Ravi Chandra Prasad Thota

About Ravi Chandra Prasad Thota

As a Lead SRE/Devops, I apply my professional expertise of DevOps, Cloud Computing…

Experience

1. Devops Platform Engineer Bizops Engineer Sre Engineer

   Mastercard

   Mar 2024 — Present · O\'Fallon, MO, US

   Designed, implemented, and managed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Chef Infra and Chef Habitat to automate provisioning and configuration across environments.Automated server patching with Chef Infra to ensure compliance and up-to-date systems.Standardized and modularized configurations using Chef Habitat for scalable, predictable deployments in dev, staging, and production.Applied SRE principles (error budgets, toil reduction, blameless postmortems) to enhance reliability and efficiency.Implemented monitoring and incident response with Dynatrace and Splunk, enabling anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and reduced MTTR.Developed disaster recovery and backup strategies for Linux infrastructure ensuring data integrity and availability.Performed Linux administration (provisioning, patching, access control, tuning) to maintain stability.Architected and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Digital.ai (XLR), and Groovy, enabling seamless build, test, and deploy workflows.Automated release workflows in XLR to improve auditability, reduce manual steps, and accelerate delivery.Integrated automated testing tools into pipelines for quality gates and regression prevention.Leveraged Dynatrace APM for real-time monitoring and anomaly detection; used Splunk for log centralization, RCA, and security auditing.Created dashboards and alerting to track SLIs/SLOs and enable proactive resolution.Enforced secure coding by integrating DAST/SAST and regular vulnerability scans into pipelines.Managed SSL/TLS lifecycle with Venafi to ensure secure communications.Automated compliance audits and reporting via Splunk+Venafi.Managed Bitbucket repos with branching strategies, PR reviews, and release versioning to reduce conflicts and enforce integration standards.Collaborated with dev, QA, ops, and security teams to align delivery goals and resolve issues.Maintained process documentation, SOPs, and system configs to support knowledge sharing, compliance, and onboarding.

Education

• J.N.T.U, Hyderabad, India

  Bachelor’s in Information Technology (CSIT)

  2004 — 2009