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Vidyasagar Balagudaba

Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Accomplished DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of specialized experience in AWS Cloud, renowned for driving scalability and automation. Possessing a robust 9-year background across diverse technologies and roles, including AWS Infrastructure, Linux Administration, and Infrastructure Monitoring. Demonstrates comprehensive expertise in a broad array of AWS services. Proficient with essential tools and advanced scripting capabilities in Bash and Python. Skilled in leveraging Terraform to efficiently provision various AWS services. Exceptional command over AWS CLI, SDK, and security practices. Proven track record in debugging and problem-solving, complemented by a keen ability to quickly master new technologies and tools.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

DEVOPS ENGINEER-II

TEKION CORP
BENGALURU, INDIA
01.2023 - Current
  • Identified and created realtime alerts to secure the AWS Resources based on the Cloudtrail events.
  • Enforcing Security by using AWS Organizations service by creating Service Control Policies and Tag Policies across organization level.
  • Automated Ad-Hoc tasks related to AWS IAM, DynamoDB and EC2 by creating the API's to make these as a self service
  • Worked on WAF classic and v2 to restrict the access to internal assets owned by DevOps.
  • Automated Elastic Search and DynamoDB Tasks to improve the efficiency while Golive and minimize the human errors.
  • Template the infrastructure provisioning for security alerts and Deploying Guardrails across all the AWS accounts.
  • Worked on ECS migration from amd to arm(graviton) in AWS
  • Had a chance to work with the SRT Team of AWS and created health checks for all the protected resources under AWS Shield
  • Worked on creating permission sets and structuring the users of various application teams in AWS IAM Identity Center as a part of SSO integrations
  • Fixed the security vulnerabilities reported by the AWS Inspector scans across ECS and EC2 to ensure the infrastructure adheres to the CIS benchmark
  • Corrected the overly permissive IAM Policies to meet the company's security standards and compliance requirements
  • Worked on implementing the AWS Well-Architected Framework to meet all six pillars, ensuring operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER

HEALTHIFYME
BENGALURU, INDIA
05.2022 - 01.2023
  • Worked on Trusted Advisor findings and Implemented fixes for all non compliant resources
  • Worked on Trend Micro Cloud conformity for compliance ready infrastructure (AWS Services)
  • Implemented Akamai WAF and Rate-limit policies for production
  • Built an Open source Load testing framework using go-replay and AWS run(capture and replay the logs)
  • Planning and Implementation of patch management including baseline creation for various platforms across the AWS accounts.

LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER

REBUS
BENGALURU, INDIA
05.2016 - 05.2022
  • Managing AWS Infra and automating deployments for Inventory, Transaction and Data science applications of 350+ Ubuntu servers
  • Automated deployments for more than 25 applications using Jenkins/ Gitlab CI pipelines and currently working on AWS Code pipeline
  • Migrated around 50+ Nightly Jobs/Schedulers to Fargate to enhance security and reduced run time errors by containerising the applications and scheduling cloud watch events
  • Implemented EBS-backed AMI policies to reduce cost by 40%
  • Utilised AWS Lambda written in Python to automatically detect and cleanup unused resources
  • Managing and increasing the performance of instances by updating and alerting their classes on a regular basis
  • Installed and configure Open LDAP clients, NewRelic APM agents and Open LDAP on over 500 servers using Ansible
  • Built a tool named bumblebee in python using boto3 lib as a multi-utility tool to send deployment alerts, Linux debugger(agent less) and ELB/CLB access log parser (Alternate to Athena)
  • Integrated Git authentication with Active Directory as part of the risk- remediation process
  • Provisioned AWS resources using Terraform(EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, AutoScaling, CLB/ALB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, ECS and Fargate)
  • Assessed audit findings, executed AWS Infrastructure remediation procedures and applied SOX Controls across all in-scope applications
  • Setup and maintain multiple distributed cluster like Cassandra, Apache Nifi, Apache Storm, Zookeeper and Kafka
  • Migration of MySQL databases to MariaDB using Database Migration Service
  • Setup of Centralized logs for all linux instances using OSSEC Server.

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

MVITS
VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • In-depth knowledge of various Linux flavours - Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Kali, SuSE & Ubuntu
  • Worked as a Linux Administrator, during this period I was majorly working on the Installation, the configuration of different Linux operating systems
  • Configured Kickstart servers for installation of workstations with required packages pre-installed.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

JNTUK University
04-2012

Skills

  • AWS Cloud Technologies(EC2, CloudWatch, VPC, ALB/CLB, Auto Scaling, CloudTrail, Security Groups, IAM, S3, RDS, Systems Manager, CodePipeline, ECS, and AWS Organizations)
  • Containerization Technologies (Docker)
  • Serverless AWS (Lambda, API Gateway)
  • Script maintenance and updates
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • Scripting Languages (Bash, Python)
  • Linux Operating System
  • CI/CD (Jenkins)
  • Configuration Management (Ansible)
  • Performance Optimization
  • Incident Management (Jira)
  • APM Monitoring (NewRelic, ElasticSearch)
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Security skills
  • NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, Mongo and DynamoDB)
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Vulnerability Management(AWS Inspector)
  • Compliance
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Trend Micro Cloud conformity
  • Database Migration Service
  • Linux Administration

Accomplishments

  • RedBus Trailblazer Award'2018, 2019 and 2021
  • RedBus makeathon Special Jury Award'2018 for tool "DevAssist"

Timeline

DEVOPS ENGINEER-II

TEKION CORP
01.2023 - Current

LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER

HEALTHIFYME
05.2022 - 01.2023

LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER

REBUS
05.2016 - 05.2022

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

MVITS
01.2014 - 01.2016

B.Tech - Computer Science

JNTUK University

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