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Balagani Balaji

DevOps Engineer • Hyderabad • b***********@gmail.com • +91*******812 • linkedin.com/••••• • drivetube.ai/•••••

Career Objective

DevOps Engineer with 0 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, containerization and monitoring. Built and automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, authoring reusable Terraform modules for VPC, security groups, bastion and VPN for multiple environments. Automated EC2 and Route53 provisioning and integrated Ansible with AWS SSM Parameter Store and IAM roles to remove manual configuration steps. Containerized and validated 9+ microservices using Docker and Docker Compose, authored service Dockerfiles and published images to Docker Hub; performed staging validation on Kubernetes. Implemented multi-branch Jenkins pipelines with Shared Libraries and integrated SonarQube and ECR image scanning to enforce quality and security gates. Configured Prometheus metrics collection and Grafana dashboards with alerting to improve incident detection. Comfortable with Linux administration, Bash scripting and Nginx reverse-proxy configuration to support scalable microservice deployments.

Education

Mahaveer Institute Of Science & Technology Engineering College, Hyderabad
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) – Information Technology • Hyderabad, India • Aug 2023 – Jun 2026

Technical Skills

Programming Language: Bash
Databases: SSMS
Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services,EC2,Route53,IAM,VPC,Security Groups,Bastion Host
Version Control & Development Tools: Git,GitHub,Linux,RHEL,Ubuntu
DevOps & Infrastructure: Terraform,Ansible,Docker,Docker Compose,Kubernetes,Docker Hub,Jenkins,Nginx,Alerting
Messaging & Monitoring: Prometheus,Grafana
Security Tools & Platforms: Image scanning
Network & Endpoint Security: VPN
DevSecOps & Security Automation: SonarQube

Projects

Roboshop — 3-tier microservices deployment
Tools Used: Linux RHEL, Ubuntu, Bash, Nginx, Docker, Docker networking
  • Provisioned Linux servers and configured users, groups and network settings to host a 3-tier e-commerce application.
  • Automated manual server setup with Bash scripts, reducing environment setup time from 7 days to 4 days (42% faster).
  • Configured Nginx as a reverse proxy and exposed frontend on port 80 to enable external access.
  • Authored Dockerfiles for catalogue, user, cart, shipping, payment and frontend services to standardize builds.
  • Managed Docker image builds and pushed artifacts to Docker Hub to streamline developer handoffs.
Infrastructure Automation — Ansible & Terraform
Tools Used: Ansible, Terraform, EC2, Route53, IAM, AWS SSM Parameter Store
  • Developed Ansible playbooks and roles using variables, loops, tags and Vault for idempotent configuration management.
  • Implemented dynamic inventory and integrated AWS SSM Parameter Store to fetch environment-specific secrets during playbook runs.
  • Designed Terraform modules for VPC, Security Groups, Bastion host and VPN to enable reusable infrastructure patterns.
  • Automated EC2 and Route53 provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual provisioning effort by 60%.
  • Established IAM roles and policies to grant least-privilege access for automation pipelines and resource management.
Dockerized Microservices
Tools Used: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Docker Hub, Nginx
  • Containerized 9+ microservices using Docker and Docker Compose to isolate runtime dependencies and speed local testing.
  • Authored service Dockerfiles to standardize image builds for frontend and backend components.
  • Built and pushed container images to Docker Hub to centralize artifacts for CI pipelines.
  • Deployed service manifests to Kubernetes for staging validation using deployments and services.
  • Configured custom Docker bridge network and tuned container resource requests to stabilize inter-service performance.
CI/CD and Monitoring
Tools Used: Jenkins, Jenkins Shared Libraries, SonarQube, AWS ECR, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, GitHub
  • Implemented multi-branch Jenkins pipelines with Shared Libraries to automate build, test and deploy workflows from GitHub branches.
  • Integrated SonarQube into pipelines to enforce quality gates and prevent regressions at pull-request time.
  • Enabled AWS ECR image scanning in CI to detect vulnerabilities before promotion to staging or production.
  • Configured Prometheus to collect container and application metrics for proactive health monitoring.
  • Built Grafana dashboards and custom alerting rules that improved incident detection time by 40%.

Certifications

DevSecOps & AWS Training (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Services) — Join DevOps
Cyber Security Certification — Grad Guru

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