Open To Work
Dheekshit Nallamothu
Milford,CT
Summary
Accomplished DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS and Azure cloud deployments. Focused on CI/CD practices and infrastructure automation to drive operational efficiency. Leveraged tools like Ansible and Jenkins to streamline workflows and enhance deployment outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
Bridgewater Associates
CONNECTICUT
08.2021 - Current
- Installed, configured, and managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7, and 8 servers using templates in vCenter, and streamlined post-installation configurations with Ansible to ensure consistent and efficient deployments.
- Managed OS updates and patching for Red Hat and CentOS systems to fix security issues and keep platforms stable and reliable.
- Monitored file systems to manage disk space and make sure all the amount points were properly set up and working across different operating systems.
- Set up and managed disk partitions using LVM on RHEL to easily expand storage and improve disk usage.
- Developed and implemented Ansible roles and inventories to automate continuous deployments with zero downtime using rolling updates.
- Set up new servers, connected them to the network, and troubleshot network issues to ensure reliable and secure services.
- Leveraged Ansible Tower to automate repetitive tasks, manage software deployments, and proactively handle configuration changes.
- Automated application deployments and software updates using Ansible and validated configurations across environments.
- Built multiple Groovy scripts for Jenkins pipelines, enabling end-to-end CI/CD from version control to deployment.
- Used Maven for build automation and integrated it with Jenkins to push artifacts to Nexus Artifactory.
- Designed and implemented Git branching and merging strategies to manage source code across multiple environments.
- Identified and removed unused resources, consolidated servers, and optimized storage to reduce cloud infrastructure costs.
- Developed Python and Bash scripts for log rotation, automated SSH key management, and generated passwords to streamline operations.
- Followed Agile methodologies using JIRA for sprint tracking, task assignment, code reviews, and bug tracking.
- Worked extensively with Azure services including ARM Templates, Virtual Networks, NSG, Application Gateway, VM Scale Sets, DNS, Application Insights, and Private Link.
- Led the migration of in-house applications to AWS and Azure environments in collaboration with network, security, and performance teams.
- Utilized Azure Migrate for seamless migration of applications and workloads to the cloud.
- Deployed applications using AWS ECS, maintained ECS clusters, and ensured AMIs and agents were kept up to date via CloudFormation.
- Authored JSON/YAML scripts for deploying AWS/Azure services through CloudFormation and ARM Templates.
- Onboarded Azure CI/CD pipelines, created Helm charts, and managed Kubernetes deployments using AKS and Docker Container Registry.
- Environment: AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, EBS, VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, ECR, RDS, SNS, SES, SQS), Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Python, Linux(Red Hat), Splunk, Azure, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, ServiceNow, PagerDuty.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Equifax
Atlanta, GA
07.2019 - 07.2021
- Automated build and deployment processes using AWS, Docker, Tomcat, and Chef.
- Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.
- Configured Docker containers for branching and implemented automation solutions to enhance Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery model.
- Experience in creating Kubernetes clusters on blade servers and virtual machines using various CNI tools including Calico, Flannel, Contrail, and Weave.
- Created users, roles, and groups using Identity Access Management (IAM) and attached the required policies.
- Involved in supporting cloud instances running Linux and Windows on AWS, experience with Elastic IP, Security Groups, and Virtual Private Cloud in AWS.
- Worked in creating Lambda and Edge Lambda functions in AWS and integrating them to API Gateway.
- Worked in creating Cloud Formation templates to deploy different AWS services.
- Wrote JSON and YAML scripts to deploy AWS services using Cloud Formation, streamlining infrastructure management.
- Developed local and global filters while preparing worksheets and dashboards in Tableau.
- Extensive experience on configuring Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC and other services in the AWS all the dependencies from the artifact repository.
- Managed AWS Aurora, AWS Redshift.
- Managed network security using Load balancer, Auto-scaling, Security groups and NACL.
- Experience in deployment of Java applications and implementation and automation of Shell scripts for release and build automation.
- Worked on SAM deployments using Git Repository and Jenkins.
- Developed and managed Bamboo CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation of build, test, and delivery processes, resolving build issues efficiently.
- Used Bootstrap Script for launching large number of instances in AWS.
- Worked in UNIX environment and deployed the code into the servers.
- 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.
- Configured servers with Chef to automate deployment processes. for configuration management of hosted Instances within AWS, Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and worked on various applications such as Quartz, Recon, Business Objects, Documentum, findna, WebSphere MQ and Oracle Service Bus 11g.
- Worked for cloud infrastructure using terraform.
- Worked with developers for building the application using NodeJS.
- Deployed NodeJS applications into production servers through CI/CD pipeline.
- Have extensive experience in configuring OSB with WebLogic 11g and creating services on OSB.
- Environment: AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, EBS, VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, ECR, RDS, SNS, SES, SQS), Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Python, Linux(Ubuntu ,CentOS ,Red Hat), Splunk.
Cloud Automation Engineer
FIS Global
Dallas, TX
01.2019 - 07.2021
- Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, Veeam, Avamar, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
- Optimized AWS infrastructure monitoring through Datadog and application performance monitoring through App Dynamics by performing all Linux operating system, disk management, and patch management configurations, on Linux instances in AWS.
- Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, Subnets, and NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates and expertise in architecting secure VPC Solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, Security groups, public and private network configurations.
- Created AWS VPC network for installed instances, configured security groups and elastic IPs, and set up load balancers with public and private subnets.
- Supported 250+ AWS Cloud instances and used AWS command line Interface to manage and configure various AWS products. Wrote automation scripts in Ruby and bash.
- Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data stores to S3 buckets and EBS.
- Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS CloudWatch.
- Built scalable Docker infrastructure for Microservices utilizing ECS AWS Elastic Container service by creating task definition Json file.
- Installed Chef Server Enterprise on-premise/workstation/bootstrapped the nodes using a knife and automated by testing Chef recipes/cookbooks with test kitchen/chef spec.
- Updated deployment process from cruise control to Jenkins along with Octopus Deploy and PowerShell to deploy applications to different environments DEV, QA, UAT, and Production.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to gather requirements and deliver timely high-quality API solutions.
- Realigned various types of indexes on different collections to get good performance in Mongo database and extracted files from Mongo DB through Sqoop and placed in HDFS and processed it using Hive.
- Monitored the servers’ using tools like New Relic and Nagios and providing 24x7 on call support rotation basis. Debugged and solved complex Splunk Integration challenges and Splunk configuration issues.
- Configured groovy scripts for Jenkins 2 pipeline jobs to enable real-time system monitoring, traffic tracking, and trend analysis using network management tools like Splunk and SolarWinds.
- Successfully implemented Harness for automated deployment, reducing deployment time.
- Monitoring and dashboard platforms such as Grafana/Datadog/Splunk and Prometheus.
- Experience in designing & implementing REST-based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment.
- Improved deployment success rate to 99% by implementing rigorous testing and validation in Harness pipelines.
- Developed microservice onboarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins, allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deployment and services.
- Built, maintained, and deployed Docker containers in cloud environments. managed by Kubernetes clusters by Jenkins GitOps/ArgoCD GitLab, Maven, and Docker, on GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
- Worked on Google Cloud platform (GCP) services like computer engine, load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, stack driver monitoring, and cloud deployment manager.
- Handled PagerDuty for incident management support, Pingdom, and on-call support for DevOps incidents.
- Experience in working with AEM tools like File Vault.
- 24/7 production support for the application. Provide production support for clients in the incident and issue resolution overnight.
- Environment: AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, EBS, VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, ECR, RDS, SNS, SES, SQS), Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Python, Linux, Splunk, Datadog.
Linux Administrator
SEEF IT TECHNOLOGIES
INDIA
06.2016 - 07.2018
- Executed system administration on Linux servers using Bash, Python, and C Shell, enhancing automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting processes.
- Administered Apache/Tomcat servers and MySQL databases while implementing Red Hat Linux provisioning via kickstart over NFS, FTP, and HTTP, streamlining deployment practices.
- Built comprehensive CI/CD pipelines in Bamboo for code integration, testing, and deployment, with artifacts managed in Nexus.
- Oversaw Git repositories and version control workflows, enabling efficient Bamboo build automation.
- Environment: Bamboo, Git, Nexus, Linux, Bash, Python, C Shell, CRON, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Red Hat Linux, NFS, FTP, HTTP, Perl.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT05-2020
Skills
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Infrastructure management
- Cloud deployment
- CI/CD practices
- Configuration automation
- Agile methodologies
- Team collaboration
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Technology integration
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Infrastructure automation
- Azure
- Ansible
- Ansible Tower
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- Bamboo
- Spinnaker
- Code build
- Code Deploy
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- ECS
- AKS
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache HTTP server
- Nginx
- WebSphere
- GitLab
- SVN
- GIT
- Bitbucket
- My SQL
- MS SQL Server
- Oracle
- DynamoDB
- RDS
- Splunk
- ELK
- Datadog
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Python
- Shell
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Windows
- Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, UNIX, RHEL)
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
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$95000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
Bridgewater Associates
08.2021 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer
Equifax
07.2019 - 07.2021
Cloud Automation Engineer
FIS Global
01.2019 - 07.2021
Linux Administrator
SEEF IT TECHNOLOGIES
06.2016 - 07.2018
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Bridgeport