Pavan Kumar Chandragiri
Iselin,NJ
Summary
Experienced in Salesforce Release Management and Azure Cloud Engineering, leveraging technical expertise and strategic insight to drive operational efficiency and enhance security through effective stakeholder collaboration. Skilled in VMware and proficient in various DevOps tools, with a proven track record of successfully implementing and managing complex projects. Strong focus on delivering high-quality results, dedicated to optimizing processes and driving innovation to meet organizational goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Salesforce Release Manager/ Azure Cloud Engineer
Quadrant Technologies
03.2024 - Current
- Establishing clear ownership of the Salesforce repository in Azure DevOps is essential for effective collaboration and management
- Delivery of comprehensive Salesforce deployments utilizing Azure Pipelines and Azure Repos
- Coordinate with stakeholders to understand their specific requirements for sandbox configurations
- Document and communicate any changes or updates related to sandbox environments to relevant teams
- Expertly configured and managed User Risk Management through Azure AD Identity Protection, effectively utilizing conditional access policies and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to bolster security and mitigate risks associated with user accounts
- Developed and secured cloud infrastructure, supported application runtime environments, and collaborated with engineers across various levels
Salesforce Release Manager/ Azure Cloud Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2019 - 12.2023
- Creating, maintaining, and deleting sandboxes based on stakeholder requirements
- This involves understanding the specific needs of the stakeholders to ensure that the sandboxes are tailored for testing and development purposes
- Accountable for overseeing all deployments within Salesforce sandboxes, with a key focus on ensuring seamless transitions in the Production environment
- Developed automation scripts as needed using Shell scripting to enhance operational efficiency and streamline processes
- As Salesforce DevOps Admin, I engage in various activities, including pre and post-deployment steps, granting necessary permissions to users, and creating permission groups tailored to specific requirements
- I have strong knowledge of bug-tracking tools, such as JIRA and OpenAlm
- I configured various Jenkins pipelines and Git Repository to streamline Salesforce deliveries, ensuring timely and efficient deployment processes
- This setup helped automate repetitive tasks and improved the overall workflow for managing releases and updates within the Salesforce environment
- Data Load activities like Dev and Production Sandboxes
- Responsible for Source Code Git Repository, branching strategy, design, and implementation
- Configure Automation CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines to deploy Code in various environments like Dev, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments in Salesforce Sandboxes
- Built the Container clusters using Azure Kubernetes Service along with Git to perform applications efficiently
- Configured Azure Repos as a branch strategy for agile development to provide continuous support and maintenance of code builds in Salesforce sandboxes
- Configure Azure Virtual Machines, Sql Database, Blob storage, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Monitor
- Work hand-in-hand with Developers and the QA Team to efficiently deploy code across multiple Salesforce sandboxes utilizing the powerful tools in Azure DevOps
- Set up the Azure Container Registry to store the Docker images for the application build
- I efficiently configured and maintained Azure virtual machines, networks, storage accounts, and various infrastructure components, ensuring optimal performance for customer environments
- Effective managed Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Azure Subscriptions, Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure AD Application Proxy, and Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication is crucial for enhancing security and streamlining user access
- Creating new clients in Azure Active Directory and enabling SSO for login into Salesforce Sandboxes
DevOps Engineer
News Technology Service
07.2017 - 12.2018
- Hands-on experience in DevOps/Build & Release/Cloud technologies comprising automating, configuring, and deploying on multiple environments
- Specialized in areas of DevOps, CI/CD, build and release management
- A DevOps Engineer in the team Configure Jenkins Pipelines, which fetches source code from the Git repository
- Enabling SSO for Different Sandboxes for smooth login
- Creating and deleting Sandboxes based on requirements
- Experience in Sandbox refresh every release or based on requirements
- Load bulk users' data using the DataLoader tool
- DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Maven, Git
- Experience in branching, staging, and maintaining the version across the environments working on Software Configuration Management (SCM) GIT and GitHub
- Implementing CI/CD process
- Good in implementing pipeline as a code in Jenkins
- Valuable experience of Administration in continuous integration tools like Jenkins
- Supported deployments into DEV, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod & PROD environments with multiple application server technologies
- Experience using Agile development methodology and Continuous Integration/Delivery
- Responsible for creating and developing the build process environment
- Administered version control system that included branching and merging
- Developed a fully automated continuous integration system using Git and Jenkins
DevOps Engineer
Wipro Technologies
07.2012 - 06.2017
- Company Overview: Bangalore
- Installation, Configuration VMware ESXI 5.1 Server
- Configuration of the ILO for HP BLC 7000 Server
- Installation, Configuration VCenter Server
- Creation and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
- I worked on migration from a physical to a virtual (P2V) environment for VMWARE
- Troubleshoot, diagnose and identify solutions to resolve the issues
- Interacting with users for any server activities or VMware activities on major changes in Server or Software issues
- Generate timely reports in the ServiceNow tool and present the stakeholders
- Create Knowledge base articles to help the team
- Responsible for all the Virtual/ OnPremises build server maintenance or development
- Deployments to All Application Server on Development, Staging, UAT, and Production Servers
- Created Virtual Network Peering to allow resources to interact with each other in the NA Region to Mumbai region
- Create CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins the team was able to do deployments in Dev, Stage, UAT, and Production environments
- Administration and configuration of Jenkins CI/CD tool
- Bangalore
Education
Master of Science -
University Of Bedfordshire
United Kingdom07-2010
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU University
08-2008
Skills
- Salesforce System Administrator (ADM-201)
- Azure Cloud Engineering
- ANT
- Maven
- GIT
- Jenkins Tools
- System Engineering
- VMware System Administration
Certification
- Salesforce Admin ADM-201
- Azure fundamental (AZ-900)
- VMWARE System Administrator (VCP)
Timeline
Salesforce Release Manager/ Azure Cloud Engineer
Quadrant Technologies
03.2024 - Current
Salesforce Release Manager/ Azure Cloud Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2019 - 12.2023
DevOps Engineer
News Technology Service
07.2017 - 12.2018
DevOps Engineer
Wipro Technologies
07.2012 - 06.2017
- Salesforce Admin ADM-201
- Azure fundamental (AZ-900)
- VMWARE System Administrator (VCP)
Master of Science -
University Of Bedfordshire
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU University
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