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LAXMI KANTH DURGA

Hyderabad

Summary

Results-driven AWS DevOps Engineer with a proven track record at TCS, specializing in scalable infrastructure design and CI/CD pipeline optimization. Expert in Terraform and Kubernetes, enhancing deployment efficiency and reducing operational costs. Strong collaborator and mentor, fostering team growth while delivering high-availability solutions that meet stringent performance requirements.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS DevOps Engineer

TCS
Hyderabad
08.2023 - Current
  • Designed and deployed scalable, fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure across multiple domains, leveraging services like EKS, ECS, EC2, ECR, and Elastic Beanstalk to meet performance and high-availability requirements.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and ArgoCD, enabling seamless application delivery and infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments.
  • Developed infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, integrated with Git workflows, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency.
  • Provisioned ECS clusters and Elastic Beanstalk environments to enable containerized and PaaS-style deployments; later led the migration of these workloads to EKS to enhance application performance, maintainability, and reduce operational costs.
  • Configured and optimized Amazon EKS clusters with Helm for application packaging and Karpenter for cost-effective and dynamic autoscaling, enhancing cluster efficiency and resource utilization.
  • Established end-to-end monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, and Grafana, providing actionable insights and improving incident response times.
  • Collaborated closely with application developers and QA teams to optimize pipelines, improve deployment frequency, and reduce lead time for changes.
  • Mentored junior engineers, led internal knowledge-sharing sessions, and contributed to DevOps process standardization within the team.

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
Hyderabad
06.2021 - 08.2023
  • Managed infrastructure on AWS and HPE private cloud, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Configure CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments to Dockerized applications on Kubernetes, using Helm for resource packaging.
  • Monitored Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and Grafana, resolving pod/node-level issues.
  • Collaborated with client-side SMEs to deliver solutions within SLA timelines.
  • Participated in on-call rotations, handling incidents, root cause analysis, and preventive actions.

Systems Engineer

Infosys
Hyderabad
01.2020 - 05.2021
  • Cloud - HPE Private Cloud
  • Led migration of over 100 on-premise applications to private cloud using lift-and-shift strategies.
  • Managed application onboarding to new infrastructure including server setup, user management, and connectivity.
  • Specialized in enterprise automation using Cisco Tidal, improving scheduling and operational consistency.

Education

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Raghu Engineering College
Visakapattanam
05-2019

Skills

  • AWS Services: EKS, ECS, Beanstalk, ECR, Secrets Manager, S3, SSM, IAM, Lambda, CodeBuild, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, SNS, Compute Engine (EC2), VPC, Loadbalancing, Dynamodb
  • Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD Tools: Gitactions, ArgoCD, Helm, Code pipeline, Code deploy, Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
  • Scripting/Programming Languages: Bash, Python scripting
  • Version Control Systems: Git, Code Commit
  • Monitoring and Logging: CloudWatch, Cloud trail, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Incidents and Change Managment: ServiceNow

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

  • Validate at : https://aws.amazon.com/verification
  • Validation number : SPY66FECQF1Q1FCS

AWS Certified Developer Associate

  • Validate at : https://aws.amazon.com/verification
  • Validation number : 14BHN2Z1YEE418SC

Accomplishments

  • Designed and implemented a fully automated AWS deployment pipeline, orchestrating the provisioning of ECS services, task definitions, and networking using CloudFormation, AWS CLI, and custom Bash scripting in buildspec.yml.
  • Enabled dynamic environment-based deployments by parameterizing CloudFormation templates with JSON inputs and enforced IAM least-privilege policies for secure access control.
  • Integrated automated testing, documentation, and monitoring, resulting in a 60% reduction in manual effort, faster release cycles, and improved deployment reliability across environments.

Timeline

AWS DevOps Engineer

TCS
08.2023 - Current

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
06.2021 - 08.2023

Systems Engineer

Infosys
01.2020 - 05.2021

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Raghu Engineering College

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