Manu M

Experience

1. Sr Devops Engineer

   Capital One

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Engineered secure CI/CD pipelines for banking applications using Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory.• Managed IaC deployment using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, streamlining infrastructure provisioning.• Implemented AWS ECS and EKS for containerized services with zero downtime deployments.• Automated auditing processes to ensure PCI-DSS compliance.• Deployed containerized services on Amazon ECS (with Application Load Balancer integration for secure and fault-tolerant traffic distribution.• Managed Amazon Route 53 DNS routing with latency-based and failover policies for multi-region high availability.• Built AWS Lambda functions for event-driven automation, integrating with S3 and API Gateway for serverless backend services.• Configured AWS CloudFront CDN distribution for secure and optimized content delivery.• Designed and implemented API Gateway endpoints integrated with Lambda for secure banking APIs.• Managed AWS DynamoDB for low-latency NoSQL storage in transaction-heavy applications.• Deployed centralized logging using ELK Stack for transaction traceability and fraud detection.• Built disaster recovery plans and implemented multi-region redundancy in AWS.• Integrated HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and secured credentials lifecycle.• Monitored performance with Prometheus and built custom dashboards in Grafana.• Created staging environments that replicated production for secure pre-release testing.• Led agile DevOps ceremonies and sprint planning alongside dev and QA teams.• Conducted cost optimization via rightsizing and reserved instances analysis.• Created GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative deployment control.• Containerized legacy monoliths into microservices with Docker.• Developed runbooks and SOPs for incident response and system recovery.• Designed build verification stages to minimize integration failures.• Facilitated penetration testing readiness with automated environment setup.