AMBARISH KUMAR KANDIKANTI
DevOps Engineer
Mckinney,TX
Summary
Total 10+ years of IT experience as DevOps Engineer with expertise in various DevOps tools like Harness, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Terraform. Got certified as Hashicorp Terraform Associate. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Validation Number: 6287430f47a44dcd83af0451938b390c)
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certification Number: G414-3427). Streamlining CI/CD pipelines by migrating existing Jenkins pipelines to Harness. Assisting with the onboarding of new micro-services on Harness. Providing ongoing support and troubleshooting for existing Jenkins pipelines. Helping with application deployments on Amazon EKS using Helm charts. Good understanding of Security groups, logging services, network services like NAT gateway, NACL, etc. Deployed Application Load Balancers for high availability, better traffic routing. Creating CloudWatch dashboards, alerts for different metrics. Employed IAM to create & control AWS users & groups access to AWS resources. Collaborated with onsite/offshore teams from delivery partners to develop & test integrate solitons. Managed AWS infrastructure with automation's & orchestrations with tools such as Ansible and Terraform. Developed Ansible Playbooks for Windows automation's. Developed Terraform playbooks for AWS Infrastructure automations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Software Engineer
Marriott International, Inc.
Ashburn, Virginia
05.2024 - Current
- Streamlining CI/CD pipelines by migrating existing Jenkins pipelines to Harness
- Assisting with the onboarding of new micro-services on Harness
- Providing ongoing support and troubleshooting for existing Jenkins pipelines
- Helping with application deployments on Amazon EKS using Helm charts
- Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Hyderabad, INDIA
02.2023 - 05.2024
- Developing Ansible playbooks for OS builds and configurations
- Providing support across other teams with Automation
- Developing Terraform code for server builds
- Providing training on automaton tools like Terraform and Ansible across other teams
Cloud Architect
EffiaSoft Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, INDIA
01.2022 - 02.2023
- Creating new EC2 instances to deploy .Net applications on IIS (Windows Servers)
- Installing SQL Server, redis server applications and configuring on Ubuntu servers
- Deploying Application Load Balancers for be[er traffic routing
- Adding DNS records in Route53
- Creating Security groups in EC2
- Creating New CloudWatch alerts, Dashboards to monitor servers performance
- Troubleshooting Windows and Ubuntu based linux servers
- Automating Infrastructure deployments using Terraform
- Automating configurations using Ansible
- Deployed SQL Server 3-node clusters for high availability
- Maintaining different AWS accounts for different various clients
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
Hyderabad, INDIA
06.2017 - 12.2021
- Developed PowerShell scripts for Cloud Monitoring Soliton (Live status tracking of Servers)
- Developed PowerShell scripts for VMware admin tasks
- Developed Ansible Playbooks for Windows administration
- Provisioning Infrastructure using Terraform scripts for AWS, Azure, VMware and in Nutanix
- Creating and managing EC2 Instances
- Expertise with AWS and strong understanding of VPC
- Strong understanding of server migration practices and process
- Good understanding of Security groups, logging services, network services like NAT gateway, NACL, routing table etc
- Strong knowledge on security policies, good understanding on IAM roles, policies etc
- Day 2 operations like creating snapshots, extending disk size, adjusting the memory and CPU capacities
- When required migrating the VM's and Datastore
- Checking the performance of VM's and monitoring DevOps Tasks - Ansible, Terraform, GIT
- Install Ansible engine and set up Ansible tower to various Infosys clients
- Write playbooks for various Windows administration tasks like patching, Server hardening, cache cleaning, multiple server reboots and day 2 operations based on the requirements
Cloud Analyst
Learnpedia Edutech Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, INDIA
03.2014 - 06.2017
- Windows Administration
- Linux Administration
- Taking care of Networking issues
- Providing Customer support
- Creating and managing EC2 Instances
- Expertise with AWS and strong understanding of VPC
- Strong understanding of server migration practices and process
Education
MSc - Network Systems
University of Sunderland
Sunderland, UK 02.2010 - 05.2011
BTECH - Electronics & Communication Engineering
CMEC Engineering College
Hyderabad, INDIA 09.2005 - 04.2009
Skills
Project planning
Effective communication
Task prioritization
Developer collaboration
Problem-solving abilities
Teamwork and collaboration
Certification
Microsoft Certified Professional
Timeline
Software Engineer
Marriott International, Inc.
05.2024 - Current
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
02.2023 - 05.2024
Cloud Architect
EffiaSoft Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - 02.2023
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
06.2017 - 12.2021
Cloud Analyst
Learnpedia Edutech Pvt Ltd
03.2014 - 06.2017
MSc - Network Systems
University of Sunderland
02.2010 - 05.2011
BTECH - Electronics & Communication Engineering
CMEC Engineering College
09.2005 - 04.2009
Microsoft Certified Professional
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Certified as Hashicorp Terraform Associate
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