🚀 DevOps & SRE Mastery: Real-World Implementations & Leadership Insights
Introduction
Welcome to my Hashnode blog! I’m Vaikunta Varma V, a passionate DevOps & SRE Engineer with extensive experience in automating infrastructures, securing deployments, and optimizing cloud-native architectures. This space is dedicated to showcasing my real-world projects that integrate cutting-edge DevOps tools, implement SRE principles, and highlight my leadership in streamlining complex workflows.
This blog isn't just a portfolio; it's an insightful dive into hands-on implementations across multiple organizations, bringing together automation, security, scalability, and high availability. Explore the projects that have transformed deployments, improved SLAs, and enabled resilient cloud infrastructure. 🚀
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🌟 Featured Projects: Real-World DevOps & SRE Implementations
Each project listed below highlights a specific challenge, the solution implemented, and the technologies used, ensuring end-to-end DevOps & SRE excellence.
1️⃣ Automated CI/CD Pipeline for Django Web Apps on AWS
📌 Tech Stack: AWS | Docker | Jenkins | GitHub | Ansible
🔹 Designed a robust CI/CD pipeline integrating GitHub webhooks with Jenkins, enabling automated deployments using Docker & Ansible.
🔹 Automated database provisioning, server orchestration, and containerized application deployment.
🔹 Ensured seamless rollback strategies in case of deployment failures.
2️⃣ Azure DevOps Multi-Stage YAML CI/CD Pipeline
📌 Tech Stack: Azure DevOps | AKS | Docker | Trivy | SonarQube
🔹 Established a scalable multi-stage pipeline for containerized applications deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
🔹 Integrated SonarQube for code quality and Trivy for security scanning to maintain compliance.
🔹 Automated artifact publishing, custom agent setup, and self-hosted CI/CD environments on AWS.
3️⃣ Mercedes Benz Dealer Management System (DMS) - Microservices CI/CD Automation
📌 Tech Stack: Jenkins | GitLab | SonarQube | Kubernetes | JFrog
🔹 Onboarded 16 microservices into a centralized CI/CD pipeline with security, build automation, containerization, and Kubernetes deployments.
🔹 Developed Jenkins Shared Libraries and custom scripts to automate testing and security validation.
🔹 Automated GitLab, SonarQube, Jira, and Jenkins REST API integrations, streamlining build & deployment cycles.
4️⃣ Terraform-Driven AWS Infrastructure for Cognizant's Payroll Rollout
📌 Tech Stack: AWS | Terraform | Jenkins | GitHub | Ansible
🔹 Designed Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for AWS components including VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, and Route53.
🔹 Achieved one-touch deployment (OTD) via Jenkins pipelines integrated with GitHub repositories.
🔹 Managed Terraform state in S3 for multi-environment consistency and implemented AWS security best practices.
5️⃣ Kubernetes Managed Metric System (KMMS) – Palo Alto Networks
📌 Tech Stack: Kubernetes (EKS) | Prometheus | InfluxDB | Helm | Grafana | Splunk
🔹 Deployed Prometheus & Grafana for real-time monitoring of AWS EKS clusters.
🔹 Engineered Helm charts for infrastructure automation and centralized log collection via Splunk.
🔹 Enhanced observability through GQL queries in Grafana, ensuring node & pod-level monitoring.
6️⃣ SRE & Infra Automation at Myntra Platform Team
📌 Tech Stack: Python | Terraform | Ansible | Jenkins | Prometheus
🔹 Automated cloud security, monitoring, and troubleshooting for Myntra's production infrastructure.
🔹 Designed self-healing Kubernetes deployments ensuring high availability.
🔹 Led incident management & reliability engineering, reducing downtime by 40%.
7️⃣ OpenAI Chatbot UI DevSecOps Deployment
📌 Tech Stack: Jenkins | Docker | Kubernetes (EKS) | SonarQube | OWASP Dependency-Check
🔹 Integrated DevSecOps best practices in deploying a chatbot UI using CI/CD automation.
🔹 Implemented security tools like SonarQube and OWASP Dependency-Check to identify vulnerabilities.
🔹 Automated build, testing, and security validation to ensure compliance.
8️⃣ HDFC PayZapp - Linux Server Maintenance & Ansible Automation
📌 Tech Stack: CentOS | Ansible | Log Optimization | SELinux
🔹 Maintained and secured Linux-based PayZapp servers, implementing OS patching and log optimization.
🔹 Deployed Ansible playbooks to automate server management, user permissions, and security hardening.
🔹 Managed system administration & Java application maintenance on cloud-based infrastructure.
9️⃣ Python Web App CI/CD & DevSecOps Pipeline
📌 Tech Stack: Jenkins | Python | Docker | Prometheus | Grafana
🔹 Designed a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for a Python web application with security-first deployments.
🔹 Implemented real-time monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana for performance tracking.
🔹 Hardened security using SonarQube & OWASP Dependency-Check for vulnerability detection.
🔟 SDSBOT - Slack Bot for Kubernetes & MMS Support Requests (EPAM)
📌 Tech Stack: Python | NodeJS | Hubot | Kubernetes | AWS EKS
🔹 Developed an AI-powered Slack bot to automate JIRA ticketing and Kubernetes support tasks.
🔹 Integrated team roster lookups & API-based query resolution via Slack commands.
🔹 Deployed the bot in AWS EKS, automating request handling & reducing response times.
🌟 Soft Skills & Leadership Highlights
🚀 Team Leadership: Led multi-disciplinary DevOps/SRE teams, optimizing SLAs and reducing operational costs.
📢 Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Conducted workshops on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps best practices.
🔄 Process Optimization: Streamlined incident management & security governance, improving cloud efficiency by 40%.
🎯 Effective Communication: Bridged technical gaps between engineering & business teams for impactful decision-making.
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🌟 Why This Blog Stands Out?
✅ Hands-on Real-World Use Cases – Showcasing expertise through practical implementations.
✅ Comprehensive Tech Stack Insights – Covering cloud, automation, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes.
✅ Leadership & Problem-Solving – Highlighting team leadership & optimization strategies.
✅ Interactive Learning Approach – Enabling knowledge sharing through in-depth case studies.
🔥 If you're passionate about DevOps, SRE, and automation, this blog is for you! Follow along for cutting-edge insights and implementation breakdowns! 🚀