Narendra Isukapalli
Leander,Texas
Summary
10+ years of experience as SRE, DevOps and Build and Release engineer. Driven and innovative site reliability engineer experience in high-pressure environments. Proven ability to maintain uptime and optimize systems for maximum performance. Excels at quickly diagnosing and resolving issues. Demonstrated work prioritization skills and evidence of managing in a fast pace, changing environment.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevSecOps Engineer
Client - Silicon Valley Bank
08.2022 - Current
- GitLab CI/CD: Expertise in configuring and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines for seamless development and deployment processes.
- Template Management: Creating, configuring, and troubleshooting pipeline templates to ensure consistency and efficiency across projects.
- Developer Support: Assisting developers with ongoing pipeline issues, providing solutions to streamline development workflows.
- End-to-End Pipeline Configuration: Designing and setting up CI/CD pipelines for a variety of tech stacks, including Java, Node.js, Python, iOS, Android, and database deployments using Flyway.
- Security and Code Scanning: Implementing and managing security tools like Snyk for vulnerability scanning and compliance checks throughout the development lifecycle.
- Compliance Frameworks: Setting up compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to security and regulatory requirements.
- Tailored Templates: Developing custom pipeline templates to cater to the specific needs of different teams, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
- Deployment Environment Support: Supporting deployments across multiple environments such as VMs, ECS, Lambda, and OpenShift, ensuring smooth and secure releases.
- Terraform and Kafka Management: Assisting teams in using Terraform for configuring Kafka connectors, ACLs, and topics, promoting infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices.
- SDLC Understanding: Strong knowledge of SDLC lifecycles, ensuring smooth integration of security and compliance throughout the development process.
- Automation for Audits and Change Requests: Automating tasks like MR approvals and generating MR reports between tags for Change Requests, enhancing audibility and transparency.
- Pipeline Metrics Scraping: Configuring systems to scrape pipeline execution metrics, analyze timing, and implement improvements for faster, more efficient pipelines.
- IaC with Ansible and TFE: Using infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible and Terraform Enterprise (TFE) to automate infrastructure deployment through CI/CD pipelines.
Site Reliability Engineer
Client - Adobe
10.2018 - 08.2022
- Contribute to development of new tools and automation that ensures the service can be optimized and tuned with minimal human intervention
- Involved in migration of application from datacenter to AWS
- Ensure that support documentation is produced, maintained and improved
- Keeping the ship sailing! Monitoring and supporting the IT infrastructure environment
- Applied best practices at all times and encouraged others to do same, which helped to maintain effective security
- Create and maintain documentation of systems and processes for existing and new systems
- Responsible for upleveling the progress to senior leadership and stakeholders of project advancements
- Prioritize between multiple simultaneous issues and projects
- Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process
- Coordinate changes with application owners to ensure minimal user impact
- Ensured production service availability with maximum uptime
Senior DevOps Engineer
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
08.2017 - 10.2018
- Researched, endorsed and implemented network enhancements to improve system reliability and performance
- Identifying, gathering, analyzing and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
- Assist in the Development Priority List process working with Product Management group to address issue identified as part of Problem Management
- Ability to define and document technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products
- Incorporated technology best practices to enhance app operational performance.
- Participated in team-based assessments to ascertain DevOps assignment goals
- Collaborated with development, QA and IT operations staff to enhance software productivity
- Recommended improvements to facilitate team and project workflow
- Identified opportunities for process improvements to decrease in support calls
- Coordinated system installations, testing and code corrections
- Troubleshoot operational and application issues and fix them within the SLA
DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
04.2016 - 08.2017
- Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process
- Researched latest tools and technologies to determine effectiveness in agile environment growth
- Tested and troubleshot application and documented issue resolutions for development team
- Passing the structured data to Elasticsearch and performing operations on this data
- Responsible for setting up ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) platform, parsing unstructured logs using regular expressions to structured JSON format
- Plan, schedule, test and perform software installation and upgrades.
- Deploy code updates into test and production environments and work to roll environments forward
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
09.2013 - 02.2016
- Troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process
- Experienced in NetApp continuous integration tool Bammbamm
- Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & maven as build framework tools
- Troubleshot malfunctions with systems and programs to pinpoint root cause of issues and restore
- Coordinated installation of updated computer programs and systems
- Updated and maintained technical specifications, notifying project manager of changes
- Member of SCM representing changes for Release and environment configuration
- Extensively worked on NetApp internal bug tracking tool
Education
Master of Science - Computer Networking
Bangalore University
09.2013
Skills
- OS - Linux, Windows, Mac
- Cloud - AWS
- AWS Services - VPC, S3, EC2, NLB/ALB, Route53, RDS, Elasticache, ASG, Transfer Service, Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, SQS, SNS etc
- SCM - GitLab, GitHub, Git, SVN
- Scripting - Ruby, Python, Perl, Shell, Groovy
- Configuration Management - Chef, Ansible
- Message Queueing - SQS, Kafka
- Hashicorp Tools - Terraform, Nomad, Vault, Consul
- Monitoring - Prometheus, Datadog, NewRelic, Nagios, Grafana, AppDynamics
- CI/CD - Jenkins, GitLab
- Build Tools - Ant, Maven, Rake, npm
- Containers - Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift
- Code Quality - SonarQube, Snyk
- Atlassian Tools - Jira, Confluence, Crucible
Certification
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Certified Chef Basic Fluency
- Certified ITIL Foundation
Timeline
DevSecOps Engineer
Client - Silicon Valley Bank
08.2022 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Client - Adobe
10.2018 - 08.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
08.2017 - 10.2018
DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
04.2016 - 08.2017
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
09.2013 - 02.2016
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Certified Chef Basic Fluency
- Certified ITIL Foundation
Master of Science - Computer Networking
Bangalore University
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