Meghana Chinni

• Worked on automation of Azure Policies and Private DNS Zone creation using terraform.
• Using python leveraged the input of multiple variables in one go using azure devops pipelines.
• Developed azure DNS resolver service that enables you to query Azure DNS Private Zones across VNETs, from on-prem without deploying VM based DNS servers.
• Managed Kubernetes clusters on GCP, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Involved in working on a single DNS service that knows how to resolve everything.
• Every subscription uses that service, without manual intervention every time a subscription is provisioned, or a new private zone.
• Partnered with DevOps and Site Reliability engineers to ensure alignment of desired architecture, CI/CD pipelines and observability with what is being built and configured.
• Provided technical support and training to team members on GCP and DevOps best practices.
• Analyzed non-functional performance of applications in production against desired non-functional requirements
• Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI / CD system to build, test deploy.
• Provided hands-on work for infrastructure-as-code, build and release pipelines, and observability when needed.
• Established reference architectures and best practices of building, deploying, and operating secure and stable applications at scale.
• Coordinated between development, operations, and security teams to foster a culture of security awareness and DevSecOps best practices.
• Led cross-functional teams in the successful implementation of DevSecOps practices in multiple projects, resulting in a decrease in overall production issues and downtime.
• Create and maintain build and release pipelines and automation for Agile Engineering Teams delivering code to hybrid environments (Public and Private Cloud).
• Had knowledge and experience with Git, Gulp, and Node.JS
• Build or leverage tooling to support infrastructure and configuration as code.
• Accelerate DevSecOps tools and practice adoption for legacy applications.
• Configuring, developing, and monitoring GCP services and other cloud services (IAM, networking, etc.) to increase delivery speed by 65%.
• Support container-based and cloud native initiatives across multiple products.
• Design, install, administer, and optimize hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (i.e., Azure AD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways).
• Demonstrated experience with one or more infrastructure scripting languages to automated integration testing (Shell Scripting, Perl, Java, Ruby, Golang).
• Hands on experience with software development, including web (node.js, Django, RoR, JavaScript, python, ruby etc.) and system (Go/Golang, C, Java etc..) applications.
• Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion functions for the project like merging, creating branches and tags using Tortoise SVN/ Visual SVN.
• Tracked backlogs and fixed bugs using JIRA.
• Integrated JIRA with subversion and configured with Jenkins to automate the entire Build and release process.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Kept track of all the releases and requests of the developers through Infrastructure management tool.
• Supported engineering plans and schedules by providing CM/Release Engineering services to build, deploy, develop scripts, oversee branch, merge strategies, and build automated tools as necessary.

Environment: Azure, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD, Resource Groups, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GIT, Python, Rally, Box

• Installed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs), Cloud services (PaaS role instances), and on-premises cloud storage, configuring them within secure V Nets and subnets using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups
• Managed Microsoft Azure, including setting up storage accounts, resource groups, and virtual machines
• Configured Azure Backup Service for Azure VMs and on-premise data backups to Azure
• Deployed servers using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or the Azure Portal
• Provisioned servers/instances using infrastructure as code such as Terraform, storing code in a private repository and keeping it updated
• Used Terraform to deploy Azure infrastructure for development, test, and production environments
• Established and managed virtual networks to connect all servers, actively participating in creating and deploying virtual machines on Azure, and producing multiple ARM templates for the corresponding cloud platform
• Implemented secure Virtual Networks and subnets for Azure IaaS virtual machines and cloud services, defining and establishing subnets, DHCP address blocks, Azure network configurations, DNS settings, security rules, and routing
• Enhanced security protocols by implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) methods to protect sensitive data and systems
• Coordinated with development teams to integrate SSO, SAML, and OAuth 2.0 into existing applications, improving user experience and security
• Implemented versioning and release management strategies for Helm charts, leveraging Helm CLI commands and GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment workflows
• Handled Azure (IaaS) tasks including Azure VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, server migration to Azure, availability sets, and VM hardening and disk encryption
• Integrated Vulnerability Detection into CI/CD workflows using Azure Pipelines and SonarQube Quality Gates
• Configured Azure Security Center to enforce robust security measures and ensure compliance with industry standards
• Automated rollback strategies using GitOps, enabling quick reverting of changes in case of deployment failures or issues
• Implemented microservices architecture on Azure, leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for efficient deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ensuring high availability and scalability
• Managed containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including nodes, Config-Maps, selectors, services, and deployed application containers as Pods
• Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, ensuring reproducible Kubernetes application builds and managing Helm package releases
• Managed Docker containers and docker images, tagging, pushing images, and utilizing Docker consoles for application lifecycle management
• Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerizing multiple applications
• Optimized infrastructure costs by implementing GitOps-driven auto-scaling policies and resource management strategies
• Deployed Kubernetes and Docker for the CI/CD system, implementing Azure pipelines for deploying applications to the Kubernetes Cluster
• Integrated chat APIs (e.g, Microsoft Teams API) with DevOps tools to enable ChatOps workflows, facilitating collaboration, and real-time communication among development and operations teams
• Focused on Azure DevOps operations, Production, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and cross-platform environments
• Collaborated with stakeholders to establish and execute optimal methodologies for software development, testing, and deployment on Databricks
• Managed CI/CD pipelines for Databricks projects, ensuring reliability and availability of data processing workflows
• Integrated OpenShift with various tools and services, such as CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging solutions, and external databases
• Managed the entire lifecycle of APIs from design and development to deployment, versioning, and retirement, ensuring alignment with business requirements, standards, and best practices
• Utilized Azure DevOps for creating deployments of application services and streamlining continuous delivery and continuous integration processes
• Ensured the integrity and compliance of artifacts stored in Azure environments by implementing security measures and access controls within JFrog Artifactory, enabling comprehensive vulnerability scanning and license compliance checks
• Integrated ArgoDB seamlessly into the infrastructure stack, enhancing database performance, scalability, and reliability for efficient data handling across the software ecosystem
• Monitored and optimized Databricks cluster performance by analyzing metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, and network traffic, and fine-tuning configuration settings to align with workload requirements
• Managed scalable and highly available OpenShift clusters using AKS, configuring networking, security, and monitoring
• Integrated Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics for monitoring and analyzing system and application logs
• Proficiency in defining infrastructure as code (IaC) templates using Ansible to automate the deployment and configuration of cloud-based infrastructure
• Created custom Terraform modules for reusability and launched various services in Azure like AKS, ACR, VM, Vnet, Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos DB
• Integrated networking and internet protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP to establish robust communication channels between various components of distributed systems within DevOps environments
• Utilized Python scripts within CI/CD pipelines to automate key stages of the software delivery process
• Integrated Twistlock for container security across Docker and Kubernetes environments

Environment: Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions, Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Load Balancer, Azure DNS, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, GitLab, Jenkins, Git, Subversion (SVN), Bitbucket, Splunk, Nagios, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana, Prometheus, Selenium, Twistlock, JIRA, Confluence, Databricks.

• Involved in migrating over 100+ FSA JBoss applications to AWS environment as part of AWS cloud migration project
• This required moving every application into different lower environments (Development, Testing, Stress Lab) to production environment which needed a great collaboration with different teams (Development, Database, MQ) to get the migration done successfully end to end
• Actively involved in deploying pilot applications to FCP (FPAC AWS Container Platform) environment
• DevOps experience in a complex development environment - using AWS, Terraform, and Puppet Enterprise
• Working in designing and deploying applications utilizing Amazon Web Services like EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in Cloud formation
• Created Puppet code which automates the provisioning of Apache, JBoss and Deploy servers in different environments
• Created infrastructure in a coded manner (infrastructure as code) using Terraform Enterprise
• Ability to design, implement, and manage a DevOps and software control environment to enable highly efficient and productive software development processes and workflows through automation and complex problem solving
• Maintaining infrastructure Highly Available using Failover
• Implemented SRE practices in altering critical application issues and altering site latency issues
• Used Google's SRE (site reliability engineer) culture to maintain dependable infrastructure while adhering to essential elements such as SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Conduct post-mortems with teams following each rollback or deployment failure
• As an SRE, managed disaster recovery and tested the disaster recovery plans before roll outs
• Through DevOps implementation continue to manage and monitor deployed applications
• Install, configure, test and maintain software and system management tools.
• Site Reliability Engineer/Operational skills to bridge between developers and operations teams, have knowledge of operating production systems like networking, high-availability, scaling, disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Experience with JIRA for the tracking of the issue and continuous integration.
• Experience working in SPLUNK with complex search queries and creating dashboards for monitoring.
• Worked closely with development teams on the transformation to DevOps to support the automation of configuration changes, upgrades, and enhancements.
• Familiarity with DevOps continuous integration/continuous deployment frameworks and best practices.
• Linux system administration skills.
• In-depth understanding of software development processes and workflows.
• Ability to define, design, and implement an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system.
• Experience managing infrastructure/software development projects using a project management methodology.
• Experience managing and automating deployments for complex applications deployed to AWS cloud environments.
• Worked with Nexus Repository.

Environment: Application frameworks include AWS cloud, Terraform Enterprise, Git, JBoss, Chef, Puppet, Apache, Ansible, Jenkins, VS Code, Confluence, Cygwin, Git, SVN, Bitbucket, SQL, DB2, Oracle, MQ, Java and Linux

• Optimizing legacy systems, deploying new infrastructure and cloud services, and reducing work through automation of legacy processes
• DevOps experience in a complex development environment - using AWS, Terraform, and Puppet Enterprise
• Working in designing and deploying applications utilizing Amazon Web Services like EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in Cloud formation
• Created Puppet code which automates the provisioning of Apache, JBoss and Deploy servers in different environments
• Created infrastructure in a coded manner (infrastructure as code) using Terraform Enterprise
• Ability to design, implement, and manage a DevOps and software control environment to enable highly efficient and productive software development processes and workflows through automation and complex problem solving
• Maintaining infrastructure Highly Available using Failover
• Through DevOps implementation continue to manage and monitor deployed applications
• Install, configure, test and maintain software and system management tools
• SRE/Operational skills to bridge between developers and operations teams, have knowledge of operating production systems like networking, high-availability, scaling, disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, etc
• Experience with JIRA for the tracking of the issue and continuous integration
• Worked closely with development teams on the transformation to DevOps to support the automation of configuration changes, upgrades, and enhancements
• Familiarity with DevOps continuous integration/continuous deployment frameworks and best practices
• Linux system administration skills
• In-depth understanding of software development processes and workflows
• Ability to define, design, and implement an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system
• Experience managing infrastructure/software development projects using a project management methodology
• Experience managing and automating deployments for complex applications deployed to AWS cloud environments
• Worked with Nexus Repository

Environment: Application frameworks include AWS cloud, Terraform Enterprise, Git, JBoss, Chef, Puppet, Apache, Ansible, Jenkins, Ruby, Python, VS Code, Confluence, Cygwin, Git, SVN, Bitbucket, SQL, DB2, Oracle, MQ, Java and Linux.

• Developed and Implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process
• In addition, responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes
• Analyzed the ANT build projects for conversion and converted to Maven build projects
• Created pom.xml files and implemented them for Maven build scripts
• Primary responsibilities include Build and Deployment of the java applications into different environments like Dev, QA and PROD
• Supported and developed tools for Integration, Automated Testing, and Release Management
• Used Subversion as Source Code Repositories
• Managed SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for Subversion
• Installing and configuring Jenkins on Linux Machines
• Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server
• Developed build and deployment scripts using Ant and Maven as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments
• Installed and configured Infrastructure Automation tool Chef
• Maintained High Availability clusters & Standalone Server environments with Scripting and configuration management (Chef)
• Monitored day-to-day system administrator's activities which includes performance monitoring and tuning, disk space issues, send mail issues, Tools related issues, FTP, Telnet & application-oriented issues
• Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure and configuration management using Chef
• Deployed Java applications/Web-services using CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Chef
• Automated Weekly releases with ANT/Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers
• Supporting production and development infrastructure, from developing and improving release automation tools and maintaining issue tracking software
• Keen participation in maintaining SVN by managing files and directories to update latest changes
• Responsible for configuration changes before and after new release
• Involved in writing test scripts (power shell, shell, Ant, Maven) on test environment
• Responsible for resolving the build issues in case of any build failure
• Continuous coordination with development team and QA team regarding any code issue

Environment: Chef, Maven, Splunk, Subversion, Power Shell, Shell/Perl, SCM, Jenkins, Tomcat

• Web Server Administrator on a Production Support project for Internet hosted online Websites.
• Installation, configuration, and administration of IIS on Windows 2008/2003 servers, on which crucial applications are hosted.
• Application support for asp, .NET (1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5) based hosted internal & external websites.
• Creating and configuring new internal & external websites (HTTP and HTTPS).
• Creating, deploying, renewing and import & export of the SSL certificates.
• Monitoring the server health and performance with performance monitor.
• Analyzing and troubleshoot the IIS crashes with DebugDiag and other tools.
• Root cause analysis and fixing the Windows / IIS Web Server Related issues.
• Design and implement of disaster recovery for high availability of the applications.
• Troubleshoot server/application issues with process monitor tools.
• Performance tuning of Windows and IIS servers.
• Creating and setting up application pool settings and working on machine.config file settings to maximize the server performance.
• Moved from Windows 2003 to Windows Server 2008 involving migration of scheduled tasks, security settings, setting up user accounts and permissions, including configuration settings, program installation, and data migration and testing.
• Migrated from one server/database to another (dev,qa,lnp and production)involving both code base and database move, IIS 6.x to IIS 7.x migration and changing settings to allow ASP scripts to run, setting up user accounts, application pool and server certificates.
• Created power shell scripts and ABS to automate the code move process and build the Windows servers.
• Installing and configuring Site minder web agent on IIS server and configuring ISAPI filters.
• Installed and configured Team Foundation Server for TFS project.
• Working with change management team on scheduling various releases.
• Track the new releases, deploy the releases, integrating the releases in environment with SCM(Software Configuration Management) and work with other teams like project managers and change management to complete the releases.
• Preparing documentation on various projects.

Environment: Application frameworks include Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 (with IIS v6+) SQL, DB2, Informix, Oracle, MQ, Java, WebSphere, JBoss, Citrix, .Net, and Visual Basic.