Yugandhar Prathi
Sr DevOps AWS/GCP Engineer @ PepsiCo
About
I specialize in Cloud Solutions, DevOps Automation, and Container Orchestration, helping organizations accelerate delivery, enhance scalability, and improve operational reliability. My focus is on building secure, cost-optimized, and automated infrastructures across AWS and GCP, applying DevOps best practices to streamline workflows. 🔹 What I Do: Cloud Engineering: Architecting and managing infrastructures on AWS and GCP using services like EC2, S3, EKS, GKE, IAM, VPC, RDS, and Cloud SQL. Automation & IaC: Designing reusable Terraform modules to provision and manage infrastructure consistently across environments. CI/CD Pipelines: Building and maintaining Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines that reduce deployment lead times and improve software reliability. Containerization & Orchestration: Deploying and scaling applications with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring resilience and high availability. Monitoring & Observability: Implementing solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch for proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution. 🔹 Key Skills: Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Ansible, Linux, Python, YAML, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK. I am passionate about leveraging multi-cloud expertise and automation to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient DevOps solutions. Always eager to explore innovative approaches that push the boundaries of cloud infrastructure and modern engineering practices
United States
Harrison
Information Technology & Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon S3, Confluence, Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM), Jira, Terraform, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Github Actions, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python (Programming Language), DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Ansible
Experience

Sr DevOps AWS/GCP Engineer
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Led the migration of cloud services from AWS to GCP, overseeing the entire process from POCs to deployment. • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines on AWS, optimizing workflows for enhanced efficiency. • Developed Terraform modules for standardized provisioning across multiple business units, improving infrastructure management. ● Optimized cloud environments by automating deployments to development, staging, and production using Terraform reducing deployment times and manual errors. ● Worked closely with the frontend team to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure and application layers, supporting the successful migration of applications from AWS to GCP. ● Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters on GKE, ensuring efficient orchestration, scaling, and management of containerized applications, while optimizing resource utilization for high-traffic production workloads. ● Leveraged GCP services such as Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions to handle real-time messaging, asynchronous data processing, and serverless architecture, enhancing the scalability and flexibility of cloud-native applications. ● Contributed to the optimization of Dockerized applications, ensuring seamless integration into GKE clusters, and maintained application security and scalability through Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) features like autoscaling and workload identity. ● Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for containerized applications, automating the deployment process from Google Container Registry (GCR) to GKE, reducing deployment lead times and improving reliability. ● Utilized Google Cloud IAM for access management, setting up granular role-based access controls (RBAC) for secure access to resources across different GCP projects and environments. • Led the migration of cloud services from AWS to GCP, overseeing the entire process from POCs to deployment.

Sr DevOps Infrastructure AWS/GCP Engineer
● Involved in design and deployment of multiple applications across the AWS ecosystem, leveraging EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, SNS, SQS, IAM to enhance high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling capabilities using AWS Cloud Formation. ● Excelled in designing, deploying, and managing scalable and fault-tolerant API architectures on AWS and Google Cloud, demonstrating advanced cloud infrastructure management skills. ● Implemented IAM roles, policies, and service accounts across AWS and GCP to enforce least-privilege access and strengthen security posture ● Extensively utilized Terraform to build and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) on GCP, automating resource deployment and ensuring consistency across environments. ● Created BigQuery authorized views for row level security or exposing the data to other teams. ● Managed AWS storage solutions (EBS, S3) and database services (RDS, DynamoDB), including automating data synchronization to Glacier and executing region-to-region migrations. ● Experience in configuring VPC, Route Tables, Internet Gateway, Security Groups and CloudWatch monitoring Alerts. ● Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates. ● Developed automated backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies using AWS Backup, cross-region replication, and GCP snapshots to ensure business continuity. ● Configured CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for multi-cloud deployments, enabling faster and more reliable release cycles. ● Optimized Kubernetes workloads with Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and resource requests/limits, ensuring efficient utilization of compute resources. ● Experienced in building, Testing, and deploying applications by adopting DevOps tools like GIT, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. Having good working experience in AWS with EKS by using CloudFormation.

Sr DevOps/GCP Infrastructure Engineer
● Create CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of services and tools to the Kubernetes cluster hosted on Bare metal. ● Coordinated with developers on GIT source control practices, establishing branching and labeling conventions to streamline version control and collaboration. ● Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups. ● Optimized volumes and EC2 instances. Used IAM to create new accounts, roles, and groups. ● Install and configure ELK stack on the environment to ship logs from applications hosted on a cluster. ● Configured and automated the Azure DevOps Pipelines & Jenkins Pipelines/Build jobs for Continuous Integration and Deployments Dev to Production environments. ● Engineered data pipelines using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow, facilitating seamless data ingestion into BigQuery, enhancing data analytics capabilities. ● Managed Google Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets, implementing policy management and utilizing GCS Coldline for cost-effective storage solutions and backups. ● Worked on continuous integration and continuous delivery jobs for several teams in dev and test environments using shell, Groovy. ● Worked with Cloud Load Balancing and integrated it with GKE clusters to distribute traffic efficiently across applications, ensuring high availability and low-latency performance for mission-critical services. ● Restricted user access/service accounts access over jobs on Jenkins using Assign and managing roles for security purposes in development and test environments. ● Creation of hooks on Git repositories in aiding automation of Jenkins jobs. ● Monitoring and maintaining disk space issues on nodes connected to Jenkins for dev and test environments. ● Create CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of services and tools to the Kubernetes cluster hosted on Bare metal.

DevOps/AWS Engineer
● Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups. ● Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, VPC, Auto scaling groups. ● Designed and implemented disaster recovery (DR) strategies using AWS services such as cross-region replication, Route 53 failover routing, and backup/restore with Amazon S3 and RDS snapshots. ● Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins and GitActions ● Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plug-in to deploy into AWS. ● Designed, developed, deployed the complete CI/CD on cloud and managed services on AWS. ● Worked on automating cron jobs which aid in scheduling dev, model, and prod jobs and disables the job after execution, as self-service to developers. ● Created various stacks in CloudFormation which includes services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, API Gateway, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Athena. ● Managed application migration from on-prem Hyper-V clusters to GCP Compute Engine. ● Utilized Cloud SDK and GCloud CLI for deploying web applications, managing GKE clusters, and implementing autoscaling, optimizing resource utilization based on traffic demand. ● Worked on Nutanix Acropolis-based VMs for legacy system virtualization; integrated with Azure Arc. ● Orchestrated PostgreSQL database management, ensuring data accuracy and operational efficiency through proactive security patch updates and database optimization. ● Migrated JAVA based microservice based application from on prem to GCP cloud and leveraged the infrastructure for the same. ● Ability in development and execution of shell scripts and python scripts to automate administrative tasks. ● Administered Jenkins and Bamboo tools, facilitating CI/CD processes, and significantly accelerating service development.

Build And Release Engineer
• Assisted in designing and automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, creating reusable modules for AWS and GIP services. • Supported C/CD pipeline development in Jenkins and GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows for containerized applications. • Deployed applications in Docker containers and managed them on Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE) using YAML manifests and kubectl. • Configured and managed AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch) and GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, GE) resources to support development and testing environments. • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch, helping identify performance bottlenecks and improving system reliability. • Used Git/GitHub for version control, managing branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews across multiple teams. • Gained experience with Linux administration and shell scripting for automation, system monitoring, and application deployment tasks. • Collaborated with senior engineers on cloud migration projects, assisting in moving workloads from on-premises environments to AWS and GCP. • Utilized Google Cloud IAM for access management, setting up granular role-based access controls (RBAC) for secure access to resources across different CP projects and environments. • Worked with Cloud Load Balancing and integrated it with GE clusters to distribute traffic efficiently across applications, ensuring high availability and low-latency performance for mission-critical services.
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