I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE with 8 years in IT, focused on building and operating highly available AWS and Kubernetes platforms and driving GitOps-driven CI/CD, observability, and secure software delivery at scale. I excel in incident response, production troubleshooting, and enabling zero-downtime deployments, while optimizing cloud costs and collaborating with security, product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable services.

Vijayalakshmi Thoka

I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE with 8 years in IT, focused on building and operating highly available AWS and Kubernetes platforms and driving GitOps-driven CI/CD, observability, and secure software delivery at scale. I excel in incident response, production troubleshooting, and enabling zero-downtime deployments, while optimizing cloud costs and collaborating with security, product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable services.

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I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE with 8 years in IT, focused on building and operating highly available AWS and Kubernetes platforms and driving GitOps-driven CI/CD, observability, and secure software delivery at scale.

I excel in incident response, production troubleshooting, and enabling zero-downtime deployments, while optimizing cloud costs and collaborating with security, product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable services.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Accenture Technology Solutions
December 1, 2021 - Present
Designed and operated secure, highly available AWS production infrastructure, achieving 99.98% service uptime. Built and maintained enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, ROSA, Bare Metal) with autoscaling, RBAC, and advanced deployment strategies. Implemented GitOps-based delivery using Argo CD and Helm, enabling fully automated deployments and increasing release frequency. Engineered CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing deployment time from 3 hours to 15 minutes. Implemented multi-stage Docker builds and distroless containers, reducing container size by 80% and improving deployment speed by 40%. Developed reusable Terraform modules for VPC, EKS, RDS, and IAM, cutting infrastructure provisioning time by 80%. Designed and implemented DR and backup strategies with multi-AZ replication, clearly defined RPO/RTO and improved resilience. Established comprehensive observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, reducing MTTR by 40%. Strengthened DevSecOps postur
DevOps Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions
March 1, 2018 - December 1, 2021
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI from scratch to deploy Node.js and .NET API applications on KOB (Kubernetes on BareMetal) — reducing deployment time from 2 days to under 2 hours. Deployed and managed Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for microservice-based workloads, improving application uptime to 99.5%. Supported implementation of Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies, enabling zero-downtime application upgrades. Implemented CloudWatch-based monitoring aligned to service-level indicators (SLIs), with dashboards and proactive alerts, reducing incident detection time by 40%. Delivered annual savings via reserved instances, autoscaling & caching strategies as a FinOps initiative. Actively supported and troubleshot Kubernetes platform issues in production environments, ensuring application stability and availability. Investigated intermittent packet drops across VPC subnets & resolved through NACL reviews and routing corrections. Automated nightly backups using L

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering at JNTU, Hyderabad, India
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering at JNTU, Kakinada, India
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering at JNTU, Kakinada, India
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — In Progress
January 11, 2030 - January 23, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate