Raja Pulibanti

Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidentials • Full-time

Jun 2021 - Present • 5 yrs

Overview: Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience helping businesses automate infrastructure, deploy scalable cloud solutions, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines. Experienced with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Argo CD, Helm, Ansible, and observability platforms. Successfully delivered cloud migration, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes deployment, and DevSecOps solutions while reducing deployment time, infrastructure costs, and operational overhead. Certified AWS Solutions Architect and Azure Administrator. Achievements - Designed and managed Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS and Google GKE for scalable cloud-native applications. - Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency. - Built multi-cluster GitOps deployments using Argo CD for streamlined application delivery. - Implemented Canary, Blue-Green, and Rolling deployment strategies with minimal downtime. - Developed custom Helm charts for Kubernetes microservices, accelerating application deployments. - Automated security scanning within CI/CD pipelines, reducing pre-production vulnerabilities by 40%. - Optimized AWS infrastructure costs by leveraging Karpenter and Spot Instances, achieving up to 60% cost savings. - Deployed and managed observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. - Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 30%. - Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing operational costs by 20%. - Built containerized deployment platforms using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS & GKE). - Reduced deployment-related manual errors by 40% through automation scripting. - Implemented Blue-Green deployment strategies to achieve near-zero downtime releases. - Managed cloud infrastructure, load balancers, DNS, and application servers for high-traffic environments.