KUMAR KILARI
Nike
Portland,OR
10
years of professional experience
Cloud/DevOps Engineer with 9+ years in AWS and Azure enterprise cloud engineering. Experienced in bridging complex distributed architecture, security, and automated cloud systems into scalable, production-ready platforms. CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes across Nike, Healthcare Triangle, Columbia Sportswear, Mastercard, and CVS. Terraform, Jenkins, Python - focused on observability and reliable releases.
Work History
DevOps Engineer
4 Years 9 Months- Automated build, test, and deployment processes by building AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild workflows, enhancing agility in release cycles.
- Deployed and managed Elastic Beanstalk environments with EC2, RDS, ELB, and Auto Scaling for microservice workloads.
- Managed Docker-based middleware deployments and Puppet-driven server configuration integrated with Auto Scaling groups.
- Managed and optimized Elastic Beanstalk environments with EC2, RDS, ELB, and Auto Scaling for efficient microservice deployment.
- Designed Route 53 health checks and routing policies (simple, weighted, failover) to improve application availability.
- Implemented GuardDuty and Security Hub with custom insights and SNS alerting for threat detection and compliance visibility.
- Developed Python scripts for web server log rotation and maintained CloudWatch-based monitoring and alerting for production systems.
- Implemented Git-to-SVN mirroring and Git-based CI workflows to facilitate collaboration in mixed version control environments.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
1 Year 4 Months- Migrated production infrastructure to AWS using CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit, and CloudFormation-based VPC design, enhancing deployment efficiency and scalability.
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS with KOPS and implemented Jenkins-driven Docker CI/CD pipelines.
- Authored Terraform modules (Compute, Network, Operations, Users) to provision consistent staging and production environments.
- Built Python automation for AWS services including ELB, CloudFront, Lambda, and database provisioning tasks.
- Integrated Jenkins with GitHub and Chef to standardize build, deployment, and node bootstrap automation.
- Integrated Jenkins with GitHub and Chef to standardize build, deployment, and node bootstrap automation, improving consistency across environments.
- Configured Security Hub and GuardDuty with CloudWatch event routing for continuous security monitoring and alerting, strengthening overall security posture.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
1 Year- Built CI/CD pipelines with Octopus Deploy, PowerShell, TeamCity, and Azure DevOps for automated application releases.
- Provisioned Azure IaaS and PaaS resources in secure VNet's with internal load balancers, subnets, and ARM templates.
- Managed Kubernetes workloads with Helm charts and Python-based tooling for build job and deployment automation.
- Supported Azure-to-cloud migration initiatives and hybrid infrastructure design across single and multi-site data centers.
- Managed Kubernetes workloads with Helm charts and Python-based tooling, enhancing build job and deployment automation.
- Administered SonarQube and Nexus with Jenkins integration, ensuring code quality gates and efficient artifact management.
- Operated ELK clusters, automating operational tasks using Python and Ruby scripting to streamline log management.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
1 Year 2 Months- Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Artifactory, and Ansible for automated VM provisioning and releases.
- Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform, delivering VPC, subnet, and NAT designs through CloudFormation templates to enhance resource management.
- Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform and delivered VPC, subnet, and NAT designs via CloudFormation templates.
- Implemented Chef-based deployment automation for on-premises and EC2 targets, creating reusable recipe patterns for consistent deployments.
- Containerized microservices with Docker and evaluated Kubernetes-based continuous deployment workflows.
- Implemented Chef-based deployment automation for on-premises and EC2 targets with reusable recipe patterns.
- Customized Splunk dashboards and queries, improving production observability and enabling effective incident analysis.
DevOps Engineer
1 Year 2 Months- Automated build and deployment workflows in Jenkins using Ant and Gradle, enhancing consistency across multiple application environments.
- Migrated on-premises Linux workloads and applications to AWS, leveraging CloudFormation for scalable infrastructure provisioning.
- Automated build and deployment workflows in Jenkins using Ant and Gradle across multiple application environments.
- Implemented CloudWatch events, Lambda triggers, SNS notifications, and S3 lifecycle policies for backup and alerting.
- Authored Ansible roles and Chef cookbooks (with Test Kitchen/ChefSpec validation) for repeatable configuration management.
- Hardened Linux hosts and automated operational jobs with Bash/cron, ensuring reliability for WebLogic, JBoss, Apache, and Tomcat platforms.
Education
M.S. - Computer Science
B.S. - Computer Science and Engineering
Skills
Cloud platforms
Infrastructure as code
CI/CD tools
Containers: Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
ECS
EKS
Configuration Management: Ansible
Chef
Puppet
Monitoring and logging
Databases: PostgreSQL
MySQL
Oracle
DynamoDB
Redis
Scripting: Python
Bash
PowerShell
Ruby
Version Control: Git
GitHub
Bitbucket
Build Tools: Maven
Gradle
Ant
Web/App Servers: NGINX
Apache Tomcat
JBoss
Automation tools
Monitoring and logging
Containerization technologies
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Nike
01.2022 - CurrentRead More
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Healthcare Triangle
08.2020 - 12.2021Read More
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Columbia Sportswear
07.2019 - 07.2020Read More
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Mastercard
04.2018 - 06.2019Read More
DevOps Engineer
CVS Health
01.2017 - 03.2018Read More
JNTU
B.S. from Computer Science and Engineering
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University of Illinois Springfield
M.S. from Computer Science
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