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Vinod Kumar Sirisala

Vinod Kumar Sirisala

Hyderabad

Summary

Experienced DevSecOps Engineer with 10+ years of expertise in Azure DevOps, specializing in CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and integrating GHAS security into development workflows. Skilled at identifying vulnerabilities, implementing secure practices, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Adept at fostering collaboration across teams to optimize workflows, reduce deployment cycles, and deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Work History

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Cognizant
Hyderabad
05.2022 - Current
  • Developed and deployed Azure infrastructure using Bicep and Terraform, ensuring secure and efficient cloud resource management
  • Implemented and automated CI/CD pipelines (classic & YAML) across 50+ DevOps repos, improving build, test, and deployment efficiency
  • Configured and optimized Data Engineering Stack (Azure Synapse, ADF, Dataflow) and Data Science Stack (Azure ML, Python, GHAS) to deliver secure, high-performance infrastructure for data and ML projects
  • Automated pause/resume for Azure resources, saving £1,000 monthly, and integrated Power BI CI/CD and GHAS for streamlined reporting and security
  • Took full ownership of project delivery, collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and ensure high-quality, on-time outcomes
  • Implemented observability frameworks with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, enabling proactive issue detection and system reliability
  • Led cross-functional teams in incident management, driving ownership and resolution of complex network and application issues
  • Provided incident management support, troubleshooting network and application issues, data engineering and data science environment issues, including URL, Private links and IP whitelisting in Azure Firewall
  • Managed RBAC for secure access control and Key Vault secret renewal/rotation to ensure the protection of sensitive data and credentials

ETL Developer

DXC Technology
Bangalore
12.2019 - 05.2022
  • Designed and developed Azure systems, including ADF pipelines to extract data from Oracle to Azure Data Lake and transform it into Azure SQL Database
  • Utilized Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, managing code migration across Dev, UAT, and PROD environments
  • Contributed to Agile sprints, collaborating with the team to deliver features on time and support continuous improvement

Application & Billing Support Engineer

DXC Technology
Bangalore
10.2017 - 12.2019
  • Primary client interface regarding all invoicing matters
  • Together with the client invoicing team, directly supporting the billing process, by tracking, and analyzing volumetric/consumption/Time & material
  • Familiar with where necessary effectively operate all processes, policies and tools associated with the client invoicing and reporting within Consumption management and different billing engines & EDI’s
  • Tracks, monitors & analyses data provided by Service Delivery to ensure timely & repeatable processes for volumetric invoicing & reporting as per contractual requirements
  • Deep diving of issues that impact invoicing processes and resolving them by coordinating with finance personnel as and when necessary

Process Associate

Capgemini
Bangalore
10.2015 - 09.2017
  • Worked on end-to-end Invoice preparation and involved in Pilot project and part of the training to stabilization processes
  • Created reports to detail aging and participated in client call to formulate steps to resolve past due balances of invoices
  • Resolve internal billing issues and identified and resolved operational problems using expertise and judgment
  • Analyzed contracts to ensure contract and invoicing are following appropriate guidelines, and regulations as per the norms
  • Responsible for validation, auditing and processing for several customer invoices under different projects

Practitioner

IBM
Bangalore
05.2014 - 09.2014
  • Work experience on accounts Receivables, download and Run the BACS report daily basis and Cash allocation into respective customer account in ERP (SAP)
  • Experience on cash application, posting payments and solving customer queries
  • Performed daily reconciliations and handling the queries
  • Resolved accounts receivable issues with customers and resolve the issues and clearing the open balances

Education

MBA -

JNTUA
Anantapur
12.2013

B. Com - Computers

SK University
Anantapur
01.2011

Skills

IaC

  • Bicep
  • Terraform

Cloud

  • Azure
  • Azure Data Engineering
  • Azure Data Science

CI/CD Pipelines

  • Azure DevOps
  • Classic and YAML pipelines

ML OPS

  • Docker
  • ACR
  • AKS
  • Model Deployment
  • Azure Machine Learning

Observability & Monitoring

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Log Analytics
  • KQL

Scripting Languages

  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • YAML

IDE

  • VS Code
  • PyCharm
  • Visual Studio

Accomplishments

  • Cognizant, 10/2023, developed an auto-pause and resume solution for dedicated SQL pools using DevOps pipelines and PowerShell, saving £1,000 monthly, and earning client recognition
  • Cognizant, 07/2023, low-cost end-to-end in-house automation of Power BI releases using PowerShell
  • Cognizant, 04/2024, Stellar Achiever - Always striving, never settling for deploying all Infra, and DSC models into Azure
  • DXC, 03/2022, awarded as DXC Champ for implementing process improvement and improving cash flow for two days, and eliminated a lot of manual work

Timeline

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Cognizant
05.2022 - Current

ETL Developer

DXC Technology
12.2019 - 05.2022

Application & Billing Support Engineer

DXC Technology
10.2017 - 12.2019

Process Associate

Capgemini
10.2015 - 09.2017

Practitioner

IBM
05.2014 - 09.2014

MBA -

JNTUA

B. Com - Computers

SK University

Onlineprofile

https://bold.pro/my/s-vinodkumar/276r

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