Headline

CKAD | AWS | Terraform | Python | ArgoCD | Gitlab CI | New Relic | Dynatrace

About

Senior DevOps Engineer and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) with 5 years of experience architecting resilient cloud-native platforms. Proficient in scaling enterprise-grade AWS environments and implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD. Specialized in building robust GitLab CI pipelines and engineering Python-driven automation, leveraging New Relic and Dynatrace to drive 99.9% system reliability and operational excellence.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

kiro

Work experience

Senior Devops Engineer at DISH Network Technologies, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, On-site, • GitOps Transformation: Spearheaded the transition from manual deployments to a GitOps model using ArgoCD for EKS, resulting in a 70% reduction in configuration drift and decreasing MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) by 50%. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Developed a library of modular Terraform blueprints for automated multi-environment provisioning of AWS Infrastructure, achieving 100% environment parity and cutting manual provisioning time by 80%. • Serverless Observability: Led the strategic migration of observability stacks from New Relic to Dynatrace, streamlining the ingestion of logs, metrics, and traces while automating the deployment of critical dashboards and alerts. • Cost Optimization & Financial Impact: Engineered a major initiative to reduce cloud overhead by 50%, optimizing ALB log attributes in ingestion Lambdas and migrating data ingestion flows from Lambda to Kinesis Firehose. • Advanced Python Automation: Developed a Consul Audit Tool to automate compliance checks between environment variables and HashiCorp Consul; upgraded production Lambda runtimes from Python 3.9 to 3.12 for performance and security. • CI/CD Engineering: Optimized GitLab CI files by building custom container images, resulting in a 40% improvement in developer velocity and more resilient build pipelines.

DevOps Engineer at DISH Network Technologies, Jun 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Hybrid

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg., MYSORE

Bachelor's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

Public links

github: https://github.com/VijayShekarGC