Senior DevOps / SRE Architect with 11+ Years Experience

Location:

Princeton Junction, NJ

Posted:

January 26, 2026

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Resume:

Saipratap Reddy

DevOps Engineer

Mobile No: +1-640-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

●Senior DevOps / SRE Architect with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure environments.

●DevOps Build/Release Management, Change/Incident Management and Cloud Management.

●Highly motivated and committed DevOps Engineer experienced in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS cloud environments and Data centers, also familiar with EC2, Cloud watch, Elastic IP’s and managing security groups on AWS.

●Experience in managing cloud software deployments, with a focus on continuous integration and deployment using Gitlab, Jenkins, SVN and Maven.

●Worked on Jenkins for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment and Git for version control.

●Supporting configuration of Jenkins Build pipeline jobs, plug-in installation with team for configuration of maven multi module jobs, free style jobs.

●Experience deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console and AWS CLI.

●Experience in IAM, Route53, Auto scaling, Security Groups.

●Working on building scalable deployment pipelines,managing CI/CD pipelines using GiT

●Involved in configuring and integrating the servers with different environments to automate provisioning and creating new machines using CM/ Provisioning tools like Chef and Puppet

●Dockerized all the services and the Applications.

●Implemented testing environment for Kubernetes and administrated the Kubernetes cluster.

●written shell scripts and ansible playbook to manage the running services.

●worked in deployment and scaling processes based on docker and ansible for all service.

●Experienced with the understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

●Hands-on experience with a broad range of AWS Cloud Services like EC2, ELB, ELK Auto Scaling, VPC, Route53, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, AWS lambda, Elastic search, and Cloud Watch.

●Extensive experience using GRADLE, MAVEN, and ANT as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (war & ear) from source code.

●Hands-On experience in DevOps tools such as GIT, GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Nagios, Ansible, Docker and Splunk.

●Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, building automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.

●Experience in monitoring solutions Splunk, Datadog.

●Used Jenkins and Pipelines which helped us drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes.

●Hands on experience with Docker containers to maintain Docker images, Docker hub & registries

●Well versed at enabling Global Security for WebSphere environment using LDAP server.

●Interacted closely with application developers, database administrators, UNIX administrators, and the Security team for resolving issues related to applications.

●Installing, maintaining and administration of WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server on Linux servers.

●Monitoring Tools Knowledge and experience in Graphana, Glowroot.

●Experienced on Cutover, Go-Live activities, define and standardize SLAs.

●Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins and configured various plugins GIT, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus.

●Provide on-call support for Production releases and defined escalation procedures and provided Level 1 and Level 2 operational support.

●Understanding of automation & monitoring concepts and tools.

●Hand on experience on UNIX Shell Scripting.

●Good knowledge on CA SiteMinder Single Sign-On (SSO).

●Good understanding of processes like ITIL Incident Management, Problem Management, Change & Release Management. Personal Skills, Strong Collaboration and Co-ordination skills

Education: Bachelors from JNTUK, Kakinada in 2014

Certifications: Completed AWS Associate Solution Architect in October 2024

Technical Skills:

Middleware

IBM WebSphere Administration, HIS, IBM WebSphere MQ

DevOps Tools

AWS,Jenkins, GIT, Ansible, Ant, Maven, Docker,Chef

Web Servers

IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat Server

App Servers

WebSphere Application Server

OS & Monitoring Tools

UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Solaris, DataDog, Grafana, Nagios

Development Tools

Shell Scripting, Powershell

Database

Oracle 10g/11g, DB2, MongoDB, SQL Server.

Networking/Protocol

TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SSH

Other Tools

WSADMIN, CA SiteMinder, WinScp, Putty, Remedy, SVN.Azure, Gcp

Professional Experience:

Client: S&P Global, NY Mar 2024 - Till Date

Role: DevOps Architect

S&P Global is a leading provider of essential financial intelligence, including credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions for capital, commodity, and automotive markets. It serves governments, businesses, and individuals worldwide, focusing on data-driven decision-making, sustainability, and energy transition.

Responsibilities:

●Involved in the part of an engineering team designated to design a new platform to host applications AWS while setting up VPN tunnels from the corporate network to VPCs in AWS and designing the Subnets, Routing, and IAM policies in AWS.

●Implementing AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Autoscaling groups, Optimized volumes, Cloud Formation, and Lambda.

●Using IAM to create new accounts, roles, and groups and engaged in enabling lambda functions for dynamic creation of Roles and automating the cloud deployments using Chef, python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

●Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform templates to build staging and production environments. Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.

●Working knowledge on Azure setup for blobfuse and MDM connection and kafka connection on cloud setup.

●Working knowledge on the Azure VM provision and start/stop and restart of services.

●Responsible for installing Jenkins’s master and slave nodes and configure Jenkins builds for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

●Working on Datastage 8.7 to 11.7 migration project and deployment of DSX file through Jenkins.

●Involved in configuring and integrating the servers with different environments to automate provisioning and creating new machines using CM/ Provisioning tools like Chef and Puppet.

●Build infrastructure as a code using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation Templates.

●Working on MicroServices deployment through Jenkins.

●Installed and configured ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana) for log management within EC2/ Elastic Load Balancer for Elastic Search.

● Working on Inbound and Outbound services with automation CHEF. Deployed multiple resources simultaneously, using Cloud Formation templates in AWS.

●Used Jenkins to automate builds and deployments of Java/J2EE applications and datastage jobs and IIB10.

●Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere ND V8.5.5 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Admin Console and automated scripts.

●Built upstream and downstream jobs in Jenkins to build and deploy onto different environments, worked with Jenkins CLI, manage plugins and Jenkins file.Hands on experience using JIRA, Rally. Experience in managing software artifacts required for development using repository managers like Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.

●Supported small to medium sized projects using GIT, Gitlab.

●Working on building scalable deployment pipelines,managing CI/CD pipelines using GiT

●Worked on Azure Data Bricks Jobs to secure key vault and github actions

●Manage Azure infrastructure code on Azure Bicep

●Worked on DBT work flows with azure

●Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins and Subversion and using the D4x tool.

●Working on TWS (Tivoli Workload scheduler) in configuring and scheduling of jobs in all environments.

●Working on CFT and Pelican file transfer services in all environments.

●Good knowledge and hands on experience in Elasticsearch.

●Jenkins administration to user access credentials, deployment email notification configuration for new users and using matrix plugins to manage Jenkins.

●Good Knowledge and Experience in Golang.

●Supporting configuration of Jenkins Build pipeline jobs, plugins installation with team for configuration of maven multi module jobs, free style jobs.

●Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging, and pushing the images.

●Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.

●Implemented testing environment for Kubernetes and administrated the Kubernetes cluster.

●Administration of Kubernetes and docker creating docker files and working with the kubectl commands.

●Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker Containers.

●Experienced and extensively worked on automated deployment (Terraform, AWS cloud formation), and Serverless architecture (AWS lambda and most AWS Services).

●Worked with ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana) stack to develop an end-to-end transaction processing system.

●Experience deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console and AWS CLI.

Environment: AWS services IAM EC2, S3, Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Python, JIRA, TWS, DataStage, Java, Database, Linux, IBM WebSphere AppServer 8.0, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, IIB10, Linux (Red Hat), AIX, Windows 2012, DB2, MongoDB, IBM HTTP Server.

Client: Providence Health Care, WA Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 Role: Lead Cloud Engineer

Providence health care is a large U.S. not-for-profit health system, is a leader in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) with a dedicated strategy focused on reducing clinician burnout, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing patient care and access. They are using amazon web services for the data processing and transactions and using Jenkins and Kubernetes for deployment of services.

Responsibilities:

●Implementing AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Autoscaling groups, Optimized volumes, Cloud Formation, and Lambda.

●Work closely with cross-functional team members such as developers, operations, product managers, and other stakeholders, architects on projects from idea to implementation.

●Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test and production environments.

●Build CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Jenkins in a containerized environment.

●Responsible for installing Jenkins’s master and slave nodes and configure Jenkins builds for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

●Creating pipeline jobs and integrating Jenkins for the build test and deploying the applications.

●GitHub for the source code management and creating and managing branches and working with git.

●Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.

●Deploy of application using the Jenkins job for all the environments using the pipeline jobs.

●Jenkins administration to user access credentials, deployment email notification configuration for new users and using matrix plugins to manage Jenkins.

●Working on building scalable deployment pipelines,managing CI/CD pipelines using GiT

●Worked on Azure Data Bricks Jobs to secure key vault and github actions

●Manage Azure infrastructure code on Azure Bicep

●Worked on DBT work flows with Azure

●Installed and configured ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana) for log management within EC2/ Elastic Load Balancer for Elastic Search. Working on Inbound and Outbound services with automation CHEF. Deployed multiple resources simultaneously, using Cloud Formation templates in AWS.

●Working experience in terraform for instance creation in AWS.

●Working with container systems (Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., EKS, Kubernetes, Swarm), Kubernetes experience in administration.

Environment: AWS services IAM EC2, S3, SNS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Python, JIRA, Microservices, Java, Database, Linux, RabbitMQ.

Client: Togetherwork, GA Feb 2021 – Sep 2022

Role: Senior Devops Engineer

TogetherWork focuses on designing, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure for TogetherWork’s enterprise applications. As part of the DevOps and Cloud Engineering team, the goal was to migrate workloads to Aws & Azure, implement CI/CD pipelines, and enhance system reliability, scalability, and cost optimization. The project also included identity management automation, monitoring setup, and production support to ensure seamless application delivery and secure operations.

Responsibilities:

●Implementing AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Autoscaling groups, Optimized volumes, Cloud Formation, and Lambda.

●Responsible for installing Jenkins’s master and slave nodes and configure Jenkins builds for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

●Creating pipeline jobs and integrating Jenkins for the build test and deploying the applications.

●GitHub for source code management and creating and managing branches and working with git.

●Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.

●Deploy application using the Jenkins job for all the environment using the pipeline jobs.

●Jenkins administration to user access credentials, deployment email notification configuration for new users and using matrix plugins to manage Jenkins.

●Working experience in terraform for instance creation in AWS.

●Worked with various components of Chef including Chef Server, workstations, Nodes, configurations of chef-client and involved in writing cookbooks and recipes for Chef and assigning roles to nodes. Deployed and configured Chef Server and Chef Solo including bootstrapping of Chef Client nodes for provisioning. Experience in setting up the Chef repo, Chef Workstations and Chef Nodes.

Environment: AWS services IAM EC2, S3, SNS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, Python, JIRA, Kinesis, Glu stream, Java, Database, Linux.

Client: AG First Farm Credit Bank, South Carolina. Aug 2020 – Jan 2021

Role: DevOps/SRE Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins and Maven, eliminating 85% of manual work.

●Managed 55+ AWS, Jenkins, and Chef accounts to proactively manage resource access and improve security.

●Strong working experience with AWS Cloud Formation and Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary.

●Automate day to day activities using shell &amp, python script.

●Experienced in Design an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance, and secured.

●Worked with several teams to transition workflows to Continuous Integration and Delivery model and implemented best practices for utilizing AWS.

●Designed, built and deployed multiple applications utilizing almost all of the AWS (Amazon web services),

●Including EC2, cloud watch S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing (Classic/Application), Auto Scaling,

●RDS, VPC, Route53, Security Groups, snapshots and IAM, focusing on high-availability and fault tolerance.

●Integrating Jenkins with AWS to automate Services.

●Well versed in managing source code repositories like SVN, Git, GitHub, Gitlab.

●Created Lambda Functions to trigger Ec2 instance through which all the required installation set up is done in Ec2 and calling the shell script from the lambda

●Extensive experience using MAVEN as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (Jar, war, ear) from source code.

●Delivered architecture designs and solutions for public, private and hybrid clouds covering the cloud architecture tiers and portfolios of cloud services.

●Have experience with Serverless/PaaS technologies (API Gateway, Lambda, Dynamo, S3, etc.).

●Exposed to all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing,

●Testing and implementing and post-production analysis of the projects with Agile /Scrum, Waterfall.

●Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.

Environment: AWS, Webservice, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Python, JIRA, Java, Database, Linux IBM WebSphere AppServer 8.0, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, HIS 8, Linux (Red Hat, OpenSuse), AIX, Windows 2012, DB2, MongoDB, IBM HTTP Server.

Client: Citi Bank, NYC Feb 2019 – Jul 2020

Role: Devops Engineer

The project aimed to streamline application delivery and infrastructure management for CITI Bank by implementing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation. The focus was on creating robust DevOps practices for faster deployments, secure infrastructure, and high availability. This included automating builds, managing code repositories, optimizing Jenkins, and working closely with development and QA teams to ensure smooth and reliable software delivery across multiple environments.

Responsibilities:

●Implementing AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Autoscaling groups, Optimized volumes, Cloud Formation, and Lambda.

●Responsible for installing Jenkins’s master and slave nodes and configure Jenkins builds for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

●Working on Datastage 8.7 to 11.7 migration project and deployment of DSX files through Jenkins.

●Working on MicroServices deployment through Jenkins.

●Used Jenkins to automate builds and deployments of Java/J2EE applications and datastage jobs and IIB10.

●Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere ND V8.5.5 that involve EAR, JAR, WAR files using Admin Console and automated scripts.

●Supported small to medium sized projects using GIT, Gitlab.

●Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins and Subversion and using the D4x tool.

●Working on TWS (Tivoli Workload scheduler) in configuring and scheduling of jobs in all environments.

●Working on CFT and Pelican file transfer services in all environments.

●Good knowledge and hands on experience in Elasticsearch.

●Jenkins administration to user access credentials, deployment email notification configuration for new users and using matrix plugins to manage Jenkins.

●Good Knowledge and Experience in Golang.

●Supporting configuration of Jenkins Build pipeline jobs, plugins installation with team for configuration of maven multi module jobs, free style jobs.

●Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging, and pushing the images.

●Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.

●Implemented testing environment for Kubernetes and administrated the Kubernetes cluster.

●Administration of Kubernetes and docker creating of docker files and worked with the kubectl commands.

●Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker Containers.

●Experienced and extensively worked on automated deployment (Terraform, AWS cloud

formation), and Serverless architecture (AWS lambda and most AWS Services).

●Worked with ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana) stack to develop an end-to-end transaction processing system.

●Experience deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console and AWS CLI.

Environment: AWS services IAM EC2, S3, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Python, JIRA, TWS, DataStage, Java, Database, Linux, IBM WebSphere AppServer 8.0, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, IIB10, Linux (Red Hat), AIX, Windows 2012, DB2, MongoDB, IBM HTTP Server.

Client: Cybage, India Oct 2014 – Jan 2019

Role: Cloud Engineer