Karthik Nalamalapu
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Nellore,AP
Summary
Dynamic professional with over 9 years of experience in planning, designing, and implementing DevOps solutions, Linux administration, and configuration management, specializing in AWS Cloud environments. Expertise in cloud monitoring, deployment, and troubleshooting is complemented by a strong ability to define, build, and maintain infrastructure using both vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Recognized for exceptional organizational skills and a focused approach, alongside outstanding leadership capabilities that drive team success and project efficiency. Committed to leveraging technical acumen to enhance operational performance and deliver innovative solutions that meet evolving business needs.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Modmed Technologies India Pvt Ltd
10.2024 - Current
- Led production incident response, restoring critical services and coordinating root-cause analysis across engineering teams.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and scripting, reducing manual operations and improving consistency.
- Monitored system health through Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting workflows to detect service degradation early.
- Implemented Kubernetes reliability practices, improving deployment stability, scaling, and workload isolation.
- Mentored engineers on incident management, observability standards, and cloud operations best practices.
- Optimized log analysis and troubleshooting workflows to accelerate diagnosis and resolution of production issues.
- Refined CI/CD pipelines to strengthen release quality, rollback readiness, and operational efficiency.
- Directed deployment automation using Infrastructure as Code to standardize releases and reduce configuration drift.
- Oversaw cloud monitoring and incident response, resolving service issues and strengthening operational reliability.
- Optimized cloud resource usage through performance tuning, rightsizing, and cost governance initiatives.
- Led cloud architecture design across scalable environments, aligning infrastructure with security and availability requirements.
- Coordinated migration planning for legacy systems into cloud environments with minimal service disruption.
- Established documentation for architecture, runbooks, and operational workflows to improve team consistency.
- Designed monitoring dashboards providing real-time visibility into system health and performance, enabling proactive measures to prevent issues.
- Directed daily operations to maintain service quality and workflow consistency.
- Led infrastructure automation initiatives using Terraform and Ansible to standardize cloud deployments.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitLab to streamline build, test, and release workflows.
Senior Cloud Engineer
E2open Software India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - 10.2024
- Championed containerization initiatives using Docker/Kubernetes platforms that increased application scalability while reducing overheads associated with traditional virtualization techniques.
- Utilized AWS Cloud platform features including EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, ELB, CloudWatch, Route 53, CloudFront, ACM, Trusted Advisor, SQS, subnets, routing tables, internet gateways, IAM, and VPC peering to support cloud initiatives.
- Optimized cloud-based infrastructure by utilizing containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Creation of EC2, RDS instances, security groups, subnets, NAT Gateways and all AWS resources using Terraform
- Enabled seamless deployment and scaling of applications by containerizing them using Docker and integrating Kubernetes for orchestration.
- Worked with Kubernetes Pods, Nodes, Ingress controller, Kubernetes API, and Kubectl to manage containerized applications.
- Deploy and manage the Azure Services like Virtual Machines, Web Apps, Storage, Azure Active Directory and Virtual Networks.
- Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
- Implemented comprehensive Tagging strategy for all ec2 instances and aws resources ensuring efficient management and cost allocation using terraform
- Integrated Kubernetes into CI/CD pipelines for automated containerized application deployment
- Optimized AWS infrastructure for cost efficiency by migrating ec2 instances from gp2 to gp3 storage resulting in significant cost savings
- Spearheaded troubleshooting efforts within complex multi-cloud environments, resolving issues swiftly to minimize downtime.
- Troubleshooted Production issues of AWS Services like EC2, S3.RDS, ELB, Autoscaling, Load Balancers
- Deployed Wazuh and SSM agents on AWS EC2 instances to enhance monitoring capabilities.
- Effectively utilize automation tools like: Terraform, CloudFormation, CLI and SDKs
- Optimized existing cloud environments by identifying bottlenecks and implementing best practices for performance improvements
Cloud Consultant
Ernst &Young LLP
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Streamlined infrastructure management through automation with Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Deployed machine learning models to production environments efficiently using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- Ensured smooth deployment of web applications onto production environments through the use of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Selecting appropriate AWS Service based on data, compute, database, security requirements
- Implemented Single AZ, Multi AZ deployment depending upon requirement
- Enhanced cloud infrastructure efficiency by designing and implementing scalable solutions.
- Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
- Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and recommending configurations that improved resource allocation.
- Reviewed client's existing infrastructure, identifying areas for improvement that led to cost reduction opportunities.
- Worked on configuring various plugins for Jenkins for managed continuous integration and continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using Jenkins
- Installed Jenkins on Linux machine and created docker images using docker files to support
- Deployed Docker instance to test, dev and staging servers using Jenkins
- Automated backups by shell scripting to transfer data in S3 Bucket
- Focus on continuous integration (CI) and deployment, promoting Enterprise Solutions to target environments
- Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT
Cloud Engineer
Micolinks Services India Pvt Ltd
09.2019 - 12.2021
- Worked on configuring various plug-ins for Jenkins for automation and running build jobs
- Implemented workflow process starting from Checkout Repo deployment to AWS EKS using GitHub Actions as CI/CD
- Implemented SNS notifications for clients using Lambda function and Terraform
- Implemented SNS notifications for the clients using Lambda function and Terraform
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Recommended EC2 instance types aligned with client workload, optimizing resource allocation
- Configured VPC environment for staging purposes and deploying architecture as per client requirement
- Provisioned, migrated, upgraded, downgraded servers as per Environment
Cloud Engineer
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
07.2018 - 09.2019
- Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses to align with business needs.
- Implemented comprehensive Tagging strategy for all the ec2 instances and aws resources ensuring efficient management and cost allocation using terraform
- Troubleshooted Production issues of AWS Services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Autoscaling, Load Balancers
- Implemented tagging strategy for all ec2 instances and aws resources to enhance management and facilitate cost allocation using terraform.
- Enabled automatic backup for EBS and AMI of EC2 instances
- Troubleshot production issues for AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, autoscaling, and load balancers, ensuring minimal disruption.
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
- Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
- Reviewed server logs to identify issues and restored server functionality.
Education
MBA - Information Technology
T.A.PAI Management Institute, TAPMI Manipal
Manipal, Karnataka 04.2001 -
B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT University, Vellore
Vellore, India05.2018
Skills
AWS services
CloudWatch
CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure automation
Log management
Configuration management
GitHub
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Modmed Technologies India Pvt Ltd
10.2024 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
E2open Software India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - 10.2024
Cloud Consultant
Ernst &Young LLP
01.2022 - 12.2022
Cloud Engineer
Micolinks Services India Pvt Ltd
09.2019 - 12.2021
Cloud Engineer
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
07.2018 - 09.2019
MBA - Information Technology
T.A.PAI Management Institute, TAPMI Manipal
04.2001 -
B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT University, Vellore