AMBARISH KUMAR KANDIKANTI

• 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.
• Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
• Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.

Environments: CI/CD, Jenkins, Harness, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Docker, Artifactory, Dynatrace, HashiCorp Vault, Ingress (ALB/Nginx), Kustomize, Helmfile, Istio,

• 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
• Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.

Environments: Ansible, Control Tower, Terraform, AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB), Linux Servers, Windows Servers, Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell

• 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

Environments: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB), Jenkins, Linux and Windows Servers, CloudWatch

• 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
• 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

Environments: CI/CD, Jenkins, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Terraform, Ansible, AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB), Docker, Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, Ingress (ALB/Nginx), CloudWatch, CloudFormation

• 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

Environments: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB), CloudWatch, ACM, Windows and Linux Servers