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Chakri B

Sr DevOps Engineer
Frisco,TX

Summary

Microsoft Azure and AWS with more than 8 Years of experience in field of IT Infrastructure including Development & Operation i.e., DevOps along with Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure) which cover intensive exposure to Design, Troubleshooting, Implementation and Deployment. Displayed quality skills in planning & designing servers for backup & recovery in Azure; restoring application/VMs etc. in case of crash/emergencies & maintaining high availability with configuration. Resourceful in delivering Azure design/architecting of Infrastructure/Applications based solution and responding to customer on the same. Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to AWS & Azure. Working in Presales activity and discovering the customer environments and providing the cost based on the customer requirements. Strong Experience working with service provider like BT, Megaport, ATT etc. to bring private Express Route/AWS Direct Connect connectivity to Azure DC & AWS DC respectively. Intensive knowledge in designing and implementing of network connectivity which cover Site to Site, Point to site/AWS Client VPN from Customer On-premises to both AWS & Azure Cloud. Strong knowledge in planning & implementing Azure Backup, Disaster recovery, Failover in Azure. Managed and delivered from small to large scale IT projects within many IT disciplines that includes Virtualization, Infrastructure Upgrades, and Data Migration, Consolidation, and Replication solutions. Expertise in driving the deployment of the customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers. Hands-on experience in architecting, designing, managing, configuration, Windows Azure Migration, Deployments, maintenance, software application & hardware devices with a focus on systems and Windows Azure environments. Designed and implemented Data governance, Vulnerability and Security for data platforms on Azure Cloud. Managed and delivered from small to large scale IT projects within many IT disciplines that includes Virtualization, Infrastructure Upgrades, and Data Migration, Consolidation, and Replication solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Sr DevOps/AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer

Equinix Inc
Plano, Texas
9 2023 - Current
  • Written complete Azure PaaS and IaaS in Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) using PowerShell and ARM Templates
  • Help Team Members to perform Migration of windows server from on premise to Azure
  • Deployed Azure Cost Management and Monitoring options in whole landscape
  • Migrated workloads of Customers from one Azure Subscription to New Subscription
  • Performed Migration of Customers applications like Oracle, Web, DHCP and other Server from on-premise V-center to Azure Environment using ASR (Lift & Shift) and Platespin Migrate
  • Designed and Implemented VPN IPSEC Tunnel connectivity from customer on premise to Azure Hybrid Cloud, this include Site -to-site, Point-to-site
  • Designed complex set up for the customers taking care of Security Features like Just in Time features, Jump Server in Azure Environment
  • Created UDR to send all the inbound and outbound traffic to Virtual Appliances with in Azure Landscape of Customer
  • Configured Azure Governance to put control on subscription level in Azure Platform like Region, VM Sizes deployment, Vnet and others
  • Prepare Complete End to End Solution design covering both PaaS & IaaS of Azure based on the request from the End user/Application Team
  • Implemented AWS solutions using S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto scaling groups
  • Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier
  • Worked on various Azure Security tools like Web application firewall, Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage Service Encryption, Azure Role Based Access Control and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Good Experience in writing python scripts
  • Migrated and implemented significant applications on AWS Cloud platforms with over four years of hands-on experience
  • Designed and built AWS web environments using services such as EC2, ELB, Systems Manager, FSX, SES, SNS, and S3
  • Utilized AWS security solutions including WAF, Network Firewall, Security Groups, Tagging, Network ACLs, Routing Tables, and Gateway Load Balancer
  • Configured and managed Internet Gateway, AWS Guard, SecurityHub, and GuardDuty for enhanced security and compliance
  • Supported high-volume, mission-critical applications and ensured seamless integration with other applications and databases
  • Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts using CloudFormation and other languages, alongside managing AMIs
  • Monitored, maintained, and supported AWS environments using solutions such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail
  • Configured security tools like CrowdStrike and Tenable to protect infrastructure and data
  • Implemented AWS network-level logging and management for comprehensive monitoring and incident response
  • Written PowerShell script to export Azure Inventory and other details from Azure Portal
  • Deploy complete Azure Infra including both PaaS and IaaS using Azure DevOps
  • Troubleshoot and work precisely with Application Team during the Hypercare
  • Created alarms and trigger points in Cloud Watch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage
  • Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing
  • Designed both LLD And HLD for the Customers based upon their application level Migrations
  • Helped Team to move customer workloads from one Storage to another using AZcopy, Storage explorer
  • Designed and Implemented Disaster Recovery setup for the Customers in Azure Cloud using Recovery Service Vault
  • Worked closely with Project managers to understand a code/configuration release scope and how to confirm a release was successful
  • On-call support for 24/7 for troubleshooting production issues
  • Environment: Azure, AWS, Git, Gitlab, Maven, Tomcat, SonarQube, Linux, Shell, Python, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Aws CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, No SQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Aws CloudWatch, API, Jira.

Cloud Engineer

SouthWest Airlines
08.2021 - 07.2022
  • Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNETs), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing
  • Reviewed workloads, system dependencies, business requirements and security requirements to optimize the Azure subscriptions, VNETs design, NSGs, routing, deployment model and resource groups
  • Designed choice architectures for IaaS VMs, PaaS role instances and SaaS applications appropriate for the workloads (operating systems, applications, and databases), transaction volumes, performance goals and security concerns
  • Experienced in Azure IaaS, Provisioning VM’s, Virtual Hard disks, Virtual Networks, Reserved VIP, Deploying Web Apps, and Creating Web-Jobs
  • Good working experience in Azure App Service, Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB, Azure Cosmos DB and SQL Database
  • Designed and maintained AWS dashboards to provide real-time insights and operational visibility
  • Experienced in all facets of IT, including Networking, Database Systems, Security, DevOps, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
  • Designed and implemented common shared services across enterprise applications for improved efficiency and scalability
  • Demonstrated strong analytical skills to resolve complex business and IT problems effectively
  • Administered Microsoft Windows Server Systems with in-depth knowledge and experience
  • Familiar with industry security standards and best practices such as PUB1075, FIPS, CIS, NIST, and PII compliance
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to provide 24-hour support as needed
  • Experienced in using Incident Management software solutions like Jira to track and resolve issues promptly
  • AWS Solutions Architect certification, demonstrating advanced expertise in AWS services and solutions
  • Deployed Azure SQL databases and other Azure settings using PowerShell and JSON
  • Implemented Azure Application Insights and OMS for monitoring applications and servers
  • Solution development for OMS Alerting and Remediation
  • Configure ADFS and AD for on-Premise domain configure Azure VPN for Virtual Network Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backups
  • Installation, configuration, and administration of JBoss, Apache, WebLogic, Tomcat, and WebSphere
  • Performed application server builds in EC2 environment and monitoring them using cloud watch
  • Creating Private networks and sub-networks and bringing instances under them based on the requirement
  • Created VPC Peering between multiple VPC into various AWS accounts
  • Configuring and maintaining networking related implementation and system securities using Security Groups, SSL s, subnets, Internet Gateways, SSH keys, AWS Access/Secret Keys, Iptables, Network ACL’s and different protocols such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP
  • Environment: Azure(Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure VPN, Azure Backup Vault, Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS)), AWS(EC2, AWS VPC, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Dashboards), Git, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Windows.

Cloud Engineer

ATOS
01.2017 - 07.2021
  • Configuring Auto scaling to work with Elastic Load balancers, to make sure application load balancing and failover is taken care
  • Based on the client’s requirement using classic and Application load balancers
  • Build and release Ec2 instances Amazon Linux, Redhat and Windows for POC, Development and Production environment
  • Setup and attached EBS volumes to Ec2 instances
  • Create/Managing buckets on S3 (CLI) and store dB and logs backup, upload images for CDN serve
  • Implementation & configure the EMC networker 8.0
  • Skilled in Backup Administration under multi-platform environments including Installation and Configuration of TSM on Windows & Unix, troubleshooting technical issues
  • Monitor, manage and report day-to-day backup and recovery support activities including Server availability, administrative processes, and scheduling
  • Client schedules, success/missed/failed reporting
  • Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths
  • Implementation knowledge on NMM modules like SQL & Exchange
  • Having knowledge on scheduling, policy management & trouble shooting of EMC networker
  • Having Working knowledge on VMware image backups
  • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto scaling groups
  • Worked as a part of AWS build team
  • Responsible of Taking Backups of EBS volumes, working with AMI’s and troubleshooting issues with windows and Linux instances on AWS cloud, monitoring all servers using Cloud watch and Nagios server, installing, and configuring third party applications as per client’s requirement
  • Dealing with tickets for expanding EBS volumes and changing instance types
  • Environment: AWS( EC2, S3, Route53, RDS, VPC, SNS, SQS, IAM, Glue, Athena) Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows.

System Engineer

YASH Technologies
05.2015 - 12.2016
  • Organized and managed everyday administration tasks like adding and removing users, files, share permissions, trust management, replication management, server backups and server setups on LINUX
  • Deployed web and enterprise applications (war, ear) on WebLogic Application Servers: the deployment environment included Windows, Linux/Solaris, Apache, WebLogic, Java, and Oracle
  • Designing, Implementing and Administration of TSM environment
  • Responsible for maintaining Linux servers (RHEL) as well as ensuring the health and stability of the server
  • This included trouble shooting possible package/library conflicts using various OS, server, and application logs to pinpoint the problem in order for it to be corrected
  • Working with application team on for designing disaster recovery based on retention and criticality
  • Administration of TSM environment over 4 Servers across various platforms and environment
  • Performing restore drills for individual applications, systems and TSM environment
  • Experience in implementing using one or more Azure PaaS services like web sites, web/worker roles, SQL Azure database, storage, service bus, Web Jobs, cloud services, Remote Apps etc
  • Administered WebLogic application servers, which included installing SSL s
  • Designing and implementing backup strategies according to the client Requirement
  • Working with SAN team for TSM related SAN design and solutions
  • Environment: UNIX, Linux, Windows, Oracle, Apache, Java.

Education

Masters - Information Systems

Cleveland State University

Skills

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

openstack

Docker

Docker Swarm

Kubernetes

Jenkins/Hudson

Azure dev0ps

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

GIT

GitLab Bitbucket

SVN

TFS

Python

Ruby

JSON

YAML

Bash shell

Power shell

Splunk

Nagios

ELK

HD Insights

Cloud Watch

VMware

Windows Hyper-V

Virtual box

Vagrant

Ubuntu

CentOS

RedHat Linux

Windows

MySQL

PostgreSQL

NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Apache HTTP 3x

Apache Tomcat

Nginx

Maven

Ant

Gradle

JIRA

Service Now

JFrog

Nexus

Artifactory

Certification

AWS certified DevOps Engineer Professional

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

SouthWest Airlines
08.2021 - 07.2022

Cloud Engineer

ATOS
01.2017 - 07.2021

System Engineer

YASH Technologies
05.2015 - 12.2016

Sr DevOps/AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer

Equinix Inc
9 2023 - Current

Masters - Information Systems

Cleveland State University

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