Kiran Kumar Sikhakolli
Open to work8 years experienceAWS DevOps Engineer
AWS Devops Engineer with 8+ years of IT experience.
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Work Experience
AWS DevOps Engineer
AT&T
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, enabling cloud-agnostic deployments and reducing manual effort.
- Deployed Elastic search logging (400k+ events/day), reducing debugging time by 30%.
- Instituted real-time monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, enabling 2× more concurrent deployments weekly.
- Implemented Redis caching, improving application performance by 30% and reducing database latency.
- Built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins integrated with GitHub web-hooks for automated deployments.
- Configured IAM roles, VPC setups, and EC2 auto-scaling for secure, scalable infrastructure.
- Configure and Maintain user accounts for teams using IAM and assign roles to them to access resources like EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, SNS.
- Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud-watch Configured.
- Conducted 30 root cause analyses with incident management teams, identifying critical vulnerabilities and fortifying system defences against potential threats and achieving 10% faster resolutions.
- Hardened security posture by 60% by managing 30+ critical endpoints and sensitive secrets through SSM Parameter Store and granular IAM policies.
- Worked with Docker for convenient environment setup for development and testing Created Ansible playbook and roles to install and configure Jenkins.
- Participating in Sprint meeting like Backlog refinement meetings, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning meetings.
Associate IT Consultant (AWS engineer)
ITC InfoTech
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing manual effort
- Deployed Elastic-search logging (300k+ events/day), cutting debugging time by 20%.
- Implemented Redis caching, improving application performance by 20%.
- Configured IAM roles, VPC setups, and EC2 auto-scaling for secure, scalable infrastructure.
- Configure and Maintain user accounts for teams using IAM and assign roles to them to access resources like EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, SNS.
- Automated regression suite using Selenium, reducing manual testing effort.
- Developed reusable functions and maintained test scripts for Atlas cloud platform.
- Built automated pipelines in Jenkins integrated with GitHub, facilitating Quality at Speed by embedding Selenium regression suites into the deployment flow.
- Participating in Sprint meeting like Backlog refinement meetings, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning meetings.
Senior Consultant
Virtusa
- Automated smoke and regression testing for Qatar Airways web/mobile apps using Selenium & Appium.
- Implemented BDD frameworks (Cucumber, POM, TestNG, Hybrid model).
- Coordinated with developers via Azure DevOps for defect tracking and resolution.
- Developed re-usable functions.
- Updating the scripts as per new business requirements and UI Changes.
- Execution of Smoke and Regression test cases and send the report to the stack holders.
Software Engineer
Value Labs
- Automated benefit renewal workflows using Selenium, reducing manual insurance renewal effort.
- Developed regression test scripts and maintained reusable functions.
- Raise bugs in JIRA and Assign to concern developers.
- Execution and send the report to the stack holders
- Automated United Airlines sanity and regression workflows using AccelQ.
- Updating the scripts as per new business requirements and UI Changes
- Collaborated with onsite teams to ensure smooth release cycles.
- Raise bugs in JIRA and Assign to concern developer.
Software Test Engineer
TekysLab
- Writing test cases and testing the build once the build is released.
- Automated mobile testing with Appium for Ryder-Gyde fleet management app.
- Reported and tracked defects in VSTS, ensuring timely fixes
- Updating the scripts as per new business requirements and UI Changes
- Execution of Regression test cases and send the report to the stack holders.
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Achievements
Security Hardening
Hardened security posture by 60% by managing 30+ critical endpoints and sensitive secrets through SSM Parameter Store and granular IAM policies.
Incident Management Optimization
Conducted 30 root cause analyses with incident management teams, achieving 10% faster resolutions.
About Details
Professional Bio
Certified AWS Solutions Architect with 4 years of DevOps engineering and 8+ years overall IT experience. Skilled in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Monitoring, and container orchestration.
B.Tech
St. Ann’s Engineer College, JNTUK University (2010 - 2014)