Sai Sujeeth Gorenkala
Optum
Chicago,IL
1
Certification
11
years of professional experience
Professional DevOps Engineer bringing extensive experience in automating and streamlining operations, contributing to improved efficiency, reliability and optimizing IT infrastructure, improving server uptime, and implementing cutting-edge technologies. Certified Azure and Kubernetes professional committed to enhancing operational efficiency. Bilingual with expertise in agile methodologies and system architecture design. Expertise in cloud infrastructure, continuous integration, and deployment practices. Valued for adaptability and dependability in dynamic environments.
Work History
Sr. Cloud Engineer
2 Years 5 Months- Designed and delivered large-scale Azure platforms using Virtual Machines, App Service, VNets, Front Door, DNS, Azure Firewall, and API Management to support high-availability application workloads across multiple business units.
- Implemented GitOps-driven infrastructure automation using Kapitan alongside Terraform and Helm to standardize Kubernetes configuration management and multi-environment deployments across AKS and OpenShift platforms.
- Integrated Kapitan-based configuration workflows with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines to automate Kubernetes manifest generation, policy enforcement, and GitOps application delivery strategies.
- Built automated provisioning frameworks using Bicep and ARM templates, creating reusable patterns for VNets, NSGs, App Gateway, and container infrastructure, which standardized deployments across environments.
- Developed full CI/CD delivery pipelines using GitLab and Azure DevOps, supporting containerized and VM-based applications. Integrated unit testing, security scanning, and automated AKS deployments into pipeline stages.
- Implemented Harness pipelines for automated CI/CD workflows across AKS and OpenShift environments, improving deployment consistency, reducing manual intervention, and accelerating release cycles.
- Managed AKS and OpenShift clusters, implementing namespace isolation, pod security, automated scaling, and custom Helm charts for consistent deployments across dev, QA, and production.
- Improved observability across cloud workloads by implementing Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Azure Monitor, and custom dashboards, enabling quicker detection of performance issues and reducing troubleshooting time.
- Optimized workload cost and performance using the Azure Pricing Calculator, resource tagging, reserved instance planning, and storage lifecycle rules
Sr. Cloud Administrator
1 Year 2 Months- Built and supported Azure environments across VMs, App Service, Storage, Data Factory, and Virtual Networks, ensuring stable and secure platforms for large-scale application workloads.
- Applied policy-as-code and governance frameworks to standardize resource deployment, enforce security baselines, and maintain compliance across development and production subscriptions.
- Modernized legacy CI/CD workflows by implementing Harness deployment pipelines integrated with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual release effort.
- Enabled continuous verification capabilities in Harness using Datadog, Prometheus, and Azure Monitor to proactively detect anomalies after deployments and improve MTTR.
- Developed automation scripts in Python and Bash to streamline cloud operations, including storage management, scheduled patching, scale-out logic, and system health checks.
- Managed automated AKS application deployments using Harness with Helm charts and environment-specific deployment strategies, supporting scalable and repeatable releases.
- Integrated Harness with Terraform modules and Azure infrastructure pipelines to automate provisioning, configuration updates, and environment promotion processes.
- Managed Terraform IaC workflows using modules, workspaces, and state backends, delivering consistent, multi-environment infrastructure deployments.
- Delivered CI/CDautomation using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions for .NET, Python, and containerized workloads, integrating quality gates and security scanning into release workflows.
- Supported Kafka-based pipelines, handling SSL/TLS configuration, partition monitoring, and cluster health checks with Prometheus exporters.
DevOps Engineer
2 Years 4 Months- Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure across multiple environments, building secure VPC architectures with subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, NACLs, and IAM policies to support regulated financial workloads.
- Automated provisioning and configuration using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Python (Boto3), creating reusable modules for EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, and multi-region networking components.
- Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD, integrating Terraform, Ansible, and Helm to automate testing, packaging, and deployments across Kubernetes and EC2 platforms.
- Integrated Harness with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows to support automated infrastructure provisioning, canary deployments, rollback strategies, and policy-driven release management.
- Designed and deployed serverless solutions using Lambda, API Gateway, S3 triggers, and CloudWatch Events to automate operational tasks and backend workflows.
- Built centralized observability using CloudWatch, and expanded monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, creating dashboards for CPU, memory, disk I/O, and application latency metrics.
- Automated system and application configuration using Ansible, creating roles and playbooks for patching, deployments, and secure provisioning, including secrets handling via Ansible Vault.
- Reduced AWS costs through resource tagging, CloudWatch billing alarms, usage audits, and architecture right-sizing for compute and storage workloads.
SRE DevOps Engineer
1 Year 8 Months- Partnered with architects and engineering teams to design Azure-based infrastructure supporting large-scale enterprise applications, leveraging Azure VMs, VM Scale Sets, VNets, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure SQL, and Blob Storage.
- Provisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform, creating reusable modules for compute, networking, load balancing, and AKS resources, and integrated them into Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Used ARM templates for legacy infrastructure deployments and refactored older scripts to align with standardized IaC practices across teams.
- Delivered configuration management using Ansible, developing modular playbooks for package installation, OS hardening, user management, and service configuration for RHEL, Ubuntu, and Azure Linux workloads.
- Deployed microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), managing cluster upgrades, node pools, network policies, and Helm chart–based application rollouts.
- Integrated build and deployment workflows using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions, supporting containerized workloads, Azure Functions, and traditional VM-based applications.
- Implemented container security by integrating Trivy into CI pipelines and enforcing image compliance standards before deployment to AKS.
- Built monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana, providing real-time visibility into AKS workloads, Functions, and VM environments.
- Provided 24/7 SRE support for Azure services and AKS platforms, troubleshooting outages, latency issues, and deployment failures in highly visible production systems.
- Documented release processes, automated rollback flows, and improved deployment reliability by standardizing practices across teams using Confluence and JIRA.
Linux System Administrator
2 Years 2 Months- Managed and supported Linux servers across development and production environments, handling system performance tuning, troubleshooting, and coordination with development teams during deployments.
- Installed, configured, and patched Oracle Database on RHEL systems, ensuring secure configuration, optimized performance, and proper integration with application environments.
- Built and provisioned Linux servers using Kickstartfor RHEL 5/6/7 and automated Solaris provisioning using Jumpstart, enabling consistent OS deployments across teams.
- Administered multiple Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris 9/10, and Linux Enterprise Desktop, including package management via RPM and YUM.
- Developed and maintained Shell/Bash scripts for system health checks, log rotation, monitoring, disk alerts, and automated service restarts to reduce manual effort.
- Deployed and maintained Splunk for log aggregation and incident analysis across Linux systems, improving visibility into system performance and failure patterns.
- Managed virtualization environments using VMware vCenter, including VM cloning, templates, snapshots, and troubleshooting VM performance issues.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Skills
Cloud Platforms
Azure
AWS
GCP (Compute Engine
Cloud Functions)
VMware
Hyper-V
OpenStack
Containerization & Orchestration
Docker
Kubernetes (AKS
EKS
OpenShift)
Docker Swarm
Helm
Kustomize
Fargate
CI/CD & Release Engineering
Azure DevOps
GitLab CI/CD
Jenkins
Harness
GitHub Actions
TeamCity
Bamboo
CircleCI
Maven
Gradle
SonarQube
Nexus
Artifactory
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Terraform
Kapitan
Bicep
ARM Templates
CloudFormation
Ansible
Chef
Puppet
Scripting & Programming
Python
Bash
PowerShell
YAML
JSON
HCL
Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch
Logstash
Kibana)
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
CloudWatch
Azure Monitor
Loki
Networking & Security
VPC/VNet
Subnets
NSGs
NACLs
Route Tables
ExpressRoute
VPN Gateway
Transit Gateway
PrivateLink
Load Balancers
Firewalls
IAM
Azure AD
Key Vault
RBAC
Serverless & Messaging
Azure Functions
AWS Lambda
API Gateway
Event Grid
Service Bus
SQS
SNS
Kafka
Databases & Storage
Azure SQL
Azure Data Lake
CosmosDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
MongoDB
DynamoDB
RDS
S3
Blob Storage
DevSecOps & Compliance
Trivy
SonarQube
Security Scanning (SAST/DAST)
Vault
Azure Policy
Governance
HIPAA
SOC2
PCI-DSS
FedRAMP
SOX
Version Control
Git
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SVN
Web & Application Servers
Apache
Nginx
Tomcat
JBoss
WebSphere
WebLogic
Operating Systems
Linux (RHEL
CentOS
SUSE
Ubuntu)
Solaris
Windows Server
Certification
- Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions- AZ-400
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Solutions Architect
Timeline
Sr. Cloud Engineer
Optum
01.2024 - CurrentRead More
Sr. Cloud Administrator
CVS
06.2022 - 08.2023Read More
DevOps Engineer
Wells Fargo
01.2020 - 05.2022Read More
SRE DevOps Engineer
Charter Communnications
04.2018 - 12.2019Read More
Linux System Administrator
Teksun Pvt LTD
05.2015 - 07.2017Read More
Roosevelt University
Master of Science from Computer And Information Sciences
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Kakatiya University
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
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Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder)
I hold a Permanent Residency and can work without requiring a sponsorship.