Sainath Ponagandla
Dallas,TX
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure management and automation. Expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes, resulting in improved efficiency and scalability. Strong problem-solving abilities and dedication to continuous integration and deployment enhance operational performance in fast-paced environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Cloud Engineer
CVS Caremark
Dallas, Texas
01.2023 - Current
- Administered and optimized Azure Container Registry, implementing access controls and automated image lifecycle management.
- Integrated Wiz security scanning for Docker images, ensuring continuous vulnerability detection and remediation workflows.
- Implemented container image hardening practices to meet CIS compliance and enhance security measures.
- Designed and maintained scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure platforms to support containerized applications.
- Architected cloud-native solutions utilizing Kubernetes, BigQuery, and Terraform for efficient deployment.
- Managed Kubernetes workloads on GKE and AKS, optimizing configuration and integrating Kubeflow for ML workflows.
- Led networking and security initiatives, enforcing IAM roles, firewall rules, and zero-trust principles.
- Developed automation scripts in Python and Bash to enhance provisioning and security enforcement across clouds.
Cloud/DevOps ENGINEER
Vanguard
Malvern, PA
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Orchestrated implementation of Agile methodologies to enhance management of AWS services during application lifecycle.
- Designed scalable infrastructure on AWS utilizing services including EC2, ELB, EMR, VPC, and more.
- Employed AWS Lambda Functions with Python Boto3 to automate updates for DynamoDB and Redshift from S3 events.
- Developed Terraform modules for efficient infrastructure as code management including IAM policies and DynamoDB tables.
- Managed EC2 backup strategies; integrated logging solutions via CloudTrail paired with Kibana and Elasticsearch tools.
- Configured Amazon EKS for containerized application orchestration while setting up VPCs and Nginx proxies.
- Created data pipelines using AWS components such as S3 and RedShift while adhering to a data mesh topology.
- Automated provisioning of AWS resources via Python scripts encompassing web servers and security configurations.
DevOps ENGINEER
Broadridge
Long Island, NY
12.2019 - 08.2021
- Automated AWS services using Terraform modules, including EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, Lambda, and IAM Roles, enhancing infrastructure provisioning and management efficiency.
- Utilized Chef to deploy and configure ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for log analytics and application monitoring, integrating with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch.
- Developed Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, facilitating dashboard creation and Azure Log Analytics integration for VM monitoring.
- Implemented Docker Swarm for load balancing, scaling, and container management, integrating with Docker Engine for cluster management.
- Managed Kubernetes charts with Helm, ensuring reproducible builds and controlled releases of Kubernetes applications.
- Orchestrated blue-green deployments with Kubernetes, enabling seamless updates and autoscaling with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.
- Configured Jenkins pipelines for automated build artifact generation and unit testing, integrated with SonarQube for code quality analysis.
- Managed Docker containers in AWS ECS, handling snapshots, image management, and repository integration with ECR.
- Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Jenkins jobs from GitHub Repos containing Terraform code, integrated with Nexus and SonarQube.
- Built data pipelines using AWS Glue for data harmonization from various sources.
- Proficient in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries and shell scripts.
- Installed and configured Jenkins to support Python builds, automating continuous builds and Docker image publishing to Nexus.
- Automated Grafana dashboards with Ansible, enabling real-time monitoring of AWS services and resource-specific dashboards.
- Configured Splunk for real-time Operational Intelligence across applications/services, utilizing AWS Lambda functions for log forwarding from CloudWatch.
- Developed self-service/automation tools using Python, ec2-boto, fabric, and Jenkins, enhancing DevOps and development task efficiency.
- Experienced with CI tools like CircleCI and Jenkins.
- Developed an Amazon Alexa custom skill with JavaScript backend.
DevOps Engineer
TechData
Tampa, FL
05.2018 - 11.2019
- Implemented Serverless services (Azure Functions) with HTTP triggers and configured Application Insights for monitoring, conducting load testing using VSTS.
- Provided guidance on public and private cloud configurations, including Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Web Apps, and Database deployments, facilitating upgrades and migrations to the latest .NET framework versions and Azure platforms.
- Developed Ansible playbooks in YAML format for automation tasks, provisioning dev servers via Ansible scripts.
- Led the development and delivery of advanced DevOps capabilities in collaboration with development teams.
- Automated deployments on AWS, configuring IAMs, integrating Jenkins with AWS via code pipeline plugin, and provisioning EC2 instances for virtual servers.
- Established automated Build and Deployment Pipelines, orchestrated deployments using VSTS, and managed lifecycles and release processes for application support.
- Installed RPA Orchestrator in the public cloud using App Service Environment (ASE) for Robotic Process Automation.
- Configured SaaS tools including ELT providers, integration platforms, and orchestration tools.
- Demonstrated expertise in modeling large datasets in distributed databases like Apache, NGINX, Cassandra, and Spanner.
- Managed network communication and protocols such as TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, NDM, SSH, NIS, NFS, and NTP Configuration and Administration.
- Managed IaaS and PaaS infrastructure supporting development applications.
- Provided on-call production support on a weekly basis.
Systems Administrator
Citi Group
Tampa, FL
07.2017 - 04.2018
- Established an automated Build and Deployment Platform, managing deployments through Azure DevOps.
- Utilized Chef Recipes & Cookbooks to automate environments within AWS, overseeing the Chef Bootstrap process and provisioning AWS servers.
- Developed strategies to optimize continuous integration, release, and deployment processes, leveraging container and virtualization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implemented JIRA for comprehensive issue tracking throughout the software development lifecycle, integrated with Git repository for code change tracking.
- Integrated Dynatrace managed with custom tools like Jenkins, PagerDuty, and Slack for alerting and incident management.
Build and Release Engineer
Nico Info Systems Pvt Ltd
India
08.2014 - 06.2015
- Oversaw source code repository management, build & release configurations, and supported daily development, test, and production deployment operations.
- Automated Operating System installations using Jumpstart for Solaris and kickstart for Linux, streamlining deployment processes.
- Managed routine system backups, scheduled jobs such as enabling and disabling cron jobs, and conducted system and network logging for maintenance, performance tuning, and testing purposes.
- Installed and configured Apache servers on Linux production environments, ensuring their seamless operation and support.
- Established network environments utilizing TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP, and Proxy configurations for efficient system communication and connectivity.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of South Alabama
ALBachelor's - Electrical & Electronics
Sri Indu College of Engineering & Technology
IndiaSkills
- Problem Solving
- Monitoring and Logging
- Linux Operating System
- API Development
- Windows Operating System
- System Administration
- Database Management
- Continuous Integration
- Agile Methodologies
- Network Fundamentals
- Configuration Management
- Incident Management
- Microservices Architecture
- Containerization Technologies
- Cloud Computing
- Scripting Languages
- Version Control Systems
- Infrastructure Automation
- Continuous Deployment
- Software Development
- Performance Optimization
- Kubernetes Administration
- Bash Shell Scripting
- SQL Query Optimization
- PowerShell Scripting
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI and CD Pipelines
- Python Scripting
- Azure DevOps Engineer
- Terraform Expertise
- Cloud Infrastructure Management
- Power BI Reporting
Certification
- AWS Developer Associate
- AWS Solution Architect
Timeline
Sr Cloud Engineer
CVS Caremark
01.2023 - Current
Cloud/DevOps ENGINEER
Vanguard
08.2021 - 01.2023
DevOps ENGINEER
Broadridge
12.2019 - 08.2021
DevOps Engineer
TechData
05.2018 - 11.2019
Systems Administrator
Citi Group
07.2017 - 04.2018
Build and Release Engineer
Nico Info Systems Pvt Ltd
08.2014 - 06.2015
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of South Alabama
Bachelor's - Electrical & Electronics
Sri Indu College of Engineering & Technology