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Rakesh Vudutha

@rakeshvudutha

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Cloud and DevOps engineer driving automated, multi-cloud infrastructure delivery.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on DevOps/cloud role applying IaC, CI/CD, and multi-cloud automation within a collaborative, security-conscious team focused on reliability and scalable deployments.

I am a passionate Cloud/DevOps engineer with ~6 years of experience delivering automation, configuration management, and multi-cloud infrastructure for enterprise systems. I have led infrastructure automation, CI/CD ownership, and hybrid networking initiatives that reduced manual configuration and sped deployments.

My hands-on work includes designing and operating Azure and AWS resources with Terraform, building AKS clusters, running Nomad/Consul/Packer for immutable images and orchestration, and integrating service mesh (Istio) for secure microservice communication. I also managed GitLab governance, implemented SAST (Coverity) in pipelines, and automated releases with PowerShell and GitLab CI/CD.

I collaborate closely with development, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure high availability, compliance (SOC 2/PCI DSS practices), and effective disaster recovery. I seek to bring infrastructure-as-code rigor, robust monitoring, and release engineering discipline to complex, hybrid-cloud environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer

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AMD

Aug 2024 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Led infrastructure automation and hybrid Azure+on‑prem networking, using Terraform, Nomad, Consul and Packer to reduce manual configuration time by over 60% and accelerate multi-cloud deployments for ERP systems.

Terraform Nomad Consul Packer Azure AWS AKS PowerShell

Staff DevOps & Release Engineer

ZT Systems

Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Managed GitLab administration and built end-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Docker images and AKS operations to streamline build, test and deployment workflows and support 24x7 production releases.

Gitlab CI Docker AKS Istio Coverity PowerShell Kubernetes CI CD Pipelines

Cloud DevOps Engineer

TD Bank

Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 (9 months)

Deployed and secured Azure infrastructure and AKS, improved observability with Splunk/ELK/Prometheus, and supported cloud migration planning while administering CI/CD and repository migrations (SVN->Git/Bitbucket).

Azure AKS Istio Bitbucket Jenkins Splunk ELK Docker Kubernetes

Build & Release Engineer

CMC Ltd

Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 (7 months)

Designed and maintained CI/CD servers using Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Ant/MSBuild and configuration management (Puppet/Chef), enabling automated builds and deployments across Windows and Linux environments.