BALAKRISHNA PULUGULLA

• Negotiated salary packages to secure mutual satisfaction between employer and employee.
• Maintained confidentiality throughout the recruitment process, ensuring trust and integrity were upheld at all times.
• Developed detailed job descriptions to attract top talent.
• Increased client satisfaction by streamlining recruitment processes.

Senior DevOps engineer,

Barclays - Manchester, Lancashire

• Designed and implemented multi-environment CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, integrating build,test, security scanning, and deployment automation.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates, ensuring consistent environments across dev, staging, and production.
• Managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS) with Helm charts and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD), enabling self-service deployments for developers.
• Integrated security scanning tools (Snyk, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud) into pipelines to enforce shift-left security and immediate vulnerability detection.
• Implemented blue-green and canary deployments with automated rollback mechanisms, reducing downtime during releases.
• Developed custom Python and Bash scripts to automate build artefact management, environment health checks, and pipeline notifications.

Senior DevOps engineer,

• Led migration of multiple application teams from manual deployment processes to fully automated pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
• Created and maintained Helm charts for deploying applications into AKS clusters, standardizing configurations and enabling easy upgrades.
• Automated provisioning of Azure infrastructure with Terraform and ARM templates, reducing deployment times from days to under hour.
• Integrated SonarQube and Nexus repositories into CI/CD workflows for quality assurance and artifact management.
• Developed PowerShell automation scripts for Azure resource parameterization and environment configuration.
• Configured and secured Azure networking components, including NSGs, VPN Gateways, and Application Gateways.
• Set up Azure Site Recovery and Backup for critical workloads, validating recovery procedures through regular testing.
• Implemented container image security scanning as part of build process.