Nikhil C.

About Nikhil C.

Designing and automating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS using…

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Elevance Health

   Jul 2023 — Present

   In my role as a DevOps Engineer, I focused on making infrastructure faster, more reliable, and easier to manage. I built out Azure cloud environments using reusable Terraform modules, which helped us standardize provisioning and cut setup time by 40%. For our Windows VMs, I automated everything from IIS to SSL certs and.NET setup using Shell scripts baked into our CI pipelines—saving us tons of manual effort (about 75%).I also crafted clean, reusable Ansible Playbooks and Roles, adding in Ansible Vault for secret management and error handling to make deployments smoother and more resilient. On top of that, I set up GitHub Actions workflows to automate both infrastructure and app configuration, speeding up deployments across QA, test, and production by about 60%.For monitoring, I integrated Prometheus and Grafana with our Azure VMs, which gave us over 95% visibility into system metrics and cut down incident response time by 40%. I handled regular rehydration of over 100 VMs using Azure Image Gallery and led disaster recovery drills that hit 100% recovery success every time.Version control and collaboration were also key—I managed Bitbucket repos and enforced solid branching strategies and pull request workflows to keep code clean and traceable.

Education

• University of Central Missouri

  Master's degree