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Gopichand Kota

@gopichandkota

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DevOps engineer specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automated CI/CD delivery.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on cloud-native role where I can build scalable Kubernetes platforms, automate infrastructure, improve observability, and collaborate with dev teams to accelerate reliable delivery.

I am a results-driven DevOps engineer with extensive hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines. I have deployed GenAI-based chatbots with LLaMA3 models in Kubernetes, managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC), and automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible to ensure repeatable, secure, and cost-optimized environments.

I deliver production-grade observability and resilience through Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk, service mesh implementations with Istio, and enterprise virtualization with VMware and Nutanix AHV. I collaborate closely with development, QA and infrastructure teams, design automated Jenkins pipelines and Helm-based deployments, and have been recognized with awards for operational excellence.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Project Lead

Current

Persistent Systems

Dec 2024 - Present (9 months)

Leading DevOps and cloud platform initiatives, managing Kubernetes-based deployments and infrastructure automation to improve reliability and deployment velocity across teams.

Kubernetes Terraform AWS Helm CI CD Ansible Docker Prometheus Grafana

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mobius Network Private Limited

May 2024 - Dec 2024 (7 months)

Executed cloud and CI/CD transformations including Terraform provisioning and Jenkins pipelines, improving environment reproducibility and deployment automation.

Terraform Jenkins GitHub Docker AWS EKS Helm Ansible Prometheus

Senior Specialist

HCL Technologies

Apr 2022 - Apr 2024 (2 years)

Managed production Kubernetes and VMware environments, implemented Istio service mesh and monitoring stacks, and reduced incident response time through improved observability.

Kubernetes VMWare Istio Prometheus Grafana Splunk Ansible Terraform Docker

Senior Engineer

Quess Corp

Jun 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Maintained large-scale virtualization and cloud infrastructure, implemented DR with Zerto, and optimized storage and compute for high-availability workloads.

VMWare Nutanix Zerto AWS Storage Infrastructure Automation Ansible

Expert

Teamlease Services Private Limited

Jun 2019 - Apr 2020 (10 months)

Delivered infrastructure engineering and cloud operations, improved deployment pipelines and implemented security best practices for IAM and network configurations.