I am a DevOps Engineer with a Master’s in Information Technology and over 8 years of hands-on cloud experience. I have 4+ years of AWS expertise and 2 years with Azure, and I thrive on building reliable, automated infrastructure using Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform to drive efficiency and rapid delivery. I am fluent in scripting with Shell and Python, enabling effective automation across systems. I’m a collaborative team player and an active leader who enjoys refining processes to achieve operational excellence through streamlined automation. I am passionate about shaping scalable cloud ecosystems and mentoring teams to adopt best-practice DevOps. I continuously drive improvements in CI/CD, security, and incident response, while maintaining a strong focus on documentation and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality software and infrastructure projects.

Saikiran Samineni

I am a DevOps Engineer with a Master’s in Information Technology and over 8 years of hands-on cloud experience. I have 4+ years of AWS expertise and 2 years with Azure, and I thrive on building reliable, automated infrastructure using Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform to drive efficiency and rapid delivery. I am fluent in scripting with Shell and Python, enabling effective automation across systems. I’m a collaborative team player and an active leader who enjoys refining processes to achieve operational excellence through streamlined automation. I am passionate about shaping scalable cloud ecosystems and mentoring teams to adopt best-practice DevOps. I continuously drive improvements in CI/CD, security, and incident response, while maintaining a strong focus on documentation and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality software and infrastructure projects.

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I am a DevOps Engineer with a Master’s in Information Technology and over 8 years of hands-on cloud experience. I have 4+ years of AWS expertise and 2 years with Azure, and I thrive on building reliable, automated infrastructure using Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform to drive efficiency and rapid delivery. I am fluent in scripting with Shell and Python, enabling effective automation across systems. I’m a collaborative team player and an active leader who enjoys refining processes to achieve operational excellence through streamlined automation.

I am passionate about shaping scalable cloud ecosystems and mentoring teams to adopt best-practice DevOps. I continuously drive improvements in CI/CD, security, and incident response, while maintaining a strong focus on documentation and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality software and infrastructure projects.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps/SRE at Medzown Inc
March 1, 2021 - Present
Managed cloud infrastructure with AWS (VPCs, EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, Systems Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation) and virtualization. Boosted deployment efficiency by building an Ansible playbook for automated LIMS deployment. Led Azure DevOps pipelines and monitored systems with Datadog. Implemented ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Request, Release) and configured ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, etc., to streamline triage and escalation. Automated AWS RDS backups using Terraform and deployed NCIB infrastructure via Terraform. Automated account provisioning and instance launches with Ansible+Terraform. Established CI/CD practices and guided cross-functional teams. Troubleshot high-load issues with Nagios, Cacti, ELK, and New Relic. Environment: Linux, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, Java/Groovy, Nagios, Documentation.
DevOps Engineer at SunTrust Bank
August 1, 2020 - March 1, 2021
Created Ansible playbooks for application deployments and automated Release processes using shell and Python. Implemented end-to-end automation including PRs for target branches, and leveraged Rio to trigger jobs and workflows. Troubleshot with Datadog, Sumo, and Splunk; collaborated with developers to deploy production-ready apps with runbooks and processes. Integrated Jenkins-based workflows with Rio and ensured application quality through Postman testing. Used AWX to initiate template jobs and documented procedures in Wiki/Confluence. AWS migration: architecture and deployment involving Hadoop stack, EC2, ELB, Autoscale, OpsWorks, with CI/CD. Environment: Linux, AWS, Puppet, Chef, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Sumo, Datadog.
DevOps Engineer at Cigna HealthCare
March 1, 2017 - July 1, 2020
Created Marketplace and ServiceNow forms for dynamic deployment parameters; provisioned new apps/environments from dev to prod, and established self-healing servers with cron jobs and alerts. Developed Ansible playbooks/modules; aligned automation with Enterprise DevOps standards using Maven, Jenkins, UDeploy, Gradle, GitHub, Artifactory, Puppet, and Ansible. Analyzed intricate build/release/deploy needs, contributed to Chef/Ansible artefacts, and prepared technical design docs. Deployed applications in Retail Apps team, managing production and non-production releases with content switching and load balancing. Wrote scripts for resync, disk space, CPU, and performance monitoring; documented procedures in Wiki. Environment: Hadoop, ELK, Hadoop, Linux, Apache Tomcat, WAR, Git, Jenkins, Docker.

Education

Masters in Information Technology at Atlantis University, Miami
August 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Master of Information Technology at Atlantis University, Miami
August 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

ITIL-like Incident/Problem/Change/Release Management
January 11, 2030 - February 12, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services, Other, Telecommunications