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Phanindra Battu

@phanindrabattu

I’m a Senior DevOps engineer scaling secure Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms for reliable, cost-optimized cloud operations.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I want to help teams run secure, reliable Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and strong observability—improving uptime, speeding releases, and optimizing cost across AWS and Azure.

High-impact Senior DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with around 8 years of experience building and scaling large-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and cloud-native systems. I own production infrastructure at scale—100+ clusters and 5,000+ workloads—while driving reliability, automation, and cost optimization across AWS.

At PNC Financial Services, I architected and operated highly available OpenShift environments on both Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) and AWS. I standardize Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible, containerize and migrate legacy applications with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, and run platform lifecycle work like provisioning, upgrades, patching, and scaling with minimal disruption.

I’m equally focused on operational excellence: I build CI/CD and GitOps workflows with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, improve observability with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack, and strengthen security with Sysdig plus OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCC) and RBAC. I support incident response, RCA, and performance tuning, backed by CKA and AWS Associate Solutions Architect certifications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior OpenShift Infrastructure Engineer

PNC Financial Services Group Inc

Oct 2019 - Nov 2025 (6 years 1 month)

Architected and operated 100+ Red Hat OpenShift clusters running 5,000+ workloads, improving production stability through high availability, multi-tenancy, and disaster recovery. Standardized Terraform/Ansible provisioning, automated CI/CD with Jenkins and Argo CD, and enhanced observability and security using Dynatrace, Prometheus/ELK, and Sysdig.

Kubernetes OpenShift Terraform Ansible Jenkins Argo Docker Sysdig

DevOps Cloud Engineer

PowerSchool Group LLC

Mar 2019 - Aug 2019 (5 months)

Built and maintained AWS cloud-native infrastructure by implementing Terraform/Ansible and CloudFormation templates to provision core networking and load-balancing resources. Improved CI/CD and monitoring to support faster, more reliable deployments and reduced production issue resolution time through RCA and fixes.

AWS Terraform Ansible AWS CloudFormation VPC CI CD Docker Chef Monitoring Root Cause Analysis

Software Engineer

Fannie Mae Financial Services

Nov 2017 - Feb 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Engineered 30+ end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitOps, reducing deployment cycle time from 2 weeks to 2 days and cutting deployment failures by 85%. Deployed Dockerized Kubernetes applications with blue-green and canary strategies and improved centralized logging/monitoring to enable faster incident detection and resolution.