Pavan Kumar Akula

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in SRE and DevOps.
Expert in cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.
Proven track record in optimizing system reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDevopsBuild And Release Engineering

Other Skills

KubernetesOpenshiftEKSHelmDockerAWSSaltGITJenkinsJIRAScala Build ToolElastic SearchKibanaPythonKustomize

About

Seasoned IT professional with over 12 years of experience specializing in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps. Proven track record as an MTS4, adopt at leveraging a robust skill set that includes DevOps methodologies, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), continuous delivery (ArgoCD), and scripting languages (Python, Shell). Demonstrated expertise in optimizing system reliability, scalability, and performance in the IT software industry. Passionate about driving automation, enhancing operational efficiency, and delivering high-quality solutions. Seeking to leverage my extensive experience and technical acumen in a challenging SRE or DevOps role to contribute to the success of innovative IT projects.

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Netapp

Member Of Technical Staff IV

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a SRE, my role is make sure the systems and application run with high availability in public cloud platforms like AWS. Monitoring and Alerting are the two big aspects in our infrastructure. We pay much attention to these alerts to resolve issues to control impact on our customers accessibility. we have end to end IAC and pipelines to setup and retire the clusters. We also help COPS which is L1 team to transition the latest updates and automations to supprt L1 issues.
Following scrums, having diverged team with different technologies and platforms.
Tools we account for:
Kubernetes
Openshfit
EKS
Helm
Docker
AWS
Salt
GIT
Jenkins
JIRA
Scala Build Tool
Elastic Search
Kibana
python
kustomize
hiera

KubernetesOpenshiftEKSHelmDockerAWS+12

Dell emc

Product DevOps Operations Senior Engineer

Nov 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

Sapient nitro

Associate Infra L2

Nov 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

 Worked as Build and Release Engineer that involves multiple tools and platforms to work on Application deployment.
 Administered the GIT, subversion VCS and managed the access for users of the subversion repositories.
 Building and Deploying the application on App and Web servers like Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, WAS and TC server.
 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
 Work directly with Project Managers to establish and create & design the release plan.
 Integrated the existing Ant scripts to automate the code quality report generation process for the existing legacy based applications
 Interact with developers and Enterprise Configuration Management Team for changes to best practices and tools to eliminate non-efficient practices and bottlenecks
 Provided single click build and deployment automation using Jenkins by integrating the SHELL scripts.
 Coordinating with the team to resolve the bottle neck issues.
 Automated build and deployments in Hybris and ATG CMS platforms.
 Generating the code coverage reports and pushing it to sonar dash board.
 RCA for all the issues faced during Application deployment.
 Created Shell script to automate the deployment process which deploys the application and restarts the servers.
 Own SDLC of an application.
 Providing appropriate Low Level Plans of B&R activities to the Project Manager
 Performed common database tasks like executing DMLs, DDLs and package body.

GITSubversionApacheTomcatJbossContinuous Integration+5

Sapient

Senior Associate DevOps Engineer

Nov 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs

Dreamapp

Build and Release Engineer

Feb 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

 Work as a Build Engineer for a team that involves three different developments teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
 Administered the subversion VCS and managed the access for users of the subversion repositories
 Proposed industry best branching strategies and created branches to implement parallel development in fast paced agile environment.
 Created Maven POMs to automate the build process for the new projects and integrated them with third party tools like Sonar, Nexus.
 Downloaded the necessary dependencies and plugins from a internal Nexus repository during the Maven build.
 Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Ant and Maven to schedule the builds.
 Installed and administered nexus repository and created roles and privileges to restrict access to the users
 Involved in troubleshooting build issues for java errors.
 Installed Bamboo and perform troubleshooting during installation to implement the CI process for the java application builds.
 Deployed the static code in to front end apache webserver.
 Responsible in deploying the application WARs, EARs in Weblogic application servers and troubleshoot any deployment issue.
 Performed common database tasks like executing DMLs, DDLs and package body.
 Identify and coordinate deployment of appropriate modules to various test environments and production environments.
 Work closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build failure.
 Own full lifecycle of build system - from analysis, development, implementation and support of builds, unit testing and deployments
 Coordinate with Release Management regarding appropriate system releases among other development platforms
 Designed the Release Plans while coordinating with Stake Holders including Project Management Lead, Development Lead, QA Team Lead.