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Siva Gandikota
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Irving,Texas
Summary
Having 10+ years experience in IT industry in which 8+ years of experience as a Senior DevSecOps Engineer which includes implementation of Platform, DevOps, Kubernetes & SDLC, Agile development and skilled in Azure, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins and SRE principles Successfully implemented DevOps practices in various organizations to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability. Expert in design and implement the Containerization (Kubernetes) environments by managing the clusters at scale, looking for challenging opportunities to share my expertise and contribute to the growth of the organization
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Toyota Motors North America(TMNA)
Plano, TX
10.2023 - Current
- Working on Telematics domain to provide platform and DevSecOps pipelines to host the applications
- Integrating third party security tools like Fastly WAF, Cloudflare with AWS cloud infra
- Writing Gitlab pipelines to integrate security tools to scan the infrastructure asper security standards
- Designing the architecture as per security standards like S190 for making the standard Infrastructure
- Creating EKS and ECS clusters using Terraform and deploying apps using Gitlab pipelines
- Writing Terraform modules and Gitlabci files to upgrade the EKS clusters and addons to latest version
- Experience in working with the development and implementation of monitoring tools, troubleshooting documentation, system/application documentation and overall process improvement
- Working with FinOps team to optimize the infrastructure cost on AWS
- Writing the Terraform modules to provision the AWS resources using Terraform Enterprise
- Implementing ISTIO for Kubernetes clusters to control the request routing to services using Helm
- Working on mitigating the security vulnerabilities on existing infrastructure
- Responsible for creating & managing the Gitlab runners in Kubernetes
- Working AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, API gateways, ECS, EKS, SMS Pinpoint, Lambda, SNS, Secretes Manager, IAM, AWS WAF, etc.
- Worked on Cloudflare to integrate with Toyota network to control the traffic by validating(gzip/mTLS offloading) the endpoints
- Experience in integrating Datadog with application services running in ECS and EKS clusters
- Experience on troubleshooting the API gateway issues and GitLab pipeline issues & k8s issues
- Writing the gitlab pipeline stages to scan the docker images and code quality and deploying onto k8s
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
State of NEWJERSEY(Protech Solutions, Inc.)
Plainsboro, New Jersey
02.2023 - 09.2023
- Responsible for Design and document and guiding to implement the customer requirements
- Implemented DevSecOps by integrating security tools like HP Fortify, HCL, SonarQube with CICD pipelines along with Netsparker/Qualys to scan the URLs after deployment
- Worked closely with Network teams and System Administrators to assist with the development and implementation of monitoring tools, troubleshooting documentation, system/application documentation and overall process improvement
- Writing Ansible playbooks to deploy the web applications as per the identified requirements
- Experience on Ansible tower (AWX) to manage Ansible inventory, roles and playbooks to configure the server and updating the latest OS patches and also deploy the applications
- Creating the terraform script files and modules to provision Kubernetes clusters on azure and managing azure resources as per the requirements and project architecture
- Implemented and executed major incident management processes including invocation, ownership, escalation, communication and restoration of service
- Responsible for Azure DevOps admin & AWS admin and release management activities
- Experience on writing python and bash scripts to automate the deployment and backups
- Creating the Kubernetes manifest files to deploy the applications using Helm charts
- Creating the Jenkins server and managing the worker nodes on Kubernetes cluster
- Writing the multistage dockerfiles to create custom images to deploy applications on AKS cluster
- Creating and maintaining the Jenkins pipelines to build and deploy the applications on to AKS clusters
- Worked on CICD implementation using Azure DevOps, .net builds, Docker, Kubernetes
- Securing the docker images by integrating with Jenkins using the container scanners like Trivy
- Configured Azure pipeline jobs for Angular builds and deployments
- Migrated code from On-prem TFS server to azure DevOps repositories
- Configured Datadog agents on servers, containers, and other relevant infrastructure components to collect performance data and setting up custom metrics and monitors to track the health and performance of applications and services
- Migrated MSSQL from on-prem servers to AWS servers and tested the scheduled batch jobs
- Configured Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring & configured alert manager on Kubernetes cluster
- Technologies: Terraform, Linux, Windows, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, K8S, AWS, JIRA, Trivy, Prometheus, Grafana
Senior DevOps Consultant
HHS Tech Group
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
05.2022 - 01.2023
- Experience as a GitHub admin role and release management activities
- Worked on CICD implementation using Jenkins and maven, SonarQube, Docker
- Created & managed repositories in GitHub and the access control strategies and performed all necessary day to day GIT support for development teams
- Defined release management strategy and implemented successfully
- Writing the Terraform scripts to provision the infrastructure and K8S Clusters on Azure
- Experience in Deploy containerized applications on AKS using Kubernetes manifests to configure deployments, services, pods, and replica sets
- Experience on integrating AKS with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins for automated deployments
- Experience in Configure monitoring, logging and manage resource utilization (CPU, memory, storage) within AKS clusters using Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience in implement security best practices for containerized applications, including container image scanning, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), and pod security policies.
- Coordinating with other Team members to plan capacity and scaling needs.
- Creating ansible roles and writing ansible playbooks for automating the infrastructure configuration
- Experience on Ansible tower (AWX) to manage Ansible inventory, roles and playbooks to configure the server and updating the latest OS patches and also deploy the applications
- Created and maintained different Product environments (Development, Stage, Production)
- Troubleshooting and fixing the issues related to build and deployments
- Working to Automate, build and provide production systems support that may include duties such as deployment, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting Linux servers
- Automating the infrastructure provisioning by creating reusable IAC templates using terraform & CF
- Experience in monitor the applications and infrastructure to identify and resolve issues quickly.
- Implemented AWS solutions using EKS, ECR, EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Route53, Cloud front and Cloud watch
- Trouble shooting and resolving the application unavailability issues and providing RCA
- Created dashboards and configured alerts using Grafana and alert manager
- Experience on managing mongo DB (Atlassian Mongo) on cloud-based solution
- Configured load balancers and enabled security by using SSL certificates
- Working with cross functional teams to provide and application support across multiple environments
- Created hosted zones and records in Route53 and configured cloud front distribution from S3
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, K8S, Azure, AWS, JIRA, Ansible, Terraform, HPFortify, Prometheus, Grafana
DevOps Consultant
BMW
Bengaluru, India
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Working on Jenkins pipelines to deploy the applications on to k8s cluster
- Working on DevSecOps implementation by integrating security tools with CICD
- Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories and the access control strategies and performed all necessary day to day GIT support for different projects.
- Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, optimizing speed.
- Configuring the servers for deployments by using Ansible
- Creating the secrets in AWS secret manger and consuming from Kubernetes
- Created & managed EKS cluster, node groups and monitoring of EKS clusters
- Configured Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring and configured alert manager to firing the alerts on high resource utilization and on service down issues
- Created and managed the OpenShift clusters for Dev and UAT environment
- Writing the manifest files for deploying the applications onto Kubernetes using Helm Charts
- Creating custom docker images and deploying on to the EKS cluster using Jenkins pipelines
- Troubleshooting and fixing the issues related to build and deployments
- Experience on Ansible tower (AWX) to manage Ansible inventory, roles and playbooks to configure the server and updating the latest OS patches and also deploy the applications
- Developing Ansible custom roles to automate the infrastructure configurations
- Working to Automate, build and provide production systems support that may include duties such as deployment, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting Linux servers
- Automating the infrastructure provisioning by creating reusable IAC templates (CFT)
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
- Trouble shooting and resolving the application unavailability issues and providing RCA
- Handling disk space, port down, unreachable, CPU usage, open files & Success rate of service issues
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, K8S, AWS, JIRA, Ansible
DevOps Engineer -IV
Equinix
Dallas, TX
05.2021 - 10.2021
- Creating the Rancher clusters for various environments
- Performing the regular audits and optimizing the cost on AWS account
- Experience in writing the Docker files for containerization of existing on-premise applications
- Working and coordinating with various functional teams to containerize the apps
- Creating the CI/CD pipeline jobs to automate the Release process
- Working to Automate deployment of new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment
- Writing the manifest files for deploying the applications onto Kubernetes cluster
- Troubleshooting and fixing the issues related to build and deployments
- Experience on Ansible tower (AWX) to manage Ansible inventory, roles and playbooks to configure the server and updating the latest OS patches and also deploy the applications
- Writing Ansible custom roles and custom playbooks asper the requirements
- Creating the dashboards on Grafana from Prometheus data source & configuring the alerts on k8s cluster issues like CPU, Memory, API status
- Creating the Change requests and implementing the changes as a part of Release management process
- Supporting other team members on their blockages
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Rancher, K8S, AWS, JIRA, Ansible
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
Senior Technical Consultant
Thermofisher Scientific
Bengaluru, India
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Designed and managed public/private cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services (AWS) which include VPC, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Elastic File System, RDS, Direct Connect, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation and IAM which allowed automated operations.
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, Route53, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer and Auto scaling groups.
- Creating the EKS cluster and managing the node groups by configuring auto scaling to scale up/down
- Experience in writing Kubernetes manifest files & creating helm charts to automate deployments
- Troubleshooting on cluster issues & deployment issues using kubectl commands
- Writing the Dockerfiles to create custom images to deploy applications
- Created Customized AMIs based on existing AWS EC2 instances by using create image functionality, hence using this snapshot for disaster recovery
- Creating the Python and shell scripts to automate the AWS deployments on to customer environments
- Created AWS Launch configurations based on Customized AMI and used this launch configuration to configure auto scaling groups and created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
- Built servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, Creating security groups, auto- scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
- Experience on Ansible tower (AWX) to manage Ansible inventory, roles and playbooks
- Configuring, troubleshooting Docker containers, K8s pods, deployments, replica sets, services, volumes, configmaps and worker nodes
- Creating the cloud watch alarms and SNS topics to send notifications
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Rancher, K8S, AWS, JIRA, Ansible
Cloud Engineer
Levi’s Strauss & Co
Bengaluru, India
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Automated the Build Process using Jenkins and handled complete Build and Release process including code, documentation and supporting testing team along with the server Administration
- Creating, merging GIT repositories and experience in different Git operations such as Git ADD, COMMIT, FETCH, PUSH, REVERT, etc.
- Integrating SAST Tool for secure code review scanning using HP Fortify in CI/CD (Jenkins) pipeline
- Configuring the Jenkins jobs for Security assessments to analyze the source code
- Creating and monitoring different type of file systems and writing the shell scripts for health checks
- Writing Docker file to build custom images and to run containers and save on DTR
- Working on AWX (Ansible Tower) to create templates and deploying the apps
- Creating Ansible Playbooks for Configuration and deployments and automating tasks
- Experience in setup Kubernetes cluster and managing pods, networks, volumes
- Configuring and troubleshooting Kubernetes cluster, worker node issues
- Experience in AWS Cloud services such as EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, EKS and IAM
- Configuring ELBs with auto scaling groups attached and defined launch configurations to scaling up/down the servers to serve the requests
- Creating and managing the S3 buckets along with Life cycle and storage classes
- Attending customer calls to give resolutions for the addressed issues
- Troubleshooting on Network & Space issues, application unavailable, Mount issues, DB Connection issues, etc.
- Creating Change Requests for new servers and existing servers to white listing on network firewalls to allow the dedicated ports to serve the requests
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, Git, AWS, JIRA, Ansible Tower
DevOps Engineer
Allied Irish Bank
Bengaluru, India
07.2018 - 09.2019
- Active participation in Build and release process.
- Experience in building EAR, WAR and JAR using MAVEN and Jenkins.
- Working on Jenkins to implement CI & CD processes
- Worked on Creating and Managing Docker and Kubernetes Environments.
- Writing the Chef cookbooks and managing chef server and troubleshooting on chef client issues
- Worked with Ansible (automation tool) to automate the process of deploying/testing the new build in each environment, setting up a new node and configuring machines/servers.
- Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration of remotely configured machines and to deploy new build and configured the Ansible playbooks with Ansible Tower (AWX).
- Worked on the Venafi Certificate management tool to create and manage the SSL certificates
- Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images, and managing Docker volumes.
- Working on BAU activities including system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all services, reviewing system and application logs
- Working on Production Support L1 & L2 level as per SLA and ITIL guidelines
- Managing and integrating code Quality tools like SonarQube, manage sonar rules, Quality gates
- Working and coordinating with various functional teams to containerize the apps
- Creating the CI/CD pipeline jobs
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, AWS, JIRA, Chef, Ansible
Systems Engineer
Sabre
Bengaluru, India
02.2015 - 07.2018
- Code versioning and release management with GitHub branching and tagging.
- Creating new Repositories and Jenkins file for Continuous integration, build and Continuous deployment and delivery.
- Setup Cloud Watch agent in EC2 instances and send logs to the cloud watch log groups and create alarms based on cloud watch metrics and events.
- Designed and implemented Continuous Integration process with Jenkins on approval from development and other affected teams.
- Implemented Jenkins for Continuous Integration Builds and Notifications exclusive for Dev as a self- help feature.
- Installing Plugins in Jenkins as per project requirements and Configuring Slaves in Jenkins.
- Assisted in building scripts in Jenkins tool using Maven Build tools and deployed onto AWS
- Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, Git, AWS, JIRA, Ansible
Education
M.Tech - Engineering
JNTU
Kakinada,India 11.2012 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU
Kakinada, India 08.2008 - 04.2012
Skills
Windows
Linux
AWS
Azure
Forge Rock
IAM
AWS WAF
Firewall
CloudFlare
Fastly
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Rancher
Ansible
Chef
GitHUB
Bitbucket
GitLab
Ant
Maven
MS Build
npm
Sonatype Nexus
JFrog
ECR
Jenkins
Gitlab
Azure pipelines
ELK Stack
Grafana
Prometheus
New Relic
Splunk
JIRA
ClickUp
Confluence
SharePoint
JBoss
Tomcat
Atlas Mongo
Oracle
MS SQL
Qualys
Netsparker
paloAlto
SonarQube
HP Fortify
HCL
Python
Bash
SQL
Agile
Scrum
Waterfall
Accomplishments
- Developing Secure Applications – Implementing secure coding practices and embedding security measures early in the development lifecycle.
- Optimizing CI/CD Pipelines – Enhancing automation and security integration within Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows.
- Cloud Security Expertise – Strengthening security in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment – Identifying vulnerabilities and proactively mitigating security risks.
- Container Security & Orchestration – Securing containerized applications and platforms like Docker and Kubernetes.
Certification
CKA
Interests
Work Availability
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Languages
English
Full Professional
Software
AWS
Quote
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff Bezos
Work Preference
Work Type
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RemoteHybridOn-SiteImportant To Me
Work-life balanceWork from home optionStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingPaid time off4-day work weekHealthcare benefitsCompany CultureCareer advancementAffiliations
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Timeline
CKS
05-2025
Certified AWS DevOps Professional
05-2025
CKA
04-2024
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Toyota Motors North America(TMNA)
10.2023 - Current
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
State of NEWJERSEY(Protech Solutions, Inc.)
02.2023 - 09.2023
Senior DevOps Consultant
HHS Tech Group
05.2022 - 01.2023
DevOps Consultant
BMW
10.2021 - 04.2022
DevOps Engineer -IV
Equinix
05.2021 - 10.2021
Senior Technical Consultant
Thermofisher Scientific
09.2020 - 04.2021
Cloud Engineer
Levi’s Strauss & Co
09.2019 - 03.2020
DevOps Engineer
Allied Irish Bank
07.2018 - 09.2019
Systems Engineer
Sabre
02.2015 - 07.2018
M.Tech - Engineering
JNTU
11.2012 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU
08.2008 - 04.2012