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Venkata Sai Kumar Kunamneni

Arlington,USA

Summary

Around 5 years of experience in IT Industry with expertise in AWS cloud, Devops Configuration and experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of red hat enterprise Linux, Ubuntu and Windows on various hardware platforms. Hands on experience with an in-depth level of understanding in the strategy and practical implementation of AWS cloud-specific technologies like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Cloud Formation, Elastic IPs, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RDS and Cloud Watch, SNS & SES. Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling groups. Optimized volumes and EC2 instances and created multi-AZ VPC instances. Good understanding of AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS), various volume types and utilization of different types of EBS volumes based on requirement. Configured S3 lifecycle of Applications and Database logs, including deleting old logs, archiving logs based on the retention policy of Apps and Databases. Implement and maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/costs using Cloud Watch. Created detailed AWS Security Groups, which behaved as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed one or more AWS EC2 instances. Handled operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources which includes launching, maintaining and troubleshooting EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and Relational Database Services (RDS). Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk. Understanding of secure-cloud configuration (Cloud Trail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (VPC, Security Groups, etc.) and cloud-permission systems (IAM). Creating snapshots and Amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances. Experienced with AWS Cloud Formation templates on creating IAM Roles & total architecture deployment end to end (creation of EC2 instances and its infrastructure). Build and configured virtual Data centre in Amazon cloud to support Enterprise hosting which includes VPC, public, private subnets, Security groups and Route tables. Implemented DNS service through Route 53 on ELBs to achieve secure connection via https. Experienced in architecting and configuring secure VPC through private and public networks in AWS. Good knowledge on experience with AWS Redshift. Experience working on administering various AWS Services using Amazon AWS Console, CLI in Linux and windows environment and by using Amazon API using java and Python. Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Bean Stalk. Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS services, EBS volumes, to set alarms for notification or automated actions and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system. High exposure to REMEDY and JIRA defect tracking tools for tracking defects and changes for change management. Experienced in Setting up Chef Server, Workstation and Bootstrapping Nodes/clients and creating Cookbooks, recipes, databags and utilized community cookbooks as well. I have a good knowledge on Amazon Workspaces and Workspaces Application Management. Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes. Worked on cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and machines and implementing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications like Axeda and ThingWorx.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Automation and Manual Testing Engineer

UPS
Texas, TX
07.2022 - Current
  • Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups
  • Responsible for Design and architecture of different Release Environments for new projects
  • Worked at optimizing volumes and EC2 instances and created multiple VPC instances
  • Writing Maven and Ant scripts for application layer modules
  • Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & Maven as build framework tools
  • Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates
  • Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
  • Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, Maven & Nexus as tools
  • Experience involving configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in glacier
  • Utilize Amazon Glacier for archiving data
  • Creating alarms in Cloud watch service for monitoring the servers' performance, CPU Utilization and the disk usage etc
  • Developed, deployed, and managed event-driven and scheduled AWS Lambda functions to be triggered in response to events on various AWS sources including logging, monitoring, and security related events and to be invoked on scheduled basis to take backups
  • Deployed a code using blue/green deployments with AWS Code deployment to reduce downtime due to application deployment
  • If something unexpected happens with your new version on Green, you can immediately roll back to the last version by switching back to Blue
  • Used Terraform and did 'Infrastructure as code' and modifying terraform scripts as and when configuration changes happen
  • Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed networked Linux environment
  • Written Chef Cookbooks and recipes in Ruby to Provision several pre-prod environments consisting of Cassandra DB installations, WebLogic domain creations and several proprietary middleware installations
  • Developed Scripts for AWS Orchestration
  • Created Amazon Workspaces for employees
  • Worked on a cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and machines and implementing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications like Axeda iSupport
  • Responsible in creating and deploying an Agent Gateway, Agent Connector in Axeda iSupport
  • Involved in a platform for the rapid development of applications designed for smart, connected sensors, devices, and products or the Internet of Things (IoT) like Thing Worx
  • System monitoring with Nagios & Graphite
  • Installed, configured and maintained web servers like HTTP Web Server, Apache Web Server and WebSphere Application Server on Red Hat Linux
  • Business data analysis using Big Data tools like Splunk and ELK
  • Experience in CI and CD with Jenkins
  • Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure nodes
  • Experience in writing Puppet manifests to automate configuration of a broad range of services
  • Designed tool API and Map Reduce job workflow using AWS EMR and S3
  • Implementing Hadoop clusters on processing Big Data pipelines using Amazon EMR
  • Prepared projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services
  • Generated scripts for effective integration of JIRA applications with other tools
  • Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC
  • Branching and merging code lines in the GIT and resolved all the conflicts during the mergers
  • Designed highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs
  • Highly skilled in the usage of data centre automation and configuration management tools such as Docker
  • Perform Deployment of Release in various QA & UAT environments
  • Responsible for installation and upgrade of patches and packages on RHEL 5/6 using RPM & YUM
  • Supporting different projects build & Release SCM effort e.g
  • Branching, tagging, merge, etc
  • Environment: AWS, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Glacier, Dynamo Db, Elastic Cache, Directory Services, EMR (Elastic Map Reduce), Route53, Puppet, Jenkins, Maven, Subversion, Ant, Bash Scripts, GIT, Docker, Jira, Chef, and Nexus in Linux environment, OpenStack, Axeda, ThingWorx

Automation Engineer

Walgreens
Chicago, IL
05.2020 - 06.2022
  • Understanding the features and performing Testing on the UI functionality
  • Design, development, and implementation of Cloud solutions
  • Work with team to design, build, automate and document a multi-tiered managed services platform
  • Managed end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best practices
  • Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration
  • Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Plants
  • Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements
  • Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations
  • Escalated incidents as necessary
  • Provided software and hardware upgrades, patches and reconfigurations on all physical and virtual servers
  • Maintained VM templates for building servers in the virtual environment
  • Created new VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings for optimum performance and efficiency
  • Involved in several hundreds of physical to virtual migration or conversion processes on a day-to-day basis
  • Created resource pools and VM folders as required and allocated the memory reservations and CPU shares based on the business requirements and VM performance
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Network Administration in large datacenter environment - DNS/DHCP, Load Balancing (F5 Networks, AWS ELB), Firewalls (Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks), IDS/IPS, IPSEC VPN
  • In-depth knowledge of and experience implementing dynamic IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS)
  • Network latency analysis, performance monitoring and troubleshooting skills
  • Participate in the software development life cycle to ensure sound Cloud solutions are implemented
  • Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of our customer's Confidential Web Services (AWS) foundational footprint
  • Work closely with our architects and engineers to recommend and design database or data storage solutions that effectively reflect our business needs, security, and service level requirements
  • Work with application and architecture teams to conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in production environment in AWS
  • Proficient with deployment and management of AWS services - including but not limited to: VPC, Route 53, ELB, EBS, EC2, S3
  • Automation scripting ability (Bash/Shell, Python)
  • Enterprise scale networks within cloud environment delivering SaaS solutions
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously can adapt to changing business needs
  • Work well with cross functional global and remote teams
  • Network health monitoring tools (Cloud Watch, Solar Winds, Logic Monitor)
  • Work with our current application teams to understand our current applications and make migration recommendations and to-be architectures in AWS
  • Review coding is done to advance application upgrade, extension, or other development
  • Analyze applications for data integrity issues
  • Work with teams to build automation templates in Fugue or AWS Cloud Formation in support of the managed services platform
  • Assist with the installation and configuration of a cloud management platform by the requirements of the respective services
  • Write and implement the respective IAM policies as required by the respective services
  • Assist with the product evaluation, selection and implementation for respective managed services that require 3rd party products to support
  • Assist with the establishment of the platform Service Desk
  • Mentor less experienced technical staff may use high end development tools to assist or facilitate development processes
  • Development of automated solutions to monitor and support our software development and release processes
  • Lead delivery team, post release to production
  • Environment: Linux, VMware, Shell, Perl, IAM, S3, EBS, EC2, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Workspaces, Ivanti Heat patching tool, Puppet, Docker, Chef, GIT, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, TOMCAT 7/8, Java Scripts, Ruby Scripts, XML, Unix, MS Word, Excel, Office365

Java Developer

Knoah Solutions
Hyderabad, India
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • Develops and maintains applications and databases by evaluating client needs; analyzing requirements; developing software systems
  • Involved in programming using C, C++
  • Confirms program operation by conducting tests, modifying program sequence and/or codes
  • Involved in business meetings with users in gathering report requirements and translating the same into reports
  • Created report on a biweekly and monthly basis and exported them in different formats (PDF and EXCEL) depending on user's requirement
  • Prepare release documentation for TEST and UAT (User acceptance testing) and Pre- production environments
  • Analyzed the queries using Statistics, Optimized, and fine-tuned the SQL using Explain Plan utilities for better performance
  • Effectively involved in Unit Testing and deployed the reports from development server for Testing and Production environment
  • Applying personnel programs experience, analyzes, develops and evaluates issues, and develops recommendations to resolve substantive problems and issues of effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in a major command program
  • An enthusiastic and project-focused team player with good communication and leadership skills and the ability to develop creative solutions for challenging client needs

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science Technology

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL

Bachelors - Computer Science of Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amritapuri, Kerala

Skills

  • C, C, Python
  • Unix/Linux Scripting
  • HTML, SQL, C#, PL/SQL
  • NET, Nodejs
  • ASPNET
  • Web Forms
  • Win Forms, ADONET
  • Web Services
  • ASP, XML, CSS
  • Java Script, Angular JS, JQuery
  • XAML, JSON, DNS
  • HTTPS, NFS
  • IPV4, IPV6
  • Apache, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, EC2
  • S3, Elastic Beanstalk
  • RDS, Dynamo DB, DMS
  • VPC, Direct Connect
  • Route53
  • Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail
  • Cloud Formation
  • IAM, EMR ELB, AM
  • SQL Server 2008
  • PL-SQL
  • TFS 2010/2008
  • GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Dockers
  • Puppet, Ant, Maven
  • Ivanti Heat patching tool
  • Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005
  • Eclipse, Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Office 2007/XP/2003/2000
  • AWS Console, VMware
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Auto scaling Servers
  • Glacier
  • Storage Lifecycle rules
  • Elastic cache, EBS
  • Cloud watch,Cloud trail
  • Ops work
  • IAM & Roles
  • SNS subscription service
  • SQS, SNS
  • Code Commit, Redshift
  • Lambda, Code Deploy
  • EFS, EMR, AD
  • WebSphere, JBOSS
  • RedHat Linux
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu, UNIX, AIX
  • Windows, Batch Script
  • Ruby, Shell Script
  • PowerShell, Perl
  • Big bucket, ANT, Ansible
  • MAVEN, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Splunk, ELK Stack
  • Graphana
  • TCP/IP, DHCP, LAN
  • SSL/TSL
  • Axeda,ThingWorx

Timeline

Sr. Automation and Manual Testing Engineer

UPS
07.2022 - Current

Automation Engineer

Walgreens
05.2020 - 06.2022

Java Developer

Knoah Solutions
01.2019 - 03.2020

Master of Science - Computer Science Technology

Eastern Illinois University

Bachelors - Computer Science of Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Venkata Sai Kumar Kunamneni