Gayathri Chukkapalli

Summary

6+ Years of IT related experience planning, designing, implementing and maintaining system applications in Cloud, DevOps, Configuration Management, AWS, PCF, Google Cloud and Azure Cloud in Linux and Windows environments, configuration management using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) using Jenkins, containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GKE, virtualization in VMware and storage management in NetApp and EMC systems. Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins TeamCity and Bamboo for continuous integration and for End to End automation deployments. Designed and implemented CI/CD DevOps delivery system for the Linux teams, with an innovative test framework that allowed for significant reduction of capital expense requirements through equipment allocation and reuse. Built and configured multiple virtual data centers in AWS/GCP/Azure cloud to support enterprise data warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Load Balancers. Designed and configure large – scale cloud based migration solution, migrating applications to Azure, IaaS and PaaS with security integration. Experience new features implemented by Azure to reproduce and troubleshoot Azure end-user issues and provide solutions to mitigate the issue

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield MN

02.2022 - Current

Used Terraform to provision AWS and Azure infrastructure
Managed Route53 hosted zones, configuring aliases for Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) applications and responsible for maintaining ACLs, Security Groups and firewall configurations
Worked with AWS identity access management (IAM) to create roles, users, groups and attached user policies to group to provide secure logins
Worked with Terraform Templates to automate the Azure Iaas virtual machines using terraform modules and deployed virtual machine scale sets in production environment
Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal
Championed in cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes
Written Templates for Azure Infrastructure as code using Terraform to build staging and production environments
Used Micro service architecture with Spring Boot based service interacting through combination of REST
Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics and used Terraform as a tool
Developed and implemented software applications and systems using various tools and technologies including Golang, AWS, Docker and Cassandra
Design and Develop secure cloud & web applications with .Net and Azure PAAS technologies
Creating Microservices in Azure with Service Fabric, C# and .Net Core(Reliable actors, Stateful and Stateless Services, ets.)
Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers
Good experience in setting up the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Gitlab, Terraform and AWS and Azure
Implementing CI/CD infrastructure leveraging Jenkins Pipelines, Gitlab Repositories, uDeploy, PCF, HP Fortify, Nexus and Sonarqube
Experience with Identity and Access Management concepts such as SAML, RBAC, SSO, privileged identity management(PIM), multi factor authentication (MFA) and Microsoft Authenticator
Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP
Designed and implemented Amazon Web Services architecture, API implementation EC2 Server setup and deployment, build, maintenance, and configuration of various AWS resources like, EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancers, S3, VPC, Security Groups, that are utilized for different environments like dev, testing, staging/prod
Architected and successfully implemented shared libraries in Jenkins for CI/CD
Integral part of major agile transformation program, assisting supported applications to implement agile methodologies, providing supporting Automation for stages Build, Code Analysis, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Artifact Dependency management & Deployment automation
Proficient in python, shell scripting, SQL, build utilities like open make ANT and Cruis control
Involved in design, implementation and modifying the python code
Improved speed, efficiency and scalability of the CI environment, automating wherever possible using Python
Automated setting up sever infra for the Devops services using Ansible, shell and python scipts
Migration of on premises micro services applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Expanded Knowledge in numerous Tools & Scripting Languages such as Jenkins, PCF, Gitlab, Nexus, uDeploy and Groovy scripting and WebLogic to name a few

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

CITI Bank

Irving, TX

01.2020 - 02.2022

Worked in highly collaborative operations team to streamline the process of implementing security Confidential Azure cloud environment and introduced best practices for remediation
Installing configuring and harderning of Linux servers using CIS-benchmark guidelines
Importing and Exporting files and directories from one System to other using FTP and SFTP
Installation and configuration of Linux flavor, Maintenance and Syetm Admistration
Installation and configuration of APACHE web server on Linux platforms, troubleshoot and access log files for errors and web access traffic
Managing Linux Containers using Docker
Managing physical, virtual, and network storage(HD’s, LVM’S,NFS,SAMBA, and NAS)
Resolving package management dependency issues
Designed and implemented scalable, cost-effective, and secure AWS cloud solutions tailored to meet specific business needs, leveraging a deep understanding of AWS services and best practices
Conducted thorough assessments of existing on-premises or cloud architectures, identifying areas for improvement, and recommending AWS-based solutions for optimization
Orchestrated microservices-based architectures using Amazon ECS or Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, ensuring flexibility and agility in application development
Used AWS Elastic Kubernetes service(EKS) to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in AWS and created an EKS cluster in the AWS Console, with the AWS CLI, also used template driven deployment options such as Terraform
Designed data lakes and analytics solutions using AWS services like Amazon EMR, Athena, and Glue to enable data-driven decision-making
Worked on RedHat OpenShift Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes, used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, selector, services and deployed application containers as Pods
Development of applications using Java and Python
Handled all the client-side validation using Java Script
Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications and managed Kubernetes manifest files, Kubernetes charts using Helm and releases of Helm packages
Implemented cluster services using Kubernetes and docker to manage local deployments in Kubernetes by building a self – hosted Kubernetes cluster using Terraform and ansible and deploying application containers
Integrated AWS services and third-party tools through APIs and event-driven architectures, enabling seamless communication and data flow between systems
Collaborated with DevOps teams to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy
Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies using Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline
Performed Continuous Integration by merging code into a central repository like Git and used CI server Jenkins to build and validate code with a series of automated tests
Installed and administered various tools like Bitbucket, chef, Jfrog Artifactory and executed maintenance tasks such as creating users and groups
Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Bitbucket
Worked on architecting and building solutions leveraging DeOps tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket etc
Proficient in Python, Shell Scripting, SQL, Build utilities like open make, ANT and Cruise Control

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

Verizon

Irving, TX

03.2019 - 12.2019

Designed and deployed GCP Cloud Solutions using google services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage Buckets, Persistent Disks, Cloud Load Balancer, Auto Scaling groups, Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud IAM and Cloud DNS
Designed and implemented AquaSec container security platform in GCP for static image scanning as the images are build out of CI/CD pipeline and runtime container protection
Designed and implemented Hashicorp Vault in GCP for centralized secrets management across all the applications/databases in the enterprise
Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services
Automated deployment from Gitlab-ci to Openshift
Experience in building Docker images using Gitlab-ci build automation runner
Setting Gitlab repository and runner for build automation
Creation of gitlab-ci.yml file for kicking build process in stage that run in docker container
Developed build workflows using Gradle, Gitlab-CI, Docker and Openshift
Experience on Deployment Automation & Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Responsible for implementing monitoring solutions in Ansible, Tfe, Docker, and Jenkins
Automate Datadog Dashboards with the stack through Tfe Scripts
Created Ansible with multiple modules as per component like Kafka, Zookeepers, MySQL, Logstash, HTTP collectors & Schema registry to configure EC2 instances to create/update Kafka cluster
Worked on implementing backup methodologies by power shell scripts for Azure services like azure SQL database, key vault, storage blobs, app services etc
Created Azure services using ARM templated and ensured no changes in the present infrastructure while doing incremental deployment
Understand the latest features Microsoft Azure and utilized it for existing business applications
Creating validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimate of converting exciting workloads from classic to ARM based Azure cloud environment
Wrote power shell script to create the parameter files automatically for all the services in Azure Resource Manager
Provided status to business level Management and technical and conducting proof of concept for latest Azure cloud-based service
Developed in-house spring boot web applications using MAVEN and provided guidance for the application/database teams to integrate with Hashicorp Vault for storing and retrieving secrets
Developed and maintained a repository of microservices through Openshift pods and support integration of Openshift and Cloud forms
Developed and Deployed multiple applications that require AWS Stack including DynamoDB, IAM and focusing on high availability and auto-scaling of that application
Changing the AWS infrastructure Elastic Beanstalk to Docker with kubernetes
Used Chef for configuration management of hosted Instances within AWS
Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Used Cloud Front to deliver content from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front- end servers
Write terraform scripts from scratch for building Dev, Staging, Prod and DR environments
Responsible for build and deployment automation using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes containers and Chef
Worked on the IDP development environment setup using Spring Tool Suite using Docker and Kubernetes technologies for creating the Docker containers and deployed into Kubernetes clusters
Worked on the setup of Jenkins master/slave to distribute builds on salve nodes and used several Jenkins plugins like Artifactory Plug-in, ANT, Open Make, Maven Plug-in, GIT Plug-in and Hashicorp Vault Plug-in etc
Automated the IAM secrets policy management for Hashicorp Vault by integrating it with Jenkins, deployment of PostgreSQL databases, load balancers for AquaSec container security tool inside GCP using CloudSDK and Python

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Care Source

Dayton, OH

09.2016 - 07.2018

Primary advocate for DevOps initiatives and implementation
Define and drive end-to-end agile DevOps based software development life cycle with automation in mind with right tools and techniques
Set up and working on Build and Release, Continuous Integration tools and frameworks such as Visual Studio, MS Build and TFS
Defining branching strategies and creating the release and hotfix branches
Merging of code from Dev branch to Integration, Release branches and deploying the builds into Team forge
Preparation of DevOps roadmap and participating in Program Increment planning events
Worked with AWS identity access management (IAM) to create roles, users, groups and attached user policies to group to provide secure logins
Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks using Tfe and Python, Docker container, Service Orchestration
Implemented AWS Code Pipeline and Created Cloud formation JSON templates in Tfe for infrastructure as code
Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Hudson, Chef, and Maven
Worked with Tfe for routine AWS tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes and backing AMIs
Worked on building and configuration management, SCM strategies like branching, merging, and provided training to develop teams in GIT, SVN and Branching strategies
Automated Weekly releases with ANT/Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository
Kubernetes is being used to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers
Involved in supporting cloud instances running Linux and Windows on AWS, experience with Elastic IP, Security Groups and Virtual Private Cloud in AWS
Extensive experience on configuring Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC appand other services in the AWS
Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch
Administered Source Code Management (repository, branching strategies) GIT, SVN tools
Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tool Chef
Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console and API Integration with Puppet Code
Involved in SVN to GIT code migration

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Wide Business Solutions

, India

05.2014 - 08.2016

Company Overview: India
Configured and managed various AWS services such as EC2, ELB, VPC, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route53, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk and SQS
Managed user accounts, partitioning, mounting, and maintaining file systems, system security, change management, documents, performance tuning of Red Hat Linux servers
Created and configured several S3 buckets for static website hosting and enabled versioning to protect against accidental data deletion and life cycle policies to move data to cost-efficient backup services like AWS Glacier
Migrated media (images and videos) to S3 and used CloudFront to distribute content with low latency and at high data transfer rates
Also migrated Microsoft SQL Server databases to AWS RDS and setup Multi-AZ deployments
Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups
Utilized various python libraries like boto3, NumPy to deploy several AWS resources like EC2 instances, RDS Databases, Subnets, Security Groups and IAM
Performed Onboarding migration for new clients into the Blackboard hosting using IBM Aspera Sync, automated process of clone creation for DB testing
Installed, configured and administered Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines along with adding/updating plugins such as SVN, GIT, Maven and ANT
Integrated tools Subversion, Java, Ant for release management, including multi-platform support Developed and maintained the build and release system Created Promotion Models, Archives, Branches, and tags, also merged source code
Hands on experience in EC2, VPC, Subnets, Routing tables, Internet gateways, IAM, Route53, VPC peering, S3, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, CloudWatch, SNS on KUBE
Create AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup
Monitored software, hardware, and/or middleware updates and utilizing technologies like Jenkins/Hudson, Ant, MSBuild, TFS Team Explorer and Subversion
Configured Apache tomcat server
Involved in deploying JARs/WARs/EARs (backend) through Apache tomcat Application Server console
Managed all the bugs and changes in a production environment using the Jira tracking tool
Used Ant and Maven build tools to automate the build and deployment process
Wrote shell scripts for deployment process
India

Timeline

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield MN

02.2022 - Current

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

CITI Bank

01.2020 - 02.2022

Sr. DevOps Cloud Engineer

Verizon

03.2019 - 12.2019

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Care Source

09.2016 - 07.2018

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Wide Business Solutions

05.2014 - 08.2016