Chandraprakash Reddy Kothapally
Aubrey,TX
Summary
Results-driven Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer with expertise in AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD automation. Proven track record in enhancing system uptime and incident response, reducing release times by 20% while ensuring compliance and reliability across critical infrastructure.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Verizon
Irving, TX
11.2022 - Current
- Ensured 99.9% uptime for mission-critical systems using New Relic, Catchpoint,Logstash and Splunk
- Developed Ansible playbooks for automating configuration management and deployment
- Automated CI/CD deployments via Jenkins pipelines, reducing release times by 20%
- Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Developed and deployed RPD and SSI BAR files to manage and migrate Oracle BI metadata, dashboards, and service instance configurations, supporting reliable environment provisioning and version control
- Managed federal systems with integrated release and failover workflows, ensuring compliance, traceability, and uninterrupted service delivery across critical infrastructure
- Enhanced observability workflows, improving incident detection and reducing MTTR by 30%
- Led middleware and spring upgrades to reduce application vulnerabilities and improve security posture for both Federal and Non-Federal environments
- Coordinated production releases using Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow
- Implemented vulnerability remediation strategies across cloud and on-prem systems
- Integrated JFrog Artifactory (OneArtifactory) for artifact management in CI/CD workflows
- Managed on-call rotations and ensured reliable rollouts and rollback mechanisms
- Maintained round-the-clock support for severity 1–4 issues, driving incident triage, root cause analysis, and failover execution to uphold SLAs and minimize downtime.
DevOps Engineer Iterative
Scopes
Boston, MA
06.2022 - 11.2022
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Automated GI Machine Learning model training by injecting data into S3 via AWS Lambda
- Managed IAM access and user provisioning across the organization, ensuring secure role-based access control, compliance with internal policies, and streamlined onboarding and offboarding processes.
- Used Docker and Kubernetes functionally for container lifecycle management and deployment
- Configured AWS IAM and OIDC authentication for secure workflows
- Developed Splunk dashboards and alerts, reducing incident response time by 20%
- Deployed workloads to AWS ECS and automated training pipelines
Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Verizon
Irving, TX
07.2019 - 06.2022
- Performed regular middleware and infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
- Worked in Migrating on-prem java applications to Oracle cloud Infrastructure for better cost optimization
- Optimized system performance through capacity planning and cost tuning
- Enhanced observability workflows and reduced MTTR by 30%
- Supported monthly major releases and fallout patch deployments
- Collaborated with development, security, and operations teams to maintain resilient systems
- Led middleware and spring upgrades to reduce application vulnerabilities and improve security posture
- Integrated JFrog Artifactory (OneArtifactory) for artifact management in CI/CD workflows
- Managed on-call rotations and ensured reliable rollouts and rollback mechanisms
- Maintained round-the-clock support for severity 1–4 issues, driving incident triage, root cause analysis, and failover execution to uphold SLAs and minimize downtime.
Skills
- Technical Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda), Oracle Cloud, VMware Workstation
- IaC & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker (functional use), Kubernetes (functional use)
- Observability & Monitoring: Splunk, New Relic, Catchpoint, Prometheus, Logstash
- Security & Middleware: IAM, OIDC Authentication, Vulnerability Remediation, Middleware Upgrades
- DevOps Tools: JFrog Artifactory (OneArtifactory), Gitlab, GitHub
- Collaboration & ITSM: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
- Incident Response: On-call support, error budgets, postmortems, MTTR reduction
Timeline
Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Verizon
11.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer Iterative
Scopes
06.2022 - 11.2022
Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Verizon
07.2019 - 06.2022
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