Vijay Kankanala
Dallas
Summary
Dynamic Senior Cloud Engineer with extensive experience at Fidelity Investments, specializing in AWS migration and automation. Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins. Adept at enhancing security through IAM patterns and fostering collaboration across teams to streamline deployment processes. Strong analytical skills drive performance improvements. Efficient Cloud Engineer with years of experience assembling cloud infrastructure. Utilizes strong managerial skills by negotiating with vendors and coordinating tasks with other IT team members. Implements best practices to create cloud functions, applications and databases.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineer
Fidelity Investments
Dallas
04.2023 - Current
- Experience in designing, automating, and modernizing cloud environments using Terraform. Proven track record of implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enhance scalability, reduce deployment times, and optimize resource utilization.
- Automated platform improvements and enhancements for infrastructure migration to AWS Cloud, streamlining processes and increasing reliability.
- Maintain Clusters and Backend DBs in AWS and ensure they are performing as per the use cases and build the containers using EKS and Kubernetes in AWS.
- Automated deployment pipelines by integrating Terraform with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab, ensuring faster and error-free rollout to Production and Perform corresponding tests in Non-Prod Environments.
- Led modernization of application authentication by implementing enterprise-grade Identity & Access Management (IAM) patterns, integrating apps with Okta/Entra ID, and refactoring legacy authentication flows to OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT-based standards to strengthen security and streamline access governance.
- Provided hands-on engineering support and architectural guidance to refactor applications toward standards-based identity patterns, improving security posture and reducing integration complexity across cloud platforms.
- Conducted performance tuning and profiling using tools like JProfiler to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improving application response times.
- Configured logging and monitoring with Spring Boot Actuator, ELK Stack (or Prometheus/Grafana), and custom metrics, enabling proactive system health checks and early issue detection.
- Scaled and maintained infrastructure and data, focused on developing fail-proof, cloud-agnostic solutions.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Gurucul Solutions
Dallas
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Automated platform processes to enhance infrastructure migration efficiency to AWS Cloud.
- Provided hands-on engineering support and architectural guidance to refactor applications toward standards-based identity patterns and integrate Active Directory and LDAP with RADIUS Authentication, improving security posture and reducing integration complexity across cloud platforms.
- Provision and maintain multi-node, highly available services which use Java and Scala and automate the release process of Kafka clusters in different Availability Zones in AWS.
- Developed GitLab CI pipelines to automate application deployments, including unit functional and integration testing for microservices.
- Demonstrated extensive knowledge of computing services, including EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions.
- Troubleshooting Linux Environments and automating Deployment procedures using CI/CD pipelines.
- Designed and implemented disaster recovery and failover plans with optimal RPO and RTO.
- Utilized AWS Config and CloudTrail as part of the governance framework to enable compliance, auditing, troubleshooting, etc of AWS accounts and resources.
- Streamlined cost management using a combination of Reserved, Spot, and On-Demand Instances, EC2 instance types, Auto Scaling, and S3 storage classes.
- Gained experience with various network equipment, including VPC, subnets, route tables, and Internet Gateways.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
- Provide Real-Time Visibility, Automated Detection, Prioritized Investigation and Risk Driven Response Powered by Advanced Analytics with Dynatrace.
Senior Cloud Engineer/SRE
Southwest Airlines
Dallas
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Provision and maintain multi-node, highly available services which use Java and Scala and automate the release process of Kafka clusters in different Availability Zones in AWS.
- Automated platform enhancements for infrastructure migration to AWS Cloud, improving deployment efficiency.
- Implemented cross-region replication for application data and synchronized Kafka messages to ensure data consistency, enabling strategic server backups during low traffic periods.
- Automated server scaling using EKS and Kubernetes pods for efficient logging.
- Experience with designing and configuring secure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) through private and public networks in AWS by creating various subnets, routing table, Network ACL, NAT gateways.
- Updating and running CI-CD Pipelines in GitLab and provide solutions for hybrid and cloud-based deployment procedures.
- Developed GitLab CI pipelines to invoke API calls and automated application deployments, integrating unit functional and integration testing for microservices.
- Setting up monitoring and APM Dashboards using Dynatrace.
- Performance analysis for microservices in Pre-Prod Environments.
- Work on Data Integrations and configured Kafka and maintained responses from applications.
- Created CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Autoscaling launch configurations.
DevOps/Cloud Engineer/SRE
Capital One
Plano
02.2020 - 01.2022
- CI-CD Support for various application teams using git repositories created Build Workflows using Jenkins and Nexus repositories and helped in defining Branching strategies for Java and JBoss based projects including NodeJS, AngularJS Golang etc.
- Creating CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Autoscaling launch configurations.
- Experience in AWS platform and its features including IAM, EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation AWS Configuration, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda and Route53.
- Managed IAM requirements for cloud-based services, implementing strategies and trust models to enhance access governance, provisioning, information security, and privacy.
- Troubleshot AWS EC2 instances for system and instance status checks.
- Experience with designing and configuring secure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) through private and public networks in AWS by creating various subnets, routing table, Network ACL, NAT gateways.
- Worked on Sphinx Migration and made sure all the developers had the knowledge over the new security integrations and access required.
- Automated Jenkins jobs across multiple repositories with a unified jenkinsfile and bogiefile, streamlining branch tagging for execution.
- Work on Data Integrations and configured Kafka and maintained responses from various applications.
- Created and maintained an environment status dashboard leveraging AWS Lambda and Python and Node scripts for real-time monitoring.
- Utilized Python Libraries like Boto3, NumPy for AWS.
- Worked on reading queues in Amazon SQS, which have paths to files in Amazon S3 Bucket.
- Working on Dynatrace and Newrelic application monitoring for performance metrics Alerts and maintaining Application logs and creating Dashboards to detect application problems automatically.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps
Epam Systems (Core logic)
Dallas
07.2018 - 02.2020
- Supported microservices architecture in cloud using Jenkins builds and Artifactory. Automated and implemented CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams.
- CI-CD Support for various application teams using git repositories created Build Workflows using Jenkins and Nexus repositories and helped in defining Branching strategies for Java and JBoss projects.
- Collaborated with Dev teams to resolve daily infrastructure and automation challenges related to CI/CD.
- Maintaining the infrastructure in AWS and Creating required Applications and Services in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Utilized AWS Beanstalk for conveying and scaling web applications and administrations created with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python Docker on commonplace servers like Apache.
- Developed functions in AWS Lambda to execute Python scripts.
- Setting up monitoring tools Dynatrace and Datadog for various applications.
- Utilized log filters and log forwarders in PCF across different platforms. Developed Ansible playbooks for automated deployments.
- Configured and created Jenkins jobs to automate testing and deployment across environments while troubleshooting issues.
- Experience writing angular.js code for developing Single page applications (SPA), used several in built language core directives, expressions and modules.
- Extensive experience with AngularJS, creating custom directives, decorators, and services to interface with both restful and legacy network services also DOM applications.
- Developing the GUI, Spring MVC and Entity framework; Leading multiple modelling, simulations and analysis efforts to uncover the best Java-based solutions.
- Developing J2EE design patterns; Developing UML class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
- Enhancing the front-end of the application using JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Ajax and jQuery.
- Creating and consuming Web Services, such as XML/XSD and SOAP.
- Developing and implementing test validations of the applications using JUnit.
DevOps Engineer
Capital One
Plano
07.2015 - 07.2018
- Worked on automation and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes with Jenkins, Chef, Docker, Nexus/Artifactory.
- Created and maintained build and release processes for application configuration, ensuring alignment with developer requirements and industry best practices.
- CI-CD Support for various application teams using git repositories created Build Workflows using Jenkins and Nexus repositories and helped in defining Branching strategies for Java and JBoss based projects including NodeJS, AngularJS and AJAX.
- Maintained Linux and Windows Jenkins slaves and configured the build jobs for different application teams.
- Using a system account, set a unique process up to upload and maintain nexus DEV, QA and Release groups with Group Artifact Version as identifiers using MAVEN and Jenkins.
- Troubleshot continuous integration and automated deployment processes using Jenkins, Chef, Maven, Ant, Docker, and similar tools, enhancing overall system reliability.
- Initiated and administered the GitHub Repository creations under Organizations and maintained access to the repos for master develop and release branches.
- Supported monthly production releases and managed code merges from release branch to develop and master branches in GitHub.
- Configured and maintained non-prod and prod environments in AWS using CloudFormation templates, applied security patching, and troubleshot applications across deployment, load testing, performance analysis, and scalability.
- Managed AWS instances and on-prem infrastructure using automation tools.
- Worked on monitoring tools like Nagios and Zabbix and configured Splunk logging for application monitoring in AWS environments and created user specific dashboards for Splunk Bootstrapping instances to Chef Server and integrating with auto scaling.
- Configured GitHub Pull Request build jobs in Jenkins and made sure it passes the Unit tests in SONAR, a SNAPSHOT version if the build is created for each build.
- Created new Chef Cookbooks and updated existing ones to automate deployments to Non-Prod and Prod environments -- maintained web servers and app servers separately.
- Launching Auto Scaling Groups and Elastic Load Balancers and app instances and web instances using Cloud Formation, assigned them to specific IAM roles and s3 buckets to pull static files for applications.
- Dynamically add and remove servers from AWS production environment.
Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps Engineer
Comcast
Philadelphia
02.2015 - 06.2015
- UNIX/LINUX System and Network administration in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RedHat 3/4/5, SUSE 9/10/11) including design, engineering and building servers (Open Stack).
- Implemented XFINITY TV and HOME SECURITY apps, enabling Video OnDemand streaming (VOD) on Android and iOS applications.
- Automated deployment processes using Anthill, streamlining application release cycles.
- Building and monitoring applications using Jenkins.
- Designed and implemented Monitoring tools like Icinga, Hostmon for Metrics and Nagios for cluster monitoring and host-based monitoring.
- Implementing Puppet 3.4.3 and building Hieradata architecture which differentiates between DB, SQL servers and application servers automatically based on hostname.
- Supported Apache and Tomcat applications on Linux and Unix servers, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Support of Applications running on Linux machines for multiple clients.
- Installation, configuration and administration of Linux (Red Hat, Centos), Sun Solaris and HP-UX Servers.
- Experience with accessing Git and swegit SCM tools.
- Experience with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis for various issues coming up on a daily basis.
- Monitoring Live Traffic, Logs, Memory utilization, Disk utilization and various other factors which are important for deployment.
- Ensure Connectivity for various services and maintaining security to those backend services.
DevOps Engineer
Charter Communications
Denver
02.2014 - 01.2015
- UNIX/LINUX System and Network administration in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RedHat 3/4/5 & SUSE 9/10/11) including design, engineering, and building servers (AWS).
- Automated Deployments using Auto-scaling Groups and Asgard (Netflix Open-Source Tools).
- Designed and implemented Monitoring tools like Cloud Watch in AWS and Nagios for cluster monitoring.
- Maintained multiple testing/QA environments and built production environment in AWS.
- Creating and managing Security Groups, using RDS (MySql & Cassandra DBs).
- Support of Applications running on Linux machines for multiple clients.
- Supported Apache and Tomcat applications running on Linux and Unix servers.
- Developed bash and shell scripts to automate application health checks.
- Analyzed logs and performed root cause analysis for daily operational issues.
- Monitoring Live Traffic, logs, Memory utilization, Disk utilization and various other factors which are important for deployment.
- Accessed git and swegit SCM tools for version control and collaboration.
- Ensure Connectivity for various services and maintaining security to those backend services.
- Worked in Implementation of Charter TV Application which had involved Video On-demand Streaming (VOD) using Android and iOS Applications.
DevOps Engineer
Apple
Sunnyvale
05.2013 - 01.2014
- UNIX/LINUX System and Network administration in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RedHat 3/4/5 & SUSE 9/10/11) including design, engineering and building servers.
- Installed and managed automation and monitoring tools on Red Hat Linux, including Nagios, Splunk, and Puppet, to enhance operational efficiency.
- Utilized Jenkins for configuration integration, building and managing jobs to ensure environment consistency.
- Experience supporting Java applications like WebLogic and JBoss running on OEL.
- Monitored live traffic, logs, memory and disk utilization, and other critical factors to support successful deployments.
- Experience in 24X7 Production Support and managing Akamai.
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
AtoS
Irving
01.2012 - 05.2013
- UNIX/LINUX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10,11), HP-UX (10.x,11.x Linux (RedHat 3/4/5 & SUSE 9/10/11) including design, engineering and building servers as per requirement.
- Configured and maintained virtual server environment with VMware ESX, vCenter, vSphere, and Solaris 10 Zones to ensure high availability and performance.
- Configured Enterprise UNIX/LINUX systems in heterogenous environment (Linux (Red hat &SUSE), Solaris, HP-UX) with SAN/NAS infrastructure across multiple sites on mission business critical systems.
- Configured Enterprise UNIX/LINUX systems in heterogenous environments (Linux, RedHat, SUSE) with SAN/NAS infrastructure across multiple sites on mission business critical systems.
- Implemented backup and restore solutions for disaster recovery using OMNIBACK on UNIX and SUSE Red Hat Linux platforms, enhancing data recovery capabilities.
- Installed and managed automation and monitoring tools on Red Hat Linux, including Nagios, Splunk, and Puppet, to streamline system performance and monitoring.
Education
Masters - Engineering Technology
Pittsburg State University
Kansas12-2012
Skills
- AWS and GCP
- Database management (AWS RDS)
- Containerization (Docker)
- Continuous integration (Jenkins)
- Event streaming (Kafka)
- Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Version control (Git, GitHub, GitLab)
- Operating systems (Linux, Unix)
- Scripting (Bash, PowerShell)
- Programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python)
- JavaScript
- Database solutions (MongoDB)
- Artifact management (Nexus, Artifactory)
- Operating systems (Windows, macOS)
- Code editing (VS Code)
- Datadog AWS CloudTrail Dynatrace
- Terraform Yaml RDS DB2 Oracle
- Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana
Timeline
Senior Cloud Engineer
Fidelity Investments
04.2023 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
Gurucul Solutions
09.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Cloud Engineer/SRE
Southwest Airlines
01.2022 - 09.2022
DevOps/Cloud Engineer/SRE
Capital One
02.2020 - 01.2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps
Epam Systems (Core logic)
07.2018 - 02.2020
DevOps Engineer
Capital One
07.2015 - 07.2018
Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps Engineer
Comcast
02.2015 - 06.2015
DevOps Engineer
Charter Communications
02.2014 - 01.2015
DevOps Engineer
Apple
05.2013 - 01.2014
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
AtoS
01.2012 - 05.2013
Masters - Engineering Technology
Pittsburg State University