Nikitha Karingula
DevOps & Cloud Engineer • Piscataway, NJ • n*************@gmail.com • 551****585 • linkedin.com/••••• • drivetube.ai/•••••
Professional Summary
DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience automating cloud infrastructure, building container orchestration platforms, and implementing secure CI/CD pipelines. Expertise in AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, S3), Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Vault, Helm, Docker, and Linux administration. Proven experience migrating on-prem workloads to AWS, optimizing cloud cost and reliability, and improving deployment safety using GitOps and progressive delivery patterns.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Python,Bash,Groovy
Cloud and DevOps: AWS,Azure,GCP,Terraform,Helm,Ansible,Jenkins,GitLab CI,ArgoCD,Docker,Kubernetes EKS,OpenShift
Tools and Methodologies: Git,Jira,Nexus
Monitoring and Observability: Prometheus,Grafana,Splunk
Security and Identity: HashiCorp Vault,AWS IAM,AWS KMS
Servers and Virtualization: Linux RHEL,Ubuntu,VMware ESXi,Windows Server
Work Experience
Verizon
Piscataway, NJ
DevOps / Cloud Engineer / AWS
Sep 2024 – Present
Worked on cloud infrastructure and platform reliability for a major telecommunications provider, improving deployment automation and security for customer-facing and internal services.
Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes EKS, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Packer, CloudWatch
- Built reusable Terraform modules and Packer AMI pipelines to automate multi-environment AWS provisioning (EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC), standardizing deployments and reducing manual infra configuration.
- Designed and implemented enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild to enable automated build, test, and GitOps-driven deployments with ArgoCD.
- Led migration of on-prem workloads to AWS EKS/ECR and RDS, improving application availability and operational efficiency while enabling containerized delivery.
- Provisioned and scaled GitLab Runners on Kubernetes (node affinity, ConfigMaps, Secrets, S3 caching, Spot instances) to support high-throughput CI workloads and reduce pipeline runtime.
- Implemented HashiCorp Vault for automated secret injection and PKI-based service authentication across CI/CD pipelines; integrated IAM and KMS for policy-driven secret access.
- Hardened 50+ Linux servers (RHEL/Ubuntu) and strengthened AWS security posture using IAM best practices, CloudTrail, Config rules, VPC segmentation, and automated remediation patterns; optimized costs via EC2 rightsizing and EKS Spot nodes.
Wise Equations
Cedar Park, TX
DevOps Engineer & Linux Administrator
Feb 2023 – Jun 2024
Supported cloud infrastructure, Linux operations, and monitoring for enterprise applications; focused on automation, observability and virtualization to improve uptime and operational efficiency.
Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Nagios, Splunk, VMware ESXi, Apache Tomcat
- Designed and deployed scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform to enable consistent provisioning across dev, staging, and production environments.
- Performed advanced Linux and Solaris administration including kernel tuning, OS upgrades, patching, and CIS/STIG-based hardening to meet compliance requirements.
- Automated operational tasks with Python and Bash, reducing manual administrative effort by 20% through scripted backups, health checks, and deployment helpers.
- Built and maintained monitoring dashboards and alerting using Nagios and Splunk; tuned alerts and runbooks to reduce MTTR for production incidents.
- Managed VMware ESXi clusters for VM provisioning, performance tuning, and HA operations; implemented backup and disaster recovery procedures for critical services.
- Configured and optimized Apache Tomcat and IBM WebSphere application servers in clustered environments to improve availability and load distribution.
Datamatics Technosoft Limited
India
Linux Administrator / DevOps Engineer
Jan 2020 – Aug 2021
Provided Linux administration and early-stage DevOps support for internal and lab applications; automated routine operations and introduced containerization and CI practices.
Tech Stack: Linux RHEL, Ubuntu, Bash, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Nagios, VMware ESXi
- Implemented automated configuration and provisioning scripts using Bash/Shell to standardize Linux server setups across environments.
- Developed automation for log rotation, package updates, disk cleanup, and backups to reduce manual effort and improve system reliability.
- Introduced Git-based workflows for infrastructure and automation code to improve change tracking and rollback capabilities.
- Containerized internal applications using Docker to improve deployment consistency and accelerate testing cycles.
- Established basic CI/CD workflows using Jenkins for automated builds and deployments of lab applications, improving release cadence.
- Enhanced monitoring by integrating Nagios checks and custom alert scripts for node failures and resource spikes; documented operational runbooks and recovery procedures.
Education
Mercy University
Master of Science, Computer Science • New York, NY • 2023
JNTU Hyderabad
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science • Hyderabad, India • May 2021
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) — Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Certified Azure Associate — Microsoft
Powered by Drivetube · Create your own profile at drivetube.ai
Explore Drivetube
- Drivetube Profile — your free digital resume — at drivetube.ai/in/your-name: one true standard resume with a Hiring Snapshot (visa status, expected salary, notice period, work preference, relocation), an ATS-ready PDF download and a single shareable link. Free forever; interview requests come from verified employers and your contact details stay masked until you accept. Documentation.
- Free Job Board — verified openings crawled ATS-by-ATS from 100,000+ real company career pages across 35 ATS platforms. Shows the true posting date from the source ATS — not when a listing was indexed — and deletes every general listing 3 days after it was actually posted. No ghost jobs, no ad-sponsored listings, no staffing reposts, no account needed. Documentation.
- Job Hunt Program — managed job hunting, a one-time purchase from $199.99. JobScout matches verified roles to your real experience band, Blend AI writes a uniquely tailored resume and cover letter for every application, and the Autofill extension fills the form — or Let Us Apply submits it for you. Documentation.
- Resume Writing Services — human-written, ATS-optimised resumes by senior career writers, from ₹499.99 / $25.99. Available in every country, written to the destination country's own standard — a US resume, UK CV, German Lebenslauf and Indian resume are genuinely different documents. A paid service, separate from the free Drivetube Profile. Documentation.
- Community Membership — from $4.99/month (₹1,999/year in India). Unlocks the gated job-board filters — visa sponsorship, security clearance, workplace and application time — plus Job-Scout AI matching, Resume Report AI, Interview AI prep sheets, Recruiter Outreach AI sent from your own Gmail, Apply or Skip triage, a daily market feed and a $10,000+ library including 23 ATS-validated resume templates. Documentation.
- Drivetube Hire — for employers — hiring with no job postings and no applications. Paste your real job description and AI matches it against candidates' true standard resumes, returning ranked candidates with a match %, matched and missing skills and written reasoning. Free tier included; employers pay, candidates never do. Documentation.
Full product documentation — every product explained, with feature-by-feature comparisons against the job boards, AI apply tools, resume services and hiring platforms people actually use.
The job board covers the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, Europe and Australia, and Resume Writing Services are available in every country.