Karthik Sonti
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Enthusiastic CLOUD & DevOps Engineer offering 4+ plus years of experience in automating and supporting mission-critical deployments on large scale infrastructure. Proficient with configuration management tools and developing CI/CD pipelines. Has experience with the Cloud and monitoring processes in addition to troubleshooting abilities.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER
UNITED HEALTH GROUP /OPTUM
04.2021 - Current
- Designed, implemented, and managed AWS-based infrastructure for multiple projects, resulting in improved scalability, security, and cost efficiency
- Spearheaded the migration of monolithic applications to a serverless architecture on AWS Lambda, resulting in reduced operational overhead and improved resource utilization
- Implemented security best practices, including IAM roles and policies, encryption at rest and in transit, and regular vulnerability assessments, ensuring compliance with industry standards
- Ensured high availability and fault tolerance using AWS Auto Scaling and Load Balancing for critical applications, reducing downtime incidents by 20%
- Designed and implemented Kubernetes-based solutions for container orchestration, service discovery, and zero-downtime deployments
- Led the migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud using Terraform, resulting in a 40% reduction in operational overhead and improved resource utilization
- Developed custom Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure components, improving consistency and repeatability of deployments
- Architected and maintained Ansible playbooks and roles for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments
- Implemented Jenkins shared libraries and reusable pipeline templates, enabling standardized and consistent pipeline setups across teams
- Orchestrated the migration of Jenkins jobs to Jenkins Pipeline DSL (Jenkins file), promoting version-controlled and code-based pipeline definitions
- Maintained version control systems for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER
MUFG/RAAS INFOTEK LLC
04.2020 - 03.2021
- Worked on application development and architecting using Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning of AWS services like IAM, EC2, Elastic Load balancers, Elastic Container Service, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, lambda Services, Step Functions, Cloud Front, Elastic File system, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation.
- Orchestrated the migration of monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures using Kubernetes and Docker, enhancing scalability and maintainability.
- Developed and maintained a repository of reusable Terraform modules, accelerating the provisioning of new environments and services.
- Implemented infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Jenkins and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible and Terraform.
- Collaborated with development teams to integrate unit tests, static code analysis, and performance tests into Jenkins pipelines.
- Collaborated with teams to implement Jenkins solutions in diverse technology stacks, including Python.
- Automated deployment processes using Jenkins for multiple environments, resulting in consistent and reliable application releases
- Assisted clients in designing and implementing Git-based CI/CD pipelines, streamlining the software development lifecycle
- Provision servers and deploy features using Chef/Ansible/Puppet
- Build and deploy Docker containers and orchestrate using Kubernetes.
Education
Master of Science - Engineering and Operations Management
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT01.2019
Skills
- Strong use of Shell scripting languages including BASH for Linux and Mac platforms and PowerShell for Windows systems
- Developing CI/CD Pipelines
- Experienced with Interpreted Languages including Python and JavaScript
- Version control tools: Bitbucket, GIT, SVN
- DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform
- Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP
- Monitoring Tools: App Dynamics, Splunk, New Relic
- ETL-Informatica, oracle
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong technical background and good communication and interpersonal skills
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services (AWS), 03/01/21, 03/01/24
Timeline
CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER
UNITED HEALTH GROUP /OPTUM
04.2021 - Current
CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER
MUFG/RAAS INFOTEK LLC
04.2020 - 03.2021
Master of Science - Engineering and Operations Management
University of New Haven
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