Indala V.

Architected and implemented a production-grade Amazon EKS setup across development, staging, and production environments. Managed node groups with Karpenter autoscaling, utilized IRSA-based IAM, optimized VPC CNI, tuned CoreDNS, and established pod disruption budgets. Employed Helm and Argo CD GitOps for fully declarative, pull-based deployments. Developed comprehensive Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines that included multi-stage YAML builds, Trivy image scanning, Cosign artifact signing, SBOM generation, and Helm dry-run validation to enforce security gates prior to production promotions. Designed and deployed a complete observability stack incorporating Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry on EKS, consolidating traces, logs, and metrics for over twelve microservices. Managed Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator on EKS, facilitating automated Patroni HA failover, streaming replication, and zero-downtime upgrades. Configured OpsTree Redis Operator for managing a Redis Sentinel cluster, ensuring high availability through leader election and automatic promotions. Implemented ECK for Elasticsearch and Kibana production deployments with TLS communication and autoscaling configurations. Established ClickHouse for OLAP analytics, creating a real-time data pipeline with PeerDB to replace the nightly ETL process. Integrated DevSecOps controls throughout the platform, including RBAC and dynamic secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, ensuring security practices were embedded in every pipeline stage. Authored Terraform modules for EKS and the complete observability stack, ensuring infrastructure-as-code consistency.

Designed and operated bare-metal Kubernetes clusters using Rancher for NPCI's BHIM UPI payment platform. Implemented HA topology with node affinity and conducted rolling deployments to support millions of transactions daily. Automated all infrastructure management with Terraform modules and Ansible roles that addressed OS hardening and configuration drift across over one hundred bare-metal nodes. Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD that included image scanning and artifact signing to ensure compliant and consistent releases. Embedded DevSecOps measures such as RBAC and dynamic secrets management using HashiCorp Vault into the deployment process. Delivered an observability stack employing Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and EFK, enabling detailed monitoring and compliance-grade log management.

Oversaw AWS cloud infrastructure management for multi-tier SaaS applications, provisioning VPCs, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EKS/ECS clusters, and IAM roles utilizing reusable Terraform modules. Deployed containerized microservices on EKS and ECS through CI/CD pipelines built with Jenkins and GitLab. Developed multi-environment IaC frameworks with Terraform and Ansible that significantly accelerated environment provisioning. Enforced stringent cloud security measures including IAM policies and AWS Config rules, maintaining zero critical findings in quarterly security audits. Designed monitoring and alerting systems leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, and Graylog for enhanced service reliability, while driving AWS cost governance measures to ensure sustained reduction in operational expenses.