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PRAMOD NELAVALLI

Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Frisco,TX

Summary

Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of experience in Cloud Computing, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Modernization, and Infrastructure Automation, delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimized platforms across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Cloud Platforms: Delivered IaaS/PaaS solutions on AWS, Azure, VMware, and OpenStack, enabling hybrid adoption and large-scale cloud migration projects.

Platform Engineering: Built and operated Kubernetes platforms with VMware Tanzu (TKGI), OpenShift, and AWS EKS, improving developer experience and container orchestration at scale.

Site Reliability Engineering: Ensured SLAs by implementing auto-scaling, disaster recovery, blue green deployments and observability frameworks. Led proactive incident management and root cause analysis, improving resilience and reducing downtime while enhancing operational efficiency

CI/CD & DevOps: Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps, integrating pipelines with GitLab, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD to accelerate releases by 70%.

Microservices & Modernization: Enabled cloud-native microservice development and containerization with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/TKG) and Docker, reducing deployment time and complexity.

Monitoring & Logging: Enhanced performance and incident response with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK, driving cost optimization and proactive issue resolution.

Security & Compliance: Deep expertise in network security, vulnerability remediation, patching, secrets management, and RBAC; enforced IAM policies and Vault-based secret delivery to strengthen compliance

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Cloud Engineer

PIMCO
02.2023 - Current
  • Serving as a member of the Cloud Platform team, responsible for building, migrating, and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms (AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service) while enabling application teams through automation, GitOps, and observability best practices.
  • Built and maintained AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters using Terraform and GitOps (ArgoCD), delivering secure, scalable, multi cluster environments across regions.
  • Migrated 2k applications from Tanzu/PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) to AWS EKS by creating detailed runbooks and reusable migration strategies, significantly reducing operational overhead and saving $2M annually.
  • Automated delivery pipelines in GitLab CI/CD by integrating Paketo Buildpacks for runtime image creation and Kubernetes deployments, enabling faster platform delivery.
  • Deployed and managed critical Kubernetes add-ons like Cluster Autoscaler, Gloo Gateway, Velero, KEDA, Gatekeeper, ExternalDNS across multiple clusters using the ArgoCD “App of Apps” pattern, enabling centralized, scalable, and automated operations.
  • Implemented observability and cost governance with Datadog APM, centralized log monitoring, and CloudHealth, improving performance tuning and reducing cloud spend by 20%.
  • Led weekly releases, patching, and upgrades for the EKS platform and application deployments, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime.
  • Enhanced platform and application resiliency by implementing blue-green deployments for zero-downtime updates, setting up disaster recovery in AWS using Route 53 with ARC for automatic failover.

Cloud Platform Engineer

Prime Therapeutics
07.2022 - 01.2023
  • Focused on designing and operating hybrid data platforms across VMware and Azure, while enabling application modernization, automation, and cost optimization through Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices.
  • Designed and deployed scalable data platforms on VMware and Azure using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
  • Supported data services on TKGI, including Pivotal Gemfire (Cloud Cache), Redis, MySQL, and RabbitMQ, ensuring high availability and performance for business-critical applications.
  • Built a self-service CloudOps portal to surface real-time health metrics from TAS foundations and Azure resources, reducing Level 1 support tickets by 40%.
  • Reduced cloud spends by 22% by tagging PCF/TAS orgs and spaces to AWS cost centers, integrating AWS Cost Explorer, and reclaiming idle resources.
  • Collaborated with development and change management teams to plan and execute platform upgrades, ensuring seamless migrations with minimal downtime.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Wells Fargo
09.2020 - 05.2022
  • Part of the Cloud Platform team responsible for building and operating Cloudfoundry & Kubernetes-based hybrid platforms, enabling application modernization and enforcing compliance across environments.
  • Operated and scaled Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI) and TAS clusters across Azure and vCenter, delivering secure and resilient hybrid workloads.
  • Automated Infra provisioning with Terraform and Concourse pipelines, reducing infrastructure setup time by 70% and accelerating application migrations to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Improved reliability with New Relic and Azure Monitor, ensuring >99.9% uptime through proactive observability and incident management.
  • Enhanced compliance by integrating Azure Security Center and Azure Site Recovery, strengthening disaster recovery capabilities.

Cloud Platform Engineer

HCSC (Health Care Service Corporation)
02.2019 - 08.2020
  • Served as a platform engineer supporting Tanzu Application Service (TAS) and hybrid AWS/vSphere deployments, driving automation, observability, and secrets management for enterprise workloads.
  • Deployed and maintained TAS foundations across AWS and vSphere, enabling high availability and enterprise-grade operations.
  • Automated platform lifecycle management (MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cloud Cache, Spring Cloud Services) with BOSH and Concourse, streamlining upgrades and reducing downtime.
  • Provisioned AWS resources with Terraform, delivering consistent and scalable hybrid infrastructure.
  • Improved observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Healthwatch, enabling proactive detection of platform issues.
  • Secured workloads with Hashi Corp Vault for secrets management, strengthening compliance and audit readiness.

DevOps Engineer

UBS
10.2015 - 01.2019
  • Supported enterprise DevOps initiatives by modernizing legacy applications, implementing CI/CD automation, and driving migration to cloud-native platforms.
  • Managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and IBM UrbanCode Deploy, automating build, test, and deployment workflows across multiple environments to accelerate delivery and improve release quality.
  • Configured and optimized application deployments using IBM UrbanCode Deploy, standardizing release processes and ensuring reliable, repeatable rollouts across production and non-production environments.
  • Led proof-of-concept (POC) evaluations of emerging CI/CD tools and automation frameworks, driving adoption of advanced DevOps practices and improving enterprise release engineering maturity.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Puppet and developed a custom internal tool (“UBS Deploy”) to streamline environment setup and management, enabling faster cloud migration and modernization.
  • Guided application teams in adopting 12-factor microservices, providing best practices for configuration, environment management, and scalable cloud-native architectures.

Cloud Support Engineer

Syntel Inc
12.2012 - 09.2015
  • Member of cloud support team focusing on AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud adoption, along with VMware environments. Supported enterprise teams with infrastructure setup, CI/CD automation, and early cloud migration initiatives.
  • Provisioned AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC subnets, security groups, and network ACLs, enabling secure, scalable environments for internal projects.
  • Installed and managed OpenStack as an on-premises private cloud, configuring multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS offerings to support enterprise workloads.
  • Supported VMware vSphere environments, handling virtual machine provisioning, resource allocation, and lifecycle management to optimize infrastructure usage.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Puppet, Nexus, and SVN, accelerating release cycles and improving reliability of deployments.
  • Developed a Python-based stress testing tool using the Tempest framework to validate OpenStack scalability and reliability.
  • Deployed Nagios monitoring solutions, improving visibility, reducing downtime, and enhancing operational support.

Education

Bachelor’s degree - computer science and systems engineering

JNTU
Anantapur
05.2012

Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, VMware vSphere, OpenStack

Container Platforms: Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/TKG), Tanzu (PCF), OpenShift, Docker

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GitOps, BOSH

DevOps & CI/CD: GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Concourse, Helm

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Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer

PIMCO
02.2023 - Current

Cloud Platform Engineer

Prime Therapeutics
07.2022 - 01.2023

Senior Cloud Engineer

Wells Fargo
09.2020 - 05.2022

Cloud Platform Engineer

HCSC (Health Care Service Corporation)
02.2019 - 08.2020

DevOps Engineer

UBS
10.2015 - 01.2019

Cloud Support Engineer

Syntel Inc
12.2012 - 09.2015

Bachelor’s degree - computer science and systems engineering

JNTU

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