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GOPI RACHPALLI

New Haven

Summary

Over 4+ years of IT experience, outstanding expertise in Container Orchestration, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Configuration Management, Linux, System Administration, Build and Release Management, with a significant focus on Cloud Platforms Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and also includes exceptional knowledge on the principles and best practices of software configuration Management (SCM) in agile, scrum, and waterfall techniques. Skilled at managing Azure Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Databases, Azure Blob storage, Azure Functions including Azure IaaS/PaaS services and Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, and Notification hub

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud Engineer

CNO Financial services
08.2023 - Current
  • Experience in developing best practices for deploying workloads on Azure VMs, virtual networks, cloud services, resource groups, express route, traffic manager, VPN, load balancing, application gateways, auto-scaling, and cloud services organized into secure V-Nets and subnets
  • Designed, configured, and managed public/private cloud infrastructure utilizing Amazon Web
  • Services (AWS) like Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, Elastic Container
  • Service (ECS), S3 Buckets, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, Elastic File System (EFS), RDS, DynamoDB
  • Database Migration Service, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud
  • Formation, IAM and EMR
  • Knowledge of managing network security using Security Groups and Amazon Identity Access
  • Management (IAM) to create roles and groups for users and resources
  • Proficiency in using the AWS Serverless Application Model to build CloudFormation Templates, deploy RESTFUL APIs via API gateways, and activate Lambda Functions to address manual duplicated infrastructure issues
  • Ability to deploy applications using Terraform modules on different cloud providers like Azure and
  • AWS
  • Experience in writing Ansible playbooks by using YAML scripts to launch AWS instances and managed web applications, configuration files and packages
  • Experience in Docker, including Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker images, Docker compose
  • Docker swarm, and Docker Registry; leveraged containerization to make our applications' platform consistent and flexible when relocated to multiple environments
  • Automated multiple Docker components, including Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker Machine, and Docker Registry
  • Worked extensively with Docker Images and authored multiple Docker files
  • Capable of configuring and administering Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) for monitoring, logging, and log analysis
  • Worked on server-wide log file analysis, log monitoring, and geo- mapping visualizations utilizing Kibana in conjunction with Amazon CloudWatch and Lambda
  • Functions
  • Proficient in branching, tagging, and managing versions across environments using SCM systems such as Git, GitHub, Subversion (SVN), and TFS on Linux and Windows
  • Contributed to an end-to-end Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment solution in an open-source setting utilizing Jenkins and Hudson as part of an Agile development team
  • Experience in Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Security, Configuration, Packaging
  • Troubleshooting, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and fine tuning on Unix
  • Linux (Red hat, CentOS, Ubuntu) and Windows Systems
  • Hands-on experience in using JIRA as a bug tracking system
  • Configured various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker and integration of Jenkins with Jira/GitHub to track change requests, bug fixes, manage tickets for corresponding Sprint
  • Experiences, Implemented and maintained dev, test, staging, and production environments leveraging infrastructure as code using Azure ARM templates
  • Worked with Windows Azure Services like PaaS, IaaS and worked on storages like Blob (Page and Block), SQL Azure as well as deployment & configuration management
  • Experience in designing and implementing Service Oriented Architecture underlined with Ingress and Egress using Azure Data Lake Store & Azure Data Factory by adding blobs to lakes for analytic results and so pull data from Azure data lake to the Blobs
  • Designed and implemented Continuous Integration (CI) using tools Azure DevOps over multiple environments to facilitate an agile development process which is automated and repeatable, enabling teams to safely deploy code many times a day while ensuring Azure Kubernetes
  • Services (AKS) are supported
  • Created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application Insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the VSTS
  • Set up VSTS CI/CD pipelines for Microservices on an AZURE cloud using App services and created
  • Web Apps on Azure portal for deploying web applications using VSTS pipelines
  • Setting up Kubernetes (k8s) clusters for running microservices and pushed microservices into production with Kubernetes backed Infrastructure
  • Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters via playbooks in Ansible
  • Written Ansible Playbooks in YAML as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of Azure Nodes and Test Playbooks on Azure instances using Python SDK and Automated various infrastructure activities like continuous deployment, application server setup, stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks
  • Implemented Docker-maven-plugin in Maven pom.xml files to build Docker images for all microservices and later used Docker files to build the Docker images from the Java jar files
  • I worked on Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as a code, execution plans, resource graphs, change automation and created infrastructure in a coded manner using Terraform
  • Defined and managed release planning and branching strategy of GIT servers
  • Also, it helped educate the engineering community on the appropriate use of GIT
  • Worked on MongoDB database concepts such as locking, transactions, indexes, sharing, replication, schema design

Cloud migration Engineer

Virtusa Technology
06.2020 - 07.2022
  • Used Amazon EC2, chef and custom Bash scripts to implemented quick provisioning and life- cycle management for Linux
  • Obtained Docker images from Docker Hub and uploaded them to AWS ECR, as well as uploaded and downloaded files from AWS S3
  • Built Docker Images and managed several images for middleware installation and domain configuration mostly
  • Supported the setup and configuration of Azure resources, such as VMs, storage accounts, and networking components, as part of the migration process
  • Implemented basic security practices, including data encryption and access control during the migration of services from AWS to Azure
  • Proficient in using tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure and migrating to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
  • Developed automation scripts using PowerShell and Python to streamline cloud resource management, data transfer processes, and infrastructure monitoring across AWS and Azure environments
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions, facilitating smooth and efficient deployments during the cloud migration process
  • Implemented robust security measures and compliance protocols during data migration, including encryption, access control policies, and regular security audits in AWS and Azure
  • Set up and maintained comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch
  • Azure Monitor, and ELK stack to ensure system health and performance.

Linux Administrator and AWS Engineer

Neudesic technologies
05.2018 - 05.2020
  • Conducted system builds, server builds, install, upgrades, backup, performance monitoring, and reliability of different flavors of Linux, including Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat Linux, Debian, Fedora, and SUSE, as well as UNIX (Solaris, IBM-AIX), in addition to Windows
  • Developed the Shell scripts, Ruby scripts and python scripts to automate the system level activities and to run the API calls and parsing through the outputs of the REST API calls
  • Managing Apache Web servers, Apache Tomcat, MySQL database, and firewalls in both development and production
  • Utilized Compute Services (EC2, ELB), Storage Services (S3, Elastic Block Storage), Elastic
  • Beanstalk, VPC, SNS, IAM, and Cloud Watch in an AWS environment
  • Installed, configured, managed Jenkins, and built various deployment tasks
  • Added various
  • Jenkins plugins to accommodate multiple tools necessary for project implementation
  • Developed build and deployment scripts utilizing Maven as build tools in Jenkins to travel across environments
  • Actively worked on Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to create, test, and deliver artifacts and resolve build issues when they arose
  • Coordinated with developers for establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT repos

Education

master's - computer sciences and information technology

Sacred heart university

bachelor's - computer science

Chalapati institute of technology

Skills

  • Cloud Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) GCP
  • Operating Systems Linux (Red Hat, CentOS), Ubuntu, Unix, Windows, Debian
  • CI/CD Tools Jenkins, azure DevOps
  • Containerization Docker, Kubernetes, Containers
  • Version Control Systems GitHub
  • Configuration Management
  • Tools
  • Chef, Ansible, Puppet
  • Monitoring Tools Splunk, Cloud Watch, Elasticsearch
  • Scripting Languages Python, Shell, YAML, Groovy
  • Web Servers APACHE Tomcat, Azure
  • Networking Protocols TCP, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, DNS
  • Build tools Maven, ANT, Gradle
  • Bug Tracking Tools Jira
  • Virtualization Technologies VMware, Virtual box, Windows Hyper-V
  • Databases MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

CNO Financial services
08.2023 - Current

Cloud migration Engineer

Virtusa Technology
06.2020 - 07.2022

Linux Administrator and AWS Engineer

Neudesic technologies
05.2018 - 05.2020

master's - computer sciences and information technology

Sacred heart university

bachelor's - computer science

Chalapati institute of technology

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