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Vamshi Krishna Kaja

Edison,NJ

Summary

8+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, and Linux System Administration across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible, enabling automated provisioning, scaling, and configuration of cloud resources. Proficient in CI/CD toolchains including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, and Docker, with strong experience in designing robust, automated deployment pipelines. Hands-on experience managing containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), and service meshes like Istio for secure and resilient microservices architecture. Skilled in monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Nagios, and DataDog to ensure application performance and uptime. In-depth knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ELB, Lambda), with hands-on work in secure, cost-optimized, and high-availability deployments. Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, and Shell to automate infrastructure tasks, configuration management, backups, and monitoring. Experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible Tower for automating software installation, patching, and environment setup. Familiarity with Red Hat Satellite, YUM, RPM, and system tuning in RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu for secure, performance-tuned server environments. Applied best practices in DevSecOps, including mTLS, JWT, OAuth2, x509, and secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault. Implemented and managed scalable cloud-native applications using Spring Boot, React/React Native, and Node.js, integrating with RESTful APIs and third-party services for seamless user experiences. Integrated security and compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Aqua Security, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, and Trivy, ensuring secure code and container builds. Full-Stack Cloud Developer – Expertise in Java/Spring Boot microservices (Kubernetes, Kafka, REST) and C++ optimization (real-time IoT, legacy modernization), with React/TypeScript frontends for end-to-end solutions.

Experienced with automating deployment processes and managing cloud infrastructure. Utilizes containerization and orchestration tools to ensure high availability and scalability. Track record of implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines effectively.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Cloud/Senior DevOps Engineer

State of New Jersey
09.2022 - Current
  • Created CI/CD pipelines by integrating Git, GitHub, ant, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, and AWS (provisioning), Gerrit.
  • Designed and implemented cloud-native microservices using Java Spring Boot and React, deployed on Kubernetes clusters in AWS/GCP. Integrated RESTful APIs for seamless communication between frontend and backend services, enabling scalable, resilient applications across global user bases.
  • Configured and managed domain registration, hosted zones, and DNS records (A, CNAME, ALIAS, MX, TXT) in Route 53 for high availability.
  • Worked for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Ansible for Cloud Automation.
  • Wrote Ansible Playbooks to automate the tasks, and to provision the Linux servers.
  • Implemented routing policies (Weighted, Latency-based, Failover, Geolocation) to optimize global traffic distribution.
  • Set up health checks with automated failover to backup resources (e.g., S3, EC2, or other regions) during outages.
  • Enabled DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and integrated with AWS Shield/WAF for DDoS protection.
  • Implemented continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
  • Developed, maintained, and optimized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform modules and workspaces to provision and manage multi-cloud environments, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
  • Automated the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources including VPCs, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, and managed services by integrating Terraform with CI/CD pipelines for faster and error-free releases.
  • Architected multi-VPC, multi-region networks with subnets, NAT gateways, and peering connections.
  • Led a team of 5 SRE engineers, owning PagerDuty on-call rotations, reducing mean time to resolution by 40% through automated incident playbooks and blameless postmortems.
  • Defined SLIs/SLOs for core APIs, built Grafana dashboards and alerts in Datadog; enforced error budgets to drive reliability improvements.
  • Architected and operated Istio service mesh on EKS (AWS GovCloud), enabling mTLS and traffic-shifting for zero-downtime deployments.
  • Reduced DNS resolution latency by 40% using Latency-Based Routing.Cut cloud costs by 30% by migrating to private hosted zones for internal services.Achieved 99.99% uptime with active-active failover across regions
  • Designed and operated production OpenShift Container Platform clusters , including custom Docker images for JBoss Fuse integrations..
  • Collaborated on projects involving connected devices to manage remote configuration and update delivery, improving device uptime and performance.
  • Experience working with data integration, ETL, and cloud-native storage (S3, Redshift, RDS) in healthcare domain
  • Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.
  • Built cross-platform mobile applications using React Native and integrated with backend APIs via GraphQL and REST. Deployed builds automatically to TestFlight and Play Store using Fastlane and GitHub Actions.
  • Provisioned and governed Azure subscriptions, VNets, NSGs and Application Gateway proxy rules via ARM templates and Terraform.
  • Environment: DevOps, Redhat (5.x), Elastic Search, EC2, ELB, S3, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Ansible, AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, GIT, Docker, Wercker, Apache, Nagios, MySQL, Logstash
  • Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Developed custom scripts using Python or Bash languages to automate repetitive tasks or integrate disparate systems effectively streamlining workflows across departments.
  • Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Created team strategy for SDLC automation, configuration management and release management.
  • Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools such as [Software].
  • Championed a DevOps culture within the organization that emphasized collaboration between development, operations, and QA teams for seamless software delivery.
  • Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in the software delivery process.
  • Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies in the DevOps space and recommended strategic adoption of solutions that aligned with organizational goals and requirements.

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Verisk Analytics
11.2021 - 09.2022
  • Experienced in writing Chef Cookbooks, and Chef Recipes for automating infrastructure as code.
  • Involved in setting up Chef Nodes, Chef Client, Chef Server, and Chef Workstation.
  • Experienced in deploying Cookbooks for all the services on Auto Scaling groups using Chef Server.
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Docker for full stack applications. Automated infrastructure provisioning, application builds, test orchestration, and blue-green deployments on GKE and EKS, reducing release cycles by 60%.
  • Implemented containerized applications deployed on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization and scalability at edge locations.
  • Experience with Spring MVC, Hibernate, and JPA for enterprise applications.
  • JUnit, Mockito for unit/integration testing, and JProfiler for performance tuning.
  • Strong grasp of OOP, design patterns (e.g., Singleton, Factory), and memory management (GC tuning, heap analysis).
  • Created automation and deployment templates for relational and non-relational databases including MS SQL, MySQL, Cassandra and MongoDB can be used in AWS RDS.
  • Acquaintance with tagging standards for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS Services like Cloud Front, cloud watch, Elastic beanstalk, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail.
  • Managing a team of DevOps engineer for infrastructure support on AWS cloud. Creating Cloud Formation scripts for hosting software on AWS cloud, automating the installation of software through Power Shell scripts.
  • Migrated legacy C++ applications to containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) with Python wrappers for seamless cloud integration.
  • Built event-driven microservices using Spring Boot and Kafka, ensuring loose coupling and horizontal scalability for IoT data processing pipelines.
  • Proficient in using Docker in swam mode and Kubernetes for container orchestration, by writing Docker files and setting up the automated build on Docker HUB.
  • Built scalable frontend components with React and TypeScript, ensuring type safety and improving code maintainability.
  • Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
  • Worked with building and deploying the AEM projects and worked on tools like Maven, GitHub, SVN source control.
  • Deployed and managed RESTful APIs using AWS API Gateway, integrated with Lambda functions for serverless compute.
  • Served as primary liaison to business stakeholders to communicate project status, technical trade-offs and metrics
  • Assisted in setting up and troubleshooting CI/CD workflows using Bitbucket Pipelines and Bamboo, ensuring smooth deployments and integration with Docker and Kubernetes environments.
  • Implemented security best practices including tokenization, data encryption at rest and in transit, and secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault.
  • Deployed and configured Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch, Established DevOps culture based on Docker and Kubernetes tools.
  • Automated applications and MySQL container deployment in Docker using Python and monitor them using Nagios.
  • Heavily utilized the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl) to meet customer needs.
  • Installed and configured various services like DNS, LDAP, DHCP, RPM, Send mail, Apache Web Server, Web Logic, NIS, SSH, Tomcat, Telnet, HTTP, HACMP, GPFS, SSL, NetApp, RPM Package Management and others.
  • Environment: AWS, NoSQL, MS SQL, MySQL, Git, Jenkins, Chef, PCF, Docker Kubernetes, Python, Maven, Ansible, ANT, Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Java, PHP, Elk, Bugzilla, Nagios, GCP, Red Hat Linux, mpstat, vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat, Packer, Sonar, Nexus, JIRA, Vagrant

DevOps Engineer

Bayer Crop science
04.2017 - 08.2021
  • Focused on automation, integration monitoring and configuration management.
  • Installed and configured Puppet Master, Puppet Agents, Puppet Console and created manifests, profiles, modules and classes for automation.
  • Developed and implemented software release management strategies for various applications according to agile process.
  • Using GIT as a source code management tools and work on setting up new GitLab servers to move the running projects from GitHub to the GitLab servers.
  • Performed integration of Code Quality Analysis techniques - Check style, Find bugs with CI tools like Bamboo.
  • Installed, configured, managed monitoring tools such as Splunk, Nagios, icinga for Resource Monitoring/Network/Monitoring/Log trace Monitoring.
  • Managed Sonatype Nexus repositories to download the artifacts (jar, war & ear) during the build.
  • Created AWS cloud formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB's, security groups,TGW, IGW.
  • Creating applications through Scala, Python, and Java and Developing Spark tasks for data aggregation and transformation.
  • Bootstrapping automation scripting for virtual servers, using VMWare clusters.
  • Responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes.
  • Created the build scripts using Maven for Java projects. Automating the build process by configuring Subversion for projects. Build tracking so that whenever defect is detected, developers will be able to track the source code. Handling Environment issue in Linux boxes.
  • Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization.
  • Worked on Docker open source project by automating the deployment of applications inside software containers.
  • To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx.
  • Worked with Oracle Database Admin to keep all the specified tables as assigned by developments in sync for every release.
  • Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker.
  • Installation, configuration and upgrade of Red hat Linux 6/7, CentOS 6/7, SUSE10/11, Ubuntu (15/16), and AIX (V5.3, 6.1) Operating system.
  • Configure, monitor and automated cloud-based service Amazon Web Services.
  • Created and managed custom Windows and Linux based AMIs.
  • Setup Elastic Load Balancer for distributing traffic among multiple Web Logic servers.
  • Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon Web Services using EC2, S3 and EBS.
  • Designed, deployed and managed applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform,Developed integration microservices using Red Hat JBoss Fuse
  • Created S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
  • Worked on PL/SQL database objects tables, views, sequences, triggers, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Cursors, Exceptions Partitions, analytical functions, views, Indexes and global temporary tables etc.
  • Environment: Subversion, GIT, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Shell scripts, Kubernetes, Bash, Maven, bamboo, Apache Tomcat6.x/7.x, Jenkins1.x, JIRA, SPARK,Nexus, Maven, Nagios4.x/5.x, Linux/Unix, PL/SQL, Windows, Java, J2EE, AWS

Education

Bachelor’s - Agriculture

VNMKV
01.2017

Master’s - Data Science

Saint Peter's University
01.2022

Skills

  • Operating systems expertise: Windows, Linux, Debian, CentOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS
  • Programming in multiple languages
  • Build, Test & Automation: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Docker, Maven
  • Web & App Servers: Apache (2x, 3x), Tomcat, JBoss, Nginx, WebSphere, Visual Studio
  • Version Control: GIT, Apache SVN
  • Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, TELNET, SSH, FTP, NIS, NFS, SAMBA, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, UDP, RIP, OSPF, IP-Tables, Firewalls, Switches, Hubs
  • Databases: MySQL, Oracle (8i–10g), MS SQL, PL/SQL, RDS
  • SRE Practices: MTTR reduction, SLOs/SLIs, Blameless postmortems, Chaos testing
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS , Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps
  • Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, PRTG, Splunk
  • Java Ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, JPA, JUnit, Mockito
  • Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript
  • Middleware & Integration: JBoss, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Tomcat, WebLogic
  • Containers & PaaS: Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Istio
  • Scripting languages
  • Cloud computing expertise
  • Containerization technologies
  • Microservices architecture

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

AWS Cloud/Senior DevOps Engineer

State of New Jersey
09.2022 - Current

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Verisk Analytics
11.2021 - 09.2022

DevOps Engineer

Bayer Crop science
04.2017 - 08.2021

Master’s - Data Science

Saint Peter's University

Bachelor’s - Agriculture

VNMKV
Vamshi Krishna Kaja