Sandeep Katragadda
Ashburn,USA
Summary
Versatile DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience seeking to leverage proven end to end automation skills through efficient utilization of tools across the board. Aim at empowering organizations to provision, orchestrate and configure solutions effectively, by providing a modular and flexible automation toolset, with a focus on enhancing systems' manageability, stability and reliability.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. DevOps Engineer
IBM
06.2022 - Current
- Experience in designing and implementing solutions on AWS using services like Fargate, Lambda, Step-Functions, Route-53, Secrets Manager, CloudFront, CloudWatch etc
- Automated provisioning of lower environments on AWS, using Terraform, with services like EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM etc
- Designed the architecture for an enterprise level centralized video repository application on Kubernetes, for better visibility & improved mean time to repair (MTTR), with other tools like RabbitMQ, MongoDB etc., in the eco-system
- Implementation of a Kubernetes cluster of Dynamic Environments to allow on-demand use by development and QA teams to deploy and test their code without environment concurrency.
- Developed Ansible Playbooks to accommodate application deployments
- Implemented Gitlab CI for different internal applications for improved and automated change push to production
- Developed a Python web crawler application to automate Channel Launch activity on Video Controllers that contributed towards the time saving through the reduction of the channel launch time by 95%
- Developed and implemented an Alarm correlation engine that suppressed the alarm noise from video network devices by 98%
- Instrumental in successfully migrating 5000+ clients from a 17TB Splunk environment to a larger Splunk environment of 52TB licensing capacity
- Devised and orchestrated the scaling plan for the Elasticsearch cluster, with 120+ servers and 400+ users, along with consulting in migrating multiple Elastic clusters into a single network space and in cluster upgrades
- Performed periodical audits to identify security vulnerabilities and tech debts and led the initiatives to address them effectively
- Piloted security standard implementations through development and implementation of unified authentication and authorization mechanisms across different applications like Elasticsearch, Rundeck etc
- Conceptualized and lead generic API Security implementation across several applications within the organization
- Implemented and optimized AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, and Shield, fortifying the overall security posture of cloud environments.
DevOps Engineer
Western Governors University
05.2020 - 05.2022
- Architecting Data flows for Splunk and Elasticsearch like Source agent configuration development and management, designing and implementing document caching, buffering and processing/parsing configurations to make data understandable
- Implementation of Kubernetes in all environments (testing, QA, staging, and production) to bring many operational and security benefits to applications.
- Adjustment and migration of workloads (apps, cronjobs, services) to run on Kubernetes.
- Provide infrastructure as a service using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Provide infrastructure as a service using CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Collaborate with my team to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure on AWS, i.e. launching EC2 Instances, auto scaling, ELB, Route53, managing IAM roles, etc. - Executed identity and access management strategies through AWS IAM, AD Connector, and AWS Workspaces, enhancing security controls.
- Integrated Jenkins for automating CI/CD pipelines, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time.
- Implemented Ansible for configuration management and automation of system deployments across a fleet of servers.
- Managed version control using Git and SCM, ensuring efficient code management and seamless collaboration across teams.
- Developing dashboards to assist in identifying performance trends of different critical applications and reduce the mean time to detect (MTTD) an issue
- Analyzing user needs and designing, developing, testing and provisioning new data systems to meet requirements within time and budget constraints
- Worked with HPC and GPU-accelerated systems, optimizing performance for computational workloads.
- Worked on Proof of Concepts (POC) on new technologies viz., Rundeck, Kubernetes etc., to understand feasibility of the solution and increase operational efficiency of the eco-system
- Supported the team in adopting Agile methodologies, including participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
DevOps Engineer
Fannie Mae
10.2019 - 05.2020
- Enhanced Configuration Management using CHEF to assist with automated, repeatable, and consistent configuration and application deployments
- Spearheaded the implementation of Terraform scripts, enhancing infrastructure as code (IaC) efficiency by 30%.
- Managed AWS CloudFormation templates, ensuring seamless deployment of resources for diverse projects.
- Orchestrated automation workflows using Ansible, AWS Lambda, and Docker, resulting in a 25% reduction in manual intervention.
- Administrated Jenkins and Gitlab and instrumental in performing periodical upgrades of the applications and ensuring their health and high availability
- Implemented Chef best-practices and Integrated InSpec testing framework for infrastructure to meet compliance standards, security and other policy requirements
- Developed code (ruby DSL) to manage configuration of different components of Elastic stack through configuration management solution Chef
- Developed end to end automation solutions using tools like Chef, Jenkins, JFROG Artifactory and Terraform
- Review existing integration capabilities among different applications/systems and data, identify, design and implement additional integration possibilities for operational efficiency
- Managed Chef Cookbook source code repos for deploying configurations and implementing chefSpec frameworks to identify cookbook issues at initial stages
- Developed Terraform modules for enterprise Oracle VM provisioning using the vSphere provider and provisioners like Chef, local-exec and remote-exec etc
- Instrumental in standardizing the tools and practices across teams to ensure smooth delivery of code releases
- Developed and implemented an orchestrator platform through Jenkins pipelines in managing the configuration of an application platform with 3000+ servers
- Worked with monitoring solutions like Icinga to monitor the health and performance of various applications & systems
- User Access and authentication management for the systems using LDAP authentication tools like FreeIPA
- Assumed the role of Scrum master to implement Agile and Scrum best practices
DevOps Engineer
NIKE
01.2018 - 10.2019
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups
- Involved in managing the Gitlab server and maintaining the repositories and their access requests through an effective project groups hierarchy
- Developed Jenkins pipelines using groovy (Jenkins DSL) language for configuring Jobs by code using scripted pipeline model
- Instrumental in successful migration of Gitlab server from one datacenter to the other
- Supported production systems on a 24/7 on-call rotation basis
- Worked closely with developers in resolving conflicts while handling merge requests on GIT
- Build, manage, and continuously improve the build infrastructure for software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts and managing continuous integration infrastructure and deployments
- Experience in authoring POM.xml files, performing releases with the Maven release plugin, Mavenization of Java projects and managing Maven repositories
- Involved in Jenkins installation and setup and created a master and slave configuration to implement continuous integration with nightly and on-demand build jobs
- Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring CentOS Linux using Kickstart Servers
- Developed multiple bash scripts to automate day to day activities and perform other critical tasks like system backups
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Illinois At Springfield
Springfield, IL12-2016
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Container Orchestration
- Automation - CI/CD
- Data flow Architecture
- Configuration Management
- Provisioning
- Source Code Management
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Splunk
- Elastic Stack
- Chef
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Rundeck
- FreeIPA
- Kafka
- Terraform
- Python
- Bash
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Terraform Associate
Personal Information
Title: Sr.Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Tools And Scripting
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Splunk
- Elastic Stack
- Chef
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Rundeck
- FreeIPA
- Kafka
- Terraform
- Python
- Bash
Timeline
Sr. DevOps Engineer
IBM
06.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Western Governors University
05.2020 - 05.2022
DevOps Engineer
Fannie Mae
10.2019 - 05.2020
DevOps Engineer
NIKE
01.2018 - 10.2019
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Illinois At Springfield
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