Khaleel S

About Khaleel S

Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience architecting…

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   Verizon

   Jan 2022 — Present · Irving, TX, US

   Supported the Infrastructure platform, a high-volume processing system handling ~6B daily usage records, by maintaining and optimizing Java/Spring Boot, Python, Oracle, Cassandra, Kafka, and Application Server/MQ components- Engineered and deployed AWS infrastructure including EKS clusters, EC2 instances, S3 storage, EFS volumes, and RDS databases to host and scale critical enterprise services- Automated environment provisioning and configuration management through Terraform and Ansible, streamlining deployments across Dev, QA, Stage, and Production environments- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline, embedding quality checks, automated testing, and security validation into release workflows- Executed a data center migration project, transitioning workloads to a consolidated AWS environment while refactoring legacy applications into containerized Spring Boot microservices- Developed and tested containerized workloads with Docker, implementing orchestration via EKS for improved scalability and reliability- Administered Apache Kafka clusters to support real-time event processing and integrated Elasticsearch for centralized log analytics and faster troubleshooting- Implemented advanced observability practices using Splunk, OpenSearch, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and AWS CloudWatch to detect anomalies and reduce incident resolution time- Created automation scripts in PowerShell, Bash, and Python to eliminate repetitive manual processes, improving operational efficiency- Managed and optimized AWS RDS, Oracle, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL databases, ensuring availability, performance, and disaster recovery readiness.Key Achievements- Cut application deployment cycles in half by implementing fully automated CI/CD pipelines- Increased platform reliability through improved monitoring and real-time analytics, reducing major incident frequency by 30%.

Education

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

• Purdue University Northwest

  Master of Science - MS