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Amarnath Gajula

Bengaluru

Summary

Results-driven IT professional with over 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer specializing in Build & Release. Expertise in configuring continuous builds, deploying applications, and managing infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Skilled in orchestrating containerized workloads, automating infrastructure provisioning, and optimizing system performance for seamless application deployment. Proficient in Cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure, with a strong background in CI/CD integration using Jenkins. Bilingual DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in designing, testing, and implementing infrastructure solutions. Diligent DevOps Engineer adept at setting up CI/CD pipelines, scripting deployment activities, and proficient in Agile methodologies.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Finastra Software Solutions
03.2024 - Current
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with multi-job triggers for Maven-based Java projects.
  • Automated artifact deployment to Nexus repository upon PR approvals, improving release efficiency.
  • Developed custom workflows for packaging and deploying builds across QA and regression environments.
  • Enabled nightly scheduled deployments with integrated validation checks.
  • Implemented CodeQL for code quality checks and vulnerability detection on pull requests.
  • Configured GitHub Actions to:Run mvn clean install on each commit.
    Run mvn clean deploy on PR approval to the develop branch.
  • Managed multiple repositories including uniflow, fxmgr, liquidity, liquidity-custom, balances, and UI modules.
  • Created custom artifacts and WAR files, pushed to Nexus, and integrated with Ant scripts for deployment.
  • Automated deployment scripts to:Fetch builds and scripts from Nexus.
    Modify UI JARs for environment-specific configurations.
    Validate deployments via HTTP response checks.
  • Contributed to parallel execution of GitHub Actions to reduce pipeline execution time.
  • Integrated security scans using SonarQube and Checkmarx.
  • Supported regression and QA deployments with manual triggers and automation enhancements.

DevOps Enigneer

NatWest Group
10.2022 - 03.2024
  • Collaborated with development teams to streamline software releases, resulting in faster time to market.
  • Participated in the code review to make sure the expected changes are going to the release.
  • Automated manual tasks using Shell script.
  • Supported the weekend releases and handled the negative flow of the operations as well as positive flow of the operations.
  • Worked in Certificate renewal process and collaborated with release teams during the testing operations.
  • Maintained version control systems like Bitbucket and Git for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
  • Implemented best practices to protect data and assets.
  • Documented project design for reference and future use cases.
  • Automated the tasks using python scripting.
  • Actively manage, improve, and monitor infrastructure on Kubernetes cluster including backups, patches, and scaling.
  • Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
  • Automating the package build and docker image build using tools like terraform.

DevOps Engineer

Finastra Software Solutions
02.2021 - 07.2022
  • Integrated Jenkins through Azure Authentication
  • Enabling the Role-based access to the Jenkins
  • Integrated the Jenkins pipeline jobs to run the Sanity, Integration and System Test cases.
  • Terraform and Jenkins across geographically separated hosting zones in AWS
  • Created and deployed Kubernetes clusters on Azure Cloud.
  • Develop YAML scripts to deploy infrastructure into Kubernetes.
  • Orchestrated container cluster with Kubernetes.
  • Built and Managed AWS infrastructure as a code with Terraform.
  • Worked with containerization tools, can implement the transition to Docker and develop distributed cloud system using Kubernetes and Helm package manager for Kubernetes.

DevOps Engineer

Sears Ecommerce
12.2017 - 02.2021
  • The project is about maintaining the e-commerce website of Sears 24/7
  • As a major part of Sears business is based on e-commerce site should be available all the time
  • The team job is to build and release code for deployment on appropriate servers to the Deployment team
  • The site will be developed in 4 stages- DEV stage, testing (QA) stage, UAT stage and production
  • Responsible for creating a Jenkins pipeline for Automation job creation.

Education

High School Diploma -

V.V.SANGHA'S Polytechnic
07.2012

No Degree -

Hope Municipal High School
Madanapalle, India
06-2006

Skills

  • Agile/Scrum Methodology
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Source and Version Control: Git, GitHub, Azure, and BitBucket
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Software Deployment
  • Linux Environments
  • Azure DevOps
  • Kubernetes, Terraform, and Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Build releases
  • Containerization technologies
  • Version control systems
  • Github/Github actions

Languages

Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Intermediate (B1)
Hindi
Upper intermediate (B2)
English
Upper intermediate (B2)

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Finastra Software Solutions
03.2024 - Current

DevOps Enigneer

NatWest Group
10.2022 - 03.2024

DevOps Engineer

Finastra Software Solutions
02.2021 - 07.2022

DevOps Engineer

Sears Ecommerce
12.2017 - 02.2021

High School Diploma -

V.V.SANGHA'S Polytechnic

No Degree -

Hope Municipal High School
Amarnath Gajula