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Ravi Rapolu

Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer — AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · CI/CD

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core stack

Service health

AWShealthy
EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Auto Scaling, CloudFormation — AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate.
Azurehealthy
Azure DevOps, AKS, NSGs, Monitor, multi-region fault-tolerant architecture.
Kuberneteshealthy
EKS, AKS, Istio, Kong, OpenShift — microservices & service-mesh modernization.
CI/CDhealthy
Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, GitOps — 40% reduction in deployment lead time at NAB.
Infra as Codehealthy
Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Packer — self-healing infrastructure, reduced operational toil.
Observabilityhealthy
Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus — SLOs, SLIs, error budgets.
Chaos Engineeringhealthy
Gremlin, Azure Chaos Studio — proactive resilience testing on Tier 1/2 systems.
DevSecOpshealthy
Twistlock, BlackDuck, Fortify, Vault — security scanning built into the pipeline.
Incident Responsehealthy
High-severity triage, blameless postmortems, MTTR reduction, SIAM partnership.
live dependency map

Smartscape — how it all connects

hover or tap a node — ● healthy dependency, mapped automatically, just like the real thing
5-part series

Field notes — SRE, explained from the trenches

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ARTICLE 01/05

Error Budgets

The permission slip most teams are afraid to use.

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ARTICLE 02/05

Blameless Postmortems

Why "whodunit" kills reliability.

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ARTICLE 03/05

Chaos Engineering

It's not about breaking things — it's about trusting them.

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ARTICLE 04/05

Self-Healing Infrastructure

The difference between fixing and firefighting.

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ARTICLE 05/05

MTTR Is Half the Story

A vanity metric — unless you measure all four phases.
18+ years, zero unplanned downtime

Deployment log

LIVE Apr 2026 — Present · Melbourne
Senior DevOps Engineer @ e5 Workflow
  • Primary technical escalation point for critical production incidents across cloud-native environments
  • Drove reliability and operational-resilience initiatives aligned to SRE best practice
  • Designed and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, automated delivery
DEPLOYED Feb 2024 — Mar 2026 · Melbourne
Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer @ NAB
  • Introduced SLOs, SLIs and error budgets, standardising reliability benchmarks org-wide
  • Architected multi-region, fault-tolerant infrastructure on Azure & AWS — zero-downtime deploys for core banking platforms
  • Led self-healing infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Packer), cutting operational toil
  • Ran Chaos Engineering programs (Gremlin, Azure Chaos Studio) validating Tier 1/2 resilience
  • Cut deployment lead time by 40% through automated infrastructure governance
DEPLOYED Nov 2023 — Feb 2024 · Melbourne
Senior DevOps Engineer @ aXcelerate (via HCL Tech)
  • Built and shipped projects across the aXcelerate ecosystem per the architectural vision
  • Supported SecOps with automation and tooling; helped move infrastructure to code
DEPLOYED Feb 2022 — Sep 2023 · Melbourne
Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer @ NAB
  • Architected CI/CD across Azure & AWS with full-stack IaC (Terraform, ARM, Azure DevOps YAML)
  • Designed scalable AWS infrastructure — EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups
  • Managed multi-tier VPC architectures and enterprise-grade network security
  • Worked across hybrid ECS / Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) / Istio for canary & zero-downtime releases
DEPLOYED Jul 2020 — Feb 2022 · Melbourne
DevSecOps Engineer @ ANZ Bank
  • Built fully automated container deployment in OpenShift using Codefresh pipelines
  • Ran container & source-code security scans with Twistlock, BlackDuck and Fortify
  • Integrated Vault for secrets management across CI/CD pipelines
  • Stood up Prometheus & Grafana monitoring and alerting for application health
Aug 2018 — Jun 2020 · Melbourne
DevOps Engineer @ NBN Co
CI/CD and configuration management for Appian; built on-prem & AWS environments (EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, Route53).
Jun 2018 — Aug 2018 · Melbourne
DevOps Engineer @ Toll Group
Docker/Kubernetes containerisation; automated AWS deployments with GitLab, Terraform and Jenkins.
Dec 2017 — Jun 2018 · Australia
DevOps Engineer @ NBN Co
Migrated Maximo infrastructure and database from on-prem DC to AWS (EC2, CloudFormation, RDS, CloudWatch).
Jan 2016 — Dec 2017 · Melbourne
DevOps Engineer / WebSphere Administrator @ NBN Co
CI pipelines in GoCD and Jenkins; WebSphere Application Server administration across 20+ environments; led offshore support team.
Jan 2010 — Aug 2015 · Hyderabad, India
WebSphere Administrator @ NBN Co
WebSphere Application Server & IBM HTTP Server administration, clustering and workload management; 24/7 ITIL-aligned support.
Nov 2008 — Jul 2010
Tools Support (L1) @ NOL
IBM WebSphere MQ & Message Broker administration; queue management, monitoring and incident escalation.
verified

Certifications

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
Microsoft
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SAFe 4 Certified Practitioner
Scaled Agile
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ITIL v3 Foundation
APMG-International
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Certified WebSphere MQ System Administrator
IBM
● OPEN TO WORK

Currently accepting new incidents.

Based in Melbourne, VIC. Open to AWS / Azure platform engineering and AIOps / LLMOps roles — remote or hybrid.

email rrk4788@gmail.com phone +61 449 984 788 linkedin /in/ravi-rapolu-606374112 region Melbourne, AU