Venkateswarlu Vudatala
Cumming,GA
Summary
IT Leader with Over 21 years of extensive experience in Cloud Site Reliability, Cloud IAM Security and infrastructure automation. Proven success in building and mentoring global teams while enhancing access management across GCP and AWS clouds. Focused on safeguarding critical systems and driving AI initiatives for enhanced operational efficiency. Working experience in reputed organizations like Equifax, The Home Depot, Mattel and Travelers Insurance
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
CloudIAM and SRE Leader
Equifax
Alpharetta, GA
09.2022 - Current
- Building, Managing and mentoring a global team of 25 Engineers who are responsible for supporting CloudIAM (GCP and AWS) Operations, GCP infrastructure of critical security applications.
- Managed automated access provisioning and handled IAM access-related issues across Equifax's 4000 GCP projects and 300+ AWS accounts.
- Built CloudIAM automation and established least privilege and automated approved role bindings in all Equifax's GCP projects and AWS accounts through the in-house CloudIAM automation framework.
- Oversee lifecycle management, Role-Based Access Controls, Timebound Access, PAM and multi-account cloud permissions in GCP and AWS.
- Managed GCP infrastructure provisioning and DevOps for 12 critical security applications, including Ping, Saviynt, and CyberArk, enhancing operational reliability.
- Oversaw security posture, cloud monitoring, vulnerability remediation, access violations, patching, upgrades, and ensured compliance across cloud environments.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines for automated access, custom roles, and infrastructure provisioning using GitHub, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
- Built an automation to store and rotate service account keys for all Equifax GCP applications in Google Secret manager and ensured successful rotation of the keys every 90 days.
- Implemented AI technologies to enhance operational efficiency. to automate the day to day tasks using VertexAI, Gemini LLM and MCP Servers.
- Facilitated collaboration with Equifax’s 22 alliance partners to accelerate cloud implementations and AI adoptions, driving strategic initiatives.
- Working with Alliance ISOs (Information Security Officers) and making sure appropriate security controls and deviations are enforced.
- Executed cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure. through infrastructure Optimization and tuning.
- Managed day-to-day ServiceNow requests, incidents, change management, and on-call rotation to address CloudIAM access-related issues and cloud infrastructure problems.
- Technical Tools: Google Cloud IAM, Google Secret Manager, Saviynt, Ping Identity and Ping federate, PingAccess, Wiz, Artifact Registry, HashiCorp Vault, Google Kubernetes Engine, Bigquery, Cloud Storage, CloudSQL, GCP Cloud Monitoring, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Container Registry, Docker, Cloud Functions, Stackdriver, AWS IAM, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Networking, Gemini LLM, Looker Studio, Confluence, Workday, Beeline, Jira, Aha, Servicenow, PagerDuty, DataDog, GitHub, Github Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Pager Duty, Shell and Python.
Google Cloud Platform Architect, CloudIAM and Gsuite Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Middleware Administrator and Scripting Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2008 - 09.2022
- Client #1: Mattel, Inc. (April 2019 – September 2022) Location: Atlanta, GA and El Segundo, CA
- Client #2: The Home Depot (Dec 2011 – March 2019) Location: Atlanta, GA and Austin, TX
- Client #3: Travelers Insurance Company (Nov 2008 – Dec 2011) Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota and Chennai India
- Client #4: Great West Life Insurance Company (Mar 2008 – Nov 2008) Location: Canada
- Gathered technical requirements, assessed client capabilities, and analyzed findings to deliver tailored Google Cloud solution recommendations and an effective adoption strategy for Mattel's teams.
- Deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure using cloud technologies such as Compute, Containers, Kubernetes, Serverless, Storage, Bigquery and Cloudsql with industry best practices.
- Increase the consumption of the GCP platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customer’s GCP adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers during migrations.
- Design solutions and migrate on-premise data centers to google Bigdata and google dataware house solutions such as bigquery, dataprep, dataflow and datafusion.
- Provide expertise to Mattel's technology teams to Re-Architect, Migrate, as well as refactor the existing legacy/monolithic applications and AWS applications into Google Cloud Native solution.
- Create automation, employ open-source software, interact with APIs, and enable CI/CD to create new google cloud features.
- Harvest/visualize metrics and monitor health/performance/capacity and cost of the google cloud infrastructure.
- Drive innovation by assessing, piloting, building DevOps/Cloud tooling and services to improve overall developer experience and productivity.
- Primarily to serve as a Cloud IaaS & PaaS Platform Architect, by planning, designing and executing the installation and upgrade of various versions of PaaS platform.
- Developed a knowledge repository and facilitated knowledge transfer to offshore cloud support teams, enhancing support efficiency.
- Highly motivated and committed Google Cloud Platform architect and Site Reliability engineer, experience in designing, configuring, deploying, automating, migrating and maintaining applications on Google cloud platform.
- Experience in leading GCP support teams, providing guidance and building client relationships.
- Working with client Teams and Google Account team to define scope of projects and determine requirements.
- Troubleshooting production issues, working for resolution of the incidents within the timeframe and submitting blameless postmortems.
- Experience in site reliability and micro services architecture, defining and maintaining SLA/SLOs.
- Strong experience in designing and implementing monitoring for GCP workloads.
- Worked on Migrating on premise applications running on WebSphere and Tomcat platform to Google Cloud platform as microservices.
- Experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment process for the micro services using the tools like GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins/Maven, Concourse and python scripting.
- Thorough experience in setting up and build Google infrastructure various resources like, VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, AppEngine, Cloud Storage, IAM, Firewall, Health Checks, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Load Balancer, BigQuery, API Gateway, Terraform and Deployment Manager templates.
- Drive the deployment of customer workloads into GCP and increase their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ GCP adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers.
- Design and Implement Shared vpc networking architecture for gcp projects.
- Integrated MongoDB with GCP through vpc peering and setup the clusters in mongodb.
- Design and implement IAM and firewall policies, groups, projects, folders.
- Integrate loadbalancer backends with cloudarmor and implement origin locks through Imperva waf.
- Enabling migration of compute workloads and setting up datalake through bigquery.
- Enabling serverless workloads through cloud run and appegnine flexible and enabling authentication to the serverless workloads through google api gateway.
- Cost analysis of On-Prem and AWS workloads (through cloud physics) and plan for migration to GCP.
- Implement cloud backup strategy to archive the data into GCP storage buckets.
- Successfully implemented Mattel backups from Rubri, Reno, Las and Iron Mountain to GCP cold line storage.
- Design and implement the onprem connectivity through cloudvpn and enable compute engine, cloudrun, appgenigine and cloudcomposer communication to onprem workloads.
- Implemented cost optimization strategies and automated daily billing reports to improve financial oversight and resource allocation.
- Selecting the appropriate google cloud service based on data, compute, database, and security requirements.
- GSuite Administration, creating new folders, projects, groups and assigning and maintaining IAM roles & ensure access provisioning.
- Setup Application performance management using stackdriver APM tools (trace, debug and profiler).
- Configure and test the connectivity between GCP and other external applications securely as required (ex. Tibco mashery).
- Creating Kubernetes clusters, App Engine and Compute engine Instances, Cloud run and enabling deployment of applications.
- Cloud SQL setup and configuring connectivity between kubernetes and cloudsql instances.
- Configuration of services - Ingress, loadbalancer, clusterip and nodeports.
- Configuring VPC Service controls, Custom encryption, SSL Certificates, Secrets and TLS.
- Creating and Maintaining Network resources such as default/Custom and shared VPCs and firewall rules.
- Cost optimization and cost reduction through budget and billing alerts.
- Cleaning up unutilized and underutilized resources to control the cost.
- Troubleshooting and fixing GCP platform related issues.
- Determine and maintaining resource quotas.
- Support / Interact with Security team in Mattel.
- Implementation of GCP Security Framework and best practices.
- Configuring cloud functions, pub/sub, data flow, data proc and data prep for batch and streaming jobs.
- Storage bucket and Bigquery setup and access granting, data security, authorized views, data retention policies.
- Design and work on the Data Lake and Data warehousing solutions. GCP platform projects such as Data Archival, Backup as and needed for overall GCP cloud journey.
- Configure email service to send the emails from GCP instances using SendGrid.
- Stackdriver dashboards (VALE Metrics), alerts setup and integrating with Pager Duty.
- Performance testing, Destructive Testing, Fire Drills prior to go-live and Production readiness.
- Establishing and maintaining SLA/SLO for the applications.
- Setup CI/CD for apps and automating CI/CD and fixing the issues related to deployment and devops pipeline.
- Technical Tools: Google Cloud IAM, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Bigquery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Armor, Cloud Run, AppEngine, Pub/Sub, Container Registry, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Functions, API Gateway, Data Flow, Data Prep, Tibco Mashery, API Gateway, SendGrid, Stackdriver, MySQL, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Pager Duty, Confluence, Prisma Palo Alto Networks, Imperva, Sumo Logic, MongoDB, Tanium, Crowdstrike and AWS.
Websphere Administrator
Future Focus Technologies
Chennai, India
12.2006 - 03.2008
- Contracted at Tata Consultancy Services, delivering solutions for multiple projects.
- Utilized technical tools including Jython, Shell, AIX, IBM WebSphere Application Servers 4/6.1.0.17, IBM HTTP Server 6.1.0.17, IBM Installation Factory, Eclipse, ASTK, Java to support application deployment and management.
- Managed WebSphere application server installations and configurations.
- Monitored system performance and resolved technical issues promptly.
- Implemented security measures to protect sensitive data and applications.
Java Developer
Tenth Planet Technologies
Chennai, India
10.2005 - 12.2006
- Deployed and managed applications using WebSphere Application Servers 4/6.
- Developed and maintained Java applications for enterprise-level projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design software solutions.
- Implemented code reviews to ensure quality and performance standards.
Java Developer
Qatalys Software Technologies
Chennai, India
08.2005 - 09.2005
- Developed software applications using Java and Eclipse to meet project requirements.
- Developed scalable Java applications for various client projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define software requirements.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for seamless data integration.
Education
Master’s Degree - Computer Applications
Andhra University
India01-2004
Bachelor’s Degree - Computers, Electronics
Andhra University
India01-2001
Training/Certifications
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Skills
Cloud IAM
Cloud SRE/DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines Development
Infrastructure automation
Containerization Technologies
Security Compliance
Access control management
Vulnerability Management
Cloud Cost Optimization
Disaster Recovery
Team Building and Leadership
Vendor Management
Timeline
CloudIAM and SRE Leader
Equifax
09.2022 - Current
Google Cloud Platform Architect, CloudIAM and Gsuite Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Middleware Administrator and Scripting Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2008 - 09.2022
Websphere Administrator
Future Focus Technologies
12.2006 - 03.2008
Java Developer
Tenth Planet Technologies
10.2005 - 12.2006
Java Developer
Qatalys Software Technologies
08.2005 - 09.2005
Master’s Degree - Computer Applications
Andhra University
Bachelor’s Degree - Computers, Electronics
Andhra University
Training/Certifications
Work Authorization