Arudra Sunkari

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, and automation tools to enable reliable and high-availability deployments. Experienced in building microservices platforms, implementing infrastructure as code, and optimizing deployment pipelines to improve release velocity and system reliability.

DevOps Engineer at True Mercury (2024-06 – Present)

• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for multiple applications across Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Managed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) for scalable deployments
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources
• Automated deployment and configuration using Ansible
• Monitored applications and infrastructure using Zabbix and AWS CloudWatch
• Troubleshot production issues, performed root cause analysis, and reduced MTTR
• Handled incidents and service requests via ticketing systems ensuring resolution within defined SLAs
• Collaborated with development and QA teams to onboard applications into CI/CD pipelines
• Strengthened security by integrating Trivy scans and enforcing IAM best practices across infrastructure.
• Implemented blue-green and rolling deployment strategies enabling zero-downtime releases.

DevOps Engineer L2 at Bata Legacy (2022-01 – 2024-05)

• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrating Git, Jenkins, Docker, and SonarQube
• Containerized applications and deployed them to Kubernetes environments
• Supported release management across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
• Monitored systems and resolved issues using Zabbix
• Performed Kubernetes troubleshooting including pod failures and configuration issues
• Managed deployment issues and ensured timely resolution of tickets within SLA
• Assisted in onboarding applications into DevOps workflows and deployment pipelines
• Implemented canary and rolling deployments, reducing deployment failures by 35%.

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering – MVGR College of Engineering (2017 – 2021)