SETTI VEERA MANIKANTA
Professional Summary
DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience in AWS-based infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline design, container orchestration, and site reliability practices. Experienced with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana to reduce deployment times, improve reliability, and accelerate release velocity.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Automated end-to-end infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible, reducing deployment time by 30% and improving environment consistency across dev/stage/prod.
- Built Shell and Python automation scripts for routine operational tasks and deployment steps, increasing operational efficiency by 25% and reducing manual intervention.
- Designed and implemented monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana with AWS CloudWatch integration, enabling real-time dashboards and reducing incident response time by 15%.
- Managed and optimized Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment speed and release frequency by 30% through pipeline parallelization, artifact versioning, and automated rollbacks.
- Implemented container deployments and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes to enable scalable, highly available microservices; established health checks and readiness probes to improve service reliability.
- Authored Ansible playbooks and Git-based IaC workflows to standardize server configuration and release processes, enforcing versioned infrastructure changes and peer-reviewed pull request processes.
- Supported AWS infrastructure operations including EC2, S3, IAM and CloudWatch, troubleshooting infrastructure-level issues and assisting with routine maintenance.
- Managed EC2 instances and automated maintenance tasks using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for remote command execution and patching workflows.
- Monitored and supported Jenkins CI/CD jobs to ensure reliable build, test, and deployment flows; triaged pipeline failures and implemented fixes to reduce build flakiness.
- Collaborated on Docker container deployments and performed Kubernetes operations in test environments to validate application packaging and deployment manifests.
- Reviewed and maintained IaC changes using Terraform and Ansible under senior guidance, ensuring modularity, state management, and configuration consistency before promotions.
- Created and maintained documentation for runbooks, troubleshooting steps, automation tasks, and IAM procedures to streamline support handoffs and onboarding.
Projects
- Provisioned modular, reusable AWS infrastructure using Terraform to deliver scalable, highly available environments for an e-commerce frontend and backend.
- Integrated Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling Groups to automatically handle dynamic traffic patterns and maintain service availability.
- Deployed application tiers in private subnets with security groups and health checks to ensure secure and reliable access to services.
- Used Ansible to configure EC2 instances and automate deployments, enabling consistent environment setup and faster environment provisioning.
- Implemented continuous deployment pipelines in Jenkins to automate build and deployment processes and reduce time-to-release.
Education
Certifications
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