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NIKESH ALAVINDLA

Brookfield,WI

Summary

Results-driven Cloud Engineer with a strong foundation in cloud computing technologies, including infrastructure design and management. Possess significant experience in deploying and managing cloud applications using platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Strengths include effective problem-solving skills for complex technical issues, the ability to develop innovative solutions that improve efficiency, and team leadership capabilities. Previous work has resulted in improved system performance and significant cost savings through optimized cloud resource utilization.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

TAPCO - Traffic & Parking Control
Milwaukee, WI
01.2025 - Current
  • Designed and maintained reusable Terraform modules to manage AWS resources (VPCs, EC2, EKS, IAM, RDS, etc.) in a scalable, repeatable, and version-controlled manner.
  • Set up ArgoCD to automate the deployment and synchronization of Kubernetes manifests (Helm charts and Kustomize) directly from Git repositories.
  • Implemented Terraform workspaces and remote state management via S3 and DynamoDB for multi-environment infrastructure separation and state locking.
  • Enabled multi-cluster management using ArgoCD Projects and RBAC policies to control deployment scope and access.
  • Integrated Docker containers into Kubernetes clusters to improve service scalability and fault tolerance, supporting zero-downtime deployments.
  • Automated deployment pipelines using Docker and Helm charts to provision production-grade infrastructure reliably.
  • Created GitLab CI pipelines to automate Terraform plan/apply cycles, Kubernetes manifest validations, image builds with Docker, and ArgoCD sync triggers.
  • Integrated security scanning tools and linters in the CI pipeline to ensure quality and compliance before deployments.
  • Integrated Vault with Kubernetes via Vault Agent and Kubernetes Auth method to securely inject dynamic secrets (DB credentials, tokens, etc.) into pods.
  • Centralized secret management and rotation policies, enhancing overall application security and compliance posture.
  • Integrated logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) to track system health, deployment status, and audit trails of GitOps events.
  • Set up alerting mechanisms to detect drift between live infrastructure and Git source-of-truth.

World Kinect Energy
Miami, FL
02.2021 - 04.2024
  • Design, implement and maintain cloud-based infrastructure on AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Create and manage infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation and Terraform
  • ·Developed Python scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Utilized a variety of cloud services, including compute (EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine), storage (S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Cloud Storage), and databases (RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL) to optimize performance and cost.
  • Developed and implemented custom policies using Cloud Custodian to enforce governance and compliance across AWS environments, ensuring adherence to organizational standards.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing code integration issues by 50% and accelerating time-to-production.
  • Managed identities using IAM roles, policies, and Azure Active Directory, ensuring compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements, environment variable management, health checks, and efficient layer caching.
  • Led incident response efforts for cloud outages and service disruptions, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Implemented reporting mechanisms to generate compliance reports and automated notifications for policy violations, improving visibility for stakeholders
  • Implemented performance tuning strategies for Confluent Kafka clusters, resulting in a 20% increase in message throughput and reduced latency.
  • Ensured compliance with data governance policies by configuring Confluent Schema Registry and implementing data validation and schema evolution practices.
  • Utilized Python in conjunction with configuration management tools to ensure consistency and reliability across multiple environments.
  • Developed custom Python scripts for task automation, such as backup processes, data migration, and routine maintenance tasks.
  • Managed AWS assets and architecture to include VPC, Subnets, Routing tables, Security Groups, ELB, EC2 and Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, IAM, focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and ASG.
  • Built and maintained Kubernetes operators to automate routine tasks and improve cluster management.
  • Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnet to ensure successful deployment of Web application and database templates.
  • Setting up AWS CloudWatch and custom metrics for AWS services.
  • Evaluated automation processes and recommended cost-effective solutions.
  • Wrote user manuals and documentation for rolling out components into production.
  • On-call rotation for Production Support activities.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Anthem
Atlanta, GA
03.2019 - 01.2021
  • Managed complex Azure infrastructures using IaaS, including virtual machines, virtual networks, and storage accounts, ensuring optimal performance and scalability for enterprise applications.
  • Successfully managed Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for real-time data processing applications.
  • Implemented robust monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, proactively identifying and resolving issues to minimize downtime.
  • Collaborated with development teams to optimize applications for performance and scalability within Kubernetes.
  • Managed AWS assets and architecture to include VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, ELB, EC2, S3, IAM resources.
  • Setting up AWS CloudWatch and custom metrics for AWS services like EC2 and S3.
  • Provided highly durable data solutions by using S3 data store, Lifecycle policies and versioning for critical production servers for backup.
  • Designed AWS CloudFormation and Terraform templates to deploy resources into AWS.
  • Implemented Tagging strategy for AWS resources to maintain budgets in the AWS cloud.
  • Hands-on experience in administrating Streaming Kafka Platform.
  • Facilitated seamless integration of Kafka with other data systems and services, and managed deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
  • High knowledge on Kafka Rest services, Zookeeper, Schema registry, KSQL.
  • Expert in configuring Confluent Kafka Connect with Source and Sink Connectors.
  • Responsible delivering Data to different teams using Kafka connectors.
  • Implemented Kerberos as a Kafka security using SSL to the Kafka Clusters.
  • Worked with different teams to provide Real Time Solutions.
  • Helped many different develop Event Based Architectures.
  • Closely worked with Confluent Team at times when cluster is down at times.
  • Involved in developing Ansible Scripts to deploying Kafka scripts in the Anthem Environment.

DevOps Engineer

NextEra Energy Resources
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
08.2018 - 01.2019
  • Focused on automation, containerization, and integration monitoring and configuration management.
  • Increase time to market by 15% faster through Top-level consulting contributor to IT and business executive
    Responsible for CI and CD using Jenkins, Run deck and Chef.
  • Rapid-provisioning and configuration management for Ubuntu using Chef on Azure cloud.
  • Written/Developed Chef Cookbooks to automate the entire deployment process as well as infrastructure admin tasks.
  • Written and developed Chef Cookbooks from scratch for custom installation of application.
  • Refined automation components with scripting and configuration management
  • Have written playbooks for installing several applications on the server.
  • Experience working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, compose and Docker registry.
  • Involved in managing Private Cloud configurations and practices in Windows Azure and SQL Azure and in Azure Web and Database deployments.
  • Configured Azure Virtual Networks, subnets, Azure network settings, DNS settings, and security policies and routing.

Cloud Engineer

Etrade
Arlington, VA
01.2017 - 04.2018
  • Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure on Azure, integrating with GitHub repositories and Jenkins for streamlined CI/CD processes.
  • Utilized Terraform to provision and manage Azure resources, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to provision and manage Azure resources.
  • Designed and implemented on Amazon Web Services Cloud.
  • Created Virtual machines through PowerShellScript and Azure portal.
  • Captured images of VM’s and attached disks to VM’s.
  • Performed Migration of SQL server to Azure SQL database.
  • Manage and create storage accounts and Affinity groups in Azure Portal.
  • Backup, configure and restore Azure virtual machine using Azure backup.

Education

Master of Science - Computer And Information Systems

Chicago State University
Chicago, IL
08-2016

Skills

  • Infrastructure as code
  • Kubernetes orchestration
  • Secret management
  • Continuous deployment
  • Continuous integration
  • Cloud architecture
  • Monitoring tools
  • Documentation practices
  • Performance tuning
  • Terraform automation
  • Incident response

Certification

  • Hashicorp - Terraform Associate Developer – 2023
  • AWS – AWS Solutions Architect Associate - 2024

Timeline

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

TAPCO - Traffic & Parking Control
01.2025 - Current

World Kinect Energy
02.2021 - 04.2024

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Anthem
03.2019 - 01.2021

DevOps Engineer

NextEra Energy Resources
08.2018 - 01.2019

Cloud Engineer

Etrade
01.2017 - 04.2018

Master of Science - Computer And Information Systems

Chicago State University

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