Isaac Kambhampati
Senior DevOps Engineer
Dallas,TX
Summary
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with over 13+ years of experience leading end-to-end automation, cloud architecture, and delivery pipelines within AWS ecosystems. Expertise in architecting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across diverse production environments. Proven ability to transform complex deployments into seamless, repeatable, and scalable systems while effectively bridging development and operations with precision, speed, and reliability. Committed to driving innovation and efficiency in cloud solutions to enhance organizational performance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Years of masters education
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Noetic Global Corp
Dallas, Texas
08.2024 - 11.2025
- Architected and built entire Noetic’s AWS cloud foundation from ground zero, creating a multi-account architecture with secure VPC networking, subnets, routing, NAT gateways, and security groups for secure communication across environments – creating a scalable, cost-effective and production-ready cloud foundation.
- Solely owned the DevOps function from zero to full-scale production ready— establishing infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and cost management practices that supported the company’s entire engineering organization.
- Owned Infrastructure design and operations across EC2, Launch Templates, ALB’s, TG’s, and ASG’s across multiple ECS clusters with dynamic scaling policies, optimizing compute and storage costs by 25% through rightsizing, savings plans, and architecture refinements.
- Designed and Implemented AWS Organizations for multi-accounts access and Identity Center (SSO) for unified authentication and access control across accounts with granular IAM policy management.
- Enforced ECR lifecycle policies for tag immutability and stale image cleanup; reduced registry bloat and tightened provenance.
- Deployed Aurora PostgreSQL clusters with reader/writer endpoints, read replicas, and monitoring of replica lag, improving database reliability and scaling for production workloads.
- Implemented CloudFront CDN with S3 static hosting and WAF rules for frontend delivery, improving load times and web application security.
- Created multi-environment deployment strategy with isolated IAM roles and environment-based Terraform workspaces and automated deployments — eliminating configuration drift and improving deployment safety.
- Designed and deployed a high-availability self-managed Kubernetes cluster on EC2 instances with HA control planes, etcd backups and cluster auto scaling across multiple node pools with custom networking(CNI), ingress controller, persistent storage and monitoring using Helm-based application deployments.
- Automated Kubernetes Cluster infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and configuration management using Ansible, achieving full environment reproducibility across Dev, Staging and Production environments.
- Designed and Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for provisioning core AWS services (VPCs, EC2, ECS, ECR, Aurora RDS, ALBs, Route53, IAM, CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch) — achieving full environment reproducibility and version-controlled infrastructure changes.
- Defined and enforced GitOps - driven infrastructure workflows and IaC standards, reusable Terraform modules, enabling consistent and automated deployments and adopted policy-as-code for infra changes.
- Created reusable Terraform modules and environment-specific workspaces to isolate access, enforce standards, and eliminate drift between environments.
- Ran TF plan/apply through PR gates with mandatory reviews and change logs; maintained state isolation, remote state locking.
- Designed and implemented fully automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for backend, frontend and infrastructure repos — including automated builds, testing, image build, scan & push, and zero downtime deployments across dev, staging and production environments.
- Integrated SonarQube for code quality and coverage; enforced quality gates (coverage thresholds, bug/vulnerabilities/duplication limits) that block merges on regressions.
- Integrated AWS Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, and GitHub Secrets for secure credentials management in all automation workflows, also managing secrets rotation, access management, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Established centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Tempo through OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Collector - monitoring over 100+ EC2 instances, services, Kubernetes workloads and Aurora DB performance metrics with alerting and dashboards.
- Led capacity planning, cost optimization, high-availability design, and incident response automation for production services with measurable reduction in MTTR (40% faster recovery).
- Integrated Slack notifications for CI/CD events, CloudWatch alarms, and deployment outcomes to improve team visibility and reduce incident response time.
- Collaborated directly with the founding team to establish long-term cloud scalability and cost optimization strategy and infrastructure roadmaps aligned with product growth goals.
- Mentored engineers on CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, DevOps best practices, Git branching strategies, and incident response, fostering a DevOps culture of automation reliability and ownership across the engineering team.
- Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, Docker, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Terraform, Docker, JIRA, Prometheus, Grafana
Senior DevOps Engineer
Simplr
08.2022 - 08.2024
- Designed and managed multi-environment AWS infrastructure configuring EC2, ECS, ECR, ALB, ASGs, TGs, and VPC networking.
- Optimized ECS clusters and services for HA, efficient scaling, and isolated fault domains.
- Built Packer and Ansible-driven Golden AMI pipelines to standardize environment builds, cutting deployment time by 40% and ensuring configuration consistency across staging and production.
- Engineered large-scale AWS Batch pipelines (Fargate + EC2) and automated EventBridge/CloudWatch triggers for ML data processing jobs.
- Managed SageMaker for model training/inference, integrating CloudWatch metrics for performance monitoring.
- Migrated legacy configurations to Terraform modules for ECS, Batch, and CDN components, enforcing drift detection and CI validation checks across multi-region accounts.
- Automated Jenkins and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for Node.js, Python, and Java services — automating build/test/scan images, artifact promotion, and integrated Docker-based microservices and ECS deployments with blue/green release strategies with Slack and New Relic integration.
- Leveraged Ansible for configuration management and drift control, and patch automation.
- Deployed Lambda functions for serverless orchestration and Packer for immutable image builds across multiple environments.
- Implemented Route53 failover and latency-based routing, and configured CDN for global content acceleration with CloudTrail auditing to improve reliability, content delivery, compliance, visibility and governance tracking.
- Deployed observability stack with New Relic, CloudWatch, and Kibana, setting up alerts on ECS cluster health, latency, and resource utilization.
- Built Kibana dashboards for real-time visibility and performance analytics.
- Containerized monolithic applications into modular Docker microservices, improving deployment speed and maintainability, integrated with ECR for versioned image deployments, and streamlined image build stages for faster delivery cycles.
- Managed ECR lifecycle policies, and Savings Plans to optimize compute and storage spend.
- Built cost visibility dashboards and led monthly cost reviews with engineering teams.
- Implemented secure IAM roles, policies and permissions adhering to Least Privilege Principle.
- Integrated SSM Parameter Store and Secrets Manager for centralized secret rotation and secure service communication.
- Authored Groovy, Bash, and Python scripts to enhance Jenkins pipelines, automate deployments, manage logs, and validate releases — reducing manual intervention by 60%.
- Oversaw production releases for core platform, chatbot, and ML workloads — ensuring zero-downtime rollouts, instant rollback mechanisms, and 60% downtime reduction through ECS health automation.
- Authored Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines for build, image push, and ECS deployments—transitioned all freestyle jobs to pipelines, cutting release cycle time by 50% and increasing deployment frequency by 60%.
- Tech Stack: AWS, GitHub, Docker, Jenkins (CI/CD), Terraform, JIRA, New Relic, Kibana, Groovy.
DevOps Engineer
Anthem
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Supported and optimized AWS infrastructure across Dev, Staging, and Production, managing EC2, RDS, ELB, ASGs, S3, and DynamoDB integrations with Lambda.
- Implemented IAM governance, MFA, and least-privilege access controls maintaining lifecycle policies, versioning, automated backups for compliance and cost efficiency.
- Maintained and enhanced VPC networking, security groups, Route53 routing for secure and reliable communication.
- Updated CloudFormation stacks for new resource provisioning and integrations, ensuring configuration consistency and backward compatibility.
- Managed Docker and Kubernetes workloads across environments, maintaining Helm charts, YAML templates, manifests and release configurations.
- Performed cluster maintenance including rolling node upgrades, capacity adjustments, scaling, and security patching to ensure uptime.
- Automated recurring tasks with Ansible playbooks for configuration updates, package management, and environment provisioning.
- Utilized Ansible Tower for centralized orchestration and job scheduling across teams.
- Designed and maintained Jenkins pipelines integrating build, test, image scanning, artifact versioning, and deployments with rollback capabilities.
- Integrated Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible to create an automated release pipeline that handled infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and configuration synchronization.
- Implemented observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, and New Relic by setting up alerts, dashboards, and KPIs for application and infrastructure metrics, reducing incident response times and improving visibility.
- Supported production operations and on-call rotations, resolving incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing permanent fixes through automation.
- Collaborated with Development and QA teams to troubleshoot environment issues and improve build reliability and streamline release testing.
- Administered IAM roles, users, and access policies, enforcing MFA and least-privilege permissions to maintain a secure operational baseline and integrated CloudWatch for continuous monitoring, alerting and audit visibility.
- Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Splunk, New Relic, GitHub
DevOps Engineer
FirstData
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Managed AWS environments using CloudFormation templates to deploy and maintain EC2 instances, VPC networking (subnets, route tables, NAT gateways), RDS databases, and S3 storage with lifecycle rules, versioning, and automated backups.
- Implemented IAM policies and security groups enforcing least-privilege access, network segmentation, and compliance controls.
- Configured proactive monitoring and alerting through CloudWatch for EC2 and RDS performance metrics, integrating notifications for real-time system visibility and faster incident response.
- Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks and roles for server configuration, package installation, and middleware deployment.
- Leveraged Ansible Tower for centralized execution, patch management, and job scheduling, reducing manual maintenance and ensuring consistent configurations across environments.
- Designed Jenkins pipelines and integrated with GitHub for automated builds, testing, and deployments.
- Implemented environment-specific parameters, artifact versioning, rollback support, and optimized Jenkins agents/executors to improve build reliability and reduce pipeline duration.
- Containerized microservices using Docker, created custom Docker files, automated image builds, scans and pushes to artifact repositories, and maintained Docker runtimes on EC2 by troubleshooting networking, resource, and layering issues.
- Added image cleanup and tagging policies to keep registries lightweight and efficient.
- Wrote Bash and Python scripts for log cleanup, backup verification, and environment health checks, integrating them into Jenkins and Ansible workflows to enhance system automation and observability.
- Tech Stack: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Jira, Git Hub, Chef, Bash, Maven, Python, Dynamo DB.
DevOps Engineer
AT&T
04.2016 - 03.2019
- Managed AWS infrastructure across multiple regions using EC2, VPC networking, Security Groups, ELB’s and Auto Scaling for fault-tolerant, cost-efficient systems.
- Built custom AMI’s for consistent deployment baselines and CloudFront for edge delivery to reduce latency and offload front-end traffic.
- Automated deployments and infrastructure updates using CloudFormation templates and CLI tools.
- Implemented serverless approach where applicable and built lightweight workflows using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
- Automated Lambda deployments via S3 triggers and CloudWatch events, enabling lightweight event-driven data processing and scheduled automation tasks.
- Developed robust CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins integrated with Git and Maven for Java-based builds.
- Configured pipelines with automated build triggers, JUnit testing, artifact versioning, and rollback policies and multi-stage pipelines for build, test, and deploy, improving release consistency and reliability.
- Implemented containerized delivery workflows using Docker, building lightweight images with custom Docker files and automating image build, scan and push to artifact repositories.
- Deployed containers on EC2 hosts and orchestrated rollouts through Jenkins pipelines for consistent deployments.
- Tuned Jenkins executors, automated image tagging, and applied cleanup policies to optimize registry performance and pipeline speed.
- Transitioned configuration management from Chef to Ansible, writing modular playbooks to automate application provisioning, OS patching, and middleware setup.
- Implemented monitoring, alerting, and logging with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and ELK, setting thresholds on resource utilization, application health, and error metrics to detect and resolve production issues proactively.
- Wrote automation scripts in Bash and Python for daily operational tasks — including log cleanup, system checks, and deployment validations — integrating them into Jenkins jobs for reusable automation.
- Collaborated with release management to refine deployment standards, automate pre-deployment checks, and streamline rollback procedures for zero-downtime releases.
- Tech Stack: AWS, Maven, GIT, Jenkins, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Jira, Bash, Python.
DevOps Engineer
HighMark
04.2015 - 04.2016
- Migrated critical data-center applications to AWS, building infrastructure components (VPCs, subnets, NAT gateways, EC2 instances) through CloudFormation for version-controlled, repeatable deployments.
- Developed in-house automation solutions to simplify provisioning and ensure consistent web application rollouts.
- Implemented and maintained Chef cookbooks for middleware provisioning and environment configuration across hybrid setups.
- Later introduced Ansible for agentless automation — designing YAML-based playbooks, roles, and inventories, and deploying Ansible Tower for centralized orchestration and job scheduling.
- Designed and managed Jenkins pipelines integrated with GitHub and artifact repositories to automate build, integration, test, and release workflows.
- Configured multi-stage deployment pipelines with environment-specific parameters, rollback logic, and real-time build reporting.
- Transitioned legacy scripts and manual build steps into fully automated workflows using Jenkins, Chef, and Ansible.
- Established common CI/CD standards across teams, improving deployment reliability, shortening release cycles, and accelerating the organization’s move toward an automated cloud delivery model.
- Tech Stack: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Git Hub, Chef, Bash, Maven
DevOps Engineer
CIGNA
09.2014 - 03.2015
- Deployed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS servers on VMware, managed storage (LVM), user access, and automated OS installs using Kickstart.
- Maintained a small number of Ubuntu servers for CI/CD and internal tooling.
- Managed deployments for Java-based applications on Tomcat/JBoss and internal .NET services on IIS.
- Configured Apache as a reverse proxy for internet-facing apps and optimized web layer performance and routing.
- Automated build and deployment processes using Jenkins, ANT, and Maven, packaging and promoting artifacts across dev, test, and production servers.
- Wrote Shell scripts to manage log rotation, restarts, and environment health checks.
- Developed Shell/Perl scripts for configuration updates, monitoring, and alerting.
- Managed DNS, NFS, and FTP services, configured firewalls using iptables, and applied security hardening best practices.
- Implemented proactive monitoring through Nagios and system-level alerts, handled patch management, scheduled backups, and ensured high availability across physical and virtual infrastructure.
- Tech Stack: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu (limited), VMware, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Jenkins, ANT, Maven, Nagios, Shell, Perl, DNS, NFS, iptables.
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
07.2010 - 08.2014
- Led a 20-member QA team spanning regression, automation, and scrum testing, implementing Agile/Scrum practices to align testing cycles with development sprints and accelerate feature delivery by 30%.
- Owned end-to-end test planning and execution, drafting Test Strategies, Test Plans, Entry/Exit Criteria, and validation frameworks to ensure full requirement coverage and audit compliance across multiple releases.
- Established Continuous Integration testing using Jenkins and Git, configuring build jobs for regression validation and integrating API testing with REST and Postman for backend verification and service reliability.
- Developed and automated regression suites using Selenium WebDriver and JavaScript, building reusable keyword-driven libraries for cross-browser testing and GUI validation, reducing manual effort by 50%.
- Championed test quality and governance, conducting peer reviews, approving deliverables, and enforcing QA standards across System, Functional, Integration, End-to-End, and Regression testing phases.
- Partnered with development and architecture teams to triage defects, validate fixes, and streamline feedback loops — significantly improving test turnaround time and production stability.
- Prepared and presented quality metrics, status dashboards, and risk assessments to project leadership, ensuring transparency in QA progress and proactive issue resolution.
- Tech Stack: QTP, RFT, RQM, Confluence, SharePoint, RALLY, ADP, Selenium, Manual & Automated Testing.
Education
Master’s - Information Systems/Science
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas, USABachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
JNT University
Hyderabad, India 06.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
- Ansible
- Chef
- Packer
- Terraform
- Cloud Formation Templates
- Git
- GitHub
- Git Lab
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Maven
- NPM
- GitHub actions
- GitLab CI
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ECS
- EKS
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Tempo
- New Relic
- CloudWatch
- ELK
- Bash/Shell
- PowerShell Scripting
- YAML
- Python
- Groovy
- PostgreSQL
- Aurora RDS
- DynamoDB
- S3
- Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)
- Windows Server
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- Confluence
- Infrastructure automation
- Monitoring and logging
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, e24b707672bb478cbf4b59e335a8685e
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
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Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Noetic Global Corp
08.2024 - 11.2025
Senior DevOps Engineer
Simplr
08.2022 - 08.2024
DevOps Engineer
Anthem
08.2020 - 08.2021
DevOps Engineer
FirstData
04.2019 - 10.2019
DevOps Engineer
AT&T
04.2016 - 03.2019
DevOps Engineer
HighMark
04.2015 - 04.2016
DevOps Engineer
CIGNA
09.2014 - 03.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
07.2010 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
JNT University
06.2002 - 06.2006
Master’s - Information Systems/Science
University of Texas at Arlington