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Venkata Subhash Peram

Harrisburg,NC

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Innovative Solution Architect with in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over [Number] years of experience in similar roles.

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14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DEVOPS ARCHITECT

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP

WINDOWS OPERATIONS

CARGIL INC

DEVOPS SUPPORT TIAA

CREF

MIDDLEWARE/NETWORK ENGINEER

ALLY FINANCIAL

DEVOPS ENGINEER

BANK OF AMERICA
10.2022 - Current
  • Working as Senior Devops Engineer under Digital Platform Technology Devops Team
  • DevOps Team is responsible for onboarding applications onto Enterprise DevOps Platform
  • Extensively worked on onboarding applications onto enterprise devops platform that usees Jenkins, Ansible, XLR , Sonarqube tools
  • Implemented a post build script on all the java builds that will scan for vulnerable jar’s and break the builds if vulnerable libraries are found.
  • Developed scripts for build, deployment and maintanance related tasks using groovy, bash and python
  • Conduct Lunch and Learn session with various application team on topics related to DEVOPS onboarding
  • Helped application team’s to onboard to GIT branching strategy
  • Worked extensively on CI/CD open framework with innersourcing reusable pipeline functions community
  • Knowledge in building distributed, highly available monolith applications
  • Helped application team’s to construt various build files like pom.xml and build.gradle
  • Extensively used ansible tower to deploy applications onto Websphere platform
  • Experience in troubleshooting frequent build/pipeline failures and track the issues to the closure along with the rootcause
  • Assist in building reusable code for detecting various issues and potential failures before they impact application teams
  • Lead and contribute to complex projects across multiple work groups to improve build automation, code quality, and continous deployment
  • Defined automation roadmaps for the team
  • Worked with the teams to understand their needs and drove them towards continuous integration and delivery
  • Migrated over fifty applications to the DEVOPS standards which includes 100+ sub - applications
  • Tracked the team activity through Jira
  • Defined Sprint stories for the team and ran standup calls for the teams to track their status
  • Managed the daily scrum calls and monthly sprint meetings
  • Designed and developed application build jobs in Jenkins (Created jobs for Java, .Net and progress applications)
  • Built and maintained the Jenkins server
  • Set up Jenkins server and installed Maven, ANT, SVN both in Linux and on a Windows server
  • Reviewed build and deployed scripts created by the team
  • Maintained Black Duck scan reports and ensured the application code packages were not subject to vulnerability
  • Triaged the application issues and worked with the production support teams to provide solutions in a timely manner

Senior Devops/InfraStructure Engineer

Venkata Subhash Peram
02.2017 - Current
  • Me
  • Skilled solution driven problem solver who leverages best practices in Cloud, MicroServices, Devops, Datacenter-Services, Service-Management, Middleware, Automation, Networking and Design to provide solutions for complex and high risk software quality issues resulting in management satisfaction
  • Strong troubleshooting ability, and effective at thinking outside the box to fix issues as they arise
  • I don't like bandaids, and always strive to find the root cause, and understand the why
  • I love to tackle difficult tasks
  • If I don't know something I don't buckle, I get excited to use the opportunity to learn something new.

Cloud/Devops Solution Architect

American International Group, INC
11.2017 - 10.2022
  • Worked as Cloud Solution Architect under DevOps engineering Team
  • DevOps Engineering Team is responsible for End to End Automation of Infrastructure Provisioning and Application lifecycle process
  • Collaborated with Application and Solution architects on architecture and integration design to ensure effective integration of infrastructure, application, framework, database, security, messaging and Cloud hosted interface
  • Influenced technical solutions to meet evolving business requirements, while reducing TCO, maintaining resiliency, scalability, leveraging standard building blocks to deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Evaluated technologies, solutions and applications to identify cost saving opportunities
  • Analyzed impact of new technologies on existing services, perform gap analysis and ensure that technical components are mapped to business capabilities and established architectural framework
  • Analyzed how AWS Cloud Adoption Framework can be applied to build Cloud adaption strategy and governance
  • Designed and implemented End to End ECS deployment strategy for Commercial Insurance line of business applications
  • Designed ECS Cluster strategies, Container Defintions and task definition standards
  • Worked extensively on CI/CD open framework with innersourcing reusable pipeline functions community.
  • Proficient in building automate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Groovy and versioning artifacts using JFrog Artifactory
  • Created END to END CI/CD pipelines for all tech-stack’s like JAVA, Mule, Databases, Duck-creek
  • Supported, trained teams on cloud architecture and migration of applications from On-Prem Datacenter to AWS cloud
  • Defined automation roadmaps for team
  • Worked with teams to understand their needs and drove them towards continuous integration and delivery
  • Migrated over 50 Legacy applications to DEVOPS standards which includes 100+ downstream dependent services.
  • Tracked team activity through Jira
  • Defined Sprint stories for team and ran standup calls for teams to track their status
  • Managed daily scrum calls and monthly sprint meetings
  • Designed and developed application build jobs in Jenkins (Created jobs for Java .Net and progress applications)
  • Built and maintained Jenkins server.
  • Set up Jenkins server and installed Maven, ANT, SVN both in Linux and on Windows server
  • Reviewed build and deployed scripts created by team
  • Maintained security scan reports and ensured application code packages were not subject to vulnerability.
  • Triaged application issues and worked with production support teams to provide solutions in timely manner

Devops Support Engineer

TIAA-CREF
11.2015 - 11.2017
  • Worked as DevOps Support engineer under DevOps Support Team
  • DevOps Support Team is responsible for all Deployments that include Application Code, Application Schema’s, Application and Provisioning End-End Environment for Development Environment
  • Responsibilities:
  • Provisioning End-End environment setup for Development Environment
  • Responsible to do code deployments for different applications across different environments
  • In-depth level of understanding in the strategy and practical implementation of AWS Cloud-Specific technologies including EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, ELB, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, RedShift
  • Migration of existing systems to AWS and using the snapshot method for the EBS volumes
  • Worked on setting up and configuring AWS's EC2 Instances and Used Amazon IAM to grant fine-grained access to AWS resources to users
  • Experience in Building S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
  • Providing support for Development testing, integration testing and User Acceptance Testing activities
  • Maintain the design and development of builds, scripts, installation procedures and systems including source code control using Star Team Repository
  • Work cooperatively with developers, testers, and release management to coordinate activity and define strategic release frame work
  • Work closely with testers, developers, architects, and project managers throughout the application lifecycle as needed to support application changes that need to be promoted to the testing environments
  • Responsible to resolve defects and issues reported in ALM Quality Center tool
  • Track and manage defects raised in the testing phases and fixing the defects
  • Building and migrating the developed code in different environments like development, testing, production using the TIAA process and standards
  • Provide continuous improvements through process improvements and implementation of best practices Global IT Innovator
  • Supporting Datapower through backend for all Web services to configure applications.

Middleware and Network Engineer

Ally Financial
02.2015 - 11.2015
  • Worked as Middleware and Network Engineer under Transition Management Team, Transition management team is responsible for promoting the Quarterly Application/Infrastructure releases into Production environment
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for providing Pre-Development, Development, CIT testing Infrastructure environments for all the application team's across the Ally Bank
  • Implement Middleware and Load Balancing Infrastructure as per application Team’s requirement
  • Installing/Configuring Weblogic Application server as per the requirements
  • Support Application teams during CIT, SIT testing phases and Fine Tune WebLogic to get maximum Throughput
  • Build and Deliver Middleware and F5 Components for new project requirements
  • Facilitating 3rd party connectivity and work with 3rd party application teams during various testing phases
  • Installing SSL certificates on various Middleware Components
  • Facilitating F5 Load Balancing by creating pools, iRules for all the applications in Development and CIT testing environment
  • Implementing new Releases/Changes across all the Environment and make sure the changes are Promoted to Production Successfully
  • Preparing Operational documents and Templates for newly build applications
  • Preparing Release Notes for operations Team to promote the new changes from Development Environment to Model and Production Environments.

Lead Devops Engineer

Around
08.2014 - 02.2015
  • In various roles as an, , Cloud Solution Architect on various Linux/Windows Platforms over Public Cloud and On-Prem Private cloud InfraStructure
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to produce usable and maintainable documentation
  • Extensively worked using AWS services along with wide and in depth understanding of each one of them
  • Highly skilled in deployment, data security and troubleshooting of the applications using AWSservices
  • Experienced in implementing Organization DevOps strategy in various operating environments of Linux and windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services
  • Extensively worked on Containarization strategy and defined roadmap to migrate applications onto AWS ECS Platform
  • Implemented automation using Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack
  • Prepared Standard Gold Build Documents for various Middleware Products across various platforms
  • Strong Understanding of the principles and best practices of software configuration management (SCM) in Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Experienced in building and maintaining Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery, supporting Build Pipelines Release Management, Configuration Management tools and services
  • Supported projects in DevOps based project implementation through Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, Deployment Management and Test Orchestration
  • Worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, VPC, Glacier, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trial, IAM), focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, Load balancing designing, Deploying and configuring
  • Involved in Implementation of various AWS cloud Application & deployment using Amazon EC2, S3, RDS(MySQL), Elastic load balancing, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Elastic Block Storage, Cloud Watch, Identity Access Management, using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
  • Responsible for Security/Vulnerability/SOX Standards of Middleware Components and Maintained Technical Security Standards with 65 TSS Controls for Weblogic, Iplanet Webserver and other Various MIddleware Products across all the Data Centers
  • Maintained SSL certificate Database and Prepared Standard Documents and Written Scripts from Scratch to automate SSL Installation on various Middleware Products
  • As part of Middleware Operations, Worked on Various Application Server's(Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat) and Webserver's(Apache, Iplanet, Oracle HTTP)
  • Extensive Knowledge in Analyzing Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps and Various issues that impact JVM performance
  • Worked with Enterprise Architects in Building/Designing Weblogic/Iplanet Webserver Farm with a Capacity to host 2000 JVM's in both Clustered and Non-Clustered Environments
  • Around Two years of Hands On Experience in VmWare in Installing ESXi4.0, ESXi5.0 design, setup installation configuration and Administration
  • Built Standard Server Level Virtual Machine Templates for various different MiddleWare Components on multiple operating systems
  • Prepared Standard operating procedure documents for WebLogic Application Server and Iplanet Webserver
  • Created Standard Disaster Recovery documents for all the applications that involve WebLogic servers
  • Worked as SPOC for quarterly Disaster Recovery activities for Critical Business to Customer (B2C) and Highly Visible Sales and Marketing Applications
  • Taken responsibility to Provide WebLogic VM with an SLA of 2hrs to build up Virtual Linux machine with WebLogic Server's Installed and Configured from Bare Metal Physical Machine
  • Worked closely with Enterprise architect’s for Data Center Transformation Program in GM to build WebLogic Farm., Middleware/Windows Operations
  • Cargill has a long, rich heritage, starting with W
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  • Cargill's first grain storage facility on the American frontier in 1865
  • The company has grown to become one of the largest, privately-owned businesses, providing food, agricultural, risk management, financial, and industrial products and services around the globe
  • Joined InfraStructure Operations Support as a L3 MIddleware Operations Engineer
  • Working as an L3 Middleware Operations Support Engineer and will be involved in severe performance issues that impact Highly Customer visible Business to Customer(B2C) Applications
  • Create Virtual Templates for various OS and deploy new servers using the templates as per the new project requirements
  • Good Knowledge on Tuning Weblogic on the FLY to reduce Business Impact in High severity Incidents
  • Analyze requirements of various applications teams and provide WebLogic Infrastructure Environment
  • Maintain WebLogic on 2000+ Windows Hosts in clustered Environment
  • Analyze Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps and Tune Weblogic to provide Optimal Performance to the application Deployed
  • Provided Weblogic Operations Support and Worked on High Priority Incidents and Provided Root Cause Analysis by working Parallel with oracle
  • Weblogic Installation, Configuration And applying Scheduled patches
  • Deploy Virtual Hosts with Weblogic Standard Build
  • Good Knowledge on various Windows Server operating systems
  • Active team member and successfully participated in Data Center move of physical servers
  • Good Knowledge on Commvualt Backup Tool
  • Virtualized physical servers to consolidate data center using commvault virtualize me Tool
  • Support 5000+ physical and virtual Windows servers in the environment in multiple sites
  • Install and configure IIS on windows server for hosting web applications and services
  • Good knowledge on implementing Symantec System Recovery tool across Data Center and Reported Backup Compliance Rate to management.

MIDDLEWARE PRODUCTION SUPPORT

GENERAL MOTORS
09.2013 - 07.2014
  • Middleware Production Support
  • Worked under Global Operations team that maintains GM's Data Center's around the globe providing 24
  • 7 support, Working closely with Data Center Transformation Team to Co-ordinate De-Commission Activities once the application is live in New Data Center and to make sure the application have minimal downtime and minimal business impact
  • Responsibilities:
  • Working as team lead with OnSite/OffShore model for GM MiddleWare servers across the globe
  • Coordinating Data Center Transformation activities for various applications
  • Working with application teams to migrate the application from Old Data Center to New Data Center with minimal impact to highly visible Business to Customer (B2C) applications
  • Maintained MiddleWare Server's, Applications, SSL certificates inventory
  • Installed Oracle SOA, WebLogic and other MiddleWare Components as per the Gold Build and TSS Standards of GM
  • Installed and configured different versions of Iplanet webserver As per the requirements provided by the development teams
  • Installed different versions of Cognos, Oracle Discoverer and configured as per the requirements of the development teams
  • Performed WebLogic Administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning, content management and user management
  • Performed activities such as Change Management, Content management, User Management, Portal and Deployment (of application packages, patches, etc.)
  • Had Good knowledge on installing SSL certificates on different types of MiddleWare servers like WebLogic, Iplanet webserver, Apache
  • Prepared Standard Operational Procedure documents for Installing WebLogic, Creating Domains, Installing SSL certificates
  • Responsible for the configuration and Administration of Sun One Web Servers, including installation and configuration of WebLogic proxy Plug-ins to proxy load balanced requests for dynamic content to backend WebLogic Application Servers
  • Involved in upgrading, patching of different versions of WebLogic
  • Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over functionality
  • Had good knowledge on Unix Administration
  • Closely worked with Unix, Network teams for troubleshooting high severity issues in production environment
  • Provided 24/7 on call Production Support.

MIDDLEWARE BUILD ENGINEER

GENERAL MOTORS
02.2013 - 09.2013
  • Datacenter Transformation)
  • Joined Data Center Transformation Team to migrate WebLogic from Old Data Center’s to Newly Built Data Center’s
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for Administration and migration of more than 2000 WebLogic instance between datacenter’s with minimum impact to production
  • Provided Middleware InfraStructure for the applications Teams and analysed Application Performance and provided guidance on Tuning
  • As part of Middleware Engineering Automated Installation/Configuration of various Middleware products and written Various Shell/Python/WLST scripts from scratch
  • Worked as SPOC for Security/Vulnerability of Middleware Components and Maintained Technical Security Standards with 65 TSS Controls for Weblogic, Iplanet Webserver and other Various Middleware Products across all the Data Center's
  • Created various Gold Build Documents for installing/configuring MiddleWare components
  • Worked with Architects and Development Team to build Infrastructure for both shared and dedicated application environments
  • Analyzed application performance reports in the LAB and provided best solutions to infrastructure team and helped architects in building the new Data Center
  • Created Various Middleware Technology Templates on various operating system’s
  • Standing up a WebLogic Suse Linux Virtual Machine from bare metal in less than 2 hrs of SLA
  • Responsible for documenting the current architectural configurations and detailed data flow and Troubleshooting Guides for application support
  • Extensively automated various MiddleWare installation and maintenance tasks to reduce application outages and business impact
  • Extensively supported and migrated Business to Customer High Priority and Highly visible Applications between data center without any business impact or outage
  • Extensively worked on Data Centre Migration activities which involves high business to customer visibility applications
  • Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applying WebLogic patches and working closely with Development Teams in solving issues
  • Responsible for the configuration and Administration of Sun One Web Servers, including installation and configuration of WebLogic proxy Plug-ins to proxy load balanced requests for dynamic content to backend WebLogic Application Servers
  • Worked closely with UNIX hardware teams during the production on-calls to get the OS related issues fixed and bring up the applications within the SLAs
  • Perform troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve MiddleWare issues
  • Worked with Oracle to resolve the outstanding issues in the existing production environments
  • Installation and configuration of Web Security tools such as SSL Certificates
  • Involved in the server builds for application hardware refresh project meetings
  • Worked with Unix team, firewall team, network team as part of a datacenter move project which involved moving WebLogic and sun one web servers.

Middleware Production Support

General Motors
12.2010 - 02.2013
  • Joined General Motors Servers Operations Team, Responsible for maintaining and smooth operations of MiddleWare services in the Data Center's across the Globe
  • Responsibilities:
  • Performed MiddleWare Administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning, content management and user management
  • Installed and configured different versions of WebLogic, Iplanet, Apache for both development and production environments
  • Provided production support on North America Region timings for various MiddleWare components
  • Participated in Quarterly Disaster Recovery Fail-Over activities that involves Re-Routing Application Traffic between data center's and make sure that there is no impact to End User Applications
  • Analyzing Thread Dumps and Memory with various tools and reporting the status to development Team’s
  • Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over functionality
  • Configured Node manager for Administration of Managed servers and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections
  • Installed and configured Iplanet webserver to work with WebLogic Server
  • Used configuration wizard to create and manage WebLogic domains
  • Provided 24/7 on call Production Support
  • Performed activities such as Change Management, Content management, User Management, Portal and Desktop Management and Deployment (of application packages, patches, etc.).

MIDDLEWARE PRODUCTION SUPPORT

GENERAL MOTORS
01.2010 - 02.2013

Education

Master of Science -

Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, NJ

Skills

  • AWS – CLOUD PLATFORM
  • CONTAINARIZATION
  • DOCKER
  • DEVOPS
  • LINUX PLATFORM
  • NETWORKING – F5 LOAD BALANCING
  • MIDDLEWARE PLATFORM
  • MONITORING TOOLS
  • SKILLS
  • CLOUD AWS Services:
  • EC2, S3, ELB, Auto scaling Groups, Glacier, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation/Terraform, ECS, Cloud Front, , RDS, Redshift, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, IAM, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Sonarqube,Artifactory,XLDeploy, XLRelease
  • Orchestration Tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack
  • Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, GRADLE
  • Containerization : Docker , ECS, Openshift
  • Programming: C, C, Core JAVA, Python, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB, SQL/PLSQL
  • Database Software: Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • Scripting: BASH/SHELL, PHP, PIG script
  • Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Nginx
  • Monitoring Tools :- Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Appdynamics

Certification

Additional Information

Timeline

DEVOPS ENGINEER

BANK OF AMERICA
10.2022 - Current

Cloud/Devops Solution Architect

American International Group, INC
11.2017 - 10.2022

Senior Devops/InfraStructure Engineer

Venkata Subhash Peram
02.2017 - Current

Devops Support Engineer

TIAA-CREF
11.2015 - 11.2017

Middleware and Network Engineer

Ally Financial
02.2015 - 11.2015

Lead Devops Engineer

Around
08.2014 - 02.2015

MIDDLEWARE PRODUCTION SUPPORT

GENERAL MOTORS
09.2013 - 07.2014

MIDDLEWARE BUILD ENGINEER

GENERAL MOTORS
02.2013 - 09.2013

Middleware Production Support

General Motors
12.2010 - 02.2013

MIDDLEWARE PRODUCTION SUPPORT

GENERAL MOTORS
01.2010 - 02.2013

DEVOPS ARCHITECT

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP

WINDOWS OPERATIONS

CARGIL INC

DEVOPS SUPPORT TIAA

CREF

MIDDLEWARE/NETWORK ENGINEER

ALLY FINANCIAL

Master of Science -

Fairleigh Dickinson University

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