Cloud DevOps Engineer with GitOps Focus

Yashwanth Neela

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

New Jersey +1-201-***-**** ****************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/yashwanth-neela

Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience driving operational excellence through automation, GitOps workflows, cloud infrastructure, and highly available production systems. Strong background designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes-based platform services, and monitoring frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. Skilled in building engineering platforms, simplifying deployment workflows, and enabling scalable and reliable application operations across AWS and hybrid environments. Adept in collaborating with software/data engineering teams to design sustainable operational solutions and continuously improve system reliability, observability, and performance.

BestBuy, DevOps Engineer, USA. Sep 2024 – Present

Responsibilities: .

●Designed engineering platforms and automation tooling to simplify application build, deployment, and operational workflows.

●Created and maintained GitOps-based deployment pipelines using ArgoCD and GitLab CI, improving deployment consistency and reducing manual operations.

●Operated and optimized Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift) clusters, including Helm-based service rollouts and container lifecycle management.

●Automated common development and operational tasks using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.

●Managed AWS infrastructure including RDS, EKS, CloudWatch dashboards, autoscaling, and network components.

●Implemented robust monitoring frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and integrated alerting for actionable insights.

●Collaborated with software and data engineering teams to resolve operational issues, design scalable architectures, and ensure application reliability.

●Continuously improved reliability through automated remediation scripts, better logging pipelines, and platform-level guardrails.

●Investigated performance issues and outages, performing detailed root-cause analysis followed by preventive engineering fixes.

Wipro – Junior Cloud Engineer, India Aug 2021 – Dec 2022

Responsibilities:

●Supported cloud-native and containerized apps in production environments using AWS, Kubernetes, and Linux systems.

●Maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI to enable smooth and reliable deployments.

●Enhanced monitoring and logging using Prometheus, ELK, and Splunk to improve visibility and reduce mean time to detection (MTTD).

●Automated operational tasks such as scaling, backups, environment provisioning, and health checks.

●Collaborated closely with developers to design more observable, resilient, and scalable systems.

●Actively participated in incident response, tuning alerting logic, and improving operational SLIs.

Wipro - Cloud Engineer Intern, India Jan 2021 – Aug 2021

●Assisted DevOps and security teams in creating isolated AWS test environments using CloudFormation templates.

●Automated Linux server monitoring and deployment scripts using Bash and Python.

●Contributed to internal tools for environment provisioning and secure access management.

Technical Skills

Category Tools / Technologies

Cloud Platforms AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM), GCP, Azure (basic), VMware / Hyper-V

CI/CD & Automation Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation

Containers Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

Scripting Python, Bash, PowerShell (basic)

Monitoring & Logging CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, New Relic

Servers & Middleware Tomcat, Nginx, IIS (basic)

Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Oracle (basic) Security & Networking IAM, DNS Security, Firewalls, TCP/IP, VPNs Version Control & Agile Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Agile/Scrum

Education

Master of Science in Management Information System Aug 2023 – Dec 2024

Wilmington University, USA

Coursework: Cloud Computing, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Cybersecurity, and Network Security.

Capstone: Built an AWS-based CI/CD and monitoring framework integrating Terraform, Jenkins, and CloudWatch.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Jul 2018 – Apr 2022

Koneru Lakshmaiah University, India

Certification

AWS Certified Solution Architect – SAA- C03 AWS05166014 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (In Progress)

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