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Nithin Kuragayala

Arlington,USA

Summary

Experienced DevOps Engineer with 1.5 years of experience in implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and enhancing operational efficiency. Proficient in ensuring seamless integration, deployment, and monitoring of applications. Skilled in leveraging tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, and AWS to streamline workflows and reduce time-to-market. Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure as code, cloud services, and configuration management.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Devops Engineer

Ascendion
Charlotte, NC
02.2023 - 05.2024
  • Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services and in Design and configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing. Azure cloud services, Blob storage, Active directory, Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB.
  • Developed Terraform templates to create load balancers (ELB), EC2 instances with auto scaling, monitoring on the fly for different environments such as QA, SIT, stage which will run on different VPCs.
  • Experience in working with container-based deployments using Docker, Docker images, Docker file, Docker Hub, Docker Compose and Docker registry, Used Docker-Swarm to maintain the cluster of containers.
  • Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker Containers. Worked on Microservicesand deploying Microservices using Kubernetes YAML files.
  • In-depth knowledge of computer applications and Shell scripts(Bash), Ruby, Python, PowerShell, and Azure PowerShell for automating tasks.
  • Had good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Qualcomm
Hyderabad, India
06.2021 - 05.2022
  • Deployed Azure Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets, and subnets and designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control Inbound and outbound access to Network Interfaces (NICs), VMs & subnets.
  • Worked on AZURE (laaS) migrating like creating AZURE VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on premise servers to AZURE and creating availability sets in AZURE and performed Hardening of the VM's and disk encryption using the KEK key in MS Azure.
  • Managed and maintained Azure Active Directory, ensuring accurate user identity and access management across cloud services using Microsoft 365.
  • Used Terraform to reliably version and create infrastructure on Azure. Created resources, using Azure Terraform modules, and automated infrastructure management.
  • Implemented Azure DevOps Services for project management tasks, source code repository, continuous integration, and deployment.
  • Developed custom Jenkins jobs/pipelines that contained Bash shell scripts utilizing the CLI to automate infrastructure provisioning.
  • Worked on Container management by using Docker and by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes.

DevOps Engineer Trainee

Qualcomm
Hyderabad, India
01.2021 - 05.2021
  • Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation.
  • Application of automations tools like Chef, Ansible, DevOps based on the requirements.
  • Worked on integrating the tools with the help of GitHub actions.
  • Deployment and implementation of Chef for infrastructure as code initiative.
  • Performed the automation using Chef Configuration management.
  • Designed the project workflows/pipelines using Jenkins as CI tool. Expert in User Management and Plugin Management for Jenkins.
  • Worked on User Management, Disaster Recovery Processes and Plugin Management for Jenkins.
  • Experience in writing power shell scripting to do patching, imaging and deployments in Azure.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science -

KL University
Vijayawada, India

Master of Science in Computer Science -

The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • SQL
  • XML
  • CSS3
  • Linux
  • Maven
  • Agile Software Methodologies
  • PL/SQL
  • GIT
  • Docker
  • kubernetes
  • Jira
  • CI/CD
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • MS Azure
  • Terraform

Certification

1. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2. AWS Certified solutions Architect – Associate

3. Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

4. HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

Timeline

Cloud Devops Engineer

Ascendion
02.2023 - 05.2024

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Qualcomm
06.2021 - 05.2022

DevOps Engineer Trainee

Qualcomm
01.2021 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science -

KL University

Master of Science in Computer Science -

The University of Texas at Arlington
Nithin Kuragayala