DevOps / SRE Leader with Cloud Expertise

VARSHI MALNEEDI

Austin, Tx / 512-***-**** / ****************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting production systems in banking and healthcare environments. Known for improving system stability, simplifying deployments, and reducing operational issues through automation and cloud-native practices. Hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. Trusted to own production reliability, work closely with development teams, and support systems that run at enterprise scale. Brings a calm, methodical approach to incident response, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Values clean automation, secure infrastructure, and practical solutions that make teams move faster without risking stability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm

Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation

CI/CD & Release Engineering: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps

Monitoring & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch

Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jira

Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash

Databases (Operational Exposure): PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB

Security Fundamentals: IAM, RBAC, Secrets Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Nov 2024 - Present

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Built and standardized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, cutting deployment time by 40% and improving release reliability across multiple environments.

Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning on AWS and Azure using Terraform and CloudFormation, eliminating configuration drift and reducing manual setup effort by 60%.

Supported containerized workloads on Kubernetes, improving application scalability and enabling zero-downtime deployments.

Designed and maintained Helm charts to ensure consistent deployments across dev, QA, and production environments.

Implemented monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch, reducing mean time to detect incidents by 35%.

Strengthened cloud security by implementing IAM roles, least-privilege access, and network segmentation aligned with enterprise compliance standards.

Partnered with development and QA teams in Agile sprints, improving deployment success rate and production stability.

UHG, Minneapolis, MN Jan 2024 - July 2024

DevOps Engineer

Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI, reducing release lead time by 45% and minimizing rollback incidents.

Drove container adoption using Docker and Kubernetes, enabling scalable microservices deployments and improving service resiliency.

Implemented SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, postmortems), increasing service availability and reducing recurring incidents.

Provisioned multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring consistent, auditable environments.

Integrated DevSecOps controls into pipelines, significantly lowering security vulnerabilities reaching production.

Reduced GCP cloud spend through right-sizing, preemptible workloads, and budget alerts, delivering sustained monthly cost savings.

Supported on-call operations using PagerDuty and ServiceNow, consistently meeting recovery SLAs.

Wells Fargo, Hyderabad, India. Jan 2021 - April 2023

DevOps/ SRE Engineer

Automated AWS infrastructure and application deployments, cutting deployment times by 35% and improving environment consistency.

Embedded security scans into CI/CD pipelines as part of a DevSecOps initiative, reducing audit findings and production risks.

Built highly available infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation to support critical financial systems.

Supported Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, improving deployment reliability and optimizing cluster resource usage.

Streamlined build and release pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and Git, accelerating developer feedback loops.

Strengthened monitoring and alerting, reducing mean time to resolution for production issues.

Halcyon IT Service, Hyderabad, India Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

DevOps Engineer

Led migration of monolithic applications to Docker and Kubernetes, improving scalability and deployment consistency.

Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Azure DevOps, reducing manual release effort and deployment errors.

Automated cloud and data centre infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, increasing reliability and repeatability.

Implemented automated code quality checks, reducing post-release defects and improving release confidence.

Partnered with development teams to streamline build and deployment workflows, accelerating feature delivery.

EDUCATION:

Webster University – 2025

Masters in Computer/Information Technology Management

Andhra University – 2020

Bachelors in Commerce - Computer Applications

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