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Skilled Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of IT experience, in supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS and Azure clouds, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.

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Vinod Darapu

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

A Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in designing, automating, and managing enterprise-scale infrastructures across AWS and Azure. Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Ansible to provision secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud environments. Possesses a strong background in CI/CD pipeline engineering using tools like Jenkins, Octopus, and Copado for automated deployments of both modern and legacy applications. Experienced in monitoring with Dynatrace and ELK, and knowledgeable in Windows/Linux server administration, security best practices, and agile methodologies.

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AWS

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Azure

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Jenkins

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Terraform

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Docker

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Ansible

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Octopus Deploy

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Jira

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Git

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GitHub

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Gitlab

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Dynatrace

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CloudWatch

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Linux

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Experience

THE PCA GROUP OF COMPANIES

Cloud and DevOps Engineering | July 2015 - November 2021

  • Designed and deployed highly available, fault-tolerant architectures across AWS and Azure, provisioning networking, compute, IAM, and storage resources using Terraform (IaC).
  • Automated infrastructure builds using Terraform + Ansible, enabling consistent and repeatable deployments across multiple environments.
  • Supported 100+ Azure instances, optimizing costs with Reserved Instances, tagging for cost analysis, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Strengthened security by managing Azure AD, Key Vaults, Service Principles, and RBAC policies, ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
  • Administered 300+ Windows and Linux servers in mixed VMware/physical environments, including Active Directory, O365, SCCM patching, clustering, and SQL environments.
  • Migrated and modernized legacy workloads to cloud environments, reducing reliance on on-premises data centers.
  • Used Agile methodology (Scrum, 2-week sprints) and tools such as JIRA, VersionOne, GitHub, and ServiceNow for sprint planning, tracking, and delivery management.

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Devops Engineer | November 2021 - Present

  • Led cloud migration initiatives using Agile (2-week sprints) and GitHub for collaboration, accelerating delivery cycles and boosting team productivity.
  • Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture, Business Partners, Developers, Middleware, Security, and Project Managers to design and implement scalable, highly available, and compliant cloud architectures.
  • Designed and deployed ELK stack for enterprise-wide log management and monitoring.
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, integrating automated testing and deployment workflows, reducing release time from days to hours.
  • Applied Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision AWS and Azure infrastructure, achieving repeatable and cost-optimized deployments.
  • Administered and supported Windows Server environments, ensuring reliability of legacy business-critical applications.
  • Streamlined DevOps operations by optimizing build/release automation, source code management, and defect/change tracking using JIRA.
  • Implemented Copado workflows for Salesforce deployments.
  • Automated legacy application deployments on Windows Server/IIS using Octopus Deploy.
  • Deployed Dynatrace for performance and log/network monitoring, improving observability.
  • Passed all compliance audits by enforcing best security practices.

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