Hi, I’m Niharika Karingula, a DevOps and Cloud Infra Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience automating cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and secure CI/CD pipelines. I specialize in AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS), Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Linux administration, and I’m passionate about automating deployments and hardening cloud environments to deliver reliable software faster. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve system performance, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive operational excellence. My focus is on high availability, scalable architectures, and robust monitoring, with a constant eye toward security, cost efficiency, and incident response maturity.

Niharika Karingula

Hi, I’m Niharika Karingula, a DevOps and Cloud Infra Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience automating cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and secure CI/CD pipelines. I specialize in AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS), Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Linux administration, and I’m passionate about automating deployments and hardening cloud environments to deliver reliable software faster. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve system performance, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive operational excellence. My focus is on high availability, scalable architectures, and robust monitoring, with a constant eye toward security, cost efficiency, and incident response maturity.

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Hi, I’m Niharika Karingula, a DevOps and Cloud Infra Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience automating cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and secure CI/CD pipelines. I specialize in AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS), Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Linux administration, and I’m passionate about automating deployments and hardening cloud environments to deliver reliable software faster.

I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve system performance, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive operational excellence. My focus is on high availability, scalable architectures, and robust monitoring, with a constant eye toward security, cost efficiency, and incident response maturity.

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Experience Level

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps/Infra Cloud Engineer at Verizon
October 1, 2020 - Present
Operate and support large-scale AWS cloud platforms across multi-environment infrastructure; participate in 24x7 on-call SRE rotations; perform root cause analysis and blameless postmortems; monitor availability with Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native tooling; define and improve SLIs/SLOs; design and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Auto Scaling, ALB, Route53) and security controls; build scalable infrastructure using Terraform; manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS/OpenShift); automate workflows with Python and Bash; establish platform observability; harden cloud environments; optimize resource utilization and support CI/CD pipelines; act as technical escalation point for complex issues; continuously improve reliability and incident response maturity.
DevOps Engineer & Linux Administrator at Acequest Corporation
October 1, 2019 - October 1, 2020
Designed, deployed, and managed scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform; performed advanced Linux/Solaris administration including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patching, OS upgrades, and security hardening; automated operations with Bash, Shell, and Python; built and maintained monitoring with Nagios and Splunk; managed VMware ESXi clusters; configured and tuned Apache Tomcat and WebSphere in production; automated deployment pipelines; implemented log rotation, health checks, and automated backups; performed root-cause analysis for outages; hands-on with cloud-native apps in Kubernetes.

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2019
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2017

Qualifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02)
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
Microsoft Certified Azure Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
CCNA Certified Cisco Network Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment