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Naidu G.

DevOps Lead Engineer | AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · AI MCP Ops

16+ years of IT industry experience as a DevOps Lead Engineer — architecting highly available, fault-tolerant environments across AWS & Azure. CKA certified, expert in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, multi-cloud IaC, and AI MCP operations. Delivered 500+ pod environments with 10–100 zero-downtime deployments/day.

CKA AWS DevOps Professional AWS SysOps Associate CDAC-DSSD AI MCP Operations

get_in_touch() cat resume.md

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naidu@:~$ cat profile.json

{ "experience": "16+ years", "location": "Dallas, TX", "cloud": ["AWS", "Azure"], "k8s_clusters": "500+ pods/env", "certs": ["CKA", "AWS-Pro"], "deploys_per_day": "10-100", "uptime_sla": "99.9%" }

naidu@:~$

// 02. skills

tech_stack.inventory()

Cloud Platforms

AWS EKS AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS MSK AWS IAM AWS VPC Azure AKS Azure DevOps Azure VNet Route 53 CloudWatch ACM

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm KIND EKS AKS Kubespray F5 BIG-IP Ingress-nginx cert-manager ESO

IaC & Automation

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Bash Python Fish Shell PowerShell AWS CLI

CI/CD & SCM

Jenkins Azure Pipelines Git Bitbucket SVN ArgoCD Blue/Green Deploy Rolling Updates

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Elasticsearch Kibana Graylog Fluent-bit Logstash Alertmanager Opsgenie CloudWatch

Data & Security

Apache Kafka AWS MSK Redis MongoDB HashiCorp Vault Azure Key Vault AWS KMS GuardDuty CloudTrail HiveMQ Zookeeper Containerd OpenStack F5 BIG-IP

Virtualization & HCI

VMware ESXi vCenter Hyper-V KVM XEN RHEVM Nutanix AHV HP EVA HP 3PAR SAN/NAS RAID HA/DRS/vMotion

Scripting & Networking

Bash/Shell YAML JavaScript Python TCP/IP TLS/SSL OSI Model VPC/VNet Subnetting DNS/Route53 Jira/RTC/HP ALM

// 03. experience

git log --oneline

Frontier Communications

DevOps Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present

Build and manage AWS EKS clusters using Terraform to support microservices at scale, enabling Blue/Green deployments across QAT, PPRD, and Production environments.
Implemented full logging pipeline: Fluent-bit → Amazon MSK (Kafka) → Logstash → Elasticsearch → Kibana for centralized observability.
Managed and promoted Application Catalog & CPQ solutions across cloud environments; collaborated with DevOps, QA, and App teams on deployment issues.
Set up AKS clusters with automated deployments using Terraform & Ansible; integrated Azure DevOps for CD — improving application uptime by 20%.
Configured Azure Virtual Networks, Firewalls, Security Groups, and IAM roles/policies; optimized Azure VMs, volumes, and NSGs.

Harman Connected Services

Lead Engineer

Sep 2019 – Nov 2023

Sole admin for 10+ environments running Kubernetes on AWS; managed monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) and logging (Graylog/Elasticsearch) stacks.
Delivered zero-downtime deployments (rolling updates) with 10–100 releases/day across environments serving 500+ pods each.
Authored Kubernetes manifests for StatefulSets, DaemonSets, PVCs, ServiceAccounts, RBAC, and Service Monitors.
Installed and configured F5 BIG-IP load balancer virtual instances across AWS accounts; managed microservices in production environments.
Set up Alertmanager, Opsgenie, and SES-based incident notification pipelines; built custom Grafana dashboards for node, pod, and application-level metrics.

Microfocus (HPE)

Service Delivery Consultant III

Mar 2017 – Sep 2019

Containerized enterprise solutions using Docker and Kubernetes on AWS; automated cloud infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
Built multi-VPC environments with public/private subnets, ELBs, Auto Scaling Groups, Route53, IAM, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch.
Designed and implemented reusable Terraform modules and Ansible roles, standardizing infrastructure components across projects.

Samsung

Lead Engineer

Dec 2015 – Mar 2017

Set up datacentre storage; configured VMware ESXi and Windows Hyper-V failover clusters with HA, DRS, vMotion, and fault tolerance.
Managed SAN/NAS technologies — HP EVA, LeftHand OS, HP 3PAR — with expertise in CIFS, NFS, FC, FCoE, and iSCSI environments.

Mphasis

Software Engineer

Jun 2010 – Dec 2015

Managed virtualization across VMware ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, XEN, and RHEVM; administered HP Blade System Matrix solutions.
Provisioned, configured, and maintained enterprise servers, performing firmware upgrades on ILO2/3, Virtual Connects, and Onboard Administrators.

// 04. projects

ls -la ./projects

Pi Homelab Cluster

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Full Kubernetes stack on Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) — KIND cluster with n8n, PostgreSQL, Vault PKI, External Secrets Operator, cert-manager, and ingress-nginx. Realistic AI workflow and DevOps learning testbed.

Kubernetes KIND Vault ESO n8n Helm cert-manager

MSK Logging Pipeline

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End-to-end observability pipeline at Frontier Communications: Fluent-bit collects container logs, ships to Amazon MSK (Kafka), routed through Logstash into Elasticsearch, visualized via Kibana.

Fluent-bit AWS MSK Kafka Logstash Elasticsearch Kibana

Multi-Cloud IaC Platform

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Designed and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform across AWS and Azure. Integrated with Jenkins and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines — achieved 30% reduction in deployment time.

Terraform Ansible AWS Azure Jenkins Azure DevOps

Harman Monitoring Stack

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Built and maintained Prometheus + Grafana monitoring across 10+ environments covering 500+ pods each. Custom dashboards for node, pod, and application-level metrics with Alertmanager + Opsgenie incident routing.

Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Opsgenie Kubernetes AWS

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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• Deployed and monitoring scalable infrastructure on AWS. Configuration management using Terraform. Managing applications in the Cloud and Creating Instances. • Designing AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups. • Configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in glacier. • Experienced in maintenance and configuration of user accounts for dev, QA and production servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, EBS resources to communicate with each other using IAM. • Built and configured multiple virtual data centres in AWS cloud to support enterprise data warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

AWS VPC ROUTE53 EC2 EKS S3

// certifications

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF / Linux Foundation

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AWS Certified DevOps Professional

Amazon Web Services

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AWS Certified SysOps Associate

Amazon Web Services

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CDAC — DSSD Certified

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Naidu G.

tech_stack.inventory()

git log --oneline

ls -la ./projects

ping naidu