Avinash Gaddam
Baltimore
Summary
Lead DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of IT experience including 7+ years in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift Administration, and CI/CD Automation along with earlier experience in QA Automation and Build & Release Engineering. Strong expertise in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proven experience automating deployment pipelines, managing cloud-native platforms, improving release quality, and supporting scalable enterprise production systems in Agile environments.
Professional in field, bringing extensive experience in automating and streamlining operations, contributing to improved efficiency and reliability. Known for collaborative approach and consistent focus on achieving results. Expertise in cloud infrastructure, continuous integration, and deployment practices. Valued for adaptability and dependability in dynamic environments.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer
Albertsons Companies,USA
09.2025 - Current
- Environment: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes, Maven, Splunk, New Relic, Java, SonarQube, Shell, Bash, Pager Duty, Tomcat, Linux.
- Managed and administered enterprise OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes clusters across DEV, QA, staging, and production environments supporting telecom and customer-facing applications.
- Automated end-to-end CI/CD workflows using Jenkins Pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD for containerized microservices deployments, reducing deployment effort by 40%.
- Built Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and Shell scripting for automated provisioning, configuration management, and environment standardization.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, leveraging Helm Charts for version-controlled Kubernetes package management and application configuration.
- Created and maintained reusable Helm templates for deployment automation, secrets management, service configuration, ingress routing, and environment consistency across clusters.
- Configured OpenShift components including RBAC, SCC policies, Routes, Ingress Controllers, Namespaces, ConfigMaps, and Secrets for secure multi-tenant deployments.
- Integrated centralized monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK/EFK Stack for proactive production monitoring and incident response.
- Managed AWS cloud infrastructure including EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, ELB, EKS, and CloudWatch to support scalable and highly available telecom workloads.
- Implemented deployment strategies including Blue-Green Deployments, Rolling Updates, and automated rollback mechanisms within Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Configured and maintained Jenkins Shared Libraries, Maven build jobs, and Git-based branching strategies to streamline CI/CD release processes.
- Performed production support activities including pod troubleshooting, network diagnostics, cluster performance tuning, and container resource optimization using Kubernetes/OpenShift CLI tools.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Anitra Tech Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, India
01.2025 - 08.2025
- Environment: AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, JFrog Artifactory, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK Stack, Shell Scripting.
- Engineered and administered hybrid cloud infrastructure environments across AWS, VMware, and Linux platforms to support scalable development, QA, and database operations for enterprise banking and financial applications.
- Configured and optimized AWS infrastructure components including EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, ELB, ECR, EKS, and CloudWatch for secure, fault-tolerant, and highly available cloud-native deployments.
- Implemented enterprise-grade CI/CD orchestration using Jenkins Declarative Pipelines, GitHub Webhooks, Poll SCM, and ArgoCD to automate continuous integration, release management, and GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments.
- Designed and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform Modules, Ansible Playbooks, reusable Ansible Roles, and Shell scripting to standardize provisioning, configuration management, and environment consistency.
- Automated Java application build lifecycle management using Maven, integrating WAR/JAR artifact generation, versioning, packaging, and deployment promotion workflows through JFrog Artifactory repositories.
- Configured and administered Jenkins Master-Slave distributed architecture, build executors, shared libraries, credential management, automated backup strategies, and deployment notification integrations.
- Developed and optimized custom Docker Images and multi-stage Dockerfiles for microservices-based applications, enabling lightweight and portable containerized deployments across Kubernetes environments.
- Deployed and managed workloads on Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters using Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces, Ingress Controllers, RBAC policies, and auto-scaling mechanisms.
- Utilized Helm Charts as the standard Kubernetes package management solution to automate application templating, environment-specific configuration management, version-controlled releases, and rollback operations.
- Implemented GitOps deployment strategies using ArgoCD for automated synchronization, drift detection, release consistency, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environment governance.
- Integrated centralized observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, EFK Stack, and CloudWatch for infrastructure monitoring, application metrics collection, log aggregation, and proactive alerting.
Senior DevOps Engineer / CI-CD Engineer
MAYBANK / CTOS
Malaysia
11.2022 - 10.2024
- Environment: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes, Maven, Splunk, New Relic, Java, Sonar Qube, Shell, Bash, Pager Duty, Tomcat, Linux.
- Developed automation utility scripts using Shell Scripting and Linux utilities to reduce manual operational effort and streamline build, deployment, backup, restore, and environment management activities.
- Focused extensively on automation, continuous integration, and deployment orchestration using Jenkins, Git, Ansible, and containerization technologies.
- Designed, enhanced, and automated build and deployment workflows for application releases, environment provisioning, backup management, restore operations, and upgrade activities across enterprise environments.
- Provisioned and configured AWS EC2 Linux/Ubuntu instances using custom AMI templates and automated server initialization scripts for application hosting and environment setup.
- Built, managed, and orchestrated containerized application environments using Docker, including custom Docker image creation and container lifecycle management.
- Integrated centralized infrastructure monitoring and log aggregation using Splunk for build diagnostics, deployment monitoring, infrastructure visibility, and proactive incident analysis.
- Developed and maintained optimized Dockerfiles for consistent replication of DEV and QA environments across local, staging, and cloud-based deployment platforms.
- Implemented cloud-based deployment automation on AWS EC2 environments using Jenkins Pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and CI/CD orchestration workflows.
- Designed and implemented enterprise Continuous Integration (CI) systems by configuring Jenkins Master-Agent architecture, distributed build nodes, executors, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Integrated Git repositories into Jenkins CI environments using webhooks, Poll SCM triggers, branching strategies, and automated build validation workflows.
- Configured and managed Ansible Inventory Management for host grouping, environment classification, and centralized infrastructure configuration automation.
- Developed reusable Ansible Playbooks, roles, and Jinja2 templates to automate server provisioning, package installation, application deployment, and environment standardization processes.
- Created customized configuration templates using Ansible Template Modules to support environment-specific application deployments and infrastructure consistency.
- Automated deployment execution across DEV, QA, Performance, and Production environments using Jenkins, deployment scripts, and CI/CD release workflows.
- Coordinated with development and release management teams to resolve source code merge conflicts, deployment blockers, and build/release-related integration issues.
- Utilized Linux remote administration tools including SSH and SCP for secure deployment validation, server access, log analysis, and remote operational support activities.
- Worked extensively with DevOps technologies including Git, Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins for continuous integration, automated deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and release management processes.
- Developed and executed multiple Ansible Playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, patch management, and environment automation tasks.
- Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD workflows for automated static code analysis, technical debt tracking, code quality validation, and vulnerability assessment.
- Conducted Proof of Concepts (POCs) for CI/CD automation using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, and containerized deployment workflows.
- Managed automated source code compilation and build generation processes using Jenkins, Maven, and SCM-integrated pipeline execution strategies.
- Developed build and deployment scripts aligned with SCM standards and enterprise release management processes across QA, Performance, and Production environments.
- Executed scheduled build and deployment activities after validating deployment scripts, environment readiness, release configurations, and CI/CD process setups across enterprise infrastructure environments.
QA Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, India
12.2021 - 07.2022
- Google Core Project (Alphabet Inc.), USA
- Environment: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, REST API, Linux
- Supported CI/CD-driven release validation activities using Jenkins, Git, and automated deployment workflows.
- Integrated automation execution into release pipelines for regression and smoke validation.
- Managed build verification and deployment support activities across enterprise application releases.
- Automated regression scenarios using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
- Performed API validation and backend verification using REST API Testing and SQL.
- Collaborated with development teams to troubleshoot build, deployment, and release-related issues.
Build & Release Engineer
Deltra Soft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
India
11.2019 - 10.2021
- Big Bus Tours
- Environment: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Linux, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, REST API, SQL, CI/CD
- Managed CI/CD-based build and release activities using Jenkins, Git, and Maven across DEV, QA, and Production environments.
- Configured and maintained automated Jenkins pipelines for build generation, deployment execution, and release validation workflows.
- Integrated Git repositories with CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and automated deployment processes.
- Coordinated deployment, build verification, rollback support, and environment readiness activities during enterprise release cycles.
- Automated smoke and regression validation within CI/CD pipelines using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
- Troubleshot build failures, deployment issues, and environment-related incidents across Linux-based application environments.
- Performed API and backend validation using REST API Testing, Postman, and SQL to ensure release stability after deployments.
- Collaborated with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to improve release automation and deployment efficiency.
QA Automation Engineer
Deltra Soft Technologies Pvt Ltd
India
12.2016 - 10.2019
- Hachette Book Group – Publishing Management Platform
- Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, Git, Maven, SQL, Postman, Linux
- Developed automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG for enterprise web applications.
- Supported build and release validation activities using Jenkins, Git, and CI workflows.
- Executed API validation using Postman and backend data verification using SQL.
- Participated in deployment verification and environment validation across QA and production releases.
- Collaborated with development and DevOps teams to support release management and production stability.
- Gained foundational experience in automation engineering, release processes, and CI/CD practices.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
JNTU University
Hyderabad, IndiaSkills
- Cloud & Container Platforms
- AWS (EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, ELB, EKS, CloudWatch, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- CI/CD & Automation
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Maven, Git, GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Release Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Bash
- Monitoring & Logging
- Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/EFK Stack, New Relic
- DevOps & Platform Engineering
- GitOps, Kubernetes Administration, OpenShift Administration, Linux Administration, Deployment Automation
- QA Automation Background
- Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, API Testing, Postman, SQL
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Admin
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Planned)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Planned
Personal Information
- Relocation: Open to Relocation Across USA
- Title: DEVOPS / CLOUD ENGINEER
- Work Permit: H1B Visa
- Availability: Open to Relocation Across USA
- Visa Status: H1B Visa
Core Skills
AWS (EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, ELB, EKS, CloudWatch, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Maven, Git, GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Release Automation, Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/EFK Stack, New Relic, GitOps, Kubernetes Administration, OpenShift Administration, Linux Administration, Deployment Automation, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, API Testing, Postman, SQL
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer
Albertsons Companies,USA
09.2025 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Anitra Tech Pvt Ltd
01.2025 - 08.2025
Senior DevOps Engineer / CI-CD Engineer
MAYBANK / CTOS
11.2022 - 10.2024
QA Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
12.2021 - 07.2022
Build & Release Engineer
Deltra Soft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
11.2019 - 10.2021
QA Automation Engineer
Deltra Soft Technologies Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
JNTU University