Shrina Patel
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in architecting, automating, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure. Skilled in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud security. Proven ability to reduce deployment time by 40%, enhance system reliability, and optimize cloud costs while ensuring security compliance in high-traffic cloud environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer II
Plexus worldwide, LLC
Scottsdale, AZ
09.2021 - Current
- Architected and automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform, optimizing EC2, RDS (Aurora MySQL), IAM, VPC, and security groups, reducing deployment time by 40% while ensuring security and scalability.
- Experienced DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation, focused on enhancing cloud efficiency, security, and cost optimization.
- Strong problem-solving and incident management experience.
- Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform optimizes EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, and security groups, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Designed and implemented Jenkins pipelines with Groovy, Terraform, and Python, enabling blue/green and canary deployments, cutting release cycles by 45%.
- Managed Kubernetes (Rancher) clusters, deploying Helm charts, and horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) to enhance resource efficiency by 25%.
- Reduced AWS costs by 30% through EC2/RDS rightsizing, auto-scaling, savings plans, and spot instances.
- Provided 24/7 on-call support, troubleshooting critical-severity incidents affecting critical production systems through New Relic monitoring.
Sr. Platform Systems Engineer
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
05.2020 - 09.2021
- Architected and automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring scalability, repeatable deployments, and reducing manual configuration errors by 40%.
- Designed and deployed Kubernetes clusters and Docker-based microservices, optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and GitHub Actions for faster, and more efficient releases.
- Implemented AWS Transit Gateway and Control Tower to unify multi-account VPC networking, enhancing security compliance, and reducing network complexity.
- Integrated Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana for real-time monitoring, observability, and proactive alerting, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by 30%.
- Managed GitOps workflows with GitHub, Terraform, and Helm, streamlining branching strategies, pull requests, and infrastructure as code (IaC) automation.
- Collaborated with development, security, and SRE teams to implement cloud security best practices, enforcing IAM least privilege, role-based access control (RBAC), and DevSecOps policies for compliance, and risk mitigation.
DevOps Engineer
PetSmart
Phoenix, AZ
11.2019 - 05.2020
- Developed Ansible playbooks to automate server provisioning, enforce consistency, and reduce manual errors by 60%.
- Provisioned and managed AWS VPCs, subnets, security groups, Route 53, S3 buckets, and IAM policies using Terraform, ensuring scalable, repeatable, and compliant network configurations while reducing manual setup time by 50%.
- Integrated ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging, improving log visibility, and anomaly detection, leading to 30% faster debugging cycles.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Management
Trine University
Phoenix, Arizona05.2025
Master of Science - Information Technology Project Management
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona05.2020
Skills
AWS (Expert), Terraform (Expert), Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Bash, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Security, and Project Management
Timeline
DevOps Engineer II
Plexus worldwide, LLC
09.2021 - Current
Sr. Platform Systems Engineer
Arizona State University
05.2020 - 09.2021
DevOps Engineer
PetSmart
11.2019 - 05.2020
Master of Business Administration - Management
Trine University
Master of Science - Information Technology Project Management
Arizona State University
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