Veera B.

About Veera B.

I build cloud infrastructure that does not break and knows how to heal itself when it…

Experience

1. Sr Site Reliability Engineer

   Walgreens

   Jun 2023 — Present · Deerfield, IL, US

   Utilized AWS services including EC2, ELB, S3, EBS, VPC, AMI, SNS, SQS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and CloudFormation to manage scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure. Designed IaC using CloudFormation and Terraform across AWS and Azure for standardized, version-controlled provisioning. Automated Blue-Green and Canary deployments using AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation to minimize downtime. Configured SQS and SNS for asynchronous microservice communication and integrated with Jenkins pipelines for reliable distributed systems. Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub, automating build, test, and deployment workflows. Integrated Maven with CI/CD tools for Java builds and enabled GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Helm for Kubernetes releases. Configured Kubernetes clusters with auto-scaling, load balancing, and Istio service mesh for secure and observable microservices. Monitored infrastructure using Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and Stackdriver, building real-time dashboards and reducing MTTD by 25%. Defined and implemented SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve service reliability. Established FinOps practices to optimize cloud costs, achieving a 20% expenditure reduction and improving cost visibility. Automated provisioning and scaling using Terraform, Ansible, and Azure PowerShell for consistent multi-cloud deployments. Integrated Active Directory with Azure AD for centralized SSO. Conducted IAM audits ensuring least-privilege access and compliance. Deployed fault-tolerant architectures using SQS, SNS, and Terraform across hybrid environments. Managed MySQL and MongoDB databases on RDS and EC2 with automated backups and recovery. Enhanced observability and performance accountability for CDN and API systems. Improved cloud efficiency and team collaboration through workshops and proactive monitoring automation.