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HARSHITHA TATA

Saint Louis,MO

Summary

Versatile and detail-oriented IT professional with over 10 years of industry experience, including 6+ years as a DevOps Engineer specializing in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and 4+ years in Linux administration. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my expertise in automation, system optimization, and seamless deployment processes to drive operational efficiency and deliver high-quality solutions.

Engineering professional with track record of maintaining and troubleshooting field equipment to maximize operational efficiency. Known for collaborative approach and delivering high-quality results under changing conditions. Possesses strong problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills, ensuring seamless team operations.

Professional design engineer adept at creating innovative solutions and driving project success. Skilled in CAD software, technical drawings, and problem-solving. Strong focus on team collaboration and adaptability to changing needs. Known for delivering high-quality results and ensuring reliable support across all project phases.

Professional civil engineering specialist prepared for planning and cost control roles. Extensive experience in managing project timelines and budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation. Collaborative team player known for adaptability and delivering reliable results. Skilled in project scheduling and cost analysis, with strong focus on achieving project objectives.

Professional cloud engineer with robust experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud infrastructures. Demonstrates strong expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and DevOps practices, ensuring efficient and reliable operations. Known for fostering team collaboration and delivering impactful results, adapting seamlessly to changing project needs and technical challenges. Highly skilled in troubleshooting, performance optimization, and security management, consistently driving successful project outcomes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Azure / DevOps Engineer

Master Card
02.2024 - Current
  • Managed Azure Security Groups using Azure Portal and PowerShell scripts and attached them to VMs and Subnets
  • Docker environments created and maintained for containerized microservices-oriented environments and for hosting images; configured private container registry on Microsoft Azure by creating Dockerfiles
  • Created and managed pods; migrated the Microservices-based applications from Virtual Machines to Docker containers and Docker registry
  • Data from On-Premise SQL Database servers to Azure SQL Database servers was sent by designing Azure Data Factory Pipelines using the Azure Data Factory Copy tool and Self-Hosted Runtimes
  • Configured Azure Web Apps, Azure App Services, Azure Application Insights, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Databricks, Azure Traffic Manager, App Services, analyzing Azure Networks with Azure Network Watcher, Azure Stack, Azure Backup, and Azure Automation
  • Code repository management, code merge and quality checks with Bitbucket
  • Worked with various Azure services like Web Roles, Worker Roles, Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, Net Worker Services, API Management, Active Directory (AD) services infrastructure in advocating, maintaining, and monitoring Azure Active Directory (AAD) infrastructure, incorporated with periodic auditing, troubleshooting and performance
  • Created and managed Kubernetes Pods, Services, ConfigMaps, and Deployments
  • Worked with Terraform Templates to automate the Azure IaaS virtual machines using Terraform modules and deployed Virtual Machine Scale Sets in production environment
  • Expertise in writing MAVEN/ANT scripts for automation of build and deployment.
  • Maintained a Live-Like Environment to test any production issues on the setup and push it into production
  • Configured and maintained Stress Server in different geographical locations and provided setup in every release to perform Stress Testing
  • Experience in developing KORN, BASH, PERL, and Python shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation through Autosys
  • Created and maintained Jenkins jobs that execute shell scripts
  • Performed Shell Scripting (Bash, Python, and Ruby) to monitor logs, disk space, services, and processes
  • Written templates for Azure Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to build staging and production environments. Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring log files, storing them, and tracking metrics; used Terraform as a tool and managed infrastructure resources across Cloud, VMware, and Docker containers
  • Written Maven scripts, installed Jenkins, and written shell scripts for end-to-end build and deployment automation
  • Automated ETL loads into Redshift Database using Windows Batch Scripts
  • Provisioned Redshift clusters for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics of big data with traditional Business Intelligence tools
  • Experience in developing KORN, BASH, PERL, and Python shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation through Autosys
  • Performed Shell Scripting (Bash, Python, and Ruby) to monitor logs, disk space, services, and processes
  • Kernel tuning, writing Shell scripts for system maintenance and file management
  • Worked with Azure Cloud Terraform API to create infrastructure on Azure as Code, wrote YAML scripts to build infrastructure
  • Written Maven scripts, installed Jenkins, and written shell scripts for end-to-end build and deployment automation
  • Created Jenkins jobs to build the artifacts using Maven, and deploy the Terraform templates to create the stack
  • Worked on build systems such as Make and Maven
  • Using YAML and Python scripting templates, developed automation and deployment utilities
  • Converted ANT Build projects to Maven Build projects
  • Championed in cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Developed automation of Kubernetes clusters with Ansible, writing playbooks with YAML Scripting. Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as configuration management tools to automate repetitive tasks, patching, and software deployment
  • Capable of performing Ansible setup, managing hosts file, using YAML Linter, authoring various playbooks, and developing custom modules with Ansible
  • Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installed, set up, and troubleshooted Ansible; created and automated platform environment setup
  • Developed Terraform scripts to build, change, and version Infrastructure as Code
  • Worked in Agile Environment
  • Coordinated with the Project Management, Development, and QA Teams in resolving any configuration and deployment issues to provide a smooth release process
  • Environments: Microsoft Azure (Including ASP, VNETs Web & Mobile, Blobs, Resource groups, Key Vault, Azure SQL, CouchDB, RabbitMQ), Bitbucket, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Bamboo, Maven, Nexus, Shell Scripts, Terraform, Redshift, .Net, Rally, Nagios, PowerShell.

DevOps Engineer / AWS

Mizuho Bank
12.2022 - 11.2023
  • Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, and Code Deploy to enable automated builds and deployments.
  • Utilized GIT and Bitbucket for version control and branching strategies, maintaining clean and traceable codebases.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation, achieving consistent environments across dev and prod.
  • Deployed and maintained microservices in Docker containers using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring high scalability and fault tolerance.
  • Developed and deployed application code using Maven for build automation and dependency management.
  • Performed log management and monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to enable proactive alerts and visibility
  • Deployed and maintained middleware using Apache Tomcat and WebLogic servers for Java-based enterprise applications.
  • Developed custom automation scripts in Python and Bash for environment provisioning, deployments, and log clean-up.
  • Built Helm charts for Kubernetes deployment templates, simplifying application releases across clusters.
  • Integrated SonarQube into Jenkins pipelines for automated code quality analysis and technical debt tracking.
  • Managed backups, snapshots, and disaster recovery workflows using AWS Backup and S3 Glacier.
  • Configured and managed IAM, SSO, and LDAP integrations for secure authentication and role-based access control.
  • Supported both Linux and UNIX platforms for server provisioning, patching, and troubleshooting application runtime issues.
  • Streamlined release processes using JIRA for sprint planning, backlog management, and deployment tracking.
  • Handled PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, implementing automated backup and monitoring solutions.
  • Set up centralized logging using ELK Stack and Fluentd, improving troubleshooting and system transparency.
  • Used AWS Systems Manager for patch automation, inventory collection, and secure shell access.
  • Collaborated with QA and development teams to shift-left testing and integrate DevSecOps practices.
  • Facilitated blue/green and canary deployments, reducing risk during critical releases.
  • Participated in change control, root cause analysis, and production support to ensure application stability.
  • Optimized container and application performance running under Gunicorn and Tomcat, achieving a 20% latency reduction.
  • Developed and maintained infrastructure documentation, diagrams, and knowledge base articles.
  • Delivered client reports and dashboards tracking uptime, deployment success rates, and incident response metrics.
  • Interfaced with cross-functional teams to align DevOps strategies with cloud security and compliance standards.
  • Supported the backend infrastructure of financial trading systems, ensuring high availability and business continuity.
  • Environments: GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Python, Bash, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, SonarQube, Tomcat, WebLogic, AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, SSM), ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, JIRA, Slack, PostgreSQL, MySQL, UNIX, Linux

DevOps Engineer

State of Michigan
09.2021 - 08.2022
  • Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems.
  • Consulted and recommended client in Build and Release Management Implementation.
  • Used SCM/Build tools for Developers. Helping to resolve all SCM/Builds issues like merge conflicts, compilation errors, missing dependencies, Branching/Merging/Tagging.
  • Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, Configuration management and patching through Ansible.
  • Automated using Ansible, Python, Perl, or shell scripting with attention to detail, standardization, processes and policies.
  • Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) product in an open source environment using tools like Puppet, Jenkins.
  • Experience in writing Puppet manifests and modules to automate the deployment process and to integrating Puppet manifests into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery (CD) framework.
  • Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Chef.
  • Setup and build AWS infrastructure using various resources, VPC, EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, SES, SNS, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates, Route53, Lambda.
  • Worked on AWS for deploying EC2 instances consisting of various flavours viz., Oracle Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Solaris in both Linux and Windows.
  • Developed build and deployment scripts using Gradle, Ant, Maven as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
  • Created a fully CI/CD process. Automated Build and Deployment Platform and coordinating code build promotions and orchestrated deployments using Jenkins/Hudson and GitHub.
  • Build Java code on to different Jenkins servers as per the schedule.
  • Experience in working in .Net application and branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tool like GIT and Subversion (SVN).
  • Experience in resolving issues of merge conflicts and develop Custom Scripts to monitor repositories and Server storage.
  • Installed Nexus repository tool to maintain the Artifacts/dependencies jars.
  • Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes.
  • Deploy code updates into test and production environments and work to roll environments forward.
  • Knowledge of Splunk content development with the ability to create queries and dashboards.
  • Worked as a site reliability engineer, the main task is to design and implement adaptive remote testing framework for installation and customization of multitenant cloud environments, their integration with distributed data sources.
  • Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.
  • Worked with OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters.
  • Environment: Java, Maven, ANT, Gradle, groovy, GIT, SVN, Puppet, Jenkins, Ruby, Splunk, Jmeter, Tomcat, Sonar Qube, Bugzilla, Shell and Perl Scripts, Kubernetes, Ansible, PowerShell, Nexus, RHEL 5.x/6.x

DevOps Engineer

Staples
03.2020 - 06.2021
  • Managing releases, CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for Apple’s payment gateway product.
  • Enhancing and bug fixing for deployment framework which is completely written in Ansible for Docker-based deployments.
  • Create and manage Azure AD tenants and configure application integration with Azure AD.
  • Developed Dev/Test/Prod environments of different applications on AWS by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on EC2 instances using Docker, Bash, Chef, and CloudFormation/Terraform.
  • Collaborated AWS infrastructure via CloudFormation to perform tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
  • Deployed application into EKS (AWS managed Kubernetes service).
  • Hands-on experience with various AWS services like EC2, Auto Scaling, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, Route53, AWS Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, ECS.
  • Managing the permissions using IAM roles, groups, and policies for developers to grant access to certain services in AWS and between various services as required.
  • Used AWS S3 to store database and log file backups.
  • Handling various issues in infrastructure and pipelines which consists of tools like Docker, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Artifactory, and GitHub.
  • Managing the environment and application configuration using HashiCorp Consul.
  • Orchestrating and automating application deployments using Ansible Tower.
  • Managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins pipelines.
  • Monitoring application deployments and application health in Splunk using queries and dashboards.
  • On-call support for production application issues and emergency releases.
  • Working with Dev and QA teams during releases and application deployment failures.
  • Infrastructure and service monitoring using Prometheus and Splunk.
  • Handling regular operations such as OS patching, rotating SSL certs, etc.
  • Environment: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Splunk

Build/Release Engineer

JC Penny
11.2018 - 12.2019
  • Collaborated with Application and Development teams to examine the existing release process, project dependencies and the frequency of releases and enhanced the process
  • Worked on AWS – EC2, CloudWatch, IAM and Elastic Beanstalk cloud for provisioning and managing infrastructure through automation
  • Responsible for distribution applications across hybrid AWS and physical data centers
  • Configured AWS IAM Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC
  • Written CloudFormation templates and deployed AWS resources using it
  • Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and utilized S3 and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
  • Creating CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto Scaling launch configurations
  • Involved in scrum ceremonies (stand-up, grooming, planning, demo/review, and retrospective) with the teams
  • Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, DynamoDB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud
  • Built Continuous Integration environment using Jenkins and Continuous Delivery environment
  • Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk
  • Developed the build jobs in Jenkins to poll the SCM to check for changes of source code and performing the builds
  • Worked on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket, JIRA and Docker registry/daemon for configuration management and automation using Ansible
  • Implemented a CI/CD framework using Jenkins, Maven, Git, Nexus Artifactory in Linux environment
  • Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, forks, tagging, and notifications
  • Implemented periodic customer releases through GIT pushes to shared, private and public servers. Used CRON tabs, automated scripts to perform continuous delivery and continuous deployment
  • Responsible for containerization efforts and migration of Java apps to OpenShift Container Platform
  • Automated script creation using Jenkins, Java, PowerShell for record management. Wrote Java scripts for automating tasks and processes for end-to-end automation
  • Environments: Maven, Ant, Jenkins, AWS Cloud, Shell, Java, JIRA, Service now, Apache tomcat, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, Nginx.

Linux Administrator

Value Labs
08.2012 - 12.2016
  • Installed, configured and managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
  • Involved in installing, configuring and maintaining Application Servers like WebSphere and Web Servers like WebLogic, Apache, HTTP and Tomcat on UNIX and Linux
  • Managed users, groups and permissions, configured LDAP, given SUDO access in test and development servers, and allowed password-less logins for authorized users on servers
  • Installed and upgraded packages on Red Hat Linux servers using YUM and RPM tools
  • Responsible for Oracle Database security and patching, Oracle database capacity analysis and planning
  • Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache
  • Booted systems into different run levels for troubleshooting and system maintenance
  • Performed network troubleshooting using traceroute, netstat, ipconfig, and snoop
  • Hands-on experience in server builds and migrations such as OS migrations, application migrations, and storage migrations
  • Involved in developing dynamic web-based user interfaces using HTML and JavaScript
  • Installed and configured SSH (Secure Shell) encryption for secure access on Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux
  • Environment: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, YUM, RPM, Shell, Bash, JavaScript, Firewall, Apache, Tomcat, HTML, LDAP, NFS, SAMBA, SSH, DHCP, DNS, Kick start server, TCP/IP, WebSphere, Web Logic, Nagios.

Education

Bachelors -

Lovely Professional University

Skills

  • Fundamental engineering concepts
  • System Engineering
  • DevOps Management
  • Engineering Configurations
  • DevOps
  • Engineering design development
  • Computer Engineering
  • DevOps Engineering
  • Azure Deployment
  • DevOps proficiency
  • Data Quality Engineering
  • Software Engineering

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Technical Summary

RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Cloud Trial, SQS, SNS, SWF, Cloud Watch., Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Jfrog and Nexus, Nginx, Confluence, Microsoft Windows XP/ 2000, Linux, UNIX., Jira, Sonar Qube, Jfrog X ray, ECR Inspector, RDS, Cosmos DB, My SQL DB., Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Azure App Insights, Azure Monitor, Docker, Kubernetes, Redshift, Open Shift., Nagios, Splunk., Python, Shell scripting, Power shell, Microsoft Azure, Aws Cloud., App Services, Key vault, function app, Blob storage, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Service Bus, Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB., GIT, Bit Bucket.

Languages

Spanish
Limited Working
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Korean
Limited Working

Timeline

Azure / DevOps Engineer

Master Card
02.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer / AWS

Mizuho Bank
12.2022 - 11.2023

DevOps Engineer

State of Michigan
09.2021 - 08.2022

DevOps Engineer

Staples
03.2020 - 06.2021

Build/Release Engineer

JC Penny
11.2018 - 12.2019

Linux Administrator

Value Labs
08.2012 - 12.2016

Bachelors -

Lovely Professional University

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