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Srinivas Reddy Gavinnolla

Azure Cloud Architect
Alpharetta,GA

Summary

Having overall 20+ years of experience in IT industry and 8+ years of experience in defining and implementing cloud/Azure based large solutions. Define cloud architecture, design and implementation for hosting large, complex applications in Azure Cloud infrastructure architect that provided subject matter expertise and hands-on support to the Azure Infrastructure Platform. Key responsibilities & experiences include: SAP on Azure; cloud infrastructure advisory role on the following work-streams: disaster recovery, high availability, infrastructure design & automation; produced artifacts that were required for major project milestones; identified gaps and provided recommendations based on industry best practices Planned and architected a hybrid cloud Services program to leverage an on-premises cloud with public cloud services. Strong experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. Expertise in Azure infrastructure services, such as virtual machines, virtual networks, and storage. Knowledge of Azure platform services, such as Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure API Management. Experience in designing and implementing Azure solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability. Expertise in Azure DevOps and Azure automation for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation. Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and experience implementing security measures in Azure. Experience in implementing governance and compliance controls in Azure, including Azure Policy, Azure Blueprint, and Azure Security Center. Knowledge of Azure data services, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Cosmos DB. Strong programming skills in languages such as PowerShell and Python. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Azure Data Cloud Architect

BlueShield of California
Oakland, CA
04.2022 - Current
  • Architecting, designing and building Cloud solutions to business requirements in accordance to enterprise application and technology roadmaps, principles, standards and guidelines
  • Developing migration strategies to move key application workloads into the Cloud
  • Assist with infrastructure migration strategies, such as mass application transfers to the cloud
  • Performing activities such as deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management inside the cloud framework that has been created
  • Conducting migrations to transfer tools and other aspects into the cloud, as needed
  • Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
  • Designing and delivering Azure Data Analytics solutions
  • Requirements Analysis and Solution Architecture Design
  • Data modelling and data architecture design
  • Implementation experience with Data Lakes and Business Intelligence tools in Azure
  • Expertise in building Azure native enterprise applications and migrating applications from on-premises to Azure environments
  • Detailed understanding of Azure database offerings [ Relational, NoSQL, Data warehouse ]
  • Deep familiarity with Azure Security Services [ Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Key Vault, ADFS]
  • Architecture and Implementation experience with medium to complex on-prem to Azure migrations
  • Involved in the migration of on-premises database to Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure as a service model
  • Manage SQL Server databases in Azure-IAAS and helped setting up Connection Strings and connecting SQL Server AZURE Databases from locally Installed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for Developers
  • Pure data modelling experience
  • Strong experience in data architecture and data modeling, with expertise in designing and implementing data solutions on Azure
  • In-depth knowledge of Azure data services, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB
  • Experience in designing and implementing data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and other ETL tools
  • Strong programming skills in languages such as SQL, Python
  • Knowledge of data security and compliance standards, such as GDPR and HIPAA, and experience implementing security measures in Azure
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Azure Stack HCI: Experience in designing, deploying, and managing Azure Stack HCI environments
  • Virtualization: Knowledge of virtualization technologies, such as Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix, and their integration with Azure Stack HCI
  • Storage: Expertise in designing and managing storage solutions, such as Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Software-Defined Storage (SDS), and Azure Blob Storage
  • Networking: Understanding of networking concepts, such as virtual networks, load balancers, and firewalls, and their integration with Azure Stack HCI
  • Automation: Familiarity with automation tools and technologies, such as PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, and Desired State Configuration (DSC).
  • Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
  • Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
  • Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.

Azure Cloud Architect

Elanco
Indianapolis, IN
05.2019 - 03.2022
  • Cloud architect that provided subject matter expertise and hands-on support to the Azure Platform
  • Key responsibilities & experiences include:
  • SAP on Azure; cloud advisory role on the following work-streams: disaster recovery, high availability, infrastructure design & automation; produced artifacts that were required for major project milestones; identified gaps and provided recommendations based on industry best practices
  • Planned and architected a hybrid cloud Services program to leverage an on-premises cloud with public cloud services
  • Developed future-state infrastructure architecture to align with enterprise cloud strategy
  • Define cloud architecture, design and implementation plans for hosting complex application workloads on MS Azure
  • Architect solutions using MS Azure PaaS services such as SQL Server, HDInsight, service bus, etc
  • Provide technical oversight and guidance during client’s engagement execution
  • Provide Cloud / Azure thought leadership through regular publications and speaking engagements
  • Provide Azure technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc., in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process
  • Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policies and routing
  • In-depth knowledge of Azure data services, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB
  • Experience in designing and implementing data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and other ETL tools
  • Strong programming skills in languages such as SQL, Python
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets
  • Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer
  • Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer
  • Implemented high availability with Azure Resource Manager deployment models
  • Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets
  • Created the pipeline and moved the on-premise Data to Azure cloud using Azure Data Factory (ADF)
  • Manage and Create Storage Account and Affinity Group in Azure Portal
  • Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Azure Pipeline in Azure Data Factory
  • Automated the deployment to Azure using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and the Microsoft Azure Portal
  • Developed cloud-Native applications using DevOps and API’s and Container Based (AKS) methodologies
  • Deployed the infrastructure to cloud suing Configuration Management tools such as: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
  • Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change
  • Implemented DevOps using ADO(VSTS) and Proficient in build & Release Pipelines
  • Used Databricks to read data from Multiple Data sources such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
  • Monitor Azure Infrastructure through System Center Operation Manager (SCOM)
  • Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections)
  • Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis
  • Develop power shell scripts and ARM templates to automate the provisioning and deployment process
  • Participate in internal and customer meetings assisting with the ongoing evolution of technology offerings
  • Provide technical guidance on building solutions using Azure PaaS and other services
  • Succeeded in Responsible for consistent 40% SQL query performance improvement in a production environment going with full countrywide volume in few months
  • This is accomplished with combination of changes in queries and table level index modifications
  • Tables reduced in size from 2 TB to 800GB due to dropped indices as part of this performance tuning effort
  • Architected data archiving solution to handle high data volume and improve application performance through SQL Server Partitioning as needed
  • Experience in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Storage, Azure AD and Office365)
  • Experience working in Agile/SCRUM teams
  • Implemented Remote event receivers with provider hosted App deployed on office 365-site collection
  • Design and implement Kubernetes applications on Azure Container Service (AKS)
  • Worked on implementing Micro services on Kubernetes Cluster
  • Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple name spaced versions
  • Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its Nodes, Config Maps, selector, services
  • Working knowledge of Container Management and Orchestration Software like Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Terraform.

Azure Cloud Architect

Archroma
Houston, TX
05.2018 - 04.2019
  • Lead in the installation, maintenance, and system administration of the virtualized environment
  • Migration of VM, Web Apps, SQL Data Base from on premises to Azure Cloud
  • Syncing on Premises Active Directory to Azure AD with Azure AD Connect
  • Configured BGP routes to enable Express Route connections between on-premise data centers and Azure cloud
  • Configured a Jump Server in Azure Cloud to connect On Premises to Cloud
  • Implementing Azure Cloud with high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models
  • Experienced on creating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNETs and subnets
  • Worked closely with the engineering team to implement solutions to cloud and data services requirements
  • Implemented and maintained backup, replications and snapshots
  • Configured the networking, SANs, multiple hosts, switches, VMWare software for each site
  • Maintained and supported the virtual environment, creation of Servers, rapid deployments of SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver Servers
  • Experienced in Data Ingestion projects to inject data into Data Lake using multiple sources systems using Talend Big data
  • Experienced in Talend Service Oriented Web Services using SOAP, REST and XML/HTTP technologies using Talend ESB components
  • Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple name spaced versions
  • Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its Nodes, Config Maps, selector, services
  • Working knowledge of Container Management and Orchestration Software like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Azure Cloud Architect

SunTrust Bank
Atlanta, US
09.2015 - 04.2018
  • Designing scalable, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure solutions with best practices for dedicated data centers, public, private or Hybrid clouds (Amazon AWS, VMware and Red Hat Virtualization)
  • Created the pipeline and moved the on premise Data to Azure cloud using Azure Data Factory (ADF)
  • Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models using Azure Data
  • Developed cloud-Native applications using DevOps and API’s and Container Based (AKS) methodologies
  • Expert in designing and customizing Mango DB Applications, Database updates and migration
  • Implemented Optimal Azure DevOps CI/CD Web/SQL release automation pipelines
  • Automated the deployment to Azure using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and the Microsoft Azure Portal
  • Deployed the infrastructure to cloud suing Configuration Management tools such as: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
  • Implemented enterprise-wide single sign-on with Snowflake suing Organizational Azure Active Directory Support
  • Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change
  • Automated performance testing to the pipeline & promotion to production once validated
  • Implemented hybrid connectivity between Azure and on premise using virtual networks, VPN and Express Route
  • Used Azure Synapse for analytics using SQL Pool for Enterprise Data warehouse and Big Data
  • Implemented DevOps using ADO(VSTS) and Proficient in build & Release Pipelines
  • Build and deployed the micro services to service fabric cluster using Azure Service Fabric
  • Used Data bricks to read data from Multiple Data sources such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
  • Developed Azure functions and Web apps and container code using Python HA cluster administration
  • Added new nodes to the Veritas Storage Foundation HA
  • Manager and VERITAS File System management, VCS (VERITAS Clustering Suite)
  • Administration of multiple AIX machines, AIX clusters, and SP nodes from any client platform through WebSM and https (for HMC 7.x)
  • Installed and configured IBM PowerHA
  • Installation of packages/software in RHEL 6
  • RHEL LVM Management (File system, Volume group and Logical volume Management)
  • Performing OS Upgrade from RHEL 5.x to 5.10 and RHEL6.x to 6.5
  • Configured KDUMP configuration
  • Added new nodes in Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster
  • Performing defragment in Veritas cluster

Unix System Administrator SME

Sysco Corporation
Houston, TX
11.2012 - 09.2015
  • SME
  • Experienced in setting up environment for HADOOP Development and Production Systems
  • Administration and Experience of cloud platforms (AWS)
  • Maintaining the configuration using Puppet
  • Job responsibilities include maintenance and administration of 1200 IBM P series and Blade Centre servers with AIX, Linux and HPUX operating systems hosted on them
  • Working on documentation of process and technical procedures
  • Working on hardware migrations, OS TL Up gradations, Server migrations, HACMP cluster setup and troubleshooting, VIO Administration, HMC administration and application up gradations
  • Working on virtualization in AIX
  • Working on Firmware up gradations and NIM server administration activities
  • Build RedHat Linux Infrastructure for HADOOP Development and Production Environments
  • Completed the VERITAS Cluster upgrades from VCS 5.1 to VCS 6.1
  • Company
  • Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software.
  • Analyzed complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.

UNIX SME

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Hyderabad, India
03.2006 - 10.2012
  • Agilent Technologies Infrastructure management Services, One of the leading Suppliers of Telecom products in USA Duration, This project involves maintenance of 5 data centers which consists of 1000 servers, which includes both P series (P5, P6, P7) servers, Linux Servers, HP-UX Servers and IBM Blade servers interconnected with EMC and IBM Storage
  • Responsibilities
  • Job responsibilities include maintenance and administration of 1000 IBM P series and Blade Centre servers with AIX, Linux and HPUX operating systems hosted on them
  • Working on documentation of process and technical procedures
  • Working on hardware migrations
  • OS TL Upgradations, Server migrations, HACMP cluster setup and troubleshooting, VIO Administration, HMC administration and application up gradations
  • Working on virtualization in AIX
  • Proposal Management, solution workshops for large Infrastructure Services large deal
  • Solution,
  • Architecture for Transition and Infrastructure tools Solution proposals to Server Management,
  • Backup Management, Datacenter Management including Solutions Design for datacenter migration plans,
  • Phased datacenter migration plan
  • Working on Firmware up gradations and NIM server administration activities
  • Working on Shell scripting and administration
  • Working in Incident Management, Problem Management, Change management and DR setup activities

System Administrator

APOLLO MICRO SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad, India
06.2002 - 03.2006
  • Job responsibilities included maintenance and administration of 25 Sun Sparc servers and 60 Red hat Linux servers with Solaris and Linux Operating systems hosted on them
  • Installation and Configuration of Operating System (Solaris9, 10) (Linux)
  • User administration
  • Creating, modifying User and Group
  • Adding and backing out software patches
  • Troubleshooting boot related problems in all systems
  • Viewing and controlling the processes running on the system

System Administrator

Online Exams of JNTU
Hyderabad, India
12.1999 - 04.2002
  • Job responsibilities included maintenance and administration of 15 Sun Sparc servers and 50 Red hat Linux servers with Solaris and Linux Operating systems hosted on them
  • Worked on Conducting Online Exams for all Engineering students
  • Installation and Configuration of Operating System (Solaris9, 10) (Linux)
  • User administration
  • Creating, modifying User and Group
  • Adding and backing out software patches
  • Troubleshooting boot related problems in all systems
  • Viewing and controlling the processes running on the system

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

JNT University
Hyderabad
03.2008 - 03.2010

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

MBES COE
Ambejogai Maharastra
06.1994 - 12.1999

Skills

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Additional Information

  • Developed future-state infrastructure architecture to align with enterprise cloud strategy. Empowered infrastructure and automation engineers to build CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code methodologies, almost eliminating manual stand-up and tear-down of services. Collaborated with technical experts and architects from multiple IT lanes to build robust and scalable solutions that enable instance growth while minimizing costs and improving performance monitoring. Designed the PaaS hosting deployment process which saved over $300k annually in Azure expenditures. Implemented a dual-purpose DR/Failover architecture in a multi-region topology for both IaaS and PaaS Implement proof of concepts to validate cloud concepts, architecture and requirements Develop PowerShell scripts and ARM templates to automate the provisioning and deployment process Define cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN and express route to establish connectivity between on premise and cloud Implement highly available and disaster recovery solutions in Azure to meet the customer SLA requirements Configure the appropriate VMs, storage and network in Azure to support the customer workloads moving to Azure Develop and implement monitoring, backup and archival solutions in Azure to support customer requirements Solutions Consultant responsible to be primary SME on Azure services including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS while contributing architecture decisions and tasks for ongoing migration efforts. Experience on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and Power Shell Automation Experience in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Storage, Azure AD and Office365) Experience working in Agile/SCRUM teams. Implemented Remote event receivers with provider hosted App deployed on office 365-site collection Designed Azure ML predictive analytic model with images from cars that are stored in Azure data lake Storage. Used Azure Data Factory's copy data tool to ingest data from more than 10 data sources from on premise / on cloud to prep, cleanse, and transformed the data based on business rules and stored the data in SQL Server for consumption using Power BI and other reporting tools.

Timeline

Azure Data Cloud Architect

BlueShield of California
04.2022 - Current

Azure Cloud Architect

Elanco
05.2019 - 03.2022

Azure Cloud Architect

Archroma
05.2018 - 04.2019

Azure Cloud Architect

SunTrust Bank
09.2015 - 04.2018

Unix System Administrator SME

Sysco Corporation
11.2012 - 09.2015

Master of Science - Computer Science

JNT University
03.2008 - 03.2010

UNIX SME

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
03.2006 - 10.2012

System Administrator

APOLLO MICRO SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
06.2002 - 03.2006

System Administrator

Online Exams of JNTU
12.1999 - 04.2002

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

MBES COE
06.1994 - 12.1999
Srinivas Reddy GavinnollaAzure Cloud Architect