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Avinash - Senior DevOps Engineer

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Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

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Visa: H1B

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Avinash D Email: [email protected] +1 972-924-5835 (Employer), C2C Only, H1B (Passport Number also shared) SUMMARY Senior Cloud Engineer with around 10 years of experience leading on premises to Azure migrations, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD modernization for enterprise and financial services environments. Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), and automation with Python and CI/CD tooling. Experience in Azure migration planning, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI, and AKS. Proven authoring migration playbooks, executing auditable cutovers, and optimizing post migration performance and cost. WORK EXPERIENCE Senior DevOps Engineer | Wells Fargo | Dallas, TX Oct 2021 Present Resolved build issues for Scrum teams, significantly increasing deployment efficiency. Ensured strict adherence to schedules and policies for Release Management. Guided code integration across 10+ feature branches using Gitflow, resolving merge conflicts within one hour Automated infrastructure provisioning using modular Terraform templates for GCP services including Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage. Built Python dashboards and automation to visualize deployment metrics and validate post migration performance and scaling. Designed and implemented GitLab CI pipelines with multi stage runners, protected branches, artifact promotion, and automated security scans. Authored modular Terraform modules for Azure with remote state in Azure Storage, environment workspaces, and RBAC controls. Developed Ansible playbooks and roles for post provision configuration and application deployments. Provisioned and managed AKS clusters with workload identity and private node pools; enforced Kubernetes RBAC and network policies. Coordinated change control with application owners, DBAs, and compliance officers; maintained cutover checklists and audit trails. Standardized merge validation and automated quality gates across 10+ Scrum teams to reduce integration conflicts. Conducted code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Conduct validations in staging and production environments prior to releases. Coordinated release planning across 10+ Scrum teams to ensure predictable, low risk deployments. Led cross team DevOps initiatives, aligning dev, QA, and security on release and infrastructure standards. Directed Gitflow branching governance and automated merge validation to reduce integration conflicts across 10+ feature teams. Collaborated with development teams to implement best practices for logging, monitoring, and deployment automation, resulting in more reliable and faster application releases. Supported containerized workloads on Kubernetes, leveraging Prometheus exporters (Node Exporter, Kube State Metrics) for infrastructure and cluster-level monitoring. Troubleshot and resolved production issues by analyzing logs, metrics, and alerts, contributing to improved system availability and performance. DevOps Engineer | DXC Technology | Topeka, KS Nov 2019 Oct 2021 Ensured strict adherence to schedules and policies for Release Management. Championed the adoption of spot instances and reserved instances across development teams, decreasing costs by 30% and enabling faster iteration cycles on new product features. Implemented AWS NACL to enhance security measures across infrastructure. Designed and deployed centralized logging and monitoring using ELK Stack and Prometheus for 100+ cloud nodes Managed code repositories, merging processes, and quality checks with Sonar and Git. Implemented centralized logging and monitoring (ELK + Prometheus) across 100+ nodes to validate migrations and accelerate troubleshooting. Automated infrastructure provisioning and AMI creation; implemented Auto Scaling and instance strategies that reduced compute costs by ~30%. Integrated SonarQube quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and automated promotion workflows to enforce compliance. Automated build and deployment workflows using Jenkins and containerized runtimes. Implemented containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for faster delivery cycles. Software Engineer | Walmart | San Bruno. CA Feb 2019 - Sep 2019 Developed Azure applications using App Services, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Storage to support scalable web services. Provisioned core Azure networking: Virtual Networks, subnets, and Application Gateway for secure connectivity. Automated operations with Azure Automation runbooks (PowerShell and graphical) to reduce manual tasks. Configured Kubernetes resources (Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps) and implemented ingress rules plus liveness/readiness probes. Modernized legacy applications using Kubernetes, Istio, and Helm; implemented HPA, liveness/readiness probes, and Prometheus alerting. Collaborated with .NET application teams to containerize services and integrate build/release automation. Implemented repeatable Helm charts and environment promotion processes for dev staging prod. Integrated Istio service mesh for traffic routing and security, improving deployment agility by 60%. Enabled autoscaling with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and deployed Prometheus with custom alerting for proactive monitoring. Authored Helm charts for repeatable, environment consistent deployments across dev, staging, and production. Build and Release Engineer NSL Group Hyderabad, India Aug 2014 Aug 2015 Executed software configuration and release management for all fidelity software. Built and maintained efficient CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions, ensuring consistent and error-free builds Built and released Java applications across DEV, Test, Pre-Prod, and Prod environments. Managed CI/CD pipelines and release processes for enterprise Java applications; automated builds and releases with Jenkins and scripting. Optimized Windows Server infrastructure and load balancing to improve application responsiveness. TECHNICAL SKILLS Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, JFrog Artifactory, ArgoCD, Tekton, CodePipeline, SonarQube Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, DynaTrace, FluentD, CloudWatch,Splunk Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, AWS RDS Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Windows EDUCATION Master of Science in Management of Technology Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT | May 2017 Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst California Connecticut Kansas Texas