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Avinash Reddy

Toronto

Summary

AWS Cloud Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud-based solutions. Strong focus on team collaboration and delivering reliable results. Skilled in AWS services, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation. Adaptable problem-solver who ensures systems meet evolving needs.


Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bell Media
01.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated with Cloud Solution Architects to design and implement scalable and secure AWS cloud infrastructure using EC2, Lambda, ECR, EKS, S3, and EBS.
  • Managing Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS to support containerized applications with high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability
  • Implemented Istio as a service mesh to manage, secure, and monitor microservices within Kubernetes clusters.
  • Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing environment deployment time from days to minutes through reproducible, reliable IaC.
  • Containerized applications using Docker, managed container images via AWS ECR, and deployed applications to EKS using Helm charts.
  • Managed MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases hosted on AWS RDS and Amazon Aurora, ensuring high availability, backups, and performance.
  • Integrated monitoring and logging solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure real-time visibility into application and infrastructure performance.
  • Leveraged Grafana dashboards to analyze performance trends, optimize resources, and enhance cost efficiency.
  • Integrated PagerDuty with Prometheus and Grafana to streamline incident management through real-time multi-channel alerting (email, SMS, phone).
  • Conducted security assessments and implemented AWS best practices, including IAM policy management, secure VPC design, and NACL/security group configurations.
  • Implemented content delivery solutions with Amazon CloudFront to enhance performance, scalability, and availability of web applications.
  • Implemented scalable, secure storage solutions with Amazon S3 for application data, ensuring high durability and availability.
  • Managed AWS MediaStore containers with encryption, access controls, and lifecycle policies to maintain data security and compliance.
  • Managing AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB) to distribute traffic across EC2, containers, and Lambda, ensuring high availability and resource optimization.
  • Utilized AWS Trusted Advisor for proactive analysis of infrastructure to identify security, cost, and performance optimization opportunities.
  • Prepared and managed troubleshooting run books for L1 & L2 teams addressing common AWS issues.
  • Environment: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS RDS, ECR, Terraform, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Linux and Windows.

DevOps Cloud & Automation Engineer

Sun Life Financial
01.2020 - 09.2021
  • Launched and configured Amazon EC2 (Linux/Ubuntu) instances for diverse application requirements; built and managed scalable infrastructure using Auto Scaling, CloudFormation templates, and hybrid cloud deployments.
  • Hands-on experience across core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Glacier for storage and backup solutions.
  • Created and maintained Jenkins pipelines using scripted and declarative approaches; integrated GitHub repositories and automated builds using shared libraries for reusable pipeline steps.
  • Automated application deployments with Ansible by writing playbooks and modules for Dev/Stage/Prod environments; integrated Python and Shell scripts to streamline infrastructure and sysadmin tasks.
  • Designed and deployed Kubernetes clusters on cloud and on-prem environments, managing resources through YAML (pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps, autoscaling, etc.).
  • Built Docker images and managed deployments with Docker Compose; integrated Kubernetes with CI/CD tools for container orchestration and runtime environments.
  • Deployed and automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform modules across multi-cloud environments; also worked with OpenShift deployments using custom templates and persistent storage.
  • Configured monitoring and alerting with ELK stack, CloudWatch, and custom dashboards; generated reports and logs to track system health and performance.
  • Managed user/project workflows with Jira and Confluence; implemented WebSphere data source configurations and automated pull request workflows on GitHub.

DevOps Engineer

Canadian Tire
02.2018 - 01.2020
  • Collaborated with Agile teams to implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins in open-source environments.
  • Automated build, test, and deployment workflows with Jenkins and Shell scripts; managed Java project integrations and deployments.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD systems, including infrastructure-as-code and automation for database deployments.
  • Installed and managed Docker registry for local and remote image management; used Docker for consistent dev/test environments.
  • Engineered Jenkins pipelines for multi-branch Git workflows, enabling weekly release cycles with GitHub-based version control.
  • Used SQL Server scripts for production updates; supported hybrid environments on Ubuntu Linux and Windows (via Git Bash).
  • Automated release management and monitored version changes to improve traceability and reduce manual intervention.
  • Environment: Git, JIRA, Confluence, Shell Scripting, Python, Jenkins, SQL, AWS, Linux and Windows.

Education

Bachelor’s - computer science and engineering

JNTUH
01-2018

Skills

  • Cloud Environments: AWS
  • Configuration management: Terraform, Ansible
  • Monitoring Tools: Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana
  • CI /CD Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
  • Version Control Tools: Git, GitLab
  • Languages/Scripting: HTML, Bash, Python, Power Shell, Java
  • Databases Operating Systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL
  • Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, CentOS, WINDOWS

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bell Media
01.2021 - Current

DevOps Cloud & Automation Engineer

Sun Life Financial
01.2020 - 09.2021

DevOps Engineer

Canadian Tire
02.2018 - 01.2020

Bachelor’s - computer science and engineering

JNTUH

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