Balal Chattha

🚀 DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience⭐ Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to streamline development processes and enhance operational efficiency. I bring a proven track record in implementing robust DevOps practices to optimize software delivery pipelines. My expertise lies in orchestrating seamless collaboration between development and operations teams, ensuring rapid and reliable software releases.🎯 Key Skills:✅OS - Linux, Windows✅Cloud - AWS, Azure✅CI/CD - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps✅IAC - Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS Cloudformation, Ansible✅Containerization - Docker✅Orchestration - Kubernetes✅Programming Languages - Python, Shell Scripting✅Monitoring - Splunk, OpenSearch, Grafana✅Miscellaneous - Git, GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, Apache NiFi, Databricks🏆Technical Accomplishments:✅ AWS Cloud & Infrastructure Management: Managed the deployment of AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3) using Terraform, optimizing performance and scalability. Created reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure across projects.✅ CI/CD Implementation: Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions, reducing build times by 40% and improving software quality with automated scans in AWS ECR.✅ Backup & Automation: Developed a custom Terraform module for AWS Backup, automating weekly EC2 backups with monitoring through CloudWatch and SNS, enhancing data integrity and recovery readiness.✅ Kubernetes Deployment: Deployed and managed containerized applications on AWS EKS clusters, optimizing resources and enabling dynamic scaling through Prometheus.✅ Security & Compliance: Configured AWS Security Hub, CloudFront, and automated patch management scripts to ensure compliance and optimize global content delivery. Automated security checks with AWS Config and CloudTrail.🎖️Certifications:✅ AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate✅ HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate