Raviraj Mandhapuram

DevOps Engineer with 7.5 years of total experience and 5 years of relevant DevOps expertise in AWS automation, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration. Skilled in Terraform, Jenkins, and Kubernetes to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient cloud environments. Skilled in provisioning scalable infrastructure using Terraform enabling consistent and repeatable deployments. Implemented AI POC infrastructure (AWS Bedrock + OpenSearch) for intelligent search and generative responses. Strong background in CI/CD automation using Jenkins, with experience in managing highly available build and release pipelines. Reduced deployment times by 20% via optimized CI/CD pipelines Proficient in containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS), supporting scalable microservices deployments. In-depth experience with key AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB, ASG, RDS, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, Bedrock, OpenSearch, ECS and EKS. Solid knowledge of AWS security best practices, including IAM roles, Security Groups, NACLS, VPN, WAF, and LDAP integrations. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, using Terraform and Ansible for automated provisioning and configuration management. Experienced with version control systems including Git, GitHub, and GitLab, ensuring robust source code and release management workflows. Experience in Azure DevOps, implementing CI/CD pipelines, managing build jobs, and integrating automated tests for end-to-end deployments. Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure system reliability and observability. Adept at troubleshooting build, deployment, and infrastructure issues with strong problem-solving skills and scripting experience in Bash and Boto3. Experienced in managing multi-environment infrastructure (Dev, QA, Staging, Prod) with automation for environment parity and efficient rollouts.