DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes Expert

Sai Prakash Kankanala

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Profile Summary

Dynamic DevOps Engineer with 3 years of experience driving automation, scalability, and reliability in cloud-native environments. Expert in CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), container orchestration

(Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Proficient in scripting (Python, Bash) and monitoring tools

(Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution. Proven track record of enhancing system performance, reducing downtime, and fostering collaboration between development and operations teams to accelerate software delivery.

Skills

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, Maven, Gradle

• Infrastructure & Configuration Management: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet

• Cloud & Container Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift

• Monitoring, Logging & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, SRE practices, Incident Management (PagerDuty)

• Scripting & DevOps Tooling: Python, Bash, Shell, Groovy, Git, GitOps, Nexus, Artifactory

• Security, Networking & OS: IAM, Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CIS Benchmarking, Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS), Networking (DNS, VPN, Firewalls, Load Balancers)

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer, Capgemini Aug 2024 – Present USA

• Architected and deployed a secure, multi-AZ AWS infrastructure leveraging EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EFS, Route 53, CloudFront, Direct Connect, IAM, and CloudTrail, ensuring 90% uptime for mission-critical financial platforms handling sensitive data and high-volume transactions.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible, achieving consistent deployments across dev, test, UAT, and production, reducing manual intervention by 90%.

• Engineered a fault-tolerant network topology with VPC peering, subnetting, NAT gateways, VPN, NACLs, and Route 53 DNS routing to ensure secure and reliable communication between microservices and third-party financial APIs.

• Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Step Functions, and Python-based automation, enabling seamless deployments with near-zero downtime for trading and reconciliation services running on Linux-based EC2 instances.

• Integrated cloud-native security controls including IAM least-privilege policies, MFA, KMS encryption, AWS Shield, WAF, GuardDuty, and Security Hub, supporting SOX, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance across cloud workloads.

• Established observability and real-time monitoring frameworks with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, and New Relic, enabling proactive alerting and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 40%.

• Managed hybrid cloud expansion project using OpenStack, enabling seamless workload portability, business continuity, and disaster recovery capabilities, while implementing vulnerability assessments and threat modeling to mitigate risk. DevOps Engineer, Genpact May 2020 – Jul 2022 India

• Deployed a scalable, secure AWS cloud infrastructure supporting millions of daily users for a high-traffic e-commerce platform, leveraging Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to automate provisioning, reducing manual configuration errors by 35% and ensuring consistent environments across dev, staging, and prod.

• Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, reducing deployment times by 40% and improving release stability with automated testing, code quality checks, and security validations.

• Managed Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS, enabling auto-scaling and zero-downtime deployments. Implemented VPC segmentation, IAM roles, and Security Groups to safeguard workloads and enforce least privilege access.

• Integrated observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, resulting in a 25% reduction in incident response time and facilitating real-time system health monitoring and performance optimization.

• Hardened cloud security posture by implementing IAM policy management, AWS KMS for encryption, Security Hub, AWS Config, and GuardDuty, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and internal security standards.

• Migrated monolithic legacy applications to AWS, improving scalability and resilience by leveraging Auto Scaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancers, EC2 right-sizing, and containerization using Docker and EKS.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure, DevOps, and security strategies with product roadmaps and business KPIs, driving cloud cost optimization, operational reliability, and high system availability. Education

Master of Science, Stevens Institute of Technology Aug 2022 – May 2024 Hoboken, USA Computer Science

Bachelors of Business Administrator, SRM Institute of Science & Technology Jun 2018 – May 2021 Amaravati, India

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