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Overview
Work History
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Balaram Pratap Kotyada

Balaram Pratap Kotyada

Senior DevOps Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automating deployments, managing multi-cloud infrastructure, and implementing secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines. Skilled in containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible), and cloud security practices to ensure high availability, reliability, and compliance.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Apollo24|7
04.2024 - Current
  • Optimized Redis, SQL databases, and VM usage based on historical consumption, reducing overall cloud spend by ~20%.
  • Automated inactive VM cleanup with Ansible and built a Jenkins job for ad-hoc commands across VM groups, cutting manual ops effort by ~80%.
  • Configured OpenVPN to securely onboard non-tech users and migrated internal dashboards behind VPN for enhanced access security.
  • Implemented automated VPN login/logout audits with log scraping and DB workflows, ensuring daily compliance with audit requirements.
  • Resolved IPv6 floating IP issues and closed multiple security vulnerabilities across environments.
  • Built a 3-node MongoDB cluster via Ansible with replica sets and keyfile-based authentication, improving database reliability.
  • Migrated critical services (Prism, Lhub, IMS) to Kubernetes with autoscaling and resource configs, boosting availability and scalability.
  • Managed GKE cluster upgrades and automated Node.js heapdump profiling, minimizing downtime during rollouts.
  • Deployed Keycloak for centralized auth and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, strengthening observability.
  • Migrated InfluxDB with persistent storage on Kubernetes, ensuring 99.9% uptime for monitoring workloads.
  • Configured self-hosted SMTP server and deployed AppCenter with GitHub OAuth, improving developer productivity.
  • Renewed & upgraded Aiven SSL/TLS certificates across K8s clusters, VMs, and Cloud Functions with zero downtime.
  • Provisioned insurance-domain infrastructure using Terraform (projects, networks, certs, pods), accelerating infra setup by ~50%.
  • Deployed self-hosted Bitbucket runners for CI/CD workloads, reducing pipeline execution time.
  • Built DNS dashboards for resolution visibility and SSL checks, cutting debugging time by ~60%.

DevOps Engineer

Apollo247
01.2023 - 04.2024
  • Led migration of all services from Azure to GCP with zero downtime, improving reliability and cutting infra costs by ~20%.
  • Containerized monolithic applications into Docker-based microservices, boosting scalability and developer productivity by ~30%.
  • Designed & maintained Jenkins pipelines, shared libraries, and Groovy scripts, reducing CI/CD pipeline failures by ~40%.
  • Delivered complete GCP infrastructure using Terraform (IaC), standardizing provisioning across environments.
  • Implemented event-driven auto-remediation workflows, reducing recurring production incidents by ~50%.
  • Created proofs of concept (PoCs) for new DevOps solutions, accelerating adoption of modern practices.
  • Automated Kubernetes environment provisioning and application deployments with Terraform, cutting setup time by ~60%.
  • Managed production releases of Apollo247’s flagship website with on-time, stable rollouts.
  • Deployed observability stack (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, APM) improving monitoring coverage by ~70%.
  • Collaborated with DevOps teams to define best practices for secure, reliable deployments.
  • Enhanced network security via GCP Cloud Armor WAF, mitigating DDoS and application-layer attacks and strengthening compliance.
  • Worked extensively with GCP services: Compute Engine, GKE, Load Balancers, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Logging, CDN, Shared VPC, Site-to-Site VPN, NFS, PostgreSQL.

SE (DevOps)

Simpplr
09.2022 - 12.2022
  • Automated migration of DNS zones and records from third-party providers to AWS Route 53 with 99% accuracy.
  • Installed & configured RDS and Elasticsearch snapshot/restore for backup and disaster recovery.
  • Delivered Jenkins POC on enhanced monitoring metrics for EC2 Instances and Elastic Beanstalk, improving observability.
  • Configured workflows to send EKS cluster metrics to AWS AMP and visualize them on AWS AMG dashboards.
  • Implemented RDS authorization & authentication controls; set up Slack/Email alerts for AWS resources using CloudWatch Alarms, SNS, Lambda, and EventBridge.

SDE-I (DevOps)

MateLabs Innovations
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, Kaniko builds, JUnit testing, Terraform (IaC), Helm, Kubernetes deployments, and Argo Workflows/CD.
  • Implemented monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Promtail, enabling real-time insights into system performance and logs.
  • Configured Loki to continuously monitor network bandwidth, memory, and disk utilization, improving infrastructure reliability.
  • Contributed to continuous improvement by driving process enhancements, problem-solving, and team knowledge sharing.

Associate DevOps Engineer

KoiReader Technologies
01.2021 - 05.2022
  • Led warehouse IoT automation projects using edge computing, AI models, MQTT/AMQP messaging, IoT Rules, and Docker edge modules across AWS and Azure.
  • Created & implemented 9+ DevOps pipelines delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and accelerating deployments.
  • Developed 9+ Helm chart repositories to standardize and simplify Kubernetes deployments.
  • Engineered infrastructure automation with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx Ingress, and Istio.
  • Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Nagios, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, FluentD, Splunk, Promtail) to ensure ~99.9% uptime and faster incident resolution.
  • Spearheaded migration from Ansible-based setup to Docker service architecture, modernizing workloads.
  • Wrote optimized shell deployment scripts, reducing deployment times from 5+ hours to (~95% faster).

Cloud DevOps Engineer

KoiReader Technologies
09.2020 - 12.2020
  • Automated build and deployment using GitLab CI/CD, to reduce human error and speed up production processes by 50%.
  • Managed GitLab repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
  • Created and maintained HELM charts and K8 deployment's.

DevOps Engineer - Intern

Bluetick Consultants
05.2020 - 09.2020
  • Worked independently on a Python Flask project to authenticate the user, generate schematics of MongoDB NoSQL Collections, fill it with false documents and host it using ECS.
  • Working knowledge of automation tools, including Docker, Python, Flask API Server, MongoDB, Pymongo, Regular Expression, ECS and ECR.

DevOps Engineer - Intern

Techtious
03.2020 - 05.2020
  • Installed and configured Nagios to constantly navigate network bandwidth, memory usage and hard drive usage.
  • Working knowledge of SDLC automation tools, including Packer, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Ansible, Jenkins, and Containerization.

Education

Post Graduate Program - DevOps

Caltech - Simplilearn Certified
06.2023

Bachelor of Science - CSE Specalization in DevOps

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
Dehradun, India
06.2021

High School - undefined

Fiitjee Junior College
04.2017

Skills

Agile

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Certification

RedHat System Administrator v8 (RHCSA)

Accomplishments

  • Awarded by GCP for active contribution in migrating Apollo services from Azure to GCP.
  • Promoted to Associate DevOps Engineer within 3 months for exceeding goals and supporting company culture.
  • Technical Leader for Project QSCAPE in Linux World.

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Apollo24|7
04.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Apollo247
01.2023 - 04.2024

SE (DevOps)

Simpplr
09.2022 - 12.2022

SDE-I (DevOps)

MateLabs Innovations
05.2022 - 08.2022

Associate DevOps Engineer

KoiReader Technologies
01.2021 - 05.2022

Cloud DevOps Engineer

KoiReader Technologies
09.2020 - 12.2020

DevOps Engineer - Intern

Bluetick Consultants
05.2020 - 09.2020

DevOps Engineer - Intern

Techtious
03.2020 - 05.2020

High School - undefined

Fiitjee Junior College

Post Graduate Program - DevOps

Caltech - Simplilearn Certified

Bachelor of Science - CSE Specalization in DevOps

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies

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