Venkataratnam Yerubandi

• Design, deploy and maintain environments hosted in Azure AWS and GCP and ensure compliance with company architectural standards.
• Assist in moving existing private cloud workloads to public clouds.
• Expertise in designing and implementing secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and configuration management tools like
• Demonstrated ability to conduct security assessments, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments to identify and remediate security risks and weaknesses.
• Experience in implementing security monitoring and incident response systems to detect and respond to security incidents in real-time.
• Proficient in cloud security practices and technologies, including AWS, Azure, or GCP, and knowledge of securing containerized environments such as Kubernetes.
• Proficient in deploying and managing containerized applications using AWS EKS, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Skilled in using Fragate as a containerization technology to package and deploy applications as lightweight, stateless containers.
• Leveraged Fragate's support for immutable infrastructure, promoting consistency and reliability in application deployments.
• Implemented security best practices with Fragate, including image signing and scanning, to protect containers against vulnerabilities and threats.

• Proficient in leveraging the features and functionalities of Wiz to monitor cloud infrastructure, detect misconfigurations, and enforce security best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and analyze security findings generated by the Wiz tool, providing actionable recommendations to enhance security posture and mitigate risks.
• Design, implement and maintain Windows, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and other open-source software product solutions, for use by cloud and other compute infrastructure.
• Plan, execute and Assist with ongoing cloud platform migrations with legacy cloud platforms.
• Maintain a strong understanding of emerging hardware and software technologies and their corresponding value to the business strategy and product offering.
• Design, deploy and maintain environments hosted in Azure and ensure compliance with company architectural standards.
• Assist in moving existing private cloud workloads to public clouds.
• Assist in strategic direction and planning for growth to support our client's increasing business needs.
• Design, develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) that automates and orchestrates Infrastructure Continuous Development (CI/CD) of
• IAC artifacts to rapidly deploy IaC that can be leveraged by CI/CD applications develop and Delivery teams as part of Komatsu Automation's DevOps practices.
• Extensively involved in Build Management, Version Control, Release Management and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA, Staging and Production Environment leveraging Azure DevOps principles/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of VSTS, Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes), Application Insights, Log Analytics.
• Setup and Evaluated extensively open source DevOps toolsets – Built (CI) Dockers (Containers), Kubernetes (Container Orchestration), Datadog (Monitoring tools) and DevOps toolsets (Code commit, Code pipeline) for DevOps Teams.
• Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment and wrote playbooks using YAML scripting.
• Architected the process of Server deployment's in Azure by making use of ARM templates, creating golden images and DSC.
• Provided consistent environment using Kubernetes for deployment scaling and load balancing the application from dev through QA and created pipeline between developers and Ops team by using pushing images in Azure Container registry and deploying images on Kubernetes.
• Assist in troubleshooting network and storage issues and make recommendations for growth.
• Assist in the extension and adoption of existing infrastructure standards to provide for the integration and additional cloud service providers, including, Azure
• Design, implement and maintain Windows, CentOS, Ubuntu, and other open-source software product solutions, for use by cloud and other compute infrastructure.
• Plan, execute and Assist with ongoing cloud platform migrations with legacy cloud platforms.
• Extensive experience using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management across various cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Demonstrated expertise in implementing Infrastructure as Code principles using Terraform to define and manage cloud resources, ensuring consistency, reproducibility, and scalability.
• Cloud Provider Integration: Successfully integrated Terraform with cloud providers' APIs and services to create and manage infrastructure resources, including virtual machines, storage, networking, load balancers, and more.
• Developed reusable and modular Terraform modules to promote code reusability, standardization, and efficiency across multiple projects, improving deployment speed and maintainability
• Utilized Terraform to manage configuration drift and enforce desired state configuration, ensuring infrastructure resources are always in the desired state and reducing manual intervention.
• Orchestrated complex multi-tier infrastructure deployments using Terraform, defining dependencies, provisioning order, and handling resource dependencies and interconnections effectively.
• Implemented automated testing and validation processes using Terraform, including pre-deployment checks, unit testing, and integration testing to ensure infrastructure reliability and correctness
• Maintain a strong understanding of emerging hardware and software technologies and their corresponding value to the business strategy and product offering.
• Stay up to date on the latest hosting / cloud service provider architecture / design methodologies, marketing and technology trends in the hosting and cloud services space.
• Assist with the build effort on new public / private / hybrid cloud compute and storage infrastructure from proof of concept through
• Production launch and ongoing maintenance
• Lead and provide ongoing administration, maintenance and problem resolution of existing Windows, CentOS (Linux) infrastructure and related software.
• Lead, develop and maintain effective real-time monitoring systems to ensure proactive responses to server / cloud compute events and maintain uptime standards according to published SLA's.
• Troubleshoot and resolve escalations from the team's support departments within defined SLA's and processes.
• Effectively collaborate with the development, DevOps technical support, provisioning, implementation and sales teams to accomplish cross departmental projects and tasks.
• Create and maintain strong vendor relationships. Negotiate cost effective contracts and renewals as needed.
• Assist with the build effort on new public / private / hybrid cloud compute and storage infrastructure from proof of concept through production launch and ongoing maintenance
• Proficient in implementing and managing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve escalations from the teams support departments within defined SLA's and processes.
• Collect and publish effective KPI's and metrics on real-time and historical monitoring data points. Use data points to provide effective capacity planning and forecasting of future capital spend;
• Effectively collaborate with the development,Devops technical support, provisioning, implementation and sales teams to accomplish cross-departmental projects and tasks.
• · Managed the Azure Security groups and attached them to VM's and Subnets using Azure Portal as well as PowerShell Scripts.
• Implemented a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with Azure Container Service and Azure IAAS, PAAS, SAAS services.
• Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
• Managed use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud infrastructure using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions
• Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation
• Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.

· Automation repetitive tasks using bash, PowerShell configuration management tool.

· Installed and configured chef-server and chef client node and implemented recipes and cook books in client node related to production environment

· Experience in Installation, Configuration and designing of Active Directory, GPO, LDAP, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, FTP in windows/wintel server 2008 R2 and 2012,2016.

· Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.

· Develop Linux shell scripts to accomplish redundant tasks to simplify in distributed administration.

· Perform day to day Linux administration such as user accounts, logon scripts, directory services, file system shares, permissions. Support Oracle database.

· Configured and maintain new VM's, install Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Servers,2016 manage VM's and ESX servers and install VMware Tools on VM's.

· Build, manage, and continuously improved the build infrastructure for global software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts, continuous integration infrastructure and deployment tools

· Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring with the help of Nagios X11

· Upgraded Red hat current release level patches with Redhat satellite server in large-scale production environment.

· Involved and set up migration for UNIX/Linux server and SAN storage between data centers and also application migration and testing. This included SAN/Application migration and testing various functionalities of key applications.

· Increase the disk in online by using Logical Volume manager (LVM) and reduce the disk in offline if server is in production. Physical volume migration

· Monitor analyses and troubleshoot the build servers, work with the application team before handing over the servers for production.

· Configured SSH trust between Database servers and application servers. Has also worked on various SSH related issues.

· Configuring SUDO and granting root permission to Backup Admins/DBAs to perform root related activities.

· Participate in the 24x7 on call rotation for production environment.