Cloud Engineer - Multi-Cloud, IaC, DevSecOps Expert

BHAVYA REGALLA

Cloud Engineer

Chicago, IL +1-224-***-**** **************@*****.*** LinkedIn

SUMMARY

Cloud Engineer with 4 years of experience delivering scalable cloud solutions across healthcare, enterprise SaaS, and mobile-backend domains. Skilled in multi-cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and cloud security. Proven ability to modernize workloads and improve deployment efficiency, including supporting systems handling 5M+ user records, while enhancing reliability and optimizing cloud operations. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BCBS (Blue Cross Blue Shield) USA

DevOps Engineer Oct 2025 – Present

● Led migration of key claims-processing workloads to AWS using Terraform and CloudFormation, modernizing 3 environments and retiring 2 server clusters, delivering $45,000 annual infrastructure savings.

● Developed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, and AWS CodePipeline, cutting build-to-release time from 28 minutes to 9 minutes across 7 microservices.

● Implemented ELK Stack with CloudWatch for unified observability, reducing alert triage from 62 minutes to 18 minutes and improving visibility for systems handling 5M+ member records.

● Containerized internal batch and API services using Docker and EKS, enabling stable autoscaling and supporting 3X workload spikes without service disruption.

● Applied DevSecOps practices by enforcing IAM least-privilege policies, secrets management, and secure network configurations aligned with healthcare compliance requirements.

Dell Technologies India

Cloud Engineer Sep 2019 – Jul 2023

● Designed hybrid-cloud environments on Azure and AWS for internal SaaS workloads, managing 1 TB of storage and improving service responsiveness across 3 production regions through optimized VM and load-balancer configurations.

● Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, eliminating 10 manual steps and reducing environment creation time from 14 hours to under 2 hours for development teams.

● Containerized legacy workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, migrating 5 high-usage services and enabling weekly deployments with significantly fewer rollback events.

● Implemented IAM, security groups, and encryption controls, reducing recurring vulnerability findings by 8 and strengthening compliance readiness.

● Introduced cost-tracking and tagging standards, identifying $32,000 in unused resources and supporting $18,000 annual savings through targeted cleanup and rightsizing.

● Provisioned AWS and Azure environments for mobile-backend and web applications, supporting stable operations for systems handling 1.2M+ monthly user requests across client projects.

● Developed automated backup and recovery workflows using AWS S3, RDS snapshots and Azure Blob storage, reducing recovery time from 180 minutes to 20 minutes and securing 850 GB of application data.

● Refactored core application workloads into container-ready components on Kubernetes, enabling streamlined CI/CD releases for 5 production workloads with fewer deployment failures across 5 quarters.

● Created Python and Bash scripts for deployments, log rotation and health checks, reducing repetitive operational work by 15 hours per month for the engineering team.

● Configured VPCs, subnets, security groups and VPN connections to establish secure communication between cloud components and on-prem systems across 4 active projects.

● Collaborated with development and QA teams to integrate RESTful APIs and support MySQL-to-DynamoDB migration tasks, enabling 7 new API endpoints and improving data access for modules handling 4M queries per week. TECHNICAL SKILLS

● Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda), Azure (VM, Blob, Azure AD), GCP (GCE, Cloud Storage), Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), Container Registries (ECR/ACR)

● IaC & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD), Bash, Python

● Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Helm

● CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Git, GitHub/GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, automated release workflows

● Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry

● Databases & Storage: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, RDS, S3/Blob/GCS

● Networking & Security: VPC, Subnets, VPN, Load Balancers, Security Groups, Network ACLs, IAM, Zero-Trust principles, encryption & compliance controls

● Cost Management: Tagging standards, resource right-sizing, cost tracking, FinOps awareness

● Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, SQL

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Lewis University Chicago, IL Aug 2023 – May 2025 CERTIFICATION

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