Amarnath Polu
Senior DevOps Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced and results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with over 13 years of experience and strong background in cloud technologies and automation. Proficient in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and containerization using tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes. Skilled in monitoring and troubleshooting production systems to ensure high availability and performance. Strong collaboration and communication skills, working effectively in cross-functional teams. Passionate about optimizing processes and enhancing system reliability through DevOps best practices.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ICF Consulting Pvt ltd
01.2022 - Current
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Azure DevOps, reducing deployment times by 40%
- Orchestrated containerized workloads on Kubernetes and managed production-grade clusters on AWS EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible, resulting in improved scalability and reliability
- Led the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments
- Implemented robust monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack to proactively detect and troubleshoot issues
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize application performance and enhance scalability through infrastructure tuning and optimization
- Spearheaded efforts to migrate legacy applications to cloud-native architectures, leveraging AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and serverless technologies
- Conducted regular security assessments and implemented best practices to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Publicis Sapient
05.2016 - 01.2022
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible, Puppet, and Chef, reducing deployment time and minimizing human errors
- Implemented security controls and compliance standards, including IAM roles, network security groups, and encryption, to secure cloud infrastructure and data
- Conducted regular performance tuning and optimization of databases, web servers, and caching layers to improve application performance
- Provided technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members, facilitating their professional growth and development.
Senior Systems Engineer
Atos India Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 05.2016
- Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
- Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
- Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
Middleware Administrator
Wissen InfoTech Pvt Ltd
09.2010 - 09.2014
- Troubleshoot problems on various layers of the application and infrastructure
- L1 & L2 support activities, incident handling and root cause analysis of regular issues
- Analyses, develops, modifies, installs, tests, maintains large and mid-range systems computer software such as operating systems, compilers, and utilities.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University
Hyderabad 04.2001 - 04.2008
Bachelor of Science -
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Anantapur 05.2002 - 03.2005
Skills
Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Bamboo
Version Control: Git, Bitbucket, GitHub
Scripting and Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell
Monitoring and Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): SLA/SLO management, incident response, blameless postmortems
Security and Compliance: Cloud security best practices, vulnerability management, compliance frameworks (eg HIPAA, GDPR)
Websites
Certification
AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administration, 2021
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ICF Consulting Pvt ltd
01.2022 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Publicis Sapient
05.2016 - 01.2022
Senior Systems Engineer
Atos India Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 05.2016
Middleware Administrator
Wissen InfoTech Pvt Ltd
09.2010 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Science -
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
05.2002 - 03.2005
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University
04.2001 - 04.2008