Sriharsha Tulugu
Farmers Branch,Texas
Summary
Experienced AWS Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer, adept at architecting, orchestrating, deploying, and managing diverse AWS resources, deep-level Linux operations, and Deployment strategies. Specialized in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform and seamless migration strategies. Experience in cost optimization procedures and migrations. Proficient in optimizing system performance and minimizing downtime through advanced techniques. Skilled in various tools, including Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible, and scripting/Automation. Committed to security best practices, focusing on deep-level Linux configurations and AWS security protocols.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineer
Urgently
09.2020 - Current
- Provisioned AWS resources including IAM, EC2, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, CloudFront, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, and Route53 using IAC (Terraform).
- Run production deployments monthly with the help of GitLab pipelines for microservice and frontend applications hosted on AWS.
- Configured AWS WAF by configuring Rule groups, IP Sets, and custom rules for restricting unwanted traffic on all Environments
- Worked on several projects as part of cost savings: Graviton Instance type migration, GP2 to GP3 volume types, and Bake CIS-compliant AMIs from scratch.
- Worked on Jenkins build management pipelines for multiple development projects and products throughout entire development lifecycle and later, worked on Migrating entire pipelines to GitLab.
- Achieved zero downtime deployments, by configuring multiple origins in AWS CloudFront and integrating it with GitLab pipelines.
- Implementing Terraform templates to switch traffic during deployments by implementing a blue/green strategy.
- Extensively worked on writing Ansible playbooks from scratch for our daily operations and configuration management.
- Actively remediate findings observed in AWS Security Hub and vulnerabilities in AWS Inspector and remediate them using Ansible Roles.
- Working on Migrating the current AWS Organization structure to AWS Control Tower architecture for centralized log, access control, and security monitoring and later implemented SSO with OKTA.
- Worked on configuring file integrity monitoring and antivirus scanning on all AWS EC2 instances and configured an alarming strategy for anomalies above defined threshold using AWS Lambda.
- Worked on baking a CIS benchmark 89% compliant Amazon Linux 2,3 and Centos AMIs as part of SOC Audit and successfully pushed to all instances in Dev, QA, and Prod.
- Initiating alarms in AWS CloudWatch and triggers in lambda for better monitoring of AWS resources
- Extensively worked on AWS IAM user's access, groups, and policies and improved manageability, access governance, and information security and later migrated to AWS SSO.
- Understand business data to design and develop database, SQL functions, views, tables to retrieve, and store data, and corrections/updates to MySQL database.
AWS DevOps Engineer/Linux System Administrator
Cloud Resources LLC
10.2017 - 09.2020
- Designed, built, and configured Multi-Availability Zone, VPC, private/public subnets, security groups, AWS NACLs, NAT gateways, and bastion hosts to achieve required fault tolerance and security.
- Created AWS Launch configurations based on customized AMI and use this launch configuration to configure AWS Auto-scaling groups.
- Worked on AWS ECS, ECR and docker to deploy Dev and QA environments microservices.
- Worked on AWS Lambda to automate alert processing and automate after actions in case of a security threat identified by AWS GuardDuty.
- Worked from scratch in migrating - provisioning of infrastructure from Ansible to CloudFormation Templates to achieve Infrastructure as a Code.
- Worked on Jenkins by installing, configuring, and maintaining continuous integration (CI) and End to End automation for all build and deployments
- Worked extensively on Ansible for configuration management
- Implemented beat services to monitor user activity and File integrity on EC2 Instances and ship with them with a Logstash agent onto Elasticsearch.
- Installed, configured Splunk for Application log monitoring and built dashboards on top of it.
- Diagnosing and resolving advanced Windows/Linux-related issues including systems performance, TCP/IP problems, Daemon Service status, Port issues, etc
- Updating patches to keep servers updated against bugs present in the operating system using RPM and YUM packages with Ansible
- Worked extensively on writing shell, python, groovy scripts to automate internal tasks, alert processing scrips on the AWS EC2 instances and setup cronjobs for scheduling them.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, United States12.2016
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Andhra University
Visakhapatanam04.2014
Skills
- Operating Systems: CentOS, Amazon Linux 2,3 and Ubuntu
- AWS Cloud Solutions: VPC, EC2, S3, R53, CloudFront, CloudTrail, IAM, SecurityHub, Inspector, EBS, Lambda, SNS, SQS
- Information Security
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Configuration management: Ansible, AWS Systems Manager, Chef
- Continuous Integration/Deployment: GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube
- Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Terraform and CloudFormation
- Cost Optimization
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Containerization Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and ECR
- Migration Strategies
- DevOps Practices
- Zero Downtime Patching
- Security Protocols: File Integrity Monitoring, Vulnerability Management and AWS Security configurations and Firewalls
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services (AWS), 08/2017, 08/2020, L8RXQXBCKJ441Y58
Passionate About
Passionate about staying current with the latest technologies and trends in cloud computing, automation, and security. Dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions and driving innovation in cloud architectures and DevOps practices. Enthusiastic about collaborating and eager to contribute expertise to challenging projects.
Timeline
Senior Cloud Engineer
Urgently
09.2020 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer/Linux System Administrator
Cloud Resources LLC
10.2017 - 09.2020
Master of Science - Computer Science
Southern Arkansas University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Andhra University
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