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Venkatanaresh Bora

@venkatanareshbora

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Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to full-time, W-2 contract, and C2C roles.

At Starbucks, I work as an SRE, bringing experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

My work includes Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions. I also use Python and Bash alongside observability tools including Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.

I provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of about eight engineers. My certifications include AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AZ-400, and Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Site Reliability Engineer

Current

Starbucks

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Designed and maintained Chef Automate compliance reporting for over 90+ production and non-production servers, ensuring infrastructure security and audit readiness. Implemented infrastructure automation using Chef, including creation, modification, and deployment of policyfiles across non-prod and prod environments.

Chef Jenkins New Relic Terraform GCP Kubernetes Python Splunk Datadog Gitlab Harness ArgoCD AWS

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE

Current

Starbucks

Currently serving as an SRE at Starbucks, providing hands-on technical leadership for a team of about 8 engineers. Responsible for ensuring reliability and performance of systems across cloud platforms.

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Gitlab CI GitHub Actions Python BASH Datadog Splunk Prometheus Grafana

Team Lead

Centific Global Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 (5 months)

Led a team of 7 members working across IST and PTE shifts, ensuring effective communication, task allocation, and smooth handovers. Designed and implemented Azure-native solutions including Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure App Services to modernize legacy systems.

Azure DevOps Terraform ARM Templates Azure Kubernetes Service azure monitor Azure Policy RBAC Key Vaults GCP Istio Envoy OpenShift

Consultant

Globallogic India Pvt Ltd

Feb 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Managed end-to-end release management processes, coordinating activities across development, testing, and production environments by using GCP and AWS cloud for each module in Hotwire. Implemented and enforced standardized release management practices, ensuring consistency and compliance.

Senior Systems DevOps Analyst

Valuelabs LLP

Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Worked as multi cloud DevOps engineer, migrating pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitLab using yaml. Created multistage, parameterized, and classic pipelines for Dev, UAT, SIT, Pre and Prod environments.

Azure DevOps Gitlab Jenkins Terraform AWS Docker CloudFormation Groovy GitHub ServiceNow IaC

Sr. Software Engineer

Accion Labs India Pvt Ltd

Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 3 months)

Deployed a web application on GKE with auto-scaling enabled, using Cloud SQL for the database and Cloud Load Balancing to distribute traffic. Automated build and deployment pipelines reducing deployment time by 50%, utilizing Terraform for IaaS orchestration.

GCP Kubernetes Terraform Cloud SQL Load Balancing Stackdriver Cloud Monitoring Dataflow Dataproc Pub Sub BigQuery Cloud Functions Cloud Run IAM Google Cloud Armor Python BASH Jenkins Docker Ansible

Sr. Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd

Jun 2016 - Oct 2019 (3 years 4 months)

Worked on AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, security groups. Developed templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments.

AWS CloudFormation Terraform Docker Kubernetes Chef Ansible Jenkins Maven Azure DevOps PowerShell ARM Templates ELK Nagios Splunk Datadog Shell Scripts Python Linux

Software Engineer

Scifed Private Ltd

Sep 2012 - Jun 2016 (3 years 9 months)

Created CI/CD pipelines by integrating Git, GitHub, ant, maven, Jenkins, Ansible, and AWS (provisioning). Implemented DevOps Jenkins (On premise) for API, UI and DB solutions for automated deployment, later migrated to Azure DevOps.