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Sathish Kumar Raghuramarao

Atlanta,GA

Summary

Continue to Architect Secured Cloud Infrastructure and Migrations using Automated tools.

Total Years of IT around 26+ Years ,Worked as Network and security consultant for 12 Years and 9 years as Multi Cloud Architect.

Visa Status H1B


Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate consultant

Tata consultancy services,US
09.2019 - Current
  • Architect and design the requirement for the client project to migrate to cloud from on-premises
  • Engage the team on Terraform project implementation to deploy the infrastructure apim management solution store console and financial solutions
  • Lead the team to deploy GCP based infrastructure using Githu,Gradel pipeline and terraform
  • Govern the Azure and GCP and provide solution on cost management help the Management to reduce cost wherever app;icable
  • Projects: Architect and designing for migrating workload to AKS infrastructure for financial application, using azure pipleline
  • Lead a team to Implement full cycle project to migrate workloads from on premises to Azure
  • As a site reliability engineer for GCP implemented full cycle project with GCP cloud environment with Gradle pipeline, terraform infrastructure tool, cloud native firewall, Loadbalancer, Monitoring,SLO ,GKE infrastructure
  • Designed and implemented secure infrastructure in azure with the with the 2000+ Windows and Linux workloads.

Senior Principal Cloud Consultant

Apps Associates Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India
07.2015 - 09.2019
  • Architect and Designing AWS , Azure based cloud solutions with network virtualization
  • Lead a team of cloud engineers for 24/7 support for cloud networking incidents on VPC, VPN, Load balancer, Auto scaling and storage
  • Manage third party data center as transit path to our office and client site and provide periodic audits reports for client access to cloud systems
  • Work with datacenter network team to provide appropriate network connectivity to clients and onsite offices
  • Architect, Design, Implement network transit solutions and site to site solutions with virtual network like Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, pfsense , openvpn and cloud based network utilities
  • Design, Implement client site to onsite, offshore VPN connectivity, direct connectivity managing and configuring remotely for VM based firewall and hardware based routers and firewall
  • Worked on major AWS Services like EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Workspace, Cloud Trail, Could Formation, and RDS, Availability & Scalability planning and configuration Performing best practices and security hardening using the Cloud Trusted Advisory, CIS Audit for Network infrastructure, MSP audit for AWS infrastructure yearly.VPN and PAM user list audit on monthly basis
  • Projects: Responsible for setting up privilege access manager for our office with pal alto virtual network device and CA based PAM with windows active directory, Linux Log server with sumo logic and multiple accesses VPN
  • Architect, design, Implemented Cisco router, Palo Alto based virtual network for our client with failover, multiple site to site VPN, Client VPN in AWS, Azure and Oracle cloud.
  • Architect, Design, implemented paloalto based Transit VPC solution for our client
  • Architect, Design, implemented openvpn based client network integrated with windows active directory.

Customer Operations Consultant

Motorola Solutions Sdn Bhd , Penang ,Malaysia
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Responsible for troubleshooting critical offsite support for customers for network path on Motorola RF based radio solutions
  • Visit to customer sites in Singapore for onsite support and resolving Motorola product related issues and upgrading network devices
  • Maintenance of in-house lab with replica of customer setup
  • Testing and providing solutions for customer sites across Asia, Support Motorola routers hardware and OS issues
  • Understand customer requirements and provide him the guidelines with Motorola standard support for RF solutions
  • Projects: POC setup with client requirements in our lab on two way and multiple way radio setup.

Senior Network Analyst

Averis Sdn Bhd, Kuala lumpur,Malaysia
01.2013 - 12.2013
  • Worked as Network engineer lead for group supporting Network Infrastructure for RGE group company across Asia and North America
  • Responsible for 24/7 on call support for WAN and LAN breakdown issues which includes critical WAN connectivity with MPLS and Datacenter globally and manufacturing sites
  • Day today tasks involve supporting end user network, managing WAN network, Auditing network security credentials for employees, Implementing and supporting Network security infrastructure
  • Budget analysis for renewal of maintenance contract of network devices, Vendor contracts, ISP contracts
  • Planning and providing future requirements on WAN and network Hardware
  • Evaluating junior staff on periodic basis and provide updates to management for future planning and human resources requirements
  • Leading a team of network engineers to support network for RGE offices across Asia and Brazil Projects: Implemented project planning and implementation of DMVPN for RGE network across ASIA as the backup of MPLS network
  • Upgraded Riverbed across RGE office in South east asia
  • Upgraded Core switch and distribution switches from IOS to Nexus architecture.

Senior Network Analyst

Accenture Solutions Sdn Bhd ,Malaysia
09.2011 - 12.2012
  • Worked as Network engineer lead for group of network engineers supporting Network Infrastructure for RGE group company across Asia and North America
  • Responsible for 24/7 on call support for WAN and LAN breakdown issues which includes critical WAN connectivity with MPLS and Datacenter globally and manufacturing sites
  • Day today tasks involve supporting end user network, managing WAN network, Auditing network security credentials for employees, Implementing and supporting Network security infrastructure
  • Projects: Planning and implemented Site to site VPN between two branch offices in KL and Singapore using Checkpoint firewall over Internet connection and between DMZ zones
  • Planning and upgrading Network LAN Network security devices and WAN devices across 3 sites in Malaysia

Senior Network Engineer

CSC Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
03.2008 - 09.2011
  • Undertake monthly preventive health check for all wireless devices, LAN and WAN network devices
  • Escalation and coordinating the recovery of any outages for WAN and LAN at Motorola and Freescale across Malaysia, Follow-up with root cause analysis
  • Provide remote technical support within Managed Services’ ITIL aligned service delivery processes, including but not limited to, Incident Management, change management and Problem Management
  • Manage, own and co-ordinate technical resolution of incidents either remotely or onsite utilizing internal resources or external service providers, where appropriate
  • Use lab equipment and resources to attempt to recreate client incidents and undertake fault simulation activities
  • Accept, manage and update service requests to ensure contracted Service Level Agreements are met
  • Understand and manage the requirements of being part of a 24x7 on-call operation, support and escalation
  • Projects: Being the part of CSC Malaysia network team at client site, Motorola lead projects for wireless infrastructure restructuring With symbol hardware replacing the Cisco hardware
  • Designing, procuring, planning, installing and testing are the part of Projects which undertaken as the PM for the project at Motorola, Malaysia
  • Lead the project for network hardening for all Cisco switches across Malaysia for planning and executing configuration Updates for enhanced security and performance
  • Lead the project for Asia Hosted IPT involved configuring and supporting HIPT for Motorola sites throughout Asia.

Network Engineer

AMK technology Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
12.2003 - 02.2008
  • Worked as network engineer at Motorola as the client of CSC looking after networks of Motorola, Malaysia involved in giving onsite support for network related issue including Cisco routers and switches
  • Responsible for 24/7 on call support for WAN and LAN breakdown issues which includes critical WAN connectivity with MPLS and Datacenter globally and manufacturing sites
  • Day today tasks involve supporting end user network, managing wan network, clearing tickets, maintaining network device inventory and maintenance
  • Providing weekly reports on latency of wan network utilization and latency data
  • Projects: Being as the part of Malaysia Motorola taken active part in configuring MPLS network for all sites includes coordinating With vendor for fiber cabling, procuring hardware interacting with telecom for proper service and configuring Cisco devices for MPLS
  • Worked with team of 2 to provide HA for Motorola, Job includes purchasing required hardware, take inventory at port level, Configuring all devices, installing and testing
  • Update inventory and monitoring system
  • Taken lead in completing annual technical refresh for access switches and hubs to the standard and new updated hardware, Includes planning, procuring hardware, configuring and installing
  • Lead a project to upgrade Cisco wireless network across Motorola, Malaysia to EAP-TLS technology to support multiple VLAN in the wireless network.

Engineer-Tech support

Rocsys Technolgies, Hyderabad,India
04.2000 - 08.2003
  • Responsible for maintaining client, server technology to support internal users for mailing, proxy, simulation testing and multi-hosting websites for own office
  • Prevention of Hackers attacks like IP spoofing, Land attack, Ping of Death, SYN Flooding, ICMP Redirect, Source Routing Check, Win nuke attack
  • Involved in testing our product and comparing with various other routers like Cisco and net screen
  • To support after sale and presale of products and client network installed with our proprietary routers and RAS
  • Responsible for office Windows 2000 system administration involving various security aspects active directory domain structure for secure updates on Client machine include Linux, windows, FreeBSD and Solaris
  • Responsible for maintaining Windows 2000 server (IIS) with many domain names, with one IP mapping to many
  • Optimization tuning includes hardware and software, RAID based storage, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft exchange 2000 for mailing at customer based infrastructure
  • Tasks include installing firmware in our branded routers, testing, configuring for required user network, testing at user site, installing our product and maintain after sale.

System administrator

Vision labs India Pty ltd, Hyderabad,India
03.1997 - 04.2000
  • Maintain office network with 300 users who involve in software development, IS, data entry services and customer support at Customer’s sites network and system hardware, UNIX servers, printers and software.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Madras
Chennai,India
1996

Skills

  • Problem solving
  • Technical expertise
  • Adaptability
  • GCP,Azure,AWS Architect
  • Team management
  • Automation-Terraform,Jenkins
  • Network and Security
  • innovation
  • FinOps
  • Quick Learner

Education Certifications

  • Post graduate Honors Diploma in Computer hardware and LAN networking.
  • Bachelor is of degree in economics from university of Madras.
  • Certified Azure solutions architect expert.
  • Certified AWS associate solution architect.
  • Certified Azure Administrator

Career Overview

Designed ,Architect various projects in Azure, AWS and GCP cloud using native cloud tools, terraform, Devops pipeline tools like Gradle. Network Designing, Planning, Implementing, Auditing and Troubleshooting of IT networking assignments. maintaining the Data center environment, large software house and manufacturing units with multi cloud and security. Lead a team on supporting complex Data center and on premises network implementation and projects. Proactive, flexible attitude to work with a willingness to constantly review and improve skills and processes, Strong co-ordination and problem-solving skills and excellent communication strengths.

References

  • Vikas Dhyani, Colleague, SRE, TCS, +1 972 822 9179
  • Suresh Vankadari, NOC manager, Managing principal consultant, Apps Associates pvt ltd, +91 9160002163

Certification

· Certified Azure solutions architect expert.

· Certified AWS associate solution architect.

· Certified Azure Administrator


Languages

English

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Associate consultant

Tata consultancy services,US
09.2019 - Current

Senior Principal Cloud Consultant

Apps Associates Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India
07.2015 - 09.2019

Customer Operations Consultant

Motorola Solutions Sdn Bhd , Penang ,Malaysia
01.2014 - 01.2015

Senior Network Analyst

Averis Sdn Bhd, Kuala lumpur,Malaysia
01.2013 - 12.2013

Senior Network Analyst

Accenture Solutions Sdn Bhd ,Malaysia
09.2011 - 12.2012

Senior Network Engineer

CSC Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
03.2008 - 09.2011

Network Engineer

AMK technology Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
12.2003 - 02.2008

Engineer-Tech support

Rocsys Technolgies, Hyderabad,India
04.2000 - 08.2003

System administrator

Vision labs India Pty ltd, Hyderabad,India
03.1997 - 04.2000

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Madras
Sathish Kumar Raghuramarao