Sridhar Modalavalasa

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India4 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced deployment time by 60% using CI/CD tools.
Achieved 80% reduction in compliance risk for a major bank.
Automated workflows across 200+ repositories.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in Fintech and Infrastructure Automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsInfrastructure As Code (iac)Security EngineeringMonitoring And ObservabilitySystem MigrationInfrastructure AutomationContinuous Integration (ci)

Other Skills

AWSAWS CloudTrailAWS CloudWatchAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)Amazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon VPCAnsibleAutomationC (Programming Language)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationContainerizationContinuous Delivery (CD)Docker

About

Result-driven DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience automating and optimizing deployments across AWS, GCP, and private cloud. Proven track record delivering secure, scalable, high‑performance infrastructure: hardened IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD (Jenkins, FluxCD, Harness, GitHub Actions) and container workflows (Docker, Helm) to cut deployment time by 60%. Led large-scale security audits and remediations for India's largest private bank—reduced high-severity compliance risk ~80%, deployed GuardDuty via IaC, and validated 5+ AWS environments. Automated developer workflows across 200+ repos and orchestrated a zero‑downtime migration of 200+ repositories and 400+ packages. Skilled in monitoring and observability (Prometheus, OpenSearch, ELK), release management, and pipeline resilience (smart deployments, rollback protection), focused on accelerating time-to-market and minimizing MTTR.

Experience

Backbase

System Engineer - DevOps & SRE

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Led AWS security audit for India's largest private bank; identified critical gaps and delivered prioritized remediations.
Reduced high-severity compliance risk ~80% by remediating Prowler IAM issues.
Hardened OpenTofu IaC across root modules and 4 production EKS environments.
Deployed AWS GuardDuty via OpenTofu; achieved 100% threat detection coverage.
Built centralized observability PoC to consolidate security findings.
Validated security posture for 5 AWS environments against Prowler standards.
Implemented IAM fixes across 4 production EKS clusters to enforce shift-left security.
Automated 2 developer workflows with custom scripts; rolled out to 200+ repositories.
Managed 10+ release cycles (e.g., 7.0.4 → 8.0.0); resolved complex merge conflicts and ensured Docker readiness.
Cut repository maintenance effort by 95% with a script to update .gitignore and GitHub workflows; automated PRs and merges.
Developed GitHub Actions CI/CD PoC with smart deployments, rollback protection, and state preservation.
Performed E2E testing on GitHub Enterprise to ensure pipeline stability.
Orchestrated zero-downtime GitHub migration of 200+ repos and 400+ packages; delivered defect-free transition.

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Softility, inc.

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2021 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of optimizing development workflows and infrastructure automation.
Demonstrated expertise in reducing deployment times by 60% through strategic implementation of Jenkins pipelines and Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments. Successfully spearheaded GitLab CI/CD and FluxCD adoption, achieving a 40% reduction in release time.
Specializing in cloud-native technologies, I've maintained scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.
Notable achievements include deploying a multiple nodes on-premise Kubernetes cluster 50% faster using Ansible Tower, and implementing automated AWS and GCP resources provisioning using Terraform that saved 20 hours weekly in manual tasks.
I excel in implementing robust monitoring and alerting systems, having reduced manual monitoring time by 40% through automated processes.
My focus on security and efficiency led to a 70% reduction in Kubernetes cluster administration overhead through strategic implementation of AD Groups on Rancher.
I’m passionate about creating innovative solutions that drive results. Let’s connect to discuss how my skills and experience can contribute to your organization’s success.

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