May 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Part of Azure Core organization.
• Responsibly managed the Security and Compliance aspects of the entire infrastructure containing VMs, BareMetal Machines and Kubernetes clusters in large scale. This includes regular development of automated solutions to ensure all kubernetes clusters and infrastructure remains Vulnerability free.
• Single handedly managed upgrades on all kubernetes clusters, also making necessary changes in API versions whenever required for upgrades.
• Managed other infrastructure tools like linkerd, helm etc. and kept them up to date with latest versions.
• Created a maintenance tracker using low-code solution. This innovative tool effectively handled necessary approvals, scheduled maintenance tasks, sent out meeting invites and promptly notified relevant stakeholders.
• To streamline operations and enhance efficiency, an automation was developed to facilitate the creation of an infrastructure required with every new region being created. This automation reduced manual efforts, saving approximately three weeks of work. The complete setup now requires only a few simple clicks and takes approximately 4-5 hours to complete. This was developed using ARM(IaaC like Terraform),bash and ansible.

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos

• Led the implementation and regular management of a highly available, secure and scalable infrastructure on AWS, resulting in improved system performance and reduced downtime. These critical systems hosted highly critical FinTech applications.
• Developed and maintained robust automation scripts and configuration management tools, significantly reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency with keeping best security practices in mind. Ex: 1. Generic Self Service tool to run commands on production in case of emergencies without giving access to production. 2. Slack bots to report to report incidents and do some actions based on the effected services, 3. Weekly automated reports to leadership about all the noise generated, so it can be fixed and only actionable/genuine alerts are in place.
• Participated in incident response and performed root cause analysis, implementingpreventive measures to minimize the recurrence of critical issues. Collaborated closelywith dev teams to run blameless RCA, fix performance bottlenecks and ensure reduction inincidents.
• Implemented DR strategies and conducted regular drills to find gaps in our backup plans.
• Played an important role in mentoring and training junior team members, regularlydelivering knowledge-sharing sessions to foster their professional growth. Additionally, conceptualized a simulation program to train new hires on effective incident management during critical situations by creating some mock scenarios from past learnings.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Jan 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• CloudThat is the first company in India to provide Cloud Training & Consulting services for mid-market & enterprise clients around the world. With expertise in major Cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, CloudThat is uniquely positioned to be the single technology source for organizations looking to utilize the flexibility and power Cloud Computing provides.
• Worked on developing an automation tool to manage infrastructure on Amazon Web Services.
• Worked on almost all AWS services like EC2, VPC, IAM, SQS, SNS, LAMBDA, RDS etc.
• Wrote many scripts for AWS infrastructure automation, Few examples:
• 1. Launching multiple instances of multiple configurations from a predefined config file. Also to
• terminate the instances automatically after a specific user defined duration and also log all the
• instance details in a separate csv file.
• 2. Wrote a custom auto scaling script to scale up and down as per the client’s custom metrics
• requirements instead pre-defined metrics of AWS. Ex: to not terminate the instance even if the load is
• under threshold, unless the active session counts on the host becomes 0.
• 3. Rotation of IAM credentials, i.e. delete the IAM access and secret keys and creating new keys for all
• IAM users and mailing it to them every week.
• 4. Creating a VPC with public and private subnet, and also launching a NAT instance under a public
• subnet with routes configured to private subnet, with an Elastic IP attached etc..
• Involved in architectural decisions for AWS and its implementation as well as management for the clients who were moving from on premise to cloud.
• Briefly worked on Docker containers.