Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)

Summary

Venkata Vamsi Krishna Kalisetty

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Kansas 913-***-**** *****.*******.*******@*******.*** LinkedIn

AWS DevOps / Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience automating CI/CD pipelines, optimizing AWS and multi- cloud (Azure, GCP) infrastructure, and embedding DevSecOps practices. Proven success in reducing deployment cycles by 40%, hardening release security by 60%, and designing highly available architectures. Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Python/Bash automation. Collaborative problem solver passionate about building scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments that accelerate business innovation.

Core Competencies

Cloud Platforms: AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Route53), Azure, GCP CI/CD & Release Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Helm, ECS, ECR/ACR

Monitoring & Security: Prometheus, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash), CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP ZAP

Scripting & Configuration: Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, HCL

Version Control & OS: Git, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Networking Fundamentals

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer McKinsey & Co. Feb 2025 – Present

Integrated SonarQube, Trivy, and OWASP ZAP into CI/CD pipelines, boosting pre-production security by 60%.

Automated AWS Lambda functions for S3 object classification and auditing, reducing misconfigurations by

40%.

Enhanced Jenkins + ArgoCD workflows, achieving a 30% reduction in deployment time.

Built IaC stacks (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Route53) with Terraform and CloudFormation to enable repeatable, fault- tolerant environments.

Designed automated log analysis and incident alerting using Splunk + CloudWatch, improving response efficiency by 35%.

Deployed microservices on EKS via Helm charts, improving scalability and fault isolation.

Drove cross-team DevSecOps adoption, standardizing deployment blueprints and IaC modules.

DevOps Engineer Avenir Technologies Jan 2020 – Jul 2023

Designed and maintained EKS clusters monitored via Datadog & CloudWatch, minimizing downtime incidents.

Automated CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Docker Registry, cutting manual deployment errors by 70%.

Developed Terraform modules for multi-environment provisioning, improving infrastructure speed and consistency.

Implemented event-driven Lambdas for compute optimization, cutting cloud operational costs by 25%.

Configured auto-scaling EC2/ECS clusters for high availability (99.99% uptime).

Established threat-detection automation using CloudTrail filters + Lambda alerts, improving compliance posture.

Contributed to migration projects from legacy VMs to containerized microservices on AWS.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Central Missouri, USA

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