Lalith Guntur

DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of combined experience building and automating CI/CD pipelines, provisioning cloud infrastructure, and managing containerized workloads. Proven track record of reducing release cycle time by upto 35% and cutting deployment errors by 30% using Azure DevOps, Jenkins & GitLab CI/CD. Hands-on expertise with AWS, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes with strong skills in monitoring, security hardening and infrastructure-as-code at scale.

DevOps Intern - Catechgory Inc - Remote

(2025-01 - 2025-06)

• Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM) using Terraform, enabling repeatable IaC deployments and reducing provisioning time by 40%.
• Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using groovy for microservices and automated build, test and deploy stages – reducing deployment errors by 30% and microservices, reducing deployment errors by 30% and doubling release frequency.
• Containerized services with Docker and deployed workloads on Kubernetes, validating rolling updates, health probes, and rollback strategies for high availability.
• Maintained Ansible playbooks for configuration management and monitored post-deployment health, contributing to faster issue resolution.

Advanced Associate Software Engineer - Accenture - Bengaluru

(2022-08 - 2024-07)

• Configured the Cost dashboard to monitor budgets and to build environments using AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, RDS, EKS, ELK, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, enabling automated deployments across multiple environments and reducing release cycle time by 35%.
• Resolved AWS compliance issues by implementing IAM least privilege policies, enabling encryption at rest and configuring security best practices across S3 and EC2.
• Automated dashboard configuration updates, reducing manual setup by 70% and handling delta deployments using PowerShell scripting and Ansible, improving deployment efficiency and reducing failures.

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Veltech University (2018 - 2022)