Hi, I’m Swarna Mukhi. I am a DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platforms, leveraging IaC, containers, and robust monitoring to empower cross-functional teams. I thrive in Agile environments, partnering with development and QA to streamline releases, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR. I enjoy automating repetitive tasks, driving security hardening, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on software delivery and operational excellence.

Swarna Mukhi

Hi, I’m Swarna Mukhi. I am a DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platforms, leveraging IaC, containers, and robust monitoring to empower cross-functional teams. I thrive in Agile environments, partnering with development and QA to streamline releases, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR. I enjoy automating repetitive tasks, driving security hardening, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on software delivery and operational excellence.

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Hi, I’m Swarna Mukhi. I am a DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience delivering cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platforms, leveraging IaC, containers, and robust monitoring to empower cross-functional teams.

I thrive in Agile environments, partnering with development and QA to streamline releases, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR. I enjoy automating repetitive tasks, driving security hardening, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on software delivery and operational excellence.

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Work Experience

Sr. AWS/DevOps Engineer at Charter Communications
August 1, 2025 - Present
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) to deliver fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments. Led incident response, on-call rotations, troubleshooting, and RCA for production-critical systems, ensuring disaster recovery readiness. Designed and maintained Kubernetes standards, runbooks, and best practices for consistent platform usage. Enhanced observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK focusing on fraud metrics and system health. Implemented security controls including RBAC, IAM, network policies, and container image hardening. Built reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and self-service tooling to boost developer productivity. Defined SLIs/SLOs, optimized alerts, and reduced fatigue. Led capacity planning and performance tuning for peak fraud detection. Managed Kubernetes upgrades and hybrid-cloud migrations with minimal downtime. Automated backup/DR workflows and validated recovery drills. Enforced go
DevOps Engineer at PayPal
May 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025
Migrated monolithic Angular apps to a micro-frontend architecture enabling modular deployments. Implemented blue-green and canary deployments with Kubernetes to minimize risk. Created reusable Helm charts for consistent Kubernetes deployments; containerized apps with multi-stage Docker builds. Automated SSL renewal and Ingress provisioning; built Terraform modules to provision AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, RDS, EKS, S3). Automated Kubernetes upgrades/patching with kubeadm/Helm; configured HPA/VPA. Enforced RBAC, network policies, and secret management. Exposed services securely via AWS API Gateway integrated with Kubernetes. Implemented multi-region DR using Route 53 and Global Accelerator. Established monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; alerting reduces MTTR. Managed traffic with Nginx Ingress and PostgreSQL integrations. Conducted kube-bench security audits against CIS benchmarks. Migrated CI/CD pipelines from freestyle Jenkins to declarative pipelines; integrated CodePipel
DevOps Engineer at Caterpillar
January 1, 2023 - May 1, 2024
Collaborated with development teams to align CI/CD strategies with feature releases; designed and managed scalable DevOps pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins. Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash (EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, SQS, SNS). Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation for consistent environments across hybrid/cloud. Orchestrated Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for microservices, including blue-green deployments. Automated onboarding with Python and Jenkins tools; integrated with Kubernetes for dynamic service deployment. Implemented CI/CD best practices by integrating Docker Registry, Nexus, GitHub, JIRA to standardize builds and promote traceability. Built and optimized Jenkins pipelines for end-to-end builds, tests, and deployments; improved security, performance, and scalability. Reduced MTTD via proactive monitoring using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; Logstash to S3. Managed Kubernetes clusters
Jr. DevOps Engineer at Millennium Technosoft Limited
August 1, 2019 - August 1, 2022
Designed and maintained cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and OpenShift; led migration of legacy applications to cloud using SRE principles (SLAs/SLOs, incident response). Built high-availability systems with multi-AZ deployments, RDS read replicas, and auto-scaling. Developed IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation; managed AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, ALB, VPC, DMS, CloudWatch). Created Terraform modules and Helm charts for reusable Kubernetes/AWS provisioning. Deployed Angular apps to Kubernetes via Docker/Helm; supported blue-green/canary deployments. Configured RBAC, network policies, Ingress, and automated SSL renewals. Wrote onboarding automation in Bash/Python for Kubernetes workloads; managed DNS with Cloudflare. Monitored EC2, RDS, and Kubernetes with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace. Created CloudWatch alarms and dashboards; installed Node.js runtimes for backend services. Provided production/non-production support; worked in ITIL env

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems at La Roche University
September 1, 2022 - May 1, 2024
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology at Shri Vishnu Engineering College
June 1, 2017 - August 1, 2021

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services