Siddartha Gudipati
AWS Cloud/Systems/DevOps Engineer
Bothell,WA
Work Preference
Summary
- With strong experience in AWS Cloud/DevOps environment in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Customization, Bug fixes, Enhancement, Support and Implementation of various infrastructure using agile methodology on AWS platform. Experienced on deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems with implementing data, security best practices on AWS Services.
- Implementing, and supporting the foundational Client AWS infrastructure including but not limited to AWS organizations/accounts, Landing Zone, networking, security, identity, and targeted business applications/integrations.
- Experience in writing Ansible Playbooks using python SSH to manage the configuration of AWS nodes and test the playbooks on AWS instances using python.
- Working experience of AWS IaaS and PaaS services like EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Container Service, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Front, VPC, CloudWatch, FSx, Lambda, EKS, Transfer for SFTP, Trusted Advisor, Route53, ECS, ALB, NLB, Step Functions, Lambda Function SNS, SQS, SCP, AMI, ELK stack, AWS Organizations, Cloudwatch, Event Bridge, Certificate Manager,Cost Explorer and AWS CLI.
- Experienced in Infrastructure automation using Terraform (IaC) and AWS Cloud Formation (IaC) by creating custom launch templates. Help with infrastructure design and implement the approved architecture. For example 3-tier architecture.
- Automated infrastructure deployment with terraform and harness.
- Utilize ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack for monitoring metrics and log management.
- Experience in network administration, encompassing load balancers, VLAN, IP subnetting, proxies, firewalls, and core technologies like DNS, routing, and iptables.
- Experience working on Docker with Kubernetes, Used Docker storage, networking, cloud, logging, compose and continuous integration.
- Work on shift rotations for production support and operational readiness support. Experience in DevOps, software configuration management, Build and Release Management.
- Experience in using version control and source code management tools.
- Experience in using Jenkins/GitLab for automating software development process by continuous integration (CI) and to facilitate continuous delivery (CD) for technical aspects.
- Experienced to write scripts using Python, Groovy, Shell. Worked on Python/Bash scripts to gather resources metrics from AWS EC2 Instances, and configured Alerts and Dashboards using AWS Cloud Watch Monitoring.
- Possess knowledge about core internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP, establishing a strong foundation for network administration.
- Deployed Kubernetes cluster in production using Terraform (IaC) scripts.
- Familiarity with DMZ based network architectures and associated infrastructure
- Able to work as part of a high performing, collaborative team with limited supervision
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Cloud DevOps/Support Engineer
Availity
08.2024 - Current
- Provide production support ensuring smooth and reliable deployment of infrastructure and software.
- Build Terraform modules for infrastructure provisiong automation for AWS cloud.
- Manage Jenkins CI/CD pielines for the project.
- Utilize Splunk dashboards for monitoring and log analysis.
- Work with AWS solutions using EC2, ALB, NLB, S3, Secrets Manger, SNS, SQS, AMI, Lambda Function, IAM, Event Bridge, Certificate Manager, AWS CLI, Auto scaling groups, CloudFront, Step Functions, Cost analyser etc.
- Implement S3 life cycle policies for cost optimization and object archival.
- Work on IAM roles/policies, security groups and ACLs to ensure correct and minimal access is given to resources hosted in AWS.
- Monitoring dashboards for anamolies in user activity and detect early sings of probable issues.
- Responding to incidents and queries. Collabrate with developers and testers to resolve issues, striving for continuos delivery and automated process.
- Utilize ansible scripts to ensure servers are configured as per organisational requirements.
- Investigating/analyzing incidents to identify root cause and ensure corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
- Involved development and test activities on docker containers and configuration using kubernetes.
- Tracking production issues and resolutions to present status updates as required.
- Coordinate with development, QA, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth release process.
- Creating/Manage change request and overseeing deployment of code changes for smooth releases into production.
- Monitor and report success/failures of changes.
- Identify potential risks and issues that may impact the release schedule or quality.
- Ensure that rollback plans are in place in case of deployment failures.
AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps
Cisco
03.2023 - 08.2024
- Managing initiatives for migration and modernization in AWS cloud environment.
- Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of the infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
- Automated infrastructure migration to cloud environment using CloudFormation and Terraform (IaC).
- Ceating Jenkins multibranch pipelines to deploy the AWS infrastructure to production and Non-production using terraform (IaC).
- Created groovy scripts to create pipelines for terraform deplyment across different environments.
- Created step functions to orchestrate the flow of files processing in S3 based on event triggers.
- Used AWS CloudFront to make files available for download from S3 at edge locations for faster availabilty.
- Maintain SCP in management account and access control using IAM roles, IAM Users and IAM policies.
- Designed and deployed AWS solutions using EC2, ALB, NLB, S3, EFS, ECS, EKS, Secrets Manger, FSx, SNS, SQS, AMI, Elastic Load Balancer, Secrets Manager, Lambda Function, Route53, IAM, Event Bridge, RDS, Certificate Manager, AWS CLI, Auto scaling groups, CloudFront, Step Functions etc.
- Created lambda script using python for SHA 512 calculation and for generating signed URL for accesing the files hosted in S3 through AWS CloudFront.
- Experience with AWS security tools and services: AWS Security Model, IAM (Identity Access Management), ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager), Security Groups, Network ACLs, Encryption and Firewalls.
- Work closely with the architects and engineers to implement networks, systems, and storage environment that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
- Provide Production support and take care of operational needs for the applications hosted in AWS to make sure the infrastructure is up and running.
- Providing analysis reports and AWS recommendations for cost optimization and security alerts.
- Create roles and users in AWS identity and access management to grant or revoke permissions.
- Deploy CloudFormation stacks using serverless code to create and maintain the infrastructure with the help of serverless.
- Implemented AWS CloudFront to improve the lantecy of the web application hosted in S3, increase high performce and enhance security.
- Work with the PMs closely to prepare and deliver technical solutions for various sized migrations and upgrades.
- Monitored the servers and checked the network performance using Nagios, Splunk, CloudWatch, and logging tool ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
- Engaging and assisting other teams with issue identification and resolution utilizing Splunk, Grafana and CloudWatch monitoring platforms.
- Build automated CI/CD pipeline with AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins and AWS Code Deploy.
- Create and maintain approved Terraform IaC modules to ensure consistency and security.
- Assist with application migrations from acquisition AWS Orgs. to Client Org.
- Design and implement best practices for operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, efficiency, and cost optimization across Cloud platforms.
- Work on cluster life cycle by deploying updates and patches in K8s clusters.
- Create and maintain documentation related to the Client Cloud Program.
- Integrated AWS Dynamo DB using AWS lambda to store the values the items and backup the Dynamo DB streams and implemented Terraform IaC modules for deployment of applications.
- Setup CloudWatch alarms, SNS notifications on various AWS services as required.
AWS Cloud Migration/ Infrastructure Engineer
American Express GBT
Bothell, WA
02.2021 - 03.2023
- Managing initiatives for migration and modernization in AWS cloud environment and giving production and operational support until migration cutoff.
- Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of the infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
- Work with the larger design team to develop a full Hybrid Cloud Solution.
- Automated infrastructure migration to cloud environment using CloudFormation.
- Deploying VPC resources from management account using CloudFormation Stack sets and Code Pipeline.
- Monitors systems using a variety of tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, Kibana, New Relic, Nagios and Splunk.
- Created lambda script using python for HA and scheduled start and stop of instances, setup trigger to AWS lambda using CloudWatch scheduled events.
- Use Control tower CfCT scripts to deploy SCP into management account and deploy CFT stacks to the AWS accounts/Ous.
- Mainitaing the production infrasturcutre and provide critical support for debugging and maintaince. Managing accesss control to prodcution environment accounts.
- Designed and deployed AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EFS, EKS, Secrets Manger, FSx, SNS, SQS, Elastic Load Balancer, Secrets Manager, ALB, NLB, Lambda Function, Event Bridge, RDS, Certificate Manager, AWS CLI, AMI, Auto scaling groups, etc.
- Experience with AWS security tools and services: AWS Security Model, IAM (Identity Access Management), ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager), Security Groups, Network ACLs, Encryption and Firewalls.
- Providing analysis reports and AWS recommendations for cost optimization and security alerts.
- Create roles and users in AWS identity and access management to grant or revoke permissions.
- Deploy CloudFormation stacks using serverless code to create and maintain the infrastructure with the help of serverless.
- Work with the PMs closely to prepare and deliver technical solutions for various sized migrations and upgrades.
- Worked on monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, ELK Stack (Elastic search, Log stash, Kibana), and Cloud Watch.
- Integrated Prometheus with Grafana to create dashboards for visualizing metrics and monitoring the health of microservices.
- Support the migration of DNS servers and setupFirewalls in AWS from on-prem.
- Develop shell and groovy scripts for infrastucutre deployment automation.
- Automate deployment and scaling of kubernetes clusters and applications.
- Help application teams to migrate from on-prem to AWS. Work in triage calls with vendors and app teams to troubleshoot and provision infrastructure as needed.
- Create and Manage IAM Roles and Policies.
- Setup and manage Service Control Policies “SCPs”.
- Support Production network and participate in rotating on-call schedule.
- Monitored server health, log space utilization, using Splunk dashboard.
- Develop and maintain AWS Landing Zone resources such as accounts, VPCs, IAM, etc.
- Work closely with Client and acquisition Cloud Security/Engineering staff to align security policies, IaC blueprints, and security guardrails.
Sr. AWS/DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile
Bellevue, WA
11.2018 - 02.2021
- Involved in Design/Architecture of AWS and hybrid cloud solutions.
- Setup and build AWS infrastructure using various resources, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, EBS,Lambda, SNS, SQS, SCP, ALB, NLB, AMI, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, Transfer for SFTP, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Front, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, Trusted Advisor, RDS, Event Bridge, Cost Explorer and AWS CLI.
- Managed Identity and Access Management (IAM) service in AWS for assigning roles and polices to users and used the IAM console to create custom users and groups.
- Communicate with customer to generate correspondence for customer components running on AWS VPC & AWS EKS kubernetes cluster.
- Taking care of production environment operational tasks to ensure continuous and immediate operational support.
- Troubleshooting user SSH and user authentication.
- Offer expertise in network administration, encompassing load balancers, VLAN, IP subnetting, proxies, firewalls, and core technologies like DNS, routing, and iptables.
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of docker conatiners.
- Organizing and coordinating Product Releases, work closely with product development, QA, Support across global locations to ensure successful releases.
- Build automated CI/CD pipeline with AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins and AWS Code Deploy.
- Provide technical assistance to all phases of the Cloud Program, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS).
- Maintaining Tagging compliance for all the AWS resources, update all the tags using AWS CLI.
- Get resources metrics using AWS CLI, like Max/Avg CPU utilization, Enabling ENA for latest generation of EC2, changing Instance profile/IAM role, Change and describe Instance attributes, resource tagging and Create AMI Image.
- Monitored and helped in setting baseline parameters for application teams using monitoring tools like Kibana, Splunk, Grafana and CloudWatch.
- Responsible for DevOps tool upgrades and security patches.
- Implemented rapid-provisioning and management for Linux using Amazon EC2, Ansible, and custom Bash scripts.
- Implement Life-cycle Policy for snapshots.
- Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform (IaC) to build staging and production environments.
- Responsible to handle the deployments of infrastructure changes through terraform/cloudformation in both production and non-production environments.
- Deploy Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources using AWS Cloud Formation.
- Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch.
- Build Docker containerization with Kubernetes(EKS), collaborated with development support teams to setup a continues delivery environment with the use of Docker.
- Ensuring regular Tag compliance and Patch compliance to the servers.
- Creating S3 buckets and maintained and utilized the policy management of S3 buckets and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
- Worked with Jenkins pipeline suite for supporting the implementation and integration of continuous delivery (CD) pipelines into Jenkins.
- Write Python Scripts for automating the build and deployment process.
- Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
- Provisioned and Managed the configurations of multiple servers using Ansible.
- Enable SSH access to servers from the Jump server without key or password using Ansible and shell.
- Define Terraform IaC modules such as Compute and Users to reuse in different environments.
- Configured GIT plugin to offer integration between GIT and Jenkins.
- Deploy built Artifacts to application server using Maven.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Cleveland State University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Skills
- GIT
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Cloud Formation
- Terraform
- ELK Stack
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Splunk
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- VMWare
- Shell
- Python
- Groovy
- MySQL
- RIP
- EIGRP
- OSPF
- IS-IS
- BGPv4
- MP-BGP
- TCP/IP
- Cisco Packet Tracer
- Wireshark
- Red Hat Linux
- Linux
- Unix
- PoP OS
- Ubuntu
- Windows
- MS Office Suite
- File Zilla Client
- Putty
- Python
- GitLLab
- Amazon Q
- Cost Optimization
- JSON
- YAML
Certification
- AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate, 2021-01-01
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2020-01-01
Personal Information
Title: AWS Cloud/Systems/DevOps Engineer
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
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Telugu
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Hindi
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Marathi
Limited Working
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Interests
Quantum Software Engineering
Quote
Don't give up what you want most for what feels good now.
Timeline
Cloud DevOps/Support Engineer
Availity
08.2024 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps
Cisco
03.2023 - 08.2024
AWS Cloud Migration/ Infrastructure Engineer
American Express GBT
02.2021 - 03.2023
Sr. AWS/DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile
11.2018 - 02.2021
Master of Science - Computer Science
Cleveland State University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Savitribai Phule Pune University