Suresh Nalajala

About Suresh Nalajala

I build the infrastructure that keeps software moving — fast, secure, and without 3am incident calls. Over the past 5 years, I\'ve worked across large-scale environments at Centene Corporation, Bank of America, and Walmart, helping engineering teams ship faster without breaking things in production. My day-to-day lives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, automation, and reliability — whether that\'s standing up AWS environments with Terraform, wiring up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitHub Actions, or getting Kubernetes clusters to behave the way they\'re supposed to. The problems I actually solve? Slow, manual deployments that block developers. Cloud infrastructure that wasn\'t built to scale. Monitoring gaps that mean teams find out about outages from users instead of dashboards. I\'ve spent years closing those gaps — automating what shouldn\'t need a human, building pipelines that give developers confidence, and making sure the systems underneath are observable, secure, and recoverable when things go wrong. On the technical side, I work primarily with: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) · Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Prometheus · Grafana · Ansible · Python · Bash I hold an MS in Computer Science from the University of New Haven, and I bring both the engineering depth and the cross-team communication skills to work well in fast-moving Agile environments. Next, I\'m looking for a Senior DevOps, Cloud, SRE, or Platform Engineering role where I can take on more ownership — designing systems from the ground up, mentoring, and helping teams build infrastructure they can actually trust. If that sounds like a fit, reach me at s••••••••@gmail.com or connect with me directly here on LinkedIn.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Centene Corporation

   Sep 2024 — Present

Education

• University of New Haven

  Master of Science, Computer Science