RAJESH THODETI
Cloud Engineering Professional
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in DevOps and AWS cloud environments. Expertise in designing and managing scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation using tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Azure DevOps.
Proven track record of improving system reliability, reducing deployment time, and optimizing cloud costs through automation and infrastructure as code. Strong experience in AWS services, Linux administration, and monitoring tools, ensuring high availability and performance of critical applications.
Skilled in implementing end-to-end DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation, with a focus on scalability, security, and operational excellence. Collaborative team player with hands-on experience in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and delivering resilient cloud solutions.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Engineer
Oracle Cerner
03.2024 - Current
- Managed production incidents and performed initial troubleshooting to ensure minimal downtime and service continuity.
- Provided 24/7 on-call support, and supported weekly production deployments across multiple applications.
- Monitored applications and infrastructure using dashboards and alerting tools, proactively identifying issues before customer impact.
- Analyzed logs, restarted services, triaged issues, and coordinated with engineering teams to reduce MTTR.
- Supported deployments, release activities, and routine operational tasks, ensuring smooth production rollouts.
- Worked extensively with Linux administration, including process management, disk usage, service restarts, and permission handling.
- Collaborated with development teams to validate build artifacts, configuration changes, and environment readiness prior to releases.
- Maintained and supported CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, and Spinnaker, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments.
- Designed and managed Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines for multi-cloud deployments (AWS and OCI).
- Implemented Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies to enable zero-downtime releases, and safer rollbacks.
- Automated Kubernetes application deployments using Spinnaker, with versioned rollbacks and approval gates.
Cloud Engineer
Tech Mahindra
05.2021 - 03.2024
- Orchestrating and supporting a DevOps environment and AWS cloud infrastructure, optimizing development workflows, and resource allocation.
- Harnessing DevOps tools such as GIT, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Maven, ANT, and Cloud Watch, fostering seamless collaboration, and driving automation across interdisciplinary teams.
- Facilitating the establishment of AWS environments, augmenting security groups with added ports, and fortifying VPCs with NACLs, ensuring flawless application deployment and operation.
- Innovating in the design of AMIs, leveraging ELB and Auto Scaling, enhancing infrastructure scalability, and amplifying performance.
- Proactively surveilling servers through Amazon CloudWatch and SNS, executing preemptive measures to sustain peak performance, and preempt potential issues.
- Spearheading the automation of system configurations via YAML code within release pipelines, heightening operational efficiency, and minimizing manual intervention.
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Assisted in migration projects from on-premises data centers to cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
- Provided technical support to internal stakeholders, diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to the organization''s cloud environment.
- Worked with teams of talented software engineers to define, build and maintain cloud infrastructure.
- Optimized system performance for increased scalability and reliability through regular maintenance and updates.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Reduced server downtime by proactively monitoring cloud resources and addressing potential issues before they escalated.
- Managed 10+ weekly production deployments using Spinnaker in Kubernetes, achieving zero downtime.
- Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Monitored over 100 services using Prometheus and Grafana, improving incident detection by 30%.
- Provided L2/L3 support and resolved over 20 incidents per month, improving system uptime to 99.9%.
- Automated deployments using Jenkins reduced manual effort by 50%.
System Administrator
Mindtree
11.2018 - 05.2021
- Ensured seamless operation of IT infrastructure through adept management of system administration tasks, delivering support for database refreshes, and implementing SQL Server upgrades with the latest service packs. Effectively addressed challenges arising from temp dB, log file, and data file full issues.
- Automated intricate system configurations using YAML code within release pipelines, resulting in streamlined processes and a significant reduction in manual intervention.
- Constructed and upheld robust build and release pipelines utilizing Azure DevOps, skillfully crafted Azure resources using Terraform within the Azure DevOps framework, and successfully integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies for the Azure DevOps tool.
- Reduced downtime by proactively identifying and resolving potential issues through thorough system monitoring.
- Established effective communication channels between IT support staff and end-users, leading to improved issue resolution times overall.
- Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability.
- Managed SQL Server administration (DB refreshes, upgrades, issue resolution), improving database stability, and achieving 99.9% uptime.
- Automated configurations and deployments using YAML pipelines and Azure DevOps, reducing manual effort by 50%.
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines, and provisioned infrastructure using Terraform, improving deployment efficiency by 40%.
- Proactively monitored systems and collaborated with teams/users, reducing downtime by 35%, and improving issue resolution time by 25%.
Education
B-Tech -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTUH)
Hyderabad, India03-2017
Skills
Logging Tools : Splunk, ELK Stack
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
Monitoring Tools: Cloudwatch,Datadog,NewRelic,Grafana,Prometheus,Zabbix
CICD: Jenkins,ArgoCD, AWS Codepipeline, Spinnaker
Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting(Bash)
Cloud Platforms: AWS,OCI, Azure
Configuration Management : Ansible
Infrastruture Provisioning: Terraform
Version Controlling System : GIT
Build Tools : Maven
Artifactory Repository : JFrog Artifactory
Distributed Streaming / Messaging System : Apache Kafka
Ticketing Tools: Jira, ServiceNow,Remedy
Operating Systems: RHEL, Cent OS, Ubuntu, Windows , Linux
AWS Services
PERSONAL DETAILS
- Address: Hyderabad, India
- Date of Birth: 30th August 1996
Timeline
Cloud Engineer
Oracle Cerner
03.2024 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Tech Mahindra
05.2021 - 03.2024
System Administrator
Mindtree
11.2018 - 05.2021
B-Tech -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTUH)