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TALARI PRADEEP

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer • DevOps • SRE • AI Infrastructure

Professional Summary

Cloud Infrastructure and Reliability Engineer with comprehensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, VMware, and hybrid architectures. Proven track record in automated CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry observability, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, and AI inference serving platforms.

Professional Experience

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · Accenture
Apr 2022 – Present
  • Architected and provisioned secure multi-account AWS landing zones utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt with centralized transit gateway routing and IAM security boundaries.
  • Engineered continuous integration and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, cutting deployment cycle times and automating zero-downtime rolling releases.
  • Configured production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters with Karpenter autoscaling, Istio service mesh mTLS, Calico network policies, and Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs).
  • Implemented end-to-end full-stack observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Vector, establishing multi-window error budget burn rate alerting.
  • Shifted container security left with automated Trivy CVE scans, Google Distroless base images, and Cosign cryptographic artifact verification.
Systems Engineer · Trigent Software
Jun 2019 – Mar 2021
  • Administered enterprise infrastructure comprising VMware vSphere ESXi clusters, vCenter Server, and Windows/Linux server fleets.
  • Automated routine administrative procedures, VM snapshot hygiene, and backup validations via PowerCLI and Bash scripts.
  • Managed Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy Objects (GPOs), Kerberos authentication policies, and network service configurations (DNS/DHCP).
  • Executed root cause analysis (RCA) for hardware and storage datastore I/O latency alerts, maintaining strict 99.9% uptime SLAs.

Core Technical Proficiencies

Cloud & Infra:
AWS (VPC, Transit Gateway, EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53), VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, PowerCLI)
Container & K8s:
Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Podman, Karpenter, Istio, Calico, ArgoCD
IaC & CI/CD:
Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Make
Observability:
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, Loki, Alertmanager, Datadog
Systems & Script:
Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), Windows Server, Active Directory, Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go
AI & LLMOps:
vLLM, Milvus, Qdrant, Ollama, LangChain, GPU Scheduling & Virtualization (CUDA)

Education & Credentials

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
Graduated 2019

Specialized coursework in Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, and Distributed Systems.