Prudhvi Korla

Infra Dev Specialist @Cognizant

Hyderabad, IN

Led the migration of over 40 cloud-native banking systems (JPMorgan Chase & Co) to AWS EKS, significantly boosting deployment stability and slashing downtime by 95%.• Oversaw Kubernetes security by implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), network segmentation policies, and pod-level security configurations.• Utilized Chaos Engineering methodologies with AWS Fault Injection Simulator and Gremlin to emulate system outages, uncovering resilience gaps and strengthening fault tolerance.• Architected and deployed secure, scal able CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, incorporating static analysis tools, Helm chart verification, and SAST/DAST scans to maintain secure release cycles.• Developed a robust observability framework leveraging Prometheus, CloudWatch, Grafana, and Datadog, which enabled real-time monitoring and decreased mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 80%.• Implemented cloud security hardening by reviewing and optimizing IAM configurations, removing over 100 excessive privilege roles to elevate compliance and platform integrity.• Directed and guided a team of six DevOps professionals, established unified procedures, and enhanced incident response efficiency through streamlined collaboration and escalation protocols.• Acted as the DevOps liaison in Agile rituals, actively engaging in sprint planning and backlog refinement to convert infrastructure needs into actionable stories, supporting a hybrid Kanban-Agile workflow.• Collaborated with the technical lead to shape the team\'s OKRs, defining and monitoring performance metrics aligned with platform engineering initiatives.