AWS DevOps Engineer with 5+ Years of Experience

SUMMARY

NAVYA KAKARLA

Marietta, GA +1-470-***-**** ***************@*****.*** LinkedIn

AWS DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing scalable cloud infrastructures, automating CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing deployment reliability across large-scale enterprise environments in healthcare and technology domains. Proven success implementing EKS-based container platforms, optimizing cloud cost and performance, enforcing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and driving secure, compliant operations using IAM best practices, Secrets Manager, and VPC security controls. Adept at building GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines, modernizing workloads with Docker/Kubernetes, and enabling high-availability systems through CloudWatch, ELB, Auto Scaling, and distributed logging. Strong collaborator with a track record of reducing release cycle times, improving system resilience, and delivering automation that accelerates development workflows and operational efficiency. SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS, ECS, Route 53), Azure (Basic) DevOps & Automation: CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, Release Automation Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, AWS ECR Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack, AWS CloudWatch Logs & Metrics Networking & Security: VPC Design, Subnets, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), Security Groups, IAM Policies, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store

Scripting & Automation: Bash, Python, Shell Scripting, YAML Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Agile/Scrum System Administration: Linux Administration, System Hardening, Patch Management, Log Management EXPERIENCE

Centene, USA AWS DevOps Engineer Feb 2024 – Present

• Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform & CloudFormation, standardizing VPC, EC2, IAM, and networking setups; reduced provisioning time by 45% and improved deployment consistency across platform teams.

• Built robust CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions with automated testing, image scanning, and blue-green rollouts; accelerated release cycles by 50% while reducing production deployment failures by 35%.

• Containerized microservices and migrated critical workloads to Amazon EKS using Docker and Helm; increased application scalability and raised system uptime by 40% during peak claim-processing traffic.

• Implemented unified observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, establishing proactive alerting and performance dashboards; improved incident response times by 30% and reduced MTTR significantly.

• Strengthened cloud security by refining IAM policies, Security Groups, and S3 encryption standards; reduced audit findings and tightened access governance by 25% across the environment.

• Automated recurring operational tasks using Python and Bash, including patching, log rotation, and health checks; saved the DevOps team 20+ hours per week and reduced manual errors.

• Adopted GitOps practices via Argo CD to maintain consistent configuration states across environments; reduced configuration drift by 70% and improved deployment traceability.

• Led AWS cost-optimization by rightsizing EC2/RDS and enforcing lifecycle policies; delivered 20% annual savings without compromising system performance or SLAs.

Metasystems, India AWS DevOps Engineer Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

• Developed foundational AWS infrastructure using EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and RDS to support new enterprise applications; improved environment reliability by 30% and stabilized deployment workflows.

• Engineered automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI, integrating build, test, and deployment stages; reduced deployment time by 40% and significantly minimized release bottlenecks.

• Containerized monolithic applications using Docker and deployed to ECS and Kubernetes clusters; reduced update-related downtime by 35% and improved system scalability.

• Created reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning for multiple teams; cut configuration errors by 50% and accelerated new environment setup.

• Enhanced monitoring using CloudWatch, ELK/EFK, and Grafana, enabling deeper visibility into logs, metrics, and app performance; reduced major incidents by 25% through proactive detection.

• Re-architected VPC layouts, routing, and Security Groups to optimize cloud networking; improved service response consistency and reduced latency by 20% across customer-facing APIs.

• Automated server bootstrap, backups, log cleanup, and validation scripts using Shell/Bash, reducing manual operational workload by 50% and improving deployment hygiene.

• Collaborated with developers and QA using Git, GitHub, and Agile/Scrum practices; improved sprint delivery predictability and reduced integration-related blockers.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science Kennesaw State University — Marietta, GA Dec 2023 CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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