Chenna Reddy Gajjala
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-driven DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 6 years of experience in automating, configuring, and optimizing cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS. Strong expertise in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Jenkins. Passionate about building scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions. Technology professional focused on ensuring system reliability and performance. Experienced in automating infrastructure, monitoring system health, and resolving incidents swiftly. Adept at collaborating with development teams to enhance system scalability and stability. Experienced in maintaining and optimising large-scale systems, ensuring seamless performance and high availability. Focused on automating processes, reducing downtime, and enhancing security to support business goals. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, solving complex technical issues, and implementing best practices.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Equifax Analytics Private Limited
11.2023 - Current
PTEC TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2022 - 10.2023
UST Global Private Limited
11.2021 - 08.2022
- Creating fully automated CI build /deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects using Docker, Jenkins & GIT hosted on GCP.
- Strong experience running infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, GCS, IAM, Bigquery, Cloud Spanner etc.)
- Setting up Jenkins jobs to pull the code from the repository to build Docker images dynamically using maven Docker plug-in to build image and start containers and pushing it to Docker private registry.
- Work closely with developers to integrate and constantly refine development process into CI/CD pipeline.
- Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using GIT source control.
- Implemented the CICD process using Jenkins pipeline code, Git, Docker Registry and Kubectl.
- Strong experience building microservices and deploying them into Kubernetes cluster.
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
- Create Pods, Deployments, Services and Replication Controller in Kubernetes.
- Automated build and deployment of microservices using Git.
- Designed and deployed large scale infrastructure via code using Terraform.
- Created custom helm charts to automate the deployment on services to kubernetes clusters.
- Monitoring resources and applications using Google stack Driver as well other monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Kubernetes Dashboard.
- Configuring GCP IAM and security Group in public and private Subnets in VPC.
- Experience in setting up VPN environments for clients and configuring and launching GKE instances as per requirement.
- Work with Release Engineering team to understand software and business requirements, prioritize issues and set clear expectations on deliverables and resolution.
- Identify recurring issues and collaborate with infrastructure and Devtools team on resolution plan.
- Deployed kubernetes on AWS, GCP and bare metal using upstream kubernetes.
- Automated the deployment of kubernetes clusters using terraform, bash, python.
- Setup log management using Stackdriver and setup monitoring using Datadog.
- Implementing Dev, Staging and Production environment, with all components, completely automated.
- Working with branching, merging, tagging and maintain versions across the environments, using SCM tools like git-hub and git.
- Working with docker containers, worked on creating docker files, building images, docker compose and worked on container orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment scaling and management of docker containers.
- Worked with release engineering team to understand software and business requirements, priorities issues and set clear expectation on deliverables and resolutions.
Software Engineer
Experis IT Private Limited
04.2021 - 11.2021
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git for automated builds and deployments.
- Built and managed Docker images, containers, and deployments using Kubernetes.
- Deployed applications on AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM) and GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, GCS).
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and basic Ansible playbooks.
- Configured monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch (AWS) and Stackdriver (GCP).
- Managed DNS, load balancers, and routing using Route 53 and GCP Load Balancing.
- Integrated code repositories with Jenkins for continuous integration workflows.
- Set up and maintained staging and production environments with automated deployments.
- Monitored containerized workloads in Kubernetes and optimized resource usage.
- Worked closely with developers to troubleshoot builds, deployments, and infrastructure issues.
- Client: IBM India Private Limited
- Project: UPS (United Parcel service)
Software Developer
Concentrix Daksh Services India Private Limited
01.2020 - 04.2021
- Gained hands-on experience with Git for version control and basic branching strategies.
- Created and managed Jenkins jobs to automate build and deployment processes.
- Built and managed Docker images for simple applications.
- Deployed and ran containerized applications using Docker.
- Configured Jenkins pipelines to integrate with Git repositories.
- Performed basic Linux server administration and shell scripting tasks.
- Automated build and deployment workflows for test environments.
- Collaborated with team members to troubleshoot CI/CD and container issues.
- Monitored Jenkins builds and resolved common pipeline failures.
- Wrote basic shell scripts to support automation tasks in Linux environments.
- Learned and applied DevOps best practices in real-time lab and project setups.
Education
B.A -
Sri Chaitanya Degree College
12.2018
Skills
Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Jenkins, Terraform, Git, Helm, GCP, AWS, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver, Linux, Bash, Shell Scripting, CI/CD, SRE, Monitoring, Logging, Vault, Helm, ServiceNow, Jira
Timeline
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Equifax Analytics Private Limited
11.2023 - Current
PTEC TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2022 - 10.2023
UST Global Private Limited
11.2021 - 08.2022
Software Engineer
Experis IT Private Limited
04.2021 - 11.2021
Software Developer
Concentrix Daksh Services India Private Limited
01.2020 - 04.2021
B.A -
Sri Chaitanya Degree College