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Ravindhar Reddy Ailuri

@ravindharreddyailuri

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I build secure, scalable Kubernetes and hybrid cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and operate secure, scalable cloud and Kubernetes platforms, with opportunities to automate delivery, improve reliability and observability, strengthen security, and solve complex hybrid-cloud infrastructure challenges.

I've led cloud modernization and platform engineering work for Citizens Bank, American Express, Charter Communications, and Versatile Softwares. I build secure, scalable hybrid cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

At Citizens Bank, I migrated on-premises enterprise applications to public cloud and engineered multi-environment delivery pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Helm, and ArgoCD. I also established unified observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Azure Monitor while implementing identity governance through Keycloak, Google Workspace, Azure Active Directory, OIDC, SAML, SSO, and RBAC.

At American Express and Charter Communications, I designed highly available AWS platforms, standardized provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Pulumi, and automated release workflows through Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline. My work includes EKS and ECS workloads, multi-AZ networking, disaster recovery, configuration drift remediation, GitOps, autoscaling, and production incident support.

I enjoy reducing operational toil through Python and Bash automation, building reliable observability stacks, and securing cloud infrastructure with IAM, KMS, HashiCorp Vault, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config. I bring hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters, data services, CI/CD platforms, Linux systems, and high-availability cloud architectures.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Azure DevOps Engineer

Current

Citizens Bank

Jan 2026 - Present (7 months)

Spearheaded end-to-end migration of on-premises enterprise applications to public cloud, architecting scalable hybrid cloud solutions using Terraform, Terragrunt, and ARM Templates for high-throughput multi-region corporate financial workloads. Automated hybrid cloud infrastructure provisioning across GCP and Azure, utilizing Pulumi and PowerShell to deploy private subnets, load balancers, and hub

Azure GCP Kubernetes AKS Docker ArgoCD Terraform Terragrunt Pulumi PowerShell Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Nginx Keycloak Google Workspace SSO OIDC SAML RBAC Grafana Prometheus Loki PostgreSQL VNet Git Linux Agile Scrum

AWS DevOps Engineer

American Express

Jan 2025 - Jan 2026 (1 year)

Architected secure, highly available AWS environments leveraging EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and RDS, utilizing multi-AZ topologies and Cluster Autoscaler to underpin mission-critical platforms. Constructed and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines integrating GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline, optimizing Docker container builds and automating deployment workflows to accelerate relea

AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Jenkins Gitlab CI GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline Python BASH Linux OpenSearch IAM KMS Cloudwatch CloudTrail AWS Config Lambda API Gateway Nginx Agile Scrum

Cloud Engineer

Charter Communications

May 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Designed and automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, building scalable VPCs, multi-AZ subnets, NAT Gateways, and databases through repeatable code templates. Constructed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Gradle, and S3, automating container artifact management, testing integrations, and FluxCD automated deployment workflows.

AWS Kubernetes Docker Flux CD KEDA HPA Terraform CloudFormation Jenkins Gitlab CI Grafana Mimir Tempo Loki Prometheus Python BASH Linux Git GitHub Route 53 VPC Agile Scrum

Cloud Engineer

Versatile Softwares

Mar 2018 - Aug 2021 (3 years 5 months)

Designed and automated cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CodePipeline, provisioning scalable VPCs, subnets, gateways, and PostgreSQL databases through declarative automation templates. Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS Lambda, Gradle, and S3, automating build, container security testing, artifact storage, and continuous deployment workflows.