DevOps Engineer - Cloud Automation & CI/CD Specialist

SIRISHA GARIKA

Youngstown, OH +1-330-***-**** ***************@*****.*** Portfolio

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic DevOps Engineer with experience in designing automated CI/CD pipelines, building resilient cloud-native infrastructures, and implementing DevSecOps practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Skilled in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), container orchestration with Kubernetes, and cloud automation to streamline deployments and enhance scalability. Adept at improving delivery speed, system reliability, and cloud cost efficiency through proactive monitoring, shift-left security, and performance optimization. TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps & CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, CircleCI. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Packer. Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, IAM, CodePipeline), Azure (AKS, Functions, DevOps), GCP (GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Run). Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, Kustomize, OpenShift. DevSecOps & Security Automation: SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, OWASP ZAP, HashiCorp Vault, Prisma Cloud, Checkov. Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack, Datadog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry. Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, YAML. Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence. Testing & Quality Automation: PyTest, JUnit, Postman, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework. Messaging & Databases: Kafka, RabbitMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis. DevOps Engineer May 2021 - Apr 2023

M3 Solutions Hyderabad, India

• Spearheaded the development of robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, automating build validation, artifact deployment, and rollback workflows, which cut manual release overhead by nearly 40% and improved deployment accuracy.

• Streamlined infrastructure provisioning on AWS through Terraform and Ansible, building modular templates for EKS, EC2, and S3 that enabled consistent, version-controlled environments and reduced provisioning time from three days to a few hours.

• Transformed the release model by containerizing legacy services with Docker and orchestrating them via Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm, increasing system uptime and achieving faster rollouts across staging and production clusters.

• Embedded SonarQube, Snyk, and Trivy into the CI pipelines to perform code quality and vulnerability scans, establishing a proactive DevSecOps culture that led to a 75% decline in security issues prior to deployment.

• Introduced centralized monitoring through Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, implementing dynamic alerting and custom dashboards that provided real-time visibility into application health and reduced incident response time by over 60%.

• Automated API and integration testing using PyTest and Postman within CI/CD workflows, ensuring continuous validation of microservices and lowering production defects by around 25%, improving end-user reliability.

• Configured Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS Auto Scaling Groups to right-size workloads in real time, maintaining performance stability during traffic surges and trimming unnecessary compute costs by 15%.

• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to standardize Git branching strategies and integrate quality gates in build pipelines, streamlining release coordination and minimizing merge conflicts across distributed teams. PROJECTS

Secure CI/CD Pipeline with DevSecOps Automation

• Orchestrated end-to-end GitLab CI/CD flows that run unit tests, static analysis, container scans and automated deployments to EKS, delivering consistent releases and reducing manual handoffs by 45%.

• Codified AWS infrastructure with Terraform modules for VPC, subnets, EKS, RDS and S3, storing state in S3 with DynamoDB locking to guarantee immutable, repeatable environment builds.

• Embedded policy-as-code and security gates using Checkov, SonarQube, Snyk, OWASP ZAP and Trivy in pipelines to block misconfigurations and container vulnerabilities, cutting pre-release security findings by 80%. Cloud-Native Task Management Platform

• Containerized MERN microservices with Docker and implemented Jenkins pipelines that build, test and push images to a private registry, enabling automated deployments and accelerating feature delivery.

• Deployed services to EKS with Helm charts and NGINX ingress for path-based routing, achieving resilient traffic management and sustaining 99.9% availability under variable load.

• Instrumented Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards to track request latency and resource utilization, then tuned HPA thresholds to reduce API latency by 28% during peak usage.

Cloud Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring

• Developed reusable Terraform modules and environment-specific workspaces to standardize account-level networking, IAM roles and EKS cluster creation, improving provisioning speed and auditability.

• Automated Helm-based deployments with environment overlays and CI triggers to enforce release policies across dev, staging and prod, which eliminated configuration drift and shortened release cycles.

• Implemented Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack notifications and CloudWatch alarms to surface service degradation, and configured auto-healing with Kubernetes HPA to maintain 99.95% uptime while optimizing cost. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computing and Information Systems Aug 2023 - May 2025 Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sep 2018 - May 2022 Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional - Coursera

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer - Coursera

• Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Expert - LinkedIn Learning

• CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions & Docker - LinkedIn Learning

• Kubernetes for Cloud Engineers-Deploying on AWS, Azure & GCP - Coursera

• DevSecOps Foundations: Infrastructure, Security & Automation - DataCamp

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