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Ravikiran Nerella

Ravikiran Nerella

Devops Engineer

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.

Experienced with automating deployment and system configurations, ensuring seamless integration and delivery processes. Utilizes advanced knowledge of cloud platforms and scripting to enhance operational efficiency. Track record of collaborating with teams to maintain high standards and achieve successful project outcomes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Platform Engineer /Senior DevOps Engineer

CapitalOne
Richmond, VA
11.2021 - Current
  • Managed AWS and Azure cloud environments, ensuring compliance, scalability, and high availability.
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including cross-region failover and automated backups.
  • Secured cloud connectivity using IAM policies, firewall rules, and DMZ configurations.
  • Integrated HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, securing application credentials and API keys.
  • Integrated ArgoCD for GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments, improving release efficiency.
  • Developed Jenkins pipelines for infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Automated multi-cloud deployment workflows, reducing provisioning time by 50%.
  • Implemented CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana for full-stack observability.
  • Automated alerting mechanisms, improving incident response times.
  • Developed Jenkins-based performance testing pipelines for load, stress, and chaos testing.
  • Designed Terraform modules for multi-region expansion and AWS-Azure cloud migration.
  • Implemented policy-as-code to automate TechGRC security compliance within deployment pipelines.
  • Deployed and managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) clusters with advanced scaling and auto-healing capabilities.
  • Configured Kubernetes Ingress controllers, DNS, and persistent storage (EBS, EFS, NFS).
  • Followed best security practices, implementing RBAC, IAM policies, and image scanning for container security.

DevOps Engineer

Freedom Mortgage
, NJ
03.2020 - 11.2021
  • Designed cloud security architecture, implementing DMZ configurations, firewall rules, and network segmentation.
  • Automated IAM access policies to enforce role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Led disaster recovery planning, reducing downtime through multi-region replication.
  • Deployed ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows for Kubernetes applications.
  • Created self-healing deployment pipelines in Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, minimizing manual intervention.
  • Optimized Terraform modules to automate cloud infrastructure deployment.
  • Integrated Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and KQL queries to enable real-time system analytics.
  • Implemented Splunk and Prometheus for log aggregation and performance monitoring.
  • Designed performance test automation frameworks using Jenkins and Python scripting.
  • Integrated chaos engineering tools to assess application resilience.
  • Led cloud migration initiatives, moving on-prem workloads to Azure and AWS
  • Optimized Terraform configurations to enhance regional expansion capabilities.
  • Built and optimized Docker images for microservices-based applications.
  • Managed Kubernetes clusters (AKS, OpenShift) with advanced security and failover techniques.
  • Expert in setting up the Notification hub with other services in Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Experienced in setting up Azure Pipelines for automated build and deployment processes
  • Implemented Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and Azure CLI scripts for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Data Lake formation using AWS big data tools like - S3, EC2, DMS, Lambda, Glue, RDS, Cloudwatch, Firehouse

AWS/DevOps Engineer

Marsh McLeannan
12.2017 - 02.2020
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery strategies for AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Secured cloud networking, enforcing IAM, firewall rules, and encryption policies.
  • Developed load testing pipelines using Jenkins and Python scripting.
  • Implemented failure injection testing to assess system resilience.
  • Designed Terraform templates to manage AWS infrastructure, supporting cloud expansion.
  • Automated infrastructure scaling policies, reducing cloud costs by 30%
  • Followed security best practices, ensuring image scanning and IAM-based access controls.
  • Troubleshooting servers, accessing logs and monitoring tool Splunk
  • Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks using Terraform and Python , Docker container, Service Orchestration
  • Good knowledge in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Jenkins
  • Managed a team by running daily SCRUM, task estimation & assignment assisting in development issues and code reviews
  • Used the JIRA tool to track all the defects and changes related to the Build and Release Team

DevOps Engineer

Zebra Technologies
12.2015 - 11.2017
  • Secured AWS cloud environments using IAM policies, firewall configurations, and encryption.
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery (DR) strategies to minimize downtime
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for microservices using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Set up automated alerting and dashboarding solutions for cloud workloads.
  • Led AWS infrastructure automation using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Migrated applications to multi-region AWS deployments, reducing latency and improving uptime.
  • Managed Docker-based microservices and deployed them on Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Optimized Kubernetes configurations for scalability, high availability, and security compliance.
  • Designed and deployed scalable and secure EKS clusters using Terraform and AWS CLI, integrating with AWS services like IAM, RDS, and S3 for comprehensive service management
  • Provide technical consultation and delivery services to customers for CI/CD and DevOps initiatives
  • Created Terraform modules to create instances in AWS & automated process of creation of resources is AWS using terraform
  • Configured the storage on S3 Buckets and automating backups by Shell for Linux to transfer data in S3 bucket

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Menlo Technologies
05.2014 - 03.2015
  • Installation & Configurations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Linux and CentOS, Maintenance & System Administration
  • Installing and Managing Virtual Center 5.5
  • Upgrading from VMWare ESX server from 3.5.0, 4.0.0, and 5.0 in the environment
  • Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation toolsets
  • Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services
  • Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators
  • Create and manage OpenStack instances, flavors, networks, and attaching volumes using Horizon and CLI
  • Implemented and maintained services running on Linux and server platforms deployed in AWS EC2 and OpenStack based private cloud
  • Performed data migration across multiple UNIX/Linux (RHEL/OEL/Solaris/HPUX) servers, and Windows Servers
  • Installed and configured Linux/UNIX and Windows operating systems on VMware server
  • Configured LDAP Server and LDAP Client on Linux machines for authorization and authentication
  • Install and manage security reporting tools used to monitor changes to the Active Directory
  • Responsible for maintaining security on all UNIX systems for regulatory compliance
  • Implementation and troubleshooting of network services like NFS, FTP, NTP, Telnet, SSH

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Northwestern Polytechnical University
Fremont, CA
05.2001 -

Skills

AWS, Azure, Terraform, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Splunk, New Relic, Azure Data Explorer (ADX), Grafana, Cloudwatch, Jira, ServiceNow, Artifactory, AWS Glue, AWS Sagemaker, Python, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, RDS, Postgres

Timeline

Platform Engineer /Senior DevOps Engineer

CapitalOne
11.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Freedom Mortgage
03.2020 - 11.2021

AWS/DevOps Engineer

Marsh McLeannan
12.2017 - 02.2020

DevOps Engineer

Zebra Technologies
12.2015 - 11.2017

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Menlo Technologies
05.2014 - 03.2015

Master of Science - Computer Science

Northwestern Polytechnical University
05.2001 -

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