Muralidhar Polusani
Gainesville,USA
Summary
Cloud Platform Engineer and DevOps professional with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, and Azure environments. Experienced in Terraform Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, cloud governance, and identity management. Currently working with the University of Florida UFIT Cloud Enablement Team building secure research cloud environments and supporting VMware Horizon UFApps virtual desktop infrastructure.
Platform engineering professional with deep understanding of system architecture and cloud environments. Possesses history of driving infrastructure improvements and automating processes to enhance operational efficiency. Focused on collaborative team efforts and adaptable to dynamic project requirements, ensuring dependable and flexible performance. Skilled in infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud services, valued for reliability and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Platform Engineer
University of Florida – UFIT
Gainesville, Florida
05.2025 - Current
- Provision and manage Google Cloud Platform projects for university research teams using Terraform.
- Implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate cloud deployments including IAM configuration, APIs and budgets.
- Configure GCP services such as Firebase, Identity Platform, Firestore, Places API and reCAPTCHA.
- Implement IAM roles, service accounts and RBAC policies to ensure secure access.
- Implement billing budgets and cost monitoring for research cloud projects.
- Support UFApps VMware Horizon VDI environment and application packaging.
- Manage applications including ArcGIS, SPSS, Tableau, NVivo, SolidWorks and SketchUp for student access.
- Work with VMware App Volumes to deliver applications to Horizon desktop pools.
- Support GPU and regular desktop pools used for research and academic workloads.
- Troubleshoot application deployment, licensing and performance issues in VDI environments.
DevOps Engineer
Comcast
Philadelphia, PA
07.2023 - 05.2025
- Built AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, Docker and Ansible.
- Deployed microservices using Kubernetes and Docker containers.
- Configured ECS clusters, load balancers and scalable application deployments.
- Implemented monitoring using CloudWatch, ELK and Dynatrace.
DevOps Engineer
Accenture
India
01.2018 - 07.2021
- Managed AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC and RDS.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git and Maven.
- Automated deployments using Ansible configuration management.
- Built containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implemented monitoring using Nagios, Splunk and CloudWatch.
Education
Master of Science - Information And Computer Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD05-2023
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Virtualization: VMware ESXi, VMware Horizon, Proxmox, Hyper-V
- Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, Nagios, Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana
- Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python, YAML
- Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), Windows Server
- Serverless computing
- Cloud infrastructure management
- DevOps methodologies
- Linux system administration
- Infrastructure as Code
- Collaboration and communication
- Agile project management
- Source control management
- Load balancing
- Container orchestration
- Application security
Timeline
Cloud Platform Engineer
University of Florida – UFIT
05.2025 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Comcast
07.2023 - 05.2025
DevOps Engineer
Accenture
01.2018 - 07.2021
Master of Science - Information And Computer Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County