Abishek Penigalapati
DevOps Engineer | AWS & Terraform Specialist | CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins) | Kubernetes & Cloud Security | Observability with Prometheus, Grafana & Datadog
- Role
- Devops Engineer at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Location
- Great Falls, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Abishek Penigalapati
I’m a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and securing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD automation (GitLab CI, Jenkins), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm) — helping teams build scalable, reliable, and secure cloud systems. At BCBS, I implemented enterprise-grade GitLab pipelines for 50+ microservices, automated EKS deployments, and integrated Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog for full-stack observability — reducing failed deployments by 80% and cutting MTTA by 60%. I’m passionate about proactive monitoring, security automation, and creating DevOps workflows that accelerate delivery while maintaining compliance. I’m continuously exploring ways to improve cloud reliability and developer experience through automation, observability, and DevSecOps practices.
Experience
Devops Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Feb 2025 — Present · VA, US
Developed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 50 microservices with build, test, security-scan, and rollback stages; decreased failed deployments by 80%.• Wrote Terraform modules for VPCs, EKS clusters, and IAM roles using S3 + DynamoDB state backend; enforced policy validation and code reviews pre-merge.• Deployed Dockerized applications to EKS, managing Helm charts, ingress, autoscaling, and pod security policies.• Implemented Prometheus + Grafana dashboards and Datadog monitors; configured SLO alerts integrated to Slack and PagerDuty, reducing MTTA by 60%.• Automated log shipping from EKS to CloudWatch using FluentBit; created error correlation dashboards for faster incident triage.• Strengthened security through IAM least-privilege, AWS Config, and CloudTrail alerts for unauthorized actions; built Python Lambda to auto-remediate non-compliant resources.• Authored Ansible playbooks for patching and hardening Linux servers.
Education
University of Illinois Springfield
Master of Science - MS
2023 — 2024
Sree Vidyanikethan Education Trust (SVET), Tirupati
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
2018 — 2022
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