Sai Abhisaik Udthawar
Cloud Integration Engineer
Milwaukee,WI
Summary
Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud networking. Proven track record of implementing enterprise Azure Landing Zones, automating infrastructure provisioning, and improving deployment reliability using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Experienced in building secure, highly available cloud architectures, optimizing monitoring strategies, and supporting mission-critical systems in 24x7 environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Cloud Integration Engineer
Komatsu Mining Corp.
03.2021 - Current
- Automated Azure infrastructure provisioning using Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with modular and reusable configurations to ensure consistent deployments.
- Implemented Azure DevOps services including Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines to streamline code collaboration, build automation, and application deployment workflows.
- Resolved complex Azure networking and identify issues, including VNet connectivity, Private Endpoints, and Azure AD authentication, improving system reliability and minimizing service disruptions.
- Provided technical guidance and support through internal Azure forums, assisting teams with Azure Networking, Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Storage related issues.
- Designed and implemented enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zones supporting multiple subscriptions and environments, improving governance, security, and standardized cloud deployments.
- Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, routing tables, DNS configurations, and security policies, ensuring secure and scalable cloud networking.
- Developed Azure Logic App automation for satellite data ingestion, enabling automated extraction, processing, compression, and storage of .sbd and .txt files in Azure Blob Storage.
- Deployed and managed Azure App Services for hosting web applications with integrated VNet connectivity and private endpoints to ensure secure application access.
- Designed and configured secure Azure network architectures, including VNets, Application Gateways, Private Links, and Azure Front Door to support highly available and secure application traffic.
- Integrated Wiz Cloud Security Platform to monitor cloud security posture, detect vulnerabilities, and remediate configuration risks across Azure environments.
- Built and maintained Azure DevOps automation tools, including deployment scripts, staged environments, and provisioning workflows to improve development and operational efficiency.
- Implemented Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) to enable secure device registration, authentication, and communication for IoT-based deployments.
- Provisioned and optimized Azure infrastructure to support OpenAI workloads, ensuring scalable and high-performance environments for AI services.
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Pipelines, enabling automated build, testing, and deployment processes.
- Implemented Azure Policy governance to enforce mandatory tagging, cost allocation, compliance standards, and resource management across Azure subscriptions.
- Developed multi-subscription Azure DevOps pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment and resource management across multiple environments.
- Implemented centralized monitoring and observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, and Datadog to improve incident detection and reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
- Optimized system performance by troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues related to integration, infrastructure, and software components.
Systems Automation Engineer
Advocate Aurora Health
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Focused on automation, containerization, and integration monitoring and configuration management.
- Developed automation scripting in PowerShell to deploy and manage .net applications across Linux servers.
- Implemented Ansible automation scripts for provisioning of AWS resources namely EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, Redis Cache etc. using Cloud Formation.
- Worked with OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters.
- Written numerous shell scripts to alert real-time on application, database metrics, to recycle processes with near-zero downtime.
- Design, implement and maintain Windows, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and other open-source software product solutions, for use by cloud and other compute infrastructure.
- Created Lambda functions (Python) to power on/off servers by identifying tags.
DevOps Cloud Engineer
Verizon Wireless
11.2017 - 09.2020
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.
- Responsible to designing and deploying new ELK clusters (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, beats, Redis, RabbitMQ etc.
- Successfully streamed application logs to Splunk using Splunk universal forwarder and Logstash via Kafka brokers and worked on data extraction.
- Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config Maps, selector, Services and deployed application containers as Pods.
- Used SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality, code coverage and unit tests.
- Integrated GITHUB and Bitbucket with Jenkins to implement the continuous integration process.
- Used advanced search engine ELK stack (Elastic search, Log stash and Kibana) to process large datasets and visualize results based on aggregations and filters on structured and unstructured fields.
- Managed load on Jira and Confluence applications for 1000 users by configuring load balancer and used SSL certificates to redirect from insecure to secure.
- Managed IAM policies, provided access to different AWS resources, design and refine the workflow used to grant access.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Commerce, TX08-2017
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Mallareddy Engineering College
Hyderabad04-2015
Skills
- Azure DevOps, GitHub & GitHub Actions
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Automation
- Container Orchestration
- Monitoring
- Windows and Linux
- Automation
- Cost Optimization
- DevOps practices
Certification
2022-03: Dynatrace Certified Associate
Timeline
Cloud Integration Engineer
Komatsu Mining Corp.
03.2021 - Current
Systems Automation Engineer
Advocate Aurora Health
10.2020 - 03.2021
DevOps Cloud Engineer
Verizon Wireless
11.2017 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Mallareddy Engineering College
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Texas A&M University - Commerce