Cloud & DevOps Engineer - IaC - CI/CD Automation

Srinivas Nagaraja

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WORK EXPERIENCE

KLA Corporation Software Engineer, DevOps Intern Milpitas, California, USA May 2025 – Nov 2025

• Full-Stack IaC Automation: Automated VM provisioning in VMware vSphere using a powerful stack of Jenkins + Terraform

+ Packer, enabling user-driven deployments and reducing provisioning time by 70%.

• Golden Image Pipeline: Developed a Packer-based golden image pipeline for Windows Server, embedding security baselines and tools to produce consistent, compliant VM templates, reinforcing IaC/automation proficiency.

• Configuration Management & Compliance: Implemented and enforced CIS compliance automation utilizing Puppet Enterprise, ensuring secure, standardized configurations across all managed infrastructure nodes.

• Monitoring & Visibility: Built an automated CI error analytics system by storing pipeline failures in a database and visualizing insights in Grafana, improving debugging speed and pipeline visibility (relevant to Datadog monitoring). Digital Technology Solutions Student Worker University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Nov 2024 – May 2025

• Azure Migration & Deployment: Executed a full-stack migration of a complex hybrid application (.NET Framework CMS +

.NET Core Renderer) to Azure Web Apps, demonstrating proficiency in Azure environments.

• CI/CD Pipeline Design (Azure): Designed and implemented robust Azure Pipelines integrated with GitHub for CI/CD of .NET workloads, improving deployment reliability and standardizing release workflows.

• Issue Resolution & Documentation: Reproduced, resolved, and documented complex system and IIS issues, ensuring repeatable environment setups and supporting reliable, zero-error cloud deployments, highlighting RCA skills.

• Automation & Cost Control: Built PowerShell automation scripts to proactively identify unused domains and Azure DB resources, facilitating cost optimization and environment cleanup. Cisco Systems Technical Consulting Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer) Hyderabad, India Apr 2023 - Aug 2024

• Multi-Cloud IaC: Engineered resilient and scalable multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS + Azure) using Terraform (IaC), streamlining the management of compute, networking, IAM, and security resources, demonstrating strong platform-agnostic infrastructure building skills.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Designed and implemented cloud-native solutions leveraging Docker and Kubernetes

(EKS), enabling scalable microservices deployments, and proving proficiency in container orchestration.

• Monitoring & Observability: Implemented end-to-end monitoring using Prometheus, Zabbix, and Grafana, integrating custom metrics, alert rules, and dashboards to proactively detect performance anomalies and improve system visibility (relevant to Datadog experience).

• SRE Principles: Performed advanced troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational monitoring using AWS-native metrics

(CloudWatch, CloudTrail), adhering to SRE principles to reduce operational issues and improve system stability. Tata Consultancy Services Systems Engineer (cloud Admin & DevSecOps) Hyderabad. India Aug 2021 - Apr 2023

• Kubernetes Security & Deployment: Managed and secured production-grade Kubernetes workloads using Helm charts, implementing RBAC, Pod Security Standards (PSS), and Network Policies for secure, scalable cluster operations across multi- environment setups.

• CI/CD & Provisioning Acceleration: Automated multi-region deployments using AWS CloudFormation, cutting provisioning time by 60%, and built highly secure, reusable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins + Git), demonstrating automation and pipeline enhancement capabilities.

• Cloud Governance & Cost Optimization: Delivered substantial annual cost savings (>$500K/year) by optimizing compute/storage footprints and performing environment audits, showcasing a strong focus on cloud resource efficiency.

• Global Cloud Engineering: Led the engineering of a Global Service Delivery Platform, building multi-account AWS cloud environments from the ground up, increasing cloud governance and security compliance by 50%. SKILLS

• Languages: Python, Go, JavaScript, SQL, C, Java

• DevOps & IaC: Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Packer, Puppet

• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Helm, Ingress Controllers, Microservices Architecture

• CI/CD & Scripting: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Python, PowerShell, Bash

• Monitoring/OS: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Splunk, Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati Master of Science in Information Technology Aug 2024 – Dec 2025 Cloud computing, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Automated Learning and Data Analysis GPA: 3.964/4.0

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