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Venugopal

Devops/Cloud Engineer
USA

Summary

Accomplished Sr. Solutions Specialist with extensive experience at Deloitte, specializing in the deployment of scalable cloud solutions on AWS and Azure. Proven expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes drives operational efficiency through strategic incident management and continuous deployment. Recognized for exceptional problem-solving abilities and fostering effective team collaboration, leading to the establishment of resilient, high-availability environments.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Solutions Specialist

Deloitte
, USA
01.2023 - Current
  • Worked on release management, Environment Management, deployments, Continuous integration, continuous deployment, Incident management, version management
  • Worked on AWS EC2 Instances creation, setting up AWS VPC, launching AWS EC2 instances different kind of private and public subnets based on the requirements for each of the applications
  • Configured and managed log ingestion and processing in Datadog, enabling centralized logging and improved troubleshooting efficiency
  • Configured Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for different environments
  • Utilized Terraform to map more complex dependencies and identify network issue
  • Worked with Terraform a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently
  • Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as code, Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation
  • Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle
  • Used Kubernetes for automated deployments, scaling and management of containerized applications across clusters of hosts
  • Automated application deployment in cloud using Docker technology using Elastic Container Service Scheduler
  • Automated processes to reduce manual work and increase efficiency, using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins
  • Enhanced team communication through the creation of detailed documentation and guidelines, ensuring smooth onboarding and knowledge transfer
  • Utilized Docker for container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing director structures and managing containers in Docker registry
  • Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports development, test and production environments
  • Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build, test, and deploy
  • Deployed AWS Elastic beanstalk applications developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Docker on Apache and IIS
  • Worked on AWS Elastic load balancing (ELB) for deploying applications in high availability
  • Carried out AWS Auto Scaling for providing high availability of applications and EC2 instances based on the load of applications
  • Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of corporate servers/storage using AWS CloudWatch to ensure reliability of applications, developed and deployed stacks using AWS Cloud Formation templates
  • Created Cloud Watch alerts for instances and using them in Auto-scaling launch configurations
  • Environment: Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Azure ARM, Kubernetes, Python, XML, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Jira, Docker, Windows Server, TFS, VSTS, LDAP, Prometheus, Grafana

DevOps SRE Engineer

Navy Federal Credit Union
, USA
10.2021 - 11.2022
  • Implemented CI using Jenkins with automated unit tests, static code analysis, Code coverage, code duplication and code standards using SonarQube
  • Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process implementation using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs
  • Integrated Kubernetes with Hashicorp Vault to inject configurations at runtime for each service using init, config sidecars and persistent volume sharing between app and config containers
  • Worked on creating the python scripts for the GIT pre-push and SVN commit hooks
  • Implemented AWS solutions using ECS, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances
  • Wrote Terraform scripts to automate AWS services, which include Web servers, ELB, Cloud Front distribution, Database, EC2, database security groups and S3 bucket
  • Installed Managed Jenkins and Nexus for CI and Sharing Artifacts respectively within the company
  • Implemented CI Pipeline to create and manage AWS AMI's using Hashicorp Packer, terraform and Ansible
  • Worked on Kubernetes to deploy, scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker Containers with multiple namespace versions
  • Used Kubernetes to deploy Docker Containers into Pod Clusters on multiple Nodes in QA, Test and Production Environments
  • Responsible for the creating and maintaining automated builds for projects written in Java, C/C++, PHP, HTML/CSS, using Jenkins
  • ELK Set up and managed ELK(Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) Stack to collect, search and analyse log files across servers, log monitoring and created geo-mapping visualizations using Kibana in integration with AWS CloudWatch and Lambda
  • Evaluated system logs using ELK software stack
  • Written CI/CD pipeline in Groovy scripts to enable end-to-end setup of build & deployment using Cloud Bees Jenkins and developed an end-to-end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, perform tests and push build artifacts to Nexus
  • Deployed application build artifacts using Jenkins and shell scripts in multiple integrated environments
  • Used Ansible server to deploy consistent infrastructure code across multiple environments
  • Created Ansible playbooks and that configures RabbitMQ clusters, ELK stack and Zero-Downtime patching of the boxes
  • Troubleshoot build issues in Jenkins, performance and generating metrics on master's performance along with jobs usage and no of builds being run
  • Setting up automated builds and deploys, troubleshooting servers, helping with server issues as needed, pulling server logs when needed using Linux
  • Worked on implementing REST based web services to facilitate communication between client and servers
  • Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems
  • Implemented the Build automation process for all the assigned projects in Vertical Apps domain
  • Monitor the UAT/Production Environments for any down time issues by performing regular Cron job updates in servers
  • On-call support for 24/7 for troubleshooting production issues
  • Environment: RHEL 6.x, Win 2008 R2/2012, Eclipse, Ansible, Shell, Nexcess, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Subversion, Docker, Kubernetes, HashiCorp, ELK, Python, BASH, BrowserStack, SonarQube, JIRA, Apache 2.4, Weblogic Server

DevOps Engineer

NTT Managed Services India Priv/Secure-24
Hyderabad, India
07.2019 - 07.2021
  • Experience in writing Maven/Shell scripts for automating several processes of systems, applications, backups etc
  • Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, Maven & Nexus in Linux environment
  • Installed Chef Server Enterprise on premise/workstation/bootstrapped the nodes using knife and automated by testing Chef recipes/cookbooks with test-kitchen/chef spec
  • Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications by configuring Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto Scaling groups
  • Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application containers
  • Container management using Docker by writing Dockerfiles, set up the automated build on Docker HUB, installed, and configured Kubernetes
  • Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
  • Performed integration of Code Quality Analysis techniques - Checkstyle, Findbugs with CI tools
  • Managed Sonatype Nexus repositories to upload and download the artifacts (jar, war & ear)
  • Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, and GitHub and AWS
  • Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases
  • Used Splunk to monitor the system logs as well as notify the incident management system upon exceeding thresholds
  • Used Jira for tracking and ticketing
  • Environment: AWS, Linux, Maven, Chef, Jenkins, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus, Github, Gradle, Python, Jira

Cloud Engineer

NTT
Hyderabad, India
11.2018 - 06.2019
  • Implemented a CI/CD framework using Jenkins, Maven & Artifactory in Linux environment and Integration of Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, Git and JIRA
  • Design and create automated Build and Deployment process using Jenkins
  • Developed, maintained and enhanced pre and post build scripts using Python
  • I was responsible for bi-weekly production releases handling 4 different platforms
  • All the releases go through Jenkins pipelines and is managed through ServiceNow change ticket management
  • For the releases, we coordinate with Developers, Testing team and DBA during the release deployment window
  • Creating branches and tags on Git repository and provided branches access permission to dev team
  • Install, configure, and administered of BEA Weblogic Server 9.1 in various environments
  • Participated in the release cycle of the product, which involves environments like Development test and Production environment
  • Handling Build and Release Management using Maven
  • Worked on Jenkins by scheduling jobs for Builds and release
  • Deployed WAR, JAR, EAR applications in Weblogic servers
  • Experience in installing and configuring Apache and Samba servers
  • Creating branches and tags on Git repository and provided branches access permission to dev team
  • Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Weblogic Server
  • Worked on Jenkins tool to configure Nightly Builds to check sanity of our java source code
  • Good experience of working with the release and deployment of large-scale Java/J2EEWeb applications
  • Support Production/development and Testing systems, UNIX system upgrading and UNIX Network configuration User/group maintenance in both production/development environments, worked with LDAP integration for a single log on purpose
  • Collaborated with DBA managing their databases by backup and recovery procedures
  • Environment: UNIX/LINUX, Redhat Linux 6, CentOS, GIT, Jenkins, SVN, Windows, Jira, Weblogic server9.1, Shell Scripts, Maven, Python

System Administrator

IIC Technologies
Hyderabad, India
11.2015 - 10.2018
  • Installation and administration of Linux systems
  • Creating users, groups and setting file permissions to different groups and users
  • Handling the scheduling tasks (cron jobs and task scheduler) for the scripts for various purposes
  • Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Red Hat Satellite server
  • Install host firewall IP Tables for RHEL and Centos
  • Involved in installing subversion version control, creating, and administering repositories
  • Bash Shell scripting for various automation of system administrative tasks
  • Configuring network services such as DNS/NFS/NIS/NTP for UNIX/Linux Servers
  • Creating a change requests, work orders and problem tickets using BMC Remedy tool and getting approvals from process owners
  • Project Management for various UNIX/Linux/Windows system integration projects
  • Environment: Linux (Red Hat Enterprise, Cent OS), Windows 2000/NT, Subversion, SSH Gate, shell scripting

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering (ECE)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderaba, India
07-2015

Skills

  • RHEL, Ubuntu, CENTOS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Cloud Services Knowledge
  • Bash Shell Scripting
  • Python, PowerShell, Shell, Java, Groovy
  • VPN, VPC, TCP/IP
  • NIS,NFS
  • Network Protocols Management
  • Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana
  • AppDynamics
  • Splunk
  • ELK
  • Azure DevOps
  • Bamboo, Jenkins
  • Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • Maven
  • GitHub, Bitbucket
  • ServiceNow, JIRA

Timeline

Sr. Solutions Specialist - Deloitte
01.2023 - Current
DevOps SRE Engineer - Navy Federal Credit Union
10.2021 - 11.2022
DevOps Engineer - NTT Managed Services India Priv/Secure-24
07.2019 - 07.2021
Cloud Engineer - NTT
11.2018 - 06.2019
System Administrator - IIC Technologies
11.2015 - 10.2018
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderaba - Bachelor of Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering (ECE)

Phone - Number

(720)-432-2443

Professionalsummary

 RHEL, Ubuntu, CENTOS, Windows, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), UNIX Shell Scripting (bash), Python, PowerShell, Shell, Java, Groovy, VPN, VPC, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, WAN, SMTP, HTTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP, SCP, F5, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK, AzureDevOps (VSTS), Bamboo, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, GitHub, Bitbucket, Nexus, Jfrog, Service now, JIRA

Personal Information

Title: DevOps /Cloud Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Phone - Number

(720)-432-2443

Professionalsummary

 RHEL, Ubuntu, CENTOS, Windows, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), UNIX Shell Scripting (bash), Python, PowerShell, Shell, Java, Groovy, VPN, VPC, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, WAN, SMTP, HTTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP, SCP, F5, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK, AzureDevOps (VSTS), Bamboo, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, GitHub, Bitbucket, Nexus, Jfrog, Service now, JIRA

Venugopal Devops/Cloud Engineer