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Narendar Talasani

Sr Infrastructure Engineer
Frisco,TX

Summary

Profile of Qualifications: 10 years over all IT experience, 6+ years’ experience in Big Data technologies. Professional Summary: Managed completed AWS environment. Maintained Hadoop clusters for Development, Quality and Production. Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on AWS ECS services using Docker Images Experience on Cloudera and Horton works distributions Experience in monitoring and managing 1000+ node Hadoop cluster. Created a complete processing engine based on Cloudera and Horton works distribution Hands-on experience with Production Hadoop applications such as administration, configuration management, debugging and performance tuning. Implemented Kerberos in Hadoop Ecosystem. Experienced in automating job flows using Oozie Supported MapReduce programs running on the cluster Manage and review Hadoop log files Worked with application team via scrum to provide operational support, install Hadoop updates, patches and version upgrades as required. Monitor Hadoop cluster using tools like Nagios, Ganglia, Ambari and Cloudera Manager. Worked with system engineering team to plan and deploy Hadoop hardware and software environments. Worked on disaster management with Hadoop cluster. Built data transform framework using Spark. Designed, delivered and helped manage a device data analytics at a very large storage vendor Worked with business users to extract clear requirements to create business value Worked with big data teams to move ETL tasks to Hadoop. Investigated on new technologies like Spark, Kafka and Cassandra to catch up with industry developments. Played a major role in integrating and smooth functioning of the analytics cluster with the data-store. Good knowledge on Hadoop cluster architecture and monitoring the cluster. Experience in using Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Zookeeper. Involved in the process of designing Cassandra Architecture including data modeling. Experience in storing the analyzed results back into the Cassandra cluster. . Exposure to traditional and non-traditional databases likes RDBMS Experienced in providing security to Hadoop cluster with Kerberos. Well experienced in building servers like DHCP, PXE with kick start, DNS and NFS and used them in building infrastructure in Linux Environment and working with Puppet for application deployment. Experienced in Linux Administration tasks like IP Management (IP Addressing, Sub netting, Ethernet Bonding, and Static IP). Good communication and interpersonal skills, a committed team player and a quick learner. Cloud engineer with 2+ years of experience in Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps Highly experienced and certified, Azure Cloud professional with strong experience in migrating on-prem workload to public cloud, Azure, DevOps, Azure Administration, Azure Infrastructure Operations, windows / Linux and end to end Project Management Broad experience in planning, analyzing, organizing, coordinating, and executing Communication and IT management at various levels. Expertise in MS Azure security and identity services including but not limited to Azure Active Directory, Domain Services, Azure Governance, Security, Authentication, MFA, Authorization, B2C, Data Privacy, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cryptography / Key Management, Access Controls and Security Protocols, Hands-on experience in managing configuration, Windows Azure Migration, Deployments, maintenance, software application & hardware devices with a focus on systems and Windows Azure environments. 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. Support and responding to outages during off-hour software deployments within Established Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Decisive Engineering Manager highly effective at operating in dynamic, high-pressure environments. Successfully handle multiple simultaneous responsibilities while exceeding objectives and satisfying tough clients.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
14
14
Certifications

Work History

Sr Infrastructure Engineer / Sr Hadoop Engineer

Securonix Inc
09.2018 - Current
  • Created process of new application on-boarding using Jira ticketing tools and created SLA of each task based on business requirements
  • Supported customers based on business requirements and SLA
  • Managed offshore team and distributed work based on requirements
  • Trained new hire team members and explained detailed architecture of Securonix, how we use each component
  • Created document’s for alert handling procedures for L1 and L2 team to debug issues
  • Developed Terraform/Cloud formation code to automate infrastructure
  • Wrote ansible scripts for performing OS baselines
  • Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on AWS ECS services using Docker Images
  • Installed on confirmed alert manager and created alert procedure for every component
  • Installed EMR cluster on AWS using Terraform scripts
  • Wrote cloud formation scripts to automate infrastructure as code
  • Developed scripts for MYSQL backup Daily basis
  • Developed scripts to auto restart spark applications
  • Installed and configured Centos 7.4
  • Configured using RAID Configuration Using IDRAC
  • Installed and configured Cloudera Hadoop using Cloudera manager
  • Installed and configured SNYPR application
  • Worked on installing and configuring Free-IPA for user management
  • Worked on create hosted zone on AWS using Route53 for DNS management
  • Worked on setting up High availability for major Hadoop Components like Name node, Resource Manager, HUE, Hive, Cloudera Manager and designed automatic failover
  • Worked on installing Kafka using Cloudera manager and tuning Apache Kafka application
  • Installed and configured SPARK 2 Using Cloudera manager
  • Installed and configured Apache Solr using Ansible Script
  • Installed and configured SNYPR EYE using Ansible Script
  • End to End Ownership (Supporting and Automating) of POC SaaS cluster
  • Installed and Configured QA Cluster
  • Implemented schedulers on the Resource Manager to share the resources of the cluster
  • Installed and configured NX-log manager to collection logs from various systems
  • Worked on building and deploying Docker images
  • Worked on Spark Dynamic allocation to avoid delay in steaming jobs
  • Worked on setting up Cloudera cluster in multiple AWS region
  • Experience to build scalable production systems (load balancers, mem cached, master/slave architectures)
  • Worked on creating a VPC and Created Cloudera Hadoop
  • Installed and configured Kerberos environment and integrated with Hadoop
  • Worked on Deploying RDS MYSQL database on AWS
  • Responsible for assigned Infrastructure support and implementation
  • Deployed Azure services using CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps
  • Handling virtual network configuration
  • Worked on Microsoft Azure Cloud IaaS & PaaS Services
  • Worked on Migration from On-premises to Azure Cloud
  • Deployed azure resources using release pipeline with Yaml script
  • Installing and configuration Microsoft SQL Server as per the application team requested
  • Installing, upgrading Software Packages and patch management using Automation account
  • Created Azure Resources by using Terraform, ARM, PowerShell , Ansible and Azure portal
  • Worked on Update Management Solution
  • Worked on Azure Backup solution for daily activity
  • Imported Azure Resources into new state file
  • Created a Powershell script for automation account runbook for automated task
  • Implemented Auto shutdown of Non-Production VMs for cost saving
  • Worked on Azure (Azure AD, Recovery Services and Automation Service)
  • Frequent monitoring Azure Resources using Datadog monitoring tool
  • Worked on Active Directory user request like account creation, deletion
  • Worked on Azure VM Backup and RBAC
  • Worked on as a part of Kubernetes service for deploying application
  • Frequent monitoring azure resources using Datadog monitoring tool
  • Handling Kubernetes Cluster
  • Installed hybrid Worker as per client requests
  • Hands on experience in e-mail communication with clients and B2B requirements
  • Hands on experience working on different SLA
  • Hands on experience communicating and handling queries with B2B system
  • Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal, logical thinking & analytical abilities
  • Monitoring and handling escalations and resolving.

Hadoop Engineer

United Parcel Service
Mahwah, NJ
06.2017 - 08.2018
  • Installed and configured Cloudera Hadoop cluster and Upgraded R and Spark
  • Installed and configured Apache Sentry for role-based privileges in Apache Hive
  • Integrated Kerberos Security with Hadoop cluster
  • Worked on integrating Datameer with Hadoop cluster
  • Worked on setting up High availability for major Hadoop Components like Namenode, Resource Manager, HUE, Hive, Cloudera Manager and designed automatic failover
  • Worked on Sqoop to import data from oracle to Hadoop cluster and developed Scripts to automate Sqoop Jobs
  • Migrated Analytical tool Datameer and Hadoop to new production cluster
  • Developed scripts to Sync HDFS data from one cluster to another cluster
  • Worked on Memory tuning for Hadoop Cluster
  • Worked on debugging spark Jobs
  • Involved in setting up HdInsight cluster on Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Designed Hardware configuration for new Hadoop Cluster
  • Troubleshooting Cluster issues and preparing run books
  • Installed and Configured Microsoft Power BI and Integrated with Hadoop Using Hive server 2
  • Enabled HDFS Encryption data at rest and data traveling over a network
  • Installed and configured Cloudera Kafka and developed pipeline to stream data into Hadoop cluster using Spark Steaming application
  • Developed Pyspark script for ETL processing

Sanofi Pharmaceuticals
Bridgewater, NJ
03.2016 - 05.2017
  • Installed and configured Hadoop cluster across various environments through Cloudera Manager
  • Enable TLS between Cloudera manager and agents
  • Installed and configured MYSQL and Enabled High Availability
  • Installed and configured Revolution R and RStudio Server and integrated with Hadoop Cluster
  • Worked on setting up High availability for major Hadoop Components like Namenode, Resource Manager, HUE, Hive, Cloudera Manager and designed automatic failover
  • Installed and configured Sentry server to enable schema level Security
  • Troubleshooting Cluster issues and preparing run books
  • Reviewing and Onboarding applications to Cluster
  • Integrated external components like Informatica BDE, Tibco and Tableau with Hadoop using Hive server2
  • Implemented HDFS snapshot feature
  • Migrated data across clusters using DISTCP
  • Performed both major and minor upgrades to the existing Cloudera Hadoop cluster
  • Integrated Hadoop with Active Directory and enabled Kerberos for Authentication
  • Applied patches and bug fixes on Hadoop Clusters
  • Expertise in Performance tuning and optimized Hadoop clusters to achieve high performance
  • Implemented schedulers on the Resource Manager to share the resources of the cluster
  • Cloudera Enterprise Navigator for Hadoop Audit files and Data Lineage
  • Monitoring Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera Manager and 24x7 on call support
  • Expertise in implementation and designing of disaster recovery plan for Hadoop Cluster
  • Extensive hands on experience in Hadoop file system commands for file handling operations
  • Worked on Providing User support and application support on Hadoop Infrastructure
  • Prepared System Design document with all functional implementations
  • Worked with SQOOP import and export functionalities to handle large data set transfer between traditional databases and HDFS.

Hadoop Engineer

Visa Inc
San mateo, CA
11.2015 - 02.2016
  • Installed and configured Hadoop cluster across various environments
  • Performed both major and minor upgrades to the existing Cloudera Hadoop cluster
  • Integrated Hadoop with Active Directory and enabled Kerberos for Authentication
  • Installed 200+ node Hadoop clusters using Chef Scripts
  • Upgraded CHD 5.3 to CDH 5.5
  • Applied patches and bug fixes on Hadoop Clusters
  • Performance tuned and optimized Hadoop clusters to achieve high performance
  • Implemented schedulers on the Resource Manager to share the resources of the cluster for the map reduce jobs given by the users
  • Cloudera Enterprise Navigator for Hadoop Audit files and Data Lineage
  • Monitoring Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera Manager and 24x7 on call support
  • Expertise in implementation and designing of disaster recovery plan for Hadoop Cluster
  • Extensive hands on experience in Hadoop file system commands for file handling operations
  • Involved in Qualys Patching
  • Worked on Integration of Hiveserver2 with Tableau
  • Worked on Providing User support and application support on Hadoop Infrastructure
  • Involved in business requirements gathering and analysis of business use cases
  • Prepared System Design document with all functional implementations
  • Involved in Data model sessions to develop models for HIVE tables
  • Understanding the existing Enterprise data warehouse set up and provided design and architecture suggestion converting to Hadoop using MR, HIVE, SQOOP and Pig Latin
  • Worked on Sequence files, Map side joins, bucketing, partitioning for hive performance enhancement and storage improvement
  • Worked with SQOOP import and export functionalities to handle large data set transfer between traditional databases and HDFS
  • Administered Cassandra cluster using Datastax OpsCenter and monitored CPU,
  • Memory usage and health of nodes in the cluster
  • Experience in storing the analyzed results back into the Cassandra cluster
  • Involved in the process of Cassandra data modelling and building efficient data
  • Structures.

Hadoop Administrator

Apple Inc
Sunnyvale, CA
05.2015 - 10.2015
  • Experience in monitoring and managing 1000+ node Hadoop cluster
  • Installed and configured 100+ node Hadoop clusters HDP 1.X and HDP 2X
  • Integrated Hadoop with AD and enabled Kerberos for Authentication
  • Integrated all clusters with global realm
  • Upgrade cluster from HDP 1.X to HDP 2.X
  • Added 100+ new nodes to production clusters
  • Installed HDP 2.2 cluster with High available Name node and Resource manager
  • Applied patches and bug fixes on Hadoop Clusters
  • Installed HST (Hortonworks Support Tool) and configured
  • Involved in Hadoop cluster auditing for standardization
  • Worked on Providing User support and application support on Hadoop Infrastructure
  • Performance tuned and optimized Hadoop clusters to achieve high performance
  • Monitoring Hadoop Clusters using Nagios, Ganglia and 24x7 on call support
  • Expertise in implementation and designing of disaster recovery plan for Hadoop Cluster
  • Extensive hands on experience in Hadoop file system commands for file handling operations
  • Configured Hive metastore with MySQL, which stores the metadata of Hive tables
  • Configured Flume for efficiently collecting, aggregating and moving large amounts of log data.

Education

Masters - Information Security Systems

University of Cumberland’s

Masters - Computer Science

North Western Polytechnic University

Bachelors - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU

Skills

Developer collaboration Custom coding Effective communication Code reviews Engineering standards Virtualization technologies Web-based software engineering Build releases Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Continuous Deployment, Ansible, Terraform AWS

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Certification

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Timeline

Sr Infrastructure Engineer / Sr Hadoop Engineer

Securonix Inc
09.2018 - Current

Hadoop Engineer

United Parcel Service
06.2017 - 08.2018

Sanofi Pharmaceuticals
03.2016 - 05.2017

Hadoop Engineer

Visa Inc
11.2015 - 02.2016

Hadoop Administrator

Apple Inc
05.2015 - 10.2015

Masters - Information Security Systems

University of Cumberland’s

Masters - Computer Science

North Western Polytechnic University

Bachelors - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU
Narendar TalasaniSr Infrastructure Engineer