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Bhuvana Rao Ponugoti

Frisco,TX

Summary

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade cloud platforms on Azure and AWS. Strong expertise in Terraform (IaC), Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps. Proven track record supporting high-availability systems, incident response, and observability at enterprise scale. Hands-on experience enabling MLOps and Generative AI workloads using Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and secure deployment pipelines.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer/MLOps

Kroger
11.2024 - Current
  • Designed, provisioned, and operated enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure supporting multiple product and platform teams, with a focus on resiliency, security, and scalability.
  • Built reusable Terraform modules for Azure networking, compute, security, and PaaS services, reducing manual provisioning effort by 40% and improving environment consistency.
  • Collaborated closely with application and platform teams to design and deploy infrastructure foundations, enabling teams to run workloads on AKS, App Services, Web Apps, and App Service Environments.
  • Supported AKS clusters running production microservices, assisting with RBAC, networking, Docker-based workloads, and Kubernetes resource management.
  • Designed and standardized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and enabling reliable promotions across multiple environments.
  • Implemented DevSecOps controls using Azure Key Vault, RBAC, and policy enforcement, ensuring secure secrets management and compliance with enterprise standards.
  • Delivered end-to-end observability using Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and limited Datadog, improving MTTD by 30%.
  • Managed backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery for critical workloads.
  • Supported hybrid networking configurations including VPNs, ExpressRoute, and TCP/IP networking, enabling secure connectivity to limited on-prem environments.
  • Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations, responding to production incidents via ServiceNow, performing root cause analysis, and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
  • Collaborated with Architecture, Security, Networking, and Product teams to standardize cloud and platform best practices across the organization.
  • Enabled MLOps platforms using Azure Machine Learning, supporting ML pipeline automation, model artifact storage, and controlled promotion to production.
  • Supported Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI Service, LangChain, LangGraph and LangSmith ensuring secure access via Key Vault and CI/CD automation.
  • Assisted in deploying containerized ML workloads to AKS, supporting environment-specific configurations and operational readiness.

DevOps Engineer

SRS Distributions
09.2023 - 11.2024
  • Managed and optimized Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, following Infrastructure as Code best practices and also managed Azure resources including Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage, Security components, and Azure API Management, configuring inbound and outbound API policies.
  • Developed, maintained, and enhanced CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate infrastructure and application deployments across multiple environments.
  • Troubleshot and resolved issues related to Terraform provisioning, pipeline failures, and automation scripts, reducing deployment delays.
  • Built proactive monitoring dashboards and alerts using Datadog and Splunk, improving visibility and incident detection.
  • Developed and debugged containerized workloads, leveraging Lens and Octant for Kubernetes troubleshooting.
  • Monitored system availability, latency, and health, participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and change management.
  • Maintained Azure API Management, configuring inbound and outbound API policies.
  • Led Datadog integrations for .NET and Java APIs, including alert migrations from Splunk.
  • Mentored team members and contributed to DevOps standards, documentation, and best practices.

Site Reliability Engineer

Liberty Mutual Insurance
02.2023 - 05.2023
  • Assessed application and database readiness for cloud migration by scanning source code using Cloud Pilot, ensuring reliability and operational requirements were met.
  • Executed lift-and-shift migrations of virtual machines to Azure using agent-based migration and VMDK/OVA workflows, supporting production cutovers.
  • Provisioned and managed Azure IaaS and PaaS resources aligned with availability and reliability standards.
  • Defined and monitored SLIs and SLOs using Azure Monitor metrics and logs to maintain service reliability.
  • Configured proactive alerts for virtual machines and applications, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD).
  • Supported incident response and root cause analysis for production issues, implementing corrective actions to reduce MTTR.
  • Secured and load-balanced applications using Azure Application Gateway (WAF) to improve availability and security.

Associate Consultant

Infosys
Hyderabad, India
01.2019 - 08.2021
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to support continuous integration and delivery for Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js microservices.
  • Automated application deployments and configuration management using Ansible Tower, developing reusable playbooks and job templates.
  • Supported containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, including migrations to Amazon EKS using Helm.
  • Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, including VPC, EC2, IAM, RDS, S3, Route 53, and Auto Scaling.
  • Assisted with on-prem to AWS migrations, including database migration to Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) with performance tuning and optimization.
  • Integrated AWS Secrets Manager, Vault, and KMS to secure application secrets and enable encryption at rest.
  • Hyderabad, India

Education

Master of Science - Information Sciences

University of Texas
Arlington, TX

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: Azure (AKS, App Services, Azure ML, Azure Monitor, Key Vault), AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM)
  • MLOps: Google VertexAI services, Kubeflow, Airflow, AWS Glue Jupyter Notebooks, Conda, Databricks (Basics Training),
    Databricks Asset Bundles
  • Infrastructure & Containers: Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Docker, Helm
  • CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins
  • Observability & Reliability: Azure Monitor, Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Shell, YAML, JSON
  • Security & DevSecOps: RBAC/IAM, Secrets Management, Policy as Code
  • Databases and storage: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB
  • Tools: Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, GitLab, Bitbucket, JIRA, ServiceNow
  • Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Kanban

Websites

Certification

  • AWS certified Machine learning
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)

Timeline

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer/MLOps

Kroger
11.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer

SRS Distributions
09.2023 - 11.2024

Site Reliability Engineer

Liberty Mutual Insurance
02.2023 - 05.2023

Associate Consultant

Infosys
01.2019 - 08.2021

Master of Science - Information Sciences

University of Texas

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Osmania University
Bhuvana Rao Ponugoti