DevOps Engineer - CI/CD & Kubernetes Expert

MUKTHASREE VENGOTI

GCP DevOps Engineer CI/CD & Kubernetes Expert Cloud Cost

Optimization

+1-330-***-**** ************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukthasree-vengoti/ Connecticut SUMMARY

GCP DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in automating CI/CD pipelines, managing Kubernetes infrastructure, and Optimizing cloud costs on Google Cloud Platform. Skilled in Terraform-based IaC, Cloud Build, and Monitoring to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure deployments. Committed to driving team efficiency, uptime, and cloud operational excellence in a fast-paced DevOps environments.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

CI/CD Pipeline Redesign

Increased deployment frequency by 4 by redesigning CI/CD pipelines.

Optimized Storage Management

Reduced storage cost by 20% using Cloud Storage

lifecycle policies.

Automated Infrastructure Setup

Cut setup time by 75% with automated infrastructure using Terraform.

Enhanced Deployment Strategy

Achieved 99.9% uptime with blue/green and canary

deployments.

EXPERIENCE

02/2024 - Present

Hartford, United States

GCP DevOps Engineer

Travelers Insurance

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Cloud Build on GKE, improving deployment reliability and accelerating release cycles. Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups and sprint planning, to align DevOps tasks with development priorities and ensure timely delivery of pipeline updates and deployments.

Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform modules (VPC, GKE, IAM), cutting setup time by 75% and ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments.

Strengthened IAM and secret management using Workload Identity and Secret Manager, achieving zero credential exposure in CI/CD pipelines. Worked with the team to implement blue/green and canary deployments with Cloud Deploy and GKE ingress load balancing, improving release reliability and achieving 99.9% uptime for production workloads.

Used JIRA to manage and prioritize DevOps tasks, assigning story points for team clarity, collaborating with developers, and maintaining documentation to support smooth deployment cycles.

Reduced overall GCP cost by 25% through node-pool rightsizing, Spot VMs for batch jobs, and artifact retention optimizations.

Managed Cloud Storage buckets for Terraform state files, build artifacts, and logs with versioning and lifecycle policies, strengthening governance and data integrity. Integrated cloud monitoring and logging with uptime checks and custom alerts, enhancing incident visibility and improving system reliability.

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EXPERIENCE

06/2021 - 07/2023

Bangalore, India

GCP DevOps Engineer

Avery Dennison

Migrated on-premises workloads to Google Cloud Platform, improving scalability and reducing provisioning time by 40% using Terraform-based IaC and Cloud Run deployments. Collaborated in Agile sprints, coordinating with development teams to prioritize CI/CD and infrastructure tasks for efficient and timely releases. Developed reusable Terraform modules and workspaces, minimizing configuration drift and cutting environment provisioning errors by 80%.

Built and maintained Jenkins declarative pipelines integrated with Git and Artifact Registry, automating release workflows and cutting manual deployments by 80%. Monitored and updated JIRA tickets with story points, addressing high-priority issues, collaborating across teams, and documenting project progress to ensure transparency in CI/CD workflows.

Deployed and optimized GKE clusters with autoscaling and resource limits to ensure cost- efficient and reliable performance.

Implemented backup and disaster recovery using Cloud Storage versioning and lifecycle rules, achieving RPO 15 min and RTO 30 min for critical systems. Monitored system-generated dashboards in Cloud Monitoring to track CPU, memory utilization, and workload status across GKE clusters, Cloud Run services, and VM instances, ensuring consistent system performance and uptime.

EDUCATION

08/2023 - 05/2025

Kent, OH

Master of Science (M.S.) in Data Science

Kent State University

06/2018 - 07/2022

Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) SKILLS

Cloud & IaC:

GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, BigQuery),AWS (S3, EC2, EKS, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, AWS SageMaker), Azure (Core Services, Compute, Storage, Networking, Key Vault), Terraform, Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLANs, Load Balancers, Firewalls), IAM, Workload Identity, Infrastructure Automation, VMware, Windows Server & Active Directory CI/CD & Containers:

Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Cloud Build, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Multi-stage builds, Blue-Green & Canary Deployments, Maven, Selenium, Cloud Deploy, Agile

Monitoring & Security:

Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, AWS CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, Dynatrace, Cloud Logging, ELK, Datadog, SLIs/SLOs, Alerts & Dashboards, RCA, Splunk, Vulnerability Scanning & Remediation, Compliance (SOC2, ISO/NIST) Automation & Systems:

Python (automation & scripting), .NET, Bash, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC, Ansible, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat), Windows Server Administration, Microservices, Git, Jira, SQL/Postgres/NoSQL, ETL, Kafka, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Redis

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