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Vinisha Reddy Kurapati

Cary,USA

Summary

AWS and CKA certified professional with a strong background in designing, deploying, and managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Skilled in automating workflows, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing Kubernetes clusters for performance and reliability. Proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, as well as cloud services like AWS. Demonstrated success in integrating security tools and ensuring smooth deployments in complex environments.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Trilliant Networks
Cary, NC
04.2022 - Current
  • Installed ActiveMQ and EKS clusters in AWS environments, overseeing setup, configuration, and optimization to ensure reliable messaging and application deployment
  • Coordinated in setting up Kubernetes (k8s) clusters for running microservices using EKS, and pushing microservices into production with Kubernetes-backed infrastructure.
  • Configured VPC, route tables, and networking for EKS clusters, contributing to 80% of the infrastructure work, resulting in enhanced system performance and security
  • Managed over 200 deployments across multiple QE and performance environments, increasing release efficiency by 25%.
  • Worked on AWS services: EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Redshift, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, SES, EMR, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, ELB, RDS, EBS, and Route 53.
  • Dockerized 5+ microservices and developed Kubernetes YAML files, ensuring a consistent and scalable deployment process
  • Supported and created cloud architectures for security, infrastructure, and data, with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile Scrum methodology.
  • Built CI/CD Jenkins pipelines that automated the build and push of 50+ Docker containers to Artifactory, and successfully integrated SonarQube and Nexus scans, resulting in a 20% reduction in security vulnerabilities.
  • Resolved 30+ critical Kubernetes issues, significantly improving cluster stability, and assisting the testing teams in achieving 100% uptime during test cycles.
  • Worked across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD systems, in addition to managing requests and tickets for IT process management through the Remedy ticketing tool. Launched LAMP stacks in multi-tier AWS instances in different subnets in Amazon VPC, and attached ACLs and Security Groups to maintain high security.
  • Deployed and managed Keycloak in both Kubernetes and Docker Compose environments, ensuring high availability and scalability for secure authentication services
  • Created realms and integrated Keycloak with LDAP, streamlining user authentication and access management across multiple environments
  • Led the installation, configuration, and integration of all access points to OpenLDAP, enhancing user management and security protocols.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Amazon
India
02.2020 - 03.2021
  • Monitored IAM roles and controlled user access to Dev, Prod, QA, UAT, and group access to operational services, along with cloud-associated resources.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Implement security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC configurations, encryption, monitored system performance and troubleshoot cloud-related issues
  • Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store Amazon Pay fraud-related claim files, and configured S3 buckets with various lifecycle policies to transfer the infrequently accessed data to other storage classes based on requirements.
  • Coordinated with the audit team in detecting unusual activities with the help of CloudWatch and CloudTrail logs.
  • Played a key role in converting existing Jenkins jobs into the new pipeline process.
  • Prepared a document on the process of migrating Jenkins jobs from the development environment to the production server.
  • Implemented CloudTrail in order to capture the events related to API calls made to AWS infrastructure.
  • Configured and managed updates on servers using the configuration management tool, Ansible.
  • Created Docker containers, attaching volumes to containers, managing containers, and reducing Docker image size when needed.
  • Implement monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Splunk and Prometheus.

Linux System Administrator

Statwig
Hyderabad, India
08.2019 - 01.2020
  • Monitor and analyze system logs (/var/log/ files) using tools like journalctl, syslog and used tools like strace, dmesg, and lsof for troubleshooting.
  • Installing and Configuring Red Hat Linux Servers.
  • Managed storage solutions, including NAS and SAN, optimizing data accessibility and redundancy.
  • Start, stop, and monitor services using systemctl, service, or init.d scripts.
  • Linux Linux systems administration, maintenance, and monitoring of various day-to-day operations.
  • Worked on branching, tagging, and release activities on version control tools (Git) and setting up the Git repos for Jenkins build jobs.
  • Knowledge of servers such as NFS, FTP, and Apache web server.
  • Worked with cross-organizational teams to triage issues and see problems through to resolution.
  • contributed to the initial data model, detected issues, and had experience in writing playbooks and deploying applications using Ansible.
  • Experience in automation through the resource creation process using JSON, Shell, Bash, and Python scripts.
  • Processes administration and management, such as monitoring, starting, stopping, and killing various processes or subprocesses.
  • Configured and enabled SonarQube through Jenkins pipeline jobs.
  • Boosted efficiency by scheduling jobs for automated tasking, and notification of failures and alerts.
  • Install and configure Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, etc.).

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Montclair University
NJ
05-2021

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology, Computer Science

Sreenidhi Institute of Science And Technology
Hyderabad, India
05-2019

Skills

  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Jenkins
  • KVM
  • Proxmox
  • QEMU
  • VMware
  • Artifactory
  • Sonatype Nexus
  • ELK stack
  • Percona
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Oracle Database
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

CKA

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Trilliant Networks
04.2022 - Current

AWS Cloud Engineer

Amazon
02.2020 - 03.2021

Linux System Administrator

Statwig
08.2019 - 01.2020

Master of Science - Information Technology

Montclair University

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology, Computer Science

Sreenidhi Institute of Science And Technology

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