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VIJAYA KRISHNA REDDY SUNKARA

Chicago,IL

Summary

4+ years of experience in the IT Industry with expertise in areas of DevOps, Release/Build Management and Site Reliability (SRE). Professional with a strong work ethic who is driven to help clients transform their IT operations, infrastructure, and applications into sustainable, scalable, highly secure, fault tolerant systems that are also cost-effective on the cloud platform. Developed, and managed the reliability of a diverse range of critical infrastructure systems, services, tools, and automation that provided the foundation for SaaS platforms critical to the business. Experience in DevOps/Build and Release Engineering i.e., Automation of Installation, Configuration, Build and Deployment process on various environments on different platforms and tightly maintaining Cloud Infrastructure in multiple environments. Worked with Scheduling, deploying, managing container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and experienced in creating clusters work with frameworks running on the same cluster resources. Having an Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform to provision AWS services as EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and knowledge on managing other cloud platforms using Terraform. Hands on experience with Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments. Experience in monitoring System/Application Logs of servers using Splunk to detect Prod issues. Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config Maps, selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods. Used build tools like Maven and NPM for building deployable artifacts such as jar, war and ear from source code and Artifactory Repository like Nexus for Maven and builds to upload artifacts using Jenkins. Excellent understanding in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle from Analysis to Implementation on Agile, Scrum and waterfall Methodologies. An effective communicator with strong leadership, people management, analytical and problem-solving skills. At equal ease in interacting with people across hierarchical levels in an organization for ensuring smooth task execution.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago state university
08.2022 - 12.2023
  • Ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems through automation and monitoring
  • Conducting incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews to identify and address system failures
  • Collaborated within IT department to understand requirements and build solutions that meet business needs.

DevOps Engineer

Infosys
02.2021 - 01.2022
  • Automating infrastructure like automating build tools used by developers which will help development and operations team to reduce their time to production for features being developed in project/module
  • Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using GitLab
  • Monitor tool for utmost efficiency, in case of any issue help team to resolve issue
  • Experience in installing, administering and maintenance of ANSIBLE which is used as configuration management for existing infrastructure
  • Used Ansible to manage Web Applications, Config files, Database, Commands, and Users Mount.
  • Integrated Dynatrace monitoring into CI/CD pipelines using automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Ansible to provide continuous feedback on application performance and quality throughout software development lifecycle
  • Create POC for various upcoming DevOps and automation tools to provide concept for its usage and profit organization
  • Worked on creating Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing application life cycle and experience with container-based deployments using Docker which involves troubleshooting Docker volume problems, storing data within containers and Docker networking configuration
  • Experience in utilizing Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments Checking out code from GIT and using Maven to build war/jar artifacts and creating pipelines
  • Used MAVEN as build tool on java projects for development of build artifacts on source code and deployed artifacts into Nexus ((Jar and War file) repository and defined dependencies and plugins in Maven pom.xml for various activities and integrated Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project related tags
  • Participated and contributed effectively in daily stand-up, sprint review, sprint demo and scrum meetings in Agile
  • Worked with JIRA ticket tracking as change management and bug tracking tool
  • Experience in installing, administering and maintenance of ANSIBLE which is used as configuration management for existing infrastructure
  • Used Ansible to manage Web Applications, Config files, Database, Commands, and Users Mount
  • Scripting for tools to make automation pipeline more robust for usage
  • Environment: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Maven, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jira.

DevOps Engineer

HCLTech
11.2019 - 01.2021
  • Managed source code repository, build, and release configurations, processes, and tools to support daily development, test, and production build and software deployment operations
  • Created and Maintained Subversion Branching, Merging and Tagging across each Production release and perform builds using Hudson Continuous Integration using Maven Scripts
  • Leveraged Dynatrace insights to optimize application and infrastructure performance, identify scalability bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization in cloud-native and microservices architectures.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to implement performance optimization strategies based on Dynatrace recommendations, including code refactoring, caching mechanisms, and infrastructure scaling
  • Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging Dynatrace analytics and reporting capabilities to identify performance trends, measure impact of changes, and drive performance optimization effort.
  • Maintained Maven environment by setting up local, remote and central repositories with specified configuration in maven configuration files
  • Strong experience in utilizing Build Forge and Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments - checking out code from SVN and using ant/maven to build war/era artifacts
  • Automated Maven and ANT builds by integrating them with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins
  • Defined dependencies and plugins in Maven pom.xml and integrated Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project related tags
  • Automated continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins
  • Installed Jenkins/Plugins for GIT Repository, Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Build with Maven Repository and Deployed Apps using custom ruby modules through Puppet as CI/CD Process
  • Involved in installing Puppet client on Red hat & Solaris servers for Automation purpose
  • Utilized Configuration Management Tools Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations
  • Maintained Chef Server and management application that can use Service Now (CI) data to bring computers into desired state by managing files, services, or packages installed on physical or virtual machines
  • Automated legacy infrastructure in interim while working through Chef
  • Strong experience in deploying and maintaining multi-container applications through Docker
  • Involved in POC on Docker and used Docker registry, Docker-compose, Links, Bridge and Docker file
  • Managed all bugs and changes into production environment using JIRA tracking tool.
  • Environment: Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Chef, Docker, JIRA
  • ADIEL

Cloud Engineer

ADIEL
01.2019 - 10.2019
  • Provisioned and configured cloud infrastructure resources using AWS including virtual machines, storage, networking, and security groups, adhering to best practices for scalability, reliability, and cost optimization
  • Implemented and managed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, orchestrating deployments, scaling services, and ensuring high availability in cloud-native environments
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management tasks using Terraform, Ansible
  • Reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production environments
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize cloud-based solutions, providing technical expertise and guidance to support business objectives and project requirements.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Chicago State University
Chicago, IL
12.2023

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

RSR Engineering College
Kavali
05.2019

Skills

  • Maven, NPM
  • Jenkins, GitLab
  • Artifactory, Nexus
  • Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Git, GitHub
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Splunk, ELK stack, Cloud watch
  • Linux/Windows
  • SQL, PostgreSQL, RDS

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago state university
08.2022 - 12.2023

DevOps Engineer

Infosys
02.2021 - 01.2022

DevOps Engineer

HCLTech
11.2019 - 01.2021

Cloud Engineer

ADIEL
01.2019 - 10.2019

Master of Science - Computer Science

Chicago State University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

RSR Engineering College
VIJAYA KRISHNA REDDY SUNKARA