Venkata K
Chickamauga,GA
Summary
Highly skilled and results-driven DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience in architecting and automating CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments. Proficient in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), configuration management (Ansible, Chef), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), ensuring scalable and resilient systems. Adept at monitoring and optimizing system performance, implementing security measures, and ensuring compliance. A collaborative and proactive team player with a strong focus on continuous integration and delivery, driving efficiency and reducing time-to-market.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Azure DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - 08.2023
- Developed and managed Azure Infrastructure hosting plans, deployed workloads on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and designed VM storage, demonstrating proficiency in implementing images/disks.
- Configured Azure's internal load balancer, load balanced sets, and Azure Traffic manager, demonstrating expertise in TCP/IP networking concepts including DNS, and DHCP.
- Leveraged Azure VPN-Point to Site, Virtual networks, Azure Custom security, Endpoint security, and firewall for secure network configuration and management.
- Effectively mapped workloads to Azure capabilities for public, private, and hybrid clouds; implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
- Managed greenfield project implementations using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure networking and CI/CD pipelines.
- Utilized Terraform for managing Kubernetes resources and created infrastructure components such as Web app, Function App, VNet's, DNS Settings, Routing, Security Policies, Load Balancer, App Gateway, and Application Insights.
- Managed Azure AD tenants, users, and groups, integrated on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD, and configured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and federated single sign-on (SSO).
- Collaborated and securely shared company information with other organizations by creating Guest Users through Function API Management and Azure AD B2B API's.
- Managed Private Cloud and Hybrid cloud configurations and practices in Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Azure Web, and Database deployments.
- Set up Jenkins server for continuous automated builds based on polling the GIT SCM, supporting development with periodically scheduled builds.
Cloud Engineer
Wipro
05.2020 - 07.2022
- Leveraged Microsoft Azure (Public) Cloud to provide IaaS support to clients.
- Created Virtual Machines through PowerShell Script and Azure Portal.
- Executed Storage Pool creation and disk stripping for Azure Virtual Machines.
- Performed backup, configuration, and restoration of Azure VMs using Azure Backup.
- Developed and maintained Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps tools across multiple environments.
- Enabled safe code deployment in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using YAML scripts.
- Integrated Ansible with Jenkins for Automation, Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
- Implemented Jenkins workflows and plugins for repeatable deployments of applications, artifacts, and services to Docker.
- Utilized Azure Kubernetes Service for deploying managed Kubernetes clusters in Azure.
- Used Resource Manager Templates and Terraform for template-driven deployment.
- Deployed Azure PaaS services including Storage Account, App Insights, Databricks, APIM, Event Hub, Logic App, Function App, Synapse Analytics, and Event Grid.
System Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2016 - 04.2020
- Created sets of Azure resources such as Cosmos DB, Storage account, Key Vault, App services, Traffic Managers, App Insights, Azure SQL database based on specifications.
- Deployed Azure IaaS VMs within Availability Sets into respective VNets and Subnets.
- Configured Load Balancers to ensure service availability and avoid service outages.
- Created new integration environments for projects in both Non-Prod and Prod subscriptions.
- Managed build and release definitions for code deployment.
- Used Postman to make API calls and test the status of integration environments.
- Created and updated Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and parameter files to build infrastructure for different integration environments.
- Utilized Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI scripts for various tasks on Azure resources.
- Automated tasks such as adding firewall rules for Key Vaults and Storage accounts.
- Implemented daily password rotation for Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Storage account keys.
- Developed Azure functions and configured them with App Insights for monitoring.
Education
Master of Science - Technology Management
Lindsey Wilson College
Columbia, KY12-2024
MBA -
Andhra University
Hyderabad, INDIA04-2016
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS
- DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM Templates
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
- Databases: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, SQL Server
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Timeline
Azure DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - 08.2023
Cloud Engineer
Wipro
05.2020 - 07.2022
System Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2016 - 04.2020
Master of Science - Technology Management
Lindsey Wilson College
MBA -
Andhra University
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