Akhila N.

• DevOps and Cloud Best Practices: Around 6 years of experience as a DevOps engineer, specializing in implementing best practices for DevOps and cloud processes. Proficient in using automation tools and processes to achieve continuous development, testing, integration, deployment, and monitoring for various applications. • AWS Cloud Services: Extensive hands-on experience configuring and managing AWS cloud services, including EC2, ELB, EKS, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Textract, RDS, OpenSearch, ECR, AutoScaling, EMR, IAM, Secret Manager, Vault, CloudTrail, SES, CDN, Networking, CloudWatch and DataSync. • Containerization and Orchestration: Proficient in Kubernetes for managing containerized applications, including creating and deploying application containers. Experienced in maintaining microservices using Docker, with expertise in packaging through Helm and implementing continuous delivery with Argo CD. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in automating cloud infrastructure using Terraform. • Monitoring and Alerting Systems: Implemented centralized monitoring and alerting systems for enhanced operational visibility and responsiveness. • CI/CD Pipeline Management: Expertise in using Jenkins to build and deploy microservices, driving continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to Docker registries and Kubernetes clusters. Skilled in creating and managing Kubernetes pods. • MLOps Project Leadership: Successfully handled end-to-end MLOps project from inception to deployment, demonstrating strong project management and technical capabilities. • Configuration Management: Utilized Ansible for large-scale configuration management tasks. • Strategic Design and Implementation: Designed branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management systems, and monitoring systems from an organizational perspective. • Team Leadership and Collaboration: Led a team, developed strategic roadmaps, and conducted crosslearning sessions to enhance team capabilities and knowledge sharing. • Client Engagement and Solution Delivery: Worked with multiple clients to understand their requirements and provide feasible solutions. • Security Integration: Experienced in integrating security scanner tools for code and images with a strong background in handling due diligence from a DevOps and cloud perspective. • Scripting and Automation: Experienced in writing automation scripts in Shell and Python. • Adaptability and Learning: Quickly grasps and implements new system designs, technologies, data models, and functional components in a professional work environment.