DevOps Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes Expert

Teja Krishna Reddy Yarram

DevOps Engineer +1-508-***-**** *******************@*****.*** Linkedin

SUMMARY

DevOps/Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of hands on experience supporting AWS cloud platforms, containerized environments, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code delivery. Strong background deploying highly available workloads, optimizing cloud costs, automating operational tasks, and managing Kubernetes clusters. Experienced collaborating with development and security teams to build stable, scalable, and observable cloud systems. Seeking roles aligned with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud Operations.

SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: AWS (Primary): EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, SNS/SQS, CloudFront, WAF

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation, CDK (basic), Packer

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm

CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, SonarQube, Nexus/Artifactory, Git

Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch Logs Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch Dashboards

Config Management: Ansible

Scripting: Python, Bash

Networking: VPC design, subnets, route tables, NAT, IGW, Transit Gateway, security groups, NACLs

Security: IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Parameter Store, Secrets Manager WORK EXPERIENCE

Principal Financial Group, Atlanta, GA Jan 2025 – Present DevOps Engineer

Built and maintained AWS infrastructure for internal applications, implementing Terraform modules and Terragrunt for reusable IaC patterns; deployed containerized microservices on EKS, using Helm charts for release management and Pod Autoscaling for efficient resource usage.

Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline, supporting multi environment deployments (dev/stage/prod).

Integrated Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for system level metrics and alerting, reducing incident resolution time.

Implemented CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to support debugging, auditing, and application level visibility.

Managed secure secrets distribution using AWS Secrets Manager and enforced IAM least privilege access.

Collaborated with security teams to enable GuardDuty and Security Hub alerting across the AWS organization.

Hexaware Jun 2021 – Jul 2023

DevOps Engineer

Designed AWS infrastructures using EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, ECS, Load Balancers, and Auto Scaling Groups for high availability production workloads.

Created Terraform configurations to manage infrastructure consistently across multiple accounts and environments.

Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions for backend services and container images.

Implemented Docker based container pipelines and migrated legacy applications to AWS ECS.

Developed monitoring dashboards using CloudWatch metrics and OpenSearch summaries for operational insights.

Automated patching, log rotation, backup tasks, and environment provisioning using Python and Bash scripts.

Worked with cross functional teams to align deployments, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain operational SLAs.

Redington Group Sep 2019 – May 2021

Cloud Engineer

Deployed and supported AWS workloads including EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, and ELB configurations for multiple internal and partner teams.

Managed IAM roles, security groups, and KMS encryption to maintain secure access and compliance.

Created Terraform templates to standardize provisioning across dev/test/prod environments.

Built automated CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions for infrastructure and application deployments.

Configured CloudWatch Logs Insights, alarms, and dashboards to monitor application health and performance.

Implemented S3 lifecycle rules, backup policies, and disaster recovery procedures.

Assisted in Kubernetes migration efforts and maintained Docker-based development environments. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA

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