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NAGALOKESH PANTALA

NAGALOKESH PANTALA

Devops Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Strong expertise in AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and DevSecOps tools. Proven ability to automate infrastructure, optimize deployment workflows, enhance system reliability, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in Agile environments.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Devops Engineer

PRECISLY IT MANAGEMENT SERVICES PVT LTD
02.2025 - 07.2025
  • Automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, integrating Git version control and Maven for continuous build, testing, and deployment, reducing release time by 30%.
  • Built and managed scalable, production-grade infrastructure using Terraform, enabling consistent and automated provisioning of resources across AWS environments.
  • Containerized applications using Docker, streamlining development workflows and enabling faster deployments in microservices architecture.
  • Deployed and managed containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance through pod scaling, replica sets, and load balancing.
  • Configured and monitored system performance metrics using Prometheus, creating custom alerts and Grafana dashboards to track application performance, reducing incident response time by 40%.
  • Collaborated with development teams to implement Git branching strategies for streamlined code integration, ensuring smooth merges, reviews, and conflict resolution.
  • Orchestrated blue-green and canary deployments on Kubernetes, ensuring zero downtime during application upgrades and feature rollouts.
  • Utilized Docker images and containers to standardize environment setups across development, staging, and production environments, improving consistency and reducing "works on my machine" issues.
  • Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) for automated code quality checks.
  • Performed static code analysis to identify bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities.
  • Monitored and optimized Kubernetes cluster resource usage through Prometheus and Grafana, improving application performance and reducing infrastructure costs.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.

Build and Release Engineer

DATACORE TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
07.2022 - 01.2024
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, enabling the rapid deployment of cloud resources across multi-region AWS environments.
  • Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for configuration management and automated application deployments, ensuring consistent environment setup across development, staging, and production.
  • Integrated Jenkins pipelines with Git repositories to enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), automating build processes with Maven for Java-based applications.
  • Implemented Git branching strategies, such as feature branching and GitFlow, to ensure smooth version control and collaboration across multiple development teams.
  • Automated the provisioning of application dependencies and configurations using Ansible, reducing manual setup time by 50% and eliminating configuration drift between environments.
  • Created reusable Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure, reducing time spent on manual configurations and ensuring consistency across environments.
  • Deployed and managed applications on Kubernetes clusters using Deployments and Services.
  • Created and maintained YAML manifests for Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.
  • Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) for automated code quality checks.
  • Performed static code analysis to identify bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities.
  • Used Trivy for container image vulnerability scanning in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
  • Developed and maintained Bash shell scripts to automate routine DevOps and system administration tasks.
  • Automated build, deployment, backup, and cleanup activities using shell scripts.
  • Worked closely with security experts in conducting vulnerability assessments on pre-release builds; remediated any identified security flaws before going live.

Devops Engineer

WIPRO
01.2020 - 05.2022
  • Involved in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mix environment of Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy based on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Worked on Branching and Merging, Resolving Branching Strategy maintaining Branching strategy using GIT.
  • Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Terraform.
  • Designed Terraform Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
  • Used Terraform to automate configuration management.
  • Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI’s, whenever a new Git hub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration (CI) server, automatically attempts to build a new Docker container from it.
  • Configuring the Docker containers and creating Docker files for different environments.
  • Configured the application on AWS EC2 AMI Instances and also installed the storage on S3 Buckets.
  • Responsible for managing infrastructure provisioning (S3, ELB, EC2, IAM, VPC) and deployment via EC2 Installs with Ubuntu, CentOS.
  • Auto scaling the Amazon Web Service (AWS) depending upon the requirement.
  • Deployed and managed containerized applications on Kubernetes clusters (EKS).
  • Created and maintained Kubernetes manifests (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets).
  • Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) for automated code quality checks.
  • Performed static code analysis to identify bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities.
  • Used Trivy for container image vulnerability scanning in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
  • Scanned Docker images, file systems, IaC (Terraform/K8s YAML) for security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Devops Engineer

COGNIZANT
04.2019 - 09.2019
  • Experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline integrating various tools with Jenkins to build and run terraform jobs to create infrastructure in AWS.
  • Worked on Cloud watch to monitor applications that run on Amazon EC2.
  • Implemented Ansible playbooks for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre Servers.
  • Involved in the release process and deployed applications (WAR, EAR and JAR) to the Red hat satellite server.
  • Experience in writing Docker files to build customized images for creating containers.
  • Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, ALB and RDS using terraform.
  • Creating EC2 Instances and Managing IAM Roles as per the requirement.
  • Worked on Jira tool for issue reporting, status, and activity planning.
  • Running and monitoring nightly builds in all Java platforms.
  • Performing installation testing on builds before handing over to QA team.
  • Automated the code deployment process in each environment (Dev, QA, Pre-Production).
  • Perform code merges on a regular frequency to integrate the source code from various branches.
  • Worked with developers, QA and Product support teams to identify and resolve build problems.
  • Review build results, debug and optimize complex builds, and discuss technical issues with developers, architects, and managers.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

RAJEEVGANDHI MEMORIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Nandyal
04-2018

Skills

Cloud Technologies: AWS

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins

Version Control Tools: GIT, BIT BUCKET

Build Tools: Maven, ANT &Gradle

Containerization Tools: Docker, Elastic Container Registry

Orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS

Timeline

Devops Engineer

PRECISLY IT MANAGEMENT SERVICES PVT LTD
02.2025 - 07.2025

Build and Release Engineer

DATACORE TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
07.2022 - 01.2024

Devops Engineer

WIPRO
01.2020 - 05.2022

Devops Engineer

COGNIZANT
04.2019 - 09.2019

B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

RAJEEVGANDHI MEMORIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NAGALOKESH PANTALA Devops Engineer