Jithendra Reddy Kodedela
Hyderabad
Summary
Cloud Engineer with over 8 years of experience in designing and managing Azure and AWS infrastructures. Proficient in IaaS/PaaS solutions, automation using Terraform and Azure DevOps, and Linux system administration. Expertise in monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, New Relic and other tools, with a focus on enhancing platform security, scalability, and cost efficiency through SRE practices.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Zelis Healthcare
11.2024 - Current
- Delivered infrastructure provisioning for IaaS and PaaS using Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, integrated with Terraform, ensuring consistency and compliance.
- Orchestrated deployment of Azure workloads, including AKS clusters, VM Scale Sets, Application Gateway/WAF, and load balancers, to achieve multi-zone resilience.
- Managed Linux VM administration, applying hardening measures, patch cycles, and vulnerability fixes to maintain system integrity.
- Automated configuration workflows through PowerShell scripts, Azure CLI, and IaC templates; maintained detailed runbooks and SOPs for operational readiness.
- Built centralized observability by integrating Azure Monitor, Log Analytics (KQL), and Application Insights, complemented with New Relic for advanced telemetry.
- Supported and enhanced CI/CD pipelines for Linux-based applications; contributed to incident resolution and root cause analysis during on-call rotations.
- Created Power BI dashboards for resource inventory and FinOps reporting, highlighting budget summaries, cost optimization opportunities, and allocation rules.
- Implemented cost governance strategies by setting budgets, enforcing tag-based allocation, and automating shutdown policies, visualized insights via Power BI dashboards.
- Configured networking components (VNets, NSGs, private endpoints) and validated custom domains through AWS Route 53, ensuring secure traffic flow and high availability.
- Oversaw lifecycle management of AKS clusters and VM images, applying upgrades and patches to keep environments secure and current.
- Automated installation of security tools like Sentinel and One Identity on VMs; streamlined domain and OU join processes for compliance.
- Assisted in vulnerability remediation across environments, ensuring adherence to security standards.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Volante Technologies
11.2022 - 11.2024
- Managed user tickets (ServiceNow) and production environments adhering to SLAs.
- Designed UAT environments with VNets, App Gateways, VMs, and AKS; used Terraform and Azure Portal for connectivity.
- Configured Azure Front Door and Application Gateway with WAF to strengthen security posture.
- Troubleshot issues across Linux environments and AWS-native services (EC2, EKS, S3).
- Migrated Log Analytics workspace from OMS Agent to AMA for improved telemetry.
- Executed AKS upgrades and applied security patches on VMs to maintain performance and security.
- Led migration of JIRA and Confluence from on-prem to Azure during a real DR incident to ensure continuity.
- Implemented comprehensive monitoring in New Relic (CPU, memory, disk IOPS, networking) and synthetic checks.
- Integrated monitoring with Log Analytics to build custom logs for deeper insights.
- Used AWS CloudWatch for EC2/EKS metrics; authored custom scripts for URL health and AKS insights.
- Developed PowerShell automation to stop non-prod environments after >200 hours/month, cutting costs.
- Ensured environment uptime of ~10 hours/day using Azure Automation Accounts (Runbooks).
- Enforced tag policies in Apptio for cost tracking and allocation; consolidated SIT/UAT into single AKS cluster with namespaces to reduce overhead.
- Maintained custom images with Splunk, McAfee, Tenable for baseline security tooling.
- Established policies to avoid Public IP usage during environment creation.
- Integrated AKS with Azure AD and enabled SSO in AWS for secure access and identity management.
Azure Cloud Administrator
Sarlak Techno Systems
06.2017 - 11.2022
- Deployed Web Apps, VMs, SQL Databases, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Blob Storage.
- Implemented Traffic Manager (Performance mode) for high availability of application services.
- Configured Application Gateway with end-to-end SSL; enabled AD authentication for internal portals.
- Set up SQL Geo-Replication; designed VNets/Subnets and managed Blob containers/permissions.
- Performed Blob backups using Azure CLI and AzCopy; implemented Just-In-Time (JIT) access.
- Built action groups and alerts; used Application Insights to monitor website traffic.
- Automated deployments with Azure DevOps pipelines; managed branches, triggers, and approvals; supported prod releases.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Sathyabama University
Chennai07-2016
Skills
Cloud computing: Microsoft Azure, AWS
Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure CLI, PowerShell
Container orchestration: Azure Kubernetes Service
Operating systems: Linux, Windows Server
Networking fundamentals: VNets, Subnets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, DNS
Monitoring and SRE tools: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, New Relic, CloudWatch
Security and compliance measures: RBAC, vulnerability remediation, Sentinel integration
Data storage solutions: Azure Storage services, SQL Database administration
Cost management strategies: Budgets, cost dashboards, tag-based allocation
Business continuity planning: High availability and replication strategies
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, AZ-900
Timeline
Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Zelis Healthcare
11.2024 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
Volante Technologies
11.2022 - 11.2024
Azure Cloud Administrator
Sarlak Techno Systems
06.2017 - 11.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Sathyabama University