Bala Nakkala
DevOps Engineer
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4 years of experienced IT professional with proficiency in DevOps, specializing in building production-grade cloud platforms. Expert in designing resilient infrastructure, automating deployment pipelines, streamlining operations, and ensuring high reliability and performance.
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System Engineer
TCS
Jan 2025 - Jan 2026
Deployed and managed production-grade Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm on OpenStack bare-metal infrastructure, supporting high-availability workloads for a large-scale mobile application platform. Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Kubernetes-based dynamic agent pods, eliminating build queues and accelerating mobile application releases, with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts enabling fully automated GitOps deployments. Configured robust traffic management and load balancing using NGINX for internal cluster routing and HAProxy for external traffic routing and TLS termination. Automated configuration and server management across 300+ bare-metal servers using Ansible, performing rolling updates, OS upgrades, and package management. Improved platform reliability and reduced troubleshooting time by implementing end-to-end observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, while driving Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production issues.
Assistant System Engineer
TCS
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Drove scalable and reliable production operations for biometric microservices by orchestrating highly available Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS, improving overall cloud resource utilization. Automated application build, testing, and deployment workflows by designing robust CI/CD pipelines and utilizing Argo CD, accelerating GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments. Reduced manual operational overhead and improved efficiency by investigating recurring system issues and deploying automation-based solutions using Python and Shell scripting. Enhanced operational visibility for production application workloads by successfully managing Kafka-based messaging workflows and implementing advanced monitoring frameworks. Ensured zero data loss and business continuity by coordinating comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) planning and automating reliable backup schedules.
Education
B-TECH – Mechanical Engineering - JNTUK-KIET
- 2021 · Afghanistan
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