare industry regulatory frameworks.

• Collaborated on FHIR-based API integration with .NET and WCF, enabling faster interoperability between healthcare applications and improving provider data accessibility. DevOps Engineer Capgemini, India Jul 2020 – Nov 2022

• Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions, reducing release failures by 35% and accelerating multi-environment deployments.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Terraform, achieving 50% faster environment setup across hybrid on-premises and AWS financial systems.

• Deployed containerized applications with Kubernetes and Docker, increasing scalability and ensuring 99.95% uptime for finance domain microservices.

• Developed Python and Bash automation scripts, optimizing data loading and processing, reducing transaction processing time by 40%.

• Led Azure cloud migration projects, modernizing banking applications and lowering infrastructure costs by 25% through optimized resource utilization.

• Implemented Prometheus, Grafana, and Nagios monitoring, reducing mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) issues by 30% for production workloads.

• Applied Agile/Scrum methodologies with Jira and Confluence, achieving 100% sprint delivery for complex DevOps finance transformation initiatives.

• Configured Git version control and branching strategies, improving collaboration across 20+ distributed teams and enhancing release predictability.

• Enforced security using IAM policies, TLS encryption, and vulnerability scanning, meeting ISO 27001 compliance for BFSI clients.

• Standardized configuration management with Ansible playbooks, eliminating manual interventions and reducing deployment errors by 45%.

• Enhanced system resilience with AWS CloudWatch alerts and ELK logging pipelines, enabling faster incident detection and remediation.

• Automated finance workflows including order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay using Python and Jenkins, improving reconciliation accuracy by 35%.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Computer Science and Information Systems from Concordia University, WI B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Siddhartha institute of engineering and technology Hyderabad, India Certifications:

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Docker Certified Associate (DCA)

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