SHIREESHA NANDIKONDA

Managed highly available AWS infrastructure using EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, Lambda and RDS for enterprise SaaS workloads. Administered production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters including HPA, Ingress Controllers, Cert Manager, External DNS and Helm deployments. Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions and AWS CodeDeploy for automated application deployments. Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation for multi-environment AWS provisioning. Integrated Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch and the ELK stack for monitoring, alerting and observability. Managed PostgreSQL including backup validation, performance tuning, replication monitoring and disaster recovery testing, and improved reliability using Redis and RabbitMQ. Developed Python and Bash automation for provisioning, patching, compliance reporting and operational tasks.

Built enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins and GitHub Actions for financial services applications. Managed AKS and EKS Kubernetes environments for containerized microservices across development, QA and production. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Ansible and ARM templates to reduce manual deployments. Integrated SonarQube, Trivy and vulnerability management into pipelines to enforce DevSecOps practices. Implemented observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and Azure Monitor dashboards. Managed Docker image lifecycle with container security scanning and deployed workloads using Helm. Developed Python and Shell automation using REST APIs for operational workflows and cloud resource management. Collaborated with security teams for CVE remediation and compliance/patch reporting; supported services including Redis, Kafka and PostgreSQL. Performed L3 troubleshooting across Linux, Kubernetes, networking and application layers, and implemented GitOps w

Designed and maintained Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines for banking application and microservices deployments. Administered Linux servers and containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in secure enterprise environments. Automated infrastructure deployments using Terraform, Ansible and scripting. Implemented blue-green and rolling deployment strategies to reduce risk and downtime. Managed AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch and RDS for application hosting. Configured monitoring and alerting with Grafana, Prometheus and CloudWatch. Conducted vulnerability remediation and OS patching aligned with banking security standards, and supported PostgreSQL/MySQL with backup validation and performance monitoring. Performed RCA and incident response for production issues, improved release reliability with development and security teams, and developed operational scripts in Bash and Python. Participated in disaster recovery exercises and infrastructure resilience testing