Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud, IaC, CI/CD, Security, Observability

Name: Aluri Chamanthi

Ph No: +1-913-***-****

Email ID: **********@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alurichamanthi/ Professional Summary:

Results-drivenDevOpsEngineerwithover6 years of experience in automating, optimizing, and scaling infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Azure

Adept at enabling high-performing software delivery in cloud-native environments through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

Proficient in scripting with Python, Bash, and YAML to automate deployments and streamline complex workflows. Hands-on experience in DevSecOps practices including shift-left security, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), policy-as- code, and vulnerability scanning tools like Snyk and Trivy.

Skilled in implementing modern CI/CD strategies using Jenkins, Maven, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD, with support for blue/green and canary deployment models.

Experienced inmonitoringandobservabilityusingPrometheus,Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry for real-time performance insights and incident response.

Strong advocate of Agile and Continuous Delivery, fostering collaboration across development and operations teams with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Slack.

Very good knowledge in HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) 4010 to 5010 conversion.

Good understanding in usage of Network Data Mover (NDM)- Connect Direct and FTP, S-FTP

Configured and managed AWS VPCs, Security Groups, Azure VNets, and Application Gateway for secure cloud networking.

Implemented DNS with Route53, CloudFront CDN, and enforced network security policies for optimized application delivery.

Technical Skills

CI/CDTools:GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

Cloud Environments: Azure, AWS, PCF, OpenStack

IaC&ConfigMgmt:Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible

Containers: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, OpenShift

Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog

DevSecOps: SonarQube, Trivy, HashiCorp Vault, OPA

Scripting / Programming: Python, Shell (PowerShell/Bash), Ruby, YAML, JSON, Perl, Groovy, JavaScript, .Net

VersionControl:GIT, Subversion, Bit Bucket, Git Lab, VSTS

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SRE

Others: UNIX, CentOS, Command Line, SCI Database, Cloud Computing, Load Balancing, Web Services Professional Experience

Client: UHG– Austin, TX Sep 2024-Till Date

Role: Sr. Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and deployed on-premises and AWS Kubernetes clusters using VMware Tanzu, leveraging reusable Terraform scripts for automated provisioning. Automated infrastructure provisioning and cluster deployments using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual effort by 30%, and ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments.

Designed and deployed scalable Cloud Infrastructure on AWS using services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM, ensuring high availability and security across multiple environments. Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and Terraform, reducing setup time by 40%.

Implemented and managed secure Kubernetes clusters by configuring kubeconfig files, enforcing Role-Based Access Control

(RBAC), and integrating TLS certificates to establish encrypted communication for all service endpoints, enhancing security and compliance standards.

Worked with Ansible for Kubernetes Orchestration of Deployments for various servers and managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible modules, implemented CD automation using Ansible, also involved in managing existing Tomcat, Webservers and automated the configuration of new servers

Installed, configured, and managed VMware Tanzu software solutions, including Tanzu Mission Control (TMC), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (TKO), NSX Advance Load Balancer (AVI), Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) to streamline Kubernetes management and application delivery.

Automated compliance checks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2) using tools like AWS Config, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and custom Terraform policies.

Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of OpenStack Nodes and Test Playbooks on AWS instances using Python.

Implemented secure CI/CD pipelines for healthcare applications handling PHI, ensuring encryption in transit (TLS 1.2/1.3) and at rest using KMS/HSM-backed keys

Built highly available infrastructure for EHR/EMR workloads with automated failover, ensuring 99.99% uptime for mission- critical healthcare systems.

Integrated healthcare data systems including HL7, FHIR, and DICOM API services into secured Kubernetes clusters with traffic encryption and role-based access controls.

Used observability tooling (Data dog, Prometheus, ELK) to monitor patient data pipelines, reducing incident response time and improving clinical application performance.

Configured and optimized VPC networking (subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, transit gateways) to support secure multi- tier application deployments.

Implemented network security best practices using Security Groups, NACLs, VPN, and AWS Firewall Manager ensuring HIPAA-compliant environments.

Troubleshot network connectivity issues using ICMP, DNS, DHCP, TCP/UDP analysis, and packet inspection tools like tcpdump

& Wireshark.

Client: Verizon Connect – San Diego, CA Jan2024-August2024 Role: Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and deployed cost-effective, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems using AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, EKS, and Auto Scaling, while configuring security groups, ELB, AMIs, and multi-AZ VPC instances.

Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates and utilized API Documentation in reading and understanding, including specifications like Swagger/Open API or RAML, to effectively utilize APIs and integrate them into applications and multiple services.

Working for the DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to CHEF for Cloud Automation.

Configured S3 for static web hosting, deployed cloud stacks using AWS OpsWorks, set up Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling, integrated DynamoDB with Lambda for storage and backup, and automated AWS resources with Terraform.

Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & Maven as build framework tools.

Deployed Kubernetes clusters using AKS, defined pod specifications and services in YAML, and automated CI/CD workflows for builds, testing, and deployments in Azure DevOps.

Integrated Docker for containerization and utilized SonarQube for continuous code quality assessment.

Developed automation framework for Application Deployments to cloud environments.

Worked on salt Stack migration from legacy Datacenter to AWS.

Developed and adopted DevOps Model and CI/CD workflow in integrating Git, Bit Bucket, Maven, SonarQube, Jfrog, Tomcat, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes clusters in automated deployments.

Developed build & deployment scripts using MAVEN. Automated the process using plugins available Jenkins and moved from one environment to another throughout the build pipeline.

Create Docker images using a Dockerfile and work on Docker container snapshots, remove images, manage Docker volumes as well as set up Docker Host.

Involved in setting up CI/CD pipeline for automated deployment in Kubernetes.

Wrote Jenkins Pipeline code and automated Build and Deployments to Kubernetes using Helm.

Conducted performance testing and tuning of AWS resources with Salt Stack using tools like JMeter and AWS CloudWatch, and designed CloudFormation stacks with configuration management tools.

Automated rapid provisioning and lifecycle management for Ubuntu Linux on EC2 using CHEF, custom Ruby/Bash scripts, and written Terraform templates and Chef Cookbooks for EC2 instance configuration.

Established monitoring for microservice-based applications using Grafana and Prometheus, used ELK solutions for log monitoring and log aggregation.

Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.

Client: Euroclear – India Oct 2021 to Aug 2023

Role: Azure Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented scalable infrastructure on Azure for migrating enterprise applications.

Deployed Azure Cloud Services like IaaS Virtual Machines (VMs) and PaaS role instances into secure Virtual Networks

(VNet’s) and subnets and designed various Network Security Groups (NSGs) to stay within Azure Network Limits, to control inbound and outbound access to Network Interfaces, VNet’s, VM’s and subnets.

Created and deployed VMs on Microsoft Azure, managed Azure Active Directory (AD), SQL and virtual network to connect all servers, design Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for Azure platform.

Implemented Azure Quorum on various services like Compute – Web roles and Worker roles, Caching, Azure Websites, SQL, Azure Storage, and Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Auto Scaling, Scheduling and PowerShell Automation.

Provisioned a tier 2 and tier 3 .NET web application to Azure DevOps for High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) using Code Repos to commit codes for backing up Virtual Machines, deploy Artifacts to App Service, deploy Web App from Azure Pipelines or TFS and host production application on Azure Virtual Machines.

Provisioned Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for different teams to deploy the .Net based application by BlueGreen Deployment on to Web roles, which triggers ARM templates from Azure DevOps to build the .Net based application and worked on Azure Key Vault to encrypt the data.

Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for both Dockerized and VM-based workloads.

Deployed workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), managing ingress, scaling, and container registry integration.

Built a new pipeline and used custom Docker Images in a Docker Container for automation and virtualization of servers for test and dev environment needs. Also implemented Docker-Maven plugin in Maven files to build images for all microservices.

Automated the build and release process by using Shell Scripting, and deployed Maven build code using Azure DevOps pipelines. Written Maven Scripts to automate build process, installed multiple plugins for smooth build and release of pipelines.

Early and Frequent Testing with Users: UCD encourages usability testing at early stages, which aligns with DevOps cycles— allowing teams to catch issues and adapt rapidly in production environments.

Provisioned scripts to test Prometheus monitoring/ alerting system to monitor time series data like metrics on daily basis and setup Grafana to visualize the data stored in Prometheus.

Managed Azure networking components like VNets, route tables, private endpoints, and Application Gateway.

Implemented monitoring with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics, including custom alert rules.

Developed Azure Functions for automation tasks like event-driven notifications and resource tagging enforcement.

Applied Azure Policies and Blueprints across multiple subscriptions to enforce RBAC and compliance standards.

Participated in production deployments, rollback strategies, and conducted root cause analysis with QA and SecOps teams. Client: Xento Systems Pvt. Ltd. India Jun 2020- Sept 2021 Role: Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Automated system provisioning and repetitive administrative tasks using Bash, Python, Ansible, Puppet, and scheduled Cron jobs.

Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Solaris 11/10/9/8, Red Hat Linux 7/6/5/4, Oracle Linux 5.x/6.x and Cent OS 7/6/5.

Automated provisioning, patching, and maintenance tasks using Shell/Perl scripting, reducing manual effort and improving system reliability.

Managed storage and file systems with LVM, VERITAS, and Solaris Volume Manager

Implemented backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity.

Managed shared NFS files system, mounting and unmounting NFS server, NFS client on remote machine, sharing remote file folder, starting and stopping the NFS services.

Configured and secured enterprise services (DNS, NFS, Samba, DHCP, SSH) and performed root-cause analysis for hardware/software incidents.

Created users, manage user permissions, maintain user and file system quota on RHEL and Solaris servers.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize infrastructure, streamline deployments, and support business-critical applications.

Provided 24x7 support for production systems, improving uptime and reducing incident resolution time through proactive monitoring and automation.

Managed user access, permissions, logical volume management (LVM), file system structures, and package installations using yum, dnf, apt, and RPM.

Configured and maintained web servers such as Apache and Nginx, and administered core services including DNS, FTP, NFS, LDAP, and SMTP.

Deployed and monitored system health using Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling early issue detection and resolution.

Provisioned and supported virtualization and containerized environments using VMware, KVM, Docker, and LXC across development and production systems.

Supported hybrid infrastructure operations by provisioning and monitoring AWS EC2, S3, CloudWatch, and managing user roles via IAM.

Education:

Master of Science inComputerScience,Avila University –KansasCity,Mo May 2025

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering - Sasi Institute of Technology and Engineering — India- July 2021

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