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Sai Kiran

Dallas,OR

Summary

AWS and DevOps Engineer with over 9+ years of experience in Build & Release Management, Configuration Management, and Automation across various environments. Experience includes AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda,), CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and development in Java and .NET.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. DevOps & AWS Engineer

University of Phoenix
01.2020 - Current
  • ·worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and services like EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB (Load Balancers), DynamoDB, , ALB, Autoscaling Group, RDS, SNS, SQS, and EBS etc.
  • ·Configured a virtual data center in the Amazon Web services cloud to support Enterprise data warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Table. Used security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and Route tables to ensure a secure zone for organizations in AWS public cloud.
  • Developed a fully automated continuous integration system using Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, MySQL and custom tools developed in Python and Bash.
  • wroked in providing 24/7 on- call support for critical applications, Tier-0/1 Application/Projects during Go-live/App deployment Phases.
  • Used the Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins for automating/scheduling the build processes and used Jenkins along with shell or Python scripting to automate route jobs.
  • Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs and also configuration automation using Docker containers and experience working on Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
  • Responsible for Installing, setup and Configuring Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper. Used Kafka to collect Website activity and Stream processing.
  • Developing customized Ansible playbooks for Amazon Cloud for the defined Infrastructure.
  • Involved in writing various Custom Ansible Playbooks for deployment orchestration and developed Ansible Playbooks to simplify and automate day-to-day server administration tasks.
  • Made Log gathering in ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) introduced File beat on all hubs in the bunch to send log information to Logstash. Connected channels on log information before sending to Elastic search.

Sr. DevOps & Build Release Engineer

AbbVie
03.2018 - 12.2019
  • Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.
  • Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new projects.
  • Experienced in JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, IIS, Apache HTTP Sun One (Web/Application Servers) administration such as Installation, configuration and administration in different environments.
  • Created the AWS VPC network for the Installed Instances and configured the Security Groups and Elastic IPs accordingly.
  • Built scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
  • Configuration Automation using Ansible and Docker Containers. Implemented and designed AWS virtual servers by Ansible roles to ensure deployment of web applications.
  • Using Ansible with AWS allowed me to reduce costs for the department and eliminate unwarranted resources.
  • Assisted customer in implementing DevOps strategies using Jenkins for automated deployment of builds to different environments and Build Forge as the automated engine.
  • Worked DevOps methodologies and cloud infrastructure automation tools like AWS by using Terraform.
  • Responsible in writing Terraform templates for configuring EC2 instances and created Terraform Scripts for services like ELK, Postgress, Lambda.
  • Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.
  • Used Bash and Python to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
  • Collaborated with development and QA teams to ensure smooth releases and manage deployment environments.
  • Led the build and release processes for Java and .NET-based applications, utilizing Jenkins, Maven, and Docker
  • Worked with Version control tools Subversion/Git Branching, Merge Strategies, migrated projects from Subversion repositories to GitHub Enterprise repositories through Team Foundation server (TFS).
  • Used Kubernetes for container operations in AWS, used Kubernetes clusters as a network and load balancer, also Kubernetes is also good at running web applications in a cluster way, also used in multiple services by creating images and reduced space
  • Designed a messaging system using Apache Kafka to send messages across teams.
  • Consumed the Kafka messages using Spark Streaming and integrated with Hive to transfer data in real time.
  • Experience in creating Docker containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker containers from scratch.
  • Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services, include web servers, ELB, Cloud front Distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this Script creates stacks, single servers or joins web servers to stacks. Used S3 for simple storage service, moved files and used Snowball service for as part of migration.

Build and Release Engineer

Best Q Technologies
12.2012 - 10.2015
  • Responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives
  • Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  • Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Leads Release Management lifecycle including scheduling the release, documenting the change, coordinating between teams, communicating release status, identifying dependencies and deploying and validating the code
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Education

Master of Science - Technology Education

Campbellsville University
Louisville, Kentucky
01.2018

Skills

  • Languages
  • C, Java, Net
  • Database
  • SQL, MySQL, MongoDB,
  • Automation Tools
  • Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Terraform Ansible, Hudson, bambino
  • Scripting Languages
  • Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby
  • Operating Systems
  • Windows, Red Hat, Centos7, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris, SUSE etc
  • Application Servers
  • Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat, WebSphere MQ series
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Amazon Web Services, Azure
  • Virtualization tools
  • Docker, Oracle virtual box, VMware, ESXI
  • Networking
  • TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP
  • Version & Change Control
  • GIT, Jira, SVN, TFS, Bit bucket
  • Web/App servers
  • Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, Web Logic
  • Build Tools
  • Maven, Ant, Gradle
  • Source Control
  • GIT, TFS, SVN, perforce
  • Logging and Monitoring Tools
  • Nagios, Cloud watch, Splunk

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – 2017

Timeline

Sr. DevOps & AWS Engineer

University of Phoenix
01.2020 - Current

Sr. DevOps & Build Release Engineer

AbbVie
03.2018 - 12.2019

Build and Release Engineer

Best Q Technologies
12.2012 - 10.2015

Master of Science - Technology Education

Campbellsville University

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – 2017

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