navaneeth rao
@navaneethrao
Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years in AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD automation, improving cloud reliability.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of IT experience and 6+ years of hands-on work in AWS and DevOps. I build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Infrastructure as Code, and I automate build, deployment, and release workflows through GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
I’m deeply hands-on with container orchestration and GitOps, using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and ArgoCD. I also strengthen production reliability through monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, and the ELK stack, backed by scripting and automation skills in Bash/Shell and Python.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Specialist
LTIMindtree
Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)
Designed and managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments across AWS environments. Implemented secure serverless integrations and event-driven workflows while monitoring and troubleshooting production systems with CloudWatch.
Senior Specialist
ZoomInfo
May 2023 - Apr 2024 (11 months)
Managed containerized applications on AWS EKS across multiple environments and implemented GitOps-based deployments using ArgoCD. Built and maintained CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and deployed Kubernetes workloads using Helm and core Kubernetes resources.
Senior Analyst
GD Research Center
Nov 2020 - May 2023 (2 years 6 months)
Designed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment workflows, including SonarQube quality gates. Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform, automated integrations across multiple tools via REST APIs, and improved Kubernetes deployment stability through root-cause analysis.
Analyst
GD Research Center
May 2014 - Oct 2019 (5 years 5 months)
Created and maintained Jenkins pipelines to automate build and deployment activities across DEV, QA, and UAT environments. Supported containerization and image management, and performed AWS provisioning and configuration with Terraform and related infrastructure tools.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Kakatiya University
Master of Business Administration, Business Administration
2011 - 2013
Earned an MBA from Kakatiya University from 2011 to 2013.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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