Sai Srikanth Kurumaddali

Around 8+ years of IT Industry experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines as AWS Cloud/AZURE/DevOps Engineer. Proficient in cloud platforms including AWS, Azure with hands-on expertise in designing scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated provisioning and configuration management.

Proficient in automating deployments, enhancing system reliability, and improving developer workflows. Excellent background in monitoring, observability, and infrastructure as code. Strong experience in interacting with stakeholders/customers, gathering requirements, workshops, and existing system documentation or procedures, defining business processes, identifying, and analyzing risks using appropriate templates and analysis tools.

SR. Cloud Platform Engineer at Erie Insurance (2023-11 – Present)

• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Write clear, reusable, portable Terraform modules and Python code for automated AWS cloud infrastructure deployments
• Developed reusable and portable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using Terraform and Python, automating AWS infrastructure provisioning to enhance deployment consistency and reduce manual errors by 80%
• Implement and maintain AFT(Account Factory for Terraform) pipelines for automated account vending, baseline security controls, tagging, and cross‑account IAM roles required by platform and application teams
• Setting up of automated CICD pipelines for various applications and deploying them through build and release processes which resulted in elimination of manual deployment and increased the efficiency of the deployment process
• Deep hands‑on experience with core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch) and distributed system design
• Use Wiz findings and risk context to drive remediation priorities with platform and application teams (for example, misconfigured security groups, exposed secrets, vulnerable container images in ECR, overly permissive IAM roles)
• Enhanced infrastructure operations by implementing advanced monitoring solutions and adhering to cloud coding best practices, leading to an improvement in system reliability and a 30% decrease in incident response times
• Familiarity with multi‑account governance: AWS Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, SSO/Identity Center, and cross‑account IAM roles used by automation (including AFT and TFE pipelines)
• Research and recommend innovative solutions and where possible automated approaches for system and infrastructure administration tasks
• Create and maintain all documentation associated with AWS cloud infrastructure workloads
• Architect and review network topologies: VPC design, subnets, routing, NAT, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, hybrid connectivity (VPN / Direct Connect), and cross‑account connectivity strategies
• Engineered a custom GitLab CI/CD executor driver on AWS Fargate, automating containerized job execution on Amazon ECS, resulting in a 60% reduction in build latency and improved scalability
• Implemented policy-as-code using Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Terraform to enforce compliance and security rules across infrastructure deployments, reducing policy violations and improving auditability

DevOps Engineer at GEICO (2021-08 – 2023-10)

• Provisioned and maintained cloud infrastructure for a high-traffic web application across Development, QA, and Production environments, handling over 2.5 million daily requests, ensuring optimal scalability, performance, and reliability
• Deployed.NET-based microservices to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure App Services, managing deployments across multiple environments using Azure DevOps with robust automation and environment-specific configurations
• Configured and managed enterprise network components, including F5 reverse proxies, Imperva Web Application Firewalls (WAF), and Azure-native firewalls, to enforce traffic control, security policies, and mitigate web-based threats
• Built end-to-end monitoring and observability solutions using Splunk and Dynatrace, creating real-time dashboards, custom metrics, and alerting rules for proactive performance tuning and incident resolution
• Designed and implemented application failover and disaster recovery (DR) strategies across multiple Azure regions, conducting regular failover testing and DR drills to ensure business continuity and high availability
• Established fully automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, integrating unit testing, infrastructure validation, and deployment gates—reducing manual effort and increasing deployment frequency and success rate by 70%
• Integrated automated rollback mechanisms into pipelines to quickly revert changes on failure, reducing downtime and ensuring smooth recovery during deployment issues
• Collaborated with development and QA teams to align infrastructure and deployment needs with application requirements, accelerating release cycles and improving cross-team workflows
• Maintained infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and ARM templates, enabling consistent and repeatable infrastructure provisioning with version control and peer-reviewed workflows
• Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) and secure secrets management using Azure Key Vault and Azure Active Directory, improving compliance and protecting sensitive application data

DevOps Engineer at CJ Enterprises (2017-06 – 2019-07)

• Developed a comprehensive strategy for cloud migration and implemented best practices utilizing AWS services such as Database Migration Service and AWS Server Migration Service to seamlessly transition from On-Premises to the cloud
• Manage system routine backups, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance. Installing and supporting Apache on Linux production servers
• Working with Network backup administrators to schedule and run full backups of the Linux servers
• Expertise on AWS services like ELB, EC2, S3, VPC, Cloud Formation, Route 53, Network Connectivity, and troubleshooting
• Good usage of AWS Cloud Formation templates for creating custom sized infrastructure

MS in Computer Science – New Jersey Institute of Technology (2019-08 – 2021-05)

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication – PES University (2014-08 – 2018-03)