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lokesh gr

lokesh gr

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, India
80
Profile Score

About

DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer with 5 years of experience building secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Argo CD. Automated release cycles by 60%, reduced critical vulnerabilities by 60%, and maintained 99.9% uptime across production environments. Delivered GitOps with Argo CD, end-to-end DevSecOps pipelines with SonarQube, Trivy, and Snyk, and achieved 35% cloud cost savings through IaC automation and Kubernetes autoscaling.

Skills & Expertise (49)

AWS Expert
9.1/10
6
Years Exp
Kubernetes Expert
9.0/10
5
Years Exp
Terraform Advanced
8.8/10
5
Years Exp
Jenkins Advanced
8.7/10
6
Years Exp
Docker Advanced
8.6/10
5
Years Exp
Route 53 HashiCorp Vault Ansible Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack NGINX Ingress Istio Service Mesh RBAC Snyk MFA NAT Gateway NACLs Git GitHub Gitlab Bitbucket Bash/Shell Python Groovy HCL YAML Lambda EC2 S3 RDS EKS IAM ALB VPC ECR EBS SNS Checkov Fargate Secrets Manager CloudWatch GitHub Actions GitLab CI Argo CD Helm SonarQube Trivy OWASP Dependency-Check

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Construction (L&T)

Sep 2021 - Jul 2024

Built Jenkins and Argo CD pipelines automating build, test, security scans, and Kubernetes deployments, reducing release cycles by 40%. Developed Jenkins Shared Libraries in Groovy across 10+ microservices, cutting duplication by 50% and improving onboarding speed by 35%. Hardened pipelines with Jenkins RBAC and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, reducing unauthorized access risks by 40%. Embedded DevSecOps controls — SAST, DAST, container and IaC scanning — with least-privilege IAM and RBAC, significantly reducing vulnerabilities and improving compliance. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform (EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3) with reusable modules, reducing provisioning time by 80%. Containerized services using multi-stage Alpine Dockerfiles, reducing image size by 40% and maintaining 99.99% uptime by resolving OOMKilled and CrashLoopBackOff errors. Automated server configuration using Ansible Playbooks and Roles, minimizing manual intervention by 80%. Managed PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch with HA replication, improving database responsiveness by 40%. Deployed EKS workloads with HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and NGINX Ingress with SSL/TLS, handling 3x traffic spikes and reducing incident detection time by 65%.

AWS DevOps Engineer

ASCIS Technologies

Present - Present

Architected CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD for 15+ microservices, automating build, test, security scans, and Kubernetes deployments, reducing release cycle time by 60%. Implemented GitOps deployment strategy with Argo CD across Dev/QA/UAT/Prod EKS clusters, enabling automated rollbacks and full traceability, cutting production incidents by 30%. Optimized Docker multi-stage builds with Alpine/Distroless images and JFrog Artifactory publishing, reducing image size by 60% and accelerating deployments. Built end-to-end DevSecOps pipeline with SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check, and Checkov, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 60%. Provisioned EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, and RDS via modular Terraform IaC with S3/DynamoDB remote state, accelerating infrastructure delivery by 80% with zero configuration drift. Configured HPA and Cluster Autoscaler handling 5x peak traffic, achieving 99.9% uptime with zero-downtime rolling deployments. Deployed Istio Service Mesh and AWS ALB enabling SSL/TLS termination, traffic routing, and rate limiting, improving API reliability by 30%. Setup observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK Stack, reducing MTTR by 45% and debugging time by 50%.

Cloud Support Associate

Progile Infotech

Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

Provided L1/L2 cloud support for AWS and Azure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM), maintaining production high availability. Automated backup and disaster recovery using AWS Lambda and EBS Snapshots, reducing data loss risk by 70%. Enforced IAM least-privilege policies, MFA enforcement, and access log monitoring for cloud security compliance. Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on infrastructure issues, reducing MTTR by 30%. Optimized cloud costs using AWS Cost Explorer, auto-shutdown scripts, and right-sizing, achieving 25–30% monthly savings. Managed Jira ITIL workflows and created SOPs and knowledge base documents to improve incident resolution efficiency.

Junior DevOps Engineer

Progile Infotech

Dec 2020 - Aug 2021

Maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines automating build, test, and release across QA, UAT, and Production, improving deployment frequency from weekly to daily. Automated build processes using Maven and Shell scripting, achieving 99% build success rate. Implemented structured Git branching strategies, enabling parallel development and stable releases. Built and published Docker images to Docker Hub for environment-parity deployments. Standardized server configuration with Ansible, reducing environment-related issues by 80%. Improved operational efficiency through documentation and workflow optimization, reducing team dependency by 20%.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering - Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Science

2015 - 2019 · Afghanistan

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Profile Score Breakdown

📷 Photo 10/10
📄 Resume 10/10
💼 Job Title 10/10
✍️ Bio 10/10
🛠️ Skills 20/20
🎓 Education 10/10
⏱️ Experience 5/15
💰 Rate 0/5
🏆 Certs 0/5
Verified 5/5
Total Score 80/100

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Skills (49)

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Docker Route 53 HashiCorp Vault Ansible Prometheus Grafana +39 more