Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud CI/CD & IaC Expert

Varij Venkata Vitesh Kancharlapalli

DevOps Engineer

Dallas, Texas 806-***-**** ********************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/vitesh-kancharlapalli SUMMARY

DevOps Engineer with 4 years enhancing cloud reliability, security, and automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Designed platforms for 30+ applications, improved governance with IaC frameworks used by 10+ teams, and reduced cloud spend by 20% through targeted optimization. Strong background in Kubernetes, GitOps, and scalable CI/CD systems enabling faster, safer delivery for enterprise environments. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps Engineer JP Morgan Chase & Co. Dallas, Texas October 2025 – Present

Engineered secure, compliant infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates, reducing environment setup from 3 days to under 2 hours, while enhancing security through Policy-as-Code (OPA), enabled CIS Benchmarks, secret scanning with HashiCorp Vault, and vulnerability management pipelines that cut audit prep by 30+ hours quarterly.

Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, integrating SonarQube, SAST/DAST, container security, and GitOps

(ArgoCD), standardizing deployments for 8+ critical applications and ensuring adherence to FFIEC and SOX controls.

Implemented centralized monitoring & logging with AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Splunk, ELK Stack, and Nagios, using unified Grafana dashboards to improve visibility and reduce incident detection time by 45 minutes.

Orchestrated containerized workloads on AWS EKS and AKS using Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes autoscaling (HPA), implementing Istio service mesh for traffic management and multi-cluster failover, which increased deployment frequency by 40%, and led cloud cost optimization initiatives that Lowered monthly spend by 15% across AWS and Azure.

Research Assistant (RA) – Cloud / Systems Texas Tech University Texas, USA September 2024 – August 2025

Managed secure, multi-region AWS and GCP infrastructure for 25+ production applications using Terraform and CloudFormation, implementing drift detection and governance guardrails, while standardizing environment provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, which shared IaC practices with 8 teams and reduced setup time by 27 hours per sprint.

Optimized identity governance by decommissioning 50+ inactive identities and developing Terraform modules enforcing PCI DSS controls, saving 120+ hours in quarterly audits.

Implemented a comprehensive observability stack with Datadog, Grafana, and Loki, adding deployed dashboards and alerts that shortened production incident MTTI by 90 minutes.

Designed and executed the migration of on-premise legacy applications to AWS using Kubernetes, achieving a 20% reduction in infrastructure costs while improving scalability.

DevOps Engineer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Hyderabad, India January 2022 -July 2023

Architected secure, multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure using Terraform and Bicep, provisioning core services for 12+ enterprise microservices and standardizing deployment patterns.

Engineered configured CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and CircleCI, integrating SAST/DAST, container scanning, and ArgoCD GitOps workflows, reducing deployment-related rollbacks by 15 incidents per quarter.

Modernized a large-scale telecom platform by containerizing 20+ legacy services and deploying to OpenShift (Kubernetes), managing lifecycles via Helm and Operators, and lowering cloud compute spend by $8,500/month.

Built and maintained high-availability PostgreSQL clusters with automated failover, backups, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, achieving 99.99% uptime and preventing 40+ hours of downtime.

Integrated an end-to-end observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Nagios, embedding CIS benchmark compliance automation with SecOps and reducing MTTR by 2 hours.

Accelerated IaC and configuration management using reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks, eliminating 15 hours of manual environment setup per sprint, and contributed to incident recovery efforts for Sev1/Sev2 outages by supporting the implementation of RCA processes and refined rollback procedures.

Intern DevOps Engineer Cipla Hyderabad, India July 2021 – December 2021

Assisted in developing and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, improving efficiency for internal applications.

Supported provisioning and management of cloud resources using Terraform and Azure, contributing to migration and environment setup tasks.

Collaborated on containerizing applications using Docker and simplified to Kubernetes test clusters, gaining hands-on experience with orchestration tools.

Monitored system performance and health using Azure Monitor and Grafana dashboards, identifying issues and escalating to senior engineers.

CERTIFICATION

Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, EKS), Azure (Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, AKS, SQL Database, Bicep), GCP

(Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage)

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, OpenShift Operators, Istio (Service Mesh) CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, FluxCD Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure Bicep, AWS CDK Monitoring, Logging & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, Loki, Splunk, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Jaeger (Distributed Tracing)

Security & Compliance: HashiCorp Vault, SAST/DAST Tools (SonarQube), CIS Benchmark Automation, Policy-as-Code (OPA, Sentinel), IAM, Security Groups/NSGs

Scripting & Automation: Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ruby (for infrastructure automation, logging, and backup scripts) Networking: VPC/VNet, VPN, Load Balancers, Firewalls, DNS Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB Version Control & APIs: Git, GitHub, GitLab, REST APIs Operating Systems & Methodologies: Linux, Windows, Agile/Scrum, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) EDUCATION

Cumberland University-Master's in Information Technology and Management (September 2023 – August 2025) Texas, USA

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