Lavanya Mandarapu
Wrentham,MA
Summary
Dedicated and results-driven DevOps Site Reliability Engineer with over 7 years of experience optimizing and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems. Adept at implementing automation solutions to enhance reliability and minimize downtime. Seeking a challenging role where I can leverage my skills in optimizing infrastructure and driving operational excellence.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
Humana
11.2022 - Current
- Enhanced system reliability by implementing monitoring tools and automation techniques.
- Reduced downtime for critical applications by proactively addressing potential issues through regular maintenance and updates.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions.
- Optimized infrastructure performance by conducting thorough analyses of system metrics and data.
- Ensured high availability of services by developing comprehensive disaster recovery plans and backup procedures.
- Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members by documenting processes, best practices, and lessons learned from past experiences.
- Conducted regular performance assessments of application infrastructure, identifying bottlenecks and making necessary optimizations to enhance service quality.
- Increased efficiency in incident response processes through the implementation of automated alerting systems and streamlined communication protocols.
- Conducted root-cause analyses after major incidents to identify areas for process improvement or technical enhancement opportunities.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
06.2020 - 10.2022
- Responsible for supporting and configuring DevOps and IaC free flow of process
- Leading teams in the transition from on-prem to Azure and automation
- Supporting the DevOps culture and implementing Software Release Management Strategies
- Creating automation scripts and managing infrastructure as code
- Handling disaster recovery and backup storage
- Supporting PowerShell Scripts for Automating build and deployment process
- Integrating monitoring and testing solutions
- Managing code deployments and monitoring critical network and server infrastructure.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions.
- Optimized infrastructure performance by conducting thorough analyses of system metrics and data.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement within the team by encouraging feedback loops and iterative development processes.
- Evaluated new technologies and tools to enhance overall system performance, stability, and security.
- Fostered collaboration between development and operations teams through effective communication strategies during project lifecycles.
- Developed custom scripts/tools as needed to automate routine tasks, increasing overall team productivity and efficiency.
Azure DevOps Release Engineer
Farm Credit Financial Partners
02.2018 - 04.2020
- Responsible for software release management strategies and implementing CI/CD Azure DevOps pipelines
- Managing code deployments and resolving build and deployment issues
- Working with Salesforce setup and configuration
- Creating custom transactions and info points for monitoring
- Configuring Azure services and subscriptions
- Developing and maintaining salesforce builds and deployments
- Automating builds, deployments, and unit tests
- Working with Azure technologies and creating custom Azure Templates
- Working with tools such as ANT, GIT, TFS, and AutoRabit.
DevOps & AWS Engineer
Spectrum Health
12.2016 - 01.2018
- Setting up the environment as infrastructure as a code in AWS cloud
- Automating the AMI and backing up of EC2 instances to S3
- Designing, implementing, and supporting large scale web frame infrastructure using AWS services
- Installing applications on AWS EC2 instances and configuring storage on S3 buckets
- Implementing and maintaining monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch
- Handling snapshots and Amazon machine images (AMIs) for backup and creating clone instances
- Building and deploying Java/J2EE applications
- Working with SOA framework and creating and maintaining Shell/Perl deployment scripts
- Deploying Amazon Web Service (Lambda, API Gateway) and working with Chef Cookbooks
- Working with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and immutable infrastructure
- Managing Kubernetes charts using Helm
- Using Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as Configuration Management tools
- Developing PowerShell scripts for deployment
- Working with Azure Development, Azure web application, App services, Azure storage, Azure SQL, NOSQL Database, Network Services, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Auto scaling, Azure AD, and Azure DNS
- Testing and deployment automation with Docker, Jenkins, and Ansible
DevOps Intern
JP Morgan Chase
10.2015 - 11.2016
- Working with GIT for version control
- Deployment and implementation of Subversion (SVN) as source control
- Creating build jobs and deployments in Jenkins
- Writing and organizing Shell and Perl scripting
- Migrating source control tool from Clear Case to Subversion (SVN) and build tool from Ant to MAVEN
- Automating builds and deployments using Jenkins/Hudson
- Strengthening security by implementing and maintaining Network Address Translation
- Supporting projects using GIT
- Integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment
- Working with Performance engineers on environment configuration
- Creating and deploying tools to automate branch and project creation in Subversion using Perl and Chef Scripts
- Working with the Docker ecosystem and monitoring containers using Prometheus
- Updating and automating release reports
- Supporting Local System Administrators
- Analysing and recommending hardware and software needs
- Implementing PowerShell runbook and configuring Azure services
- Working with Puppet scripts for Linux server setup
- Creating and maintaining continuous build and continuous integration environments
- Working with SVN, Jira, Maven, ANT, Jenkins, Chef, Web Sphere Application Servers, JBoss Application Servers, and Prometheus.
Education
Masters - Software Engineering
CSUF
Fullerton, CA01.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTUH
01.2014
Skills
- Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure, Salesforce
- Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX and RHEL 5/6/7, Centos and Ubuntu
- Servers: Oracle WebLogic Server 1036, WebSphere 855x, JBoss, Apache and Tomcat
- Monitoring/Alerting tools: Nagios, Splunk, New Relic, App Dynamics, Prometheus, Graphana
- Languages: J2SE, J2EE, JavaScript, SQL, UML, XML, PowerShell, Python, Groovy
- Database: Oracle 11g, MySQL and SQL Server
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Team city, Bit bucket, Puppet, Ansible and chef
- Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Kanban-board
- Version Control Systems: CVS, TFS, GIT, GitLab, SVN, Bitbucket
- Build Tools: Maven, Ant, Maven
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker CE/EE, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- System Monitoring
- Infrastructure Automation
- Security Best Practices
- Microservices Architecture
- Critical Design Review
Certification
AWS Developer Associate
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
Humana
11.2022 - Current
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
06.2020 - 10.2022
Azure DevOps Release Engineer
Farm Credit Financial Partners
02.2018 - 04.2020
DevOps & AWS Engineer
Spectrum Health
12.2016 - 01.2018
DevOps Intern
JP Morgan Chase
10.2015 - 11.2016
Masters - Software Engineering
CSUF
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTUH