Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Spearheaded the Kubernetes migration initiative at Lookout, a renowned cloud
• security company specializing in enterprise and personal data protection.
• Designed and implemented robust continuous deployment architectures for
• Amazon ECS and EKS applications, employing Terraform, Spinnaker, and
• Jenkins.
• Developed AWS Lambda scripts to streamline the creation of dynamic DNS for
• customer-facing endpoints, enhancing accessibility and convenience.
• Automated time-consuming tasks by leveraging the AWS SDK and boto3 clients,
• resulting in significant weekly savings in manual hours.
• Accomplished GSLB expert with hands-on experience configuring Route 53 for precise traffic routing based on latency and geo-location, along with dynamic weighted record management, optimizing global application performance and user experience.
• Effectively managed and orchestrated hundreds of ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service) clusters, demonstrating expertise in containerized application deployment and scalability.
• Implemented seamless task definition updates within ECS, ensuring the agility to adapt to changing workload requirements and maintain operational efficiency.
• Leveraged Jenkins, Spinnaker, and ArgoCD to enhance CI/CD workflows, enabling advanced deployment strategies, automated rollbacks, and improved deployment orchestration for complex applications.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Experienced lead with a proven track record of building and managing large Kubernetes clusters
• Skilled in automating AWS cloud services using cli, boto, SDKs and APIs, streamlining processes and increasing efficiency
• Expertise in preparing test cases for Chaos Engineering and service validations in the Kubernetes environment, ensuring robust and reliable services
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and cloud APIs for service orchestration and service validations, with hands-on experience in implementing continuous deployment pipelines using Spinnaker
• Skilled in writing helm charts for Kubernetes artifacts, improving the overall quality of service delivery
• Strong programming skills in Python and Java, enabling automation of manual tasks and reducing operational burden
• Passionate about hiring and developing the best talent, fostering growth and success within the team
• Committed to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that meet the needs of businesses across a wide range of industries
• Adept at leading teams and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve shared goals and drive success.
• Actively participates in architecture reviews and discussions, bringing expertise and insights to the table
• Provides guidance and influence in other areas of engineering, such as DevOps, Test Engineering, and Security, contributing to the success of cross-functional teams
• Provides coaching and mentorship as needed, fostering growth and development within the team
• Accountable for consistently delivering and overachieving against targets, ensuring that organizational goals and objectives are met or exceeded
• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth, proactively driving innovation and change
• Committed to professional growth and development, staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Skilled in building and managing large Kubernetes clusters, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions
• Expertise in automating deployments using Spinnaker pipelines, streamlining processes and ensuring efficient service delivery
• Experience using Helm charts to deploy Kubernetes manifests, ensuring consistency and reliability in service deployment
• Proficient in Docker builds and containerizing applications, enabling efficient and reliable service delivery
• Experience in chaos engineering on Kubernetes and AWS, including writing Java programs to test service resiliency and availability
• Skilled in Python scripting to automate day-to-day tasks, improving efficiency and reducing operational burden
• Capable of building monitoring dashboards and creating critical alarms for systems, enabling effective monitoring and proactive issue resolution.

Oct 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad

• As a DevOps Engineer at Amazon, I have a wealth of experience in managing complex infrastructure, ensuring high availability of services, and providing engineering support for incoming tickets. I am proficient in automation and scripting using Shell, Python, and Java.
• Develop and automate manual operational tasks to facilitate easy maintenance of services
• Build monitoring dashboards to report system health and support status metrics using Java and AWS Services
• Provide first level of support for handling tickets including SEV1's and SEV2's, operational issues from production services
• Scale and descale the production fleets using Apollo as per business predictions
• Deploy services to new geographies for country launches
• Provide software deployment support in staging and production environments using pipelines (CI/CD)
• Troubleshoot and debug incoming tickets with responsibilities covering multiple product lines
• Work with partner product teams for handing-off or taking over active support issues and to create a team-specific knowledge base and skill set
• Responsible for infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, cost reduction, configuration, high availability, and server virtualization
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns and suggesting fixes
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members
• Handle on-call (pager) support for critical systems to ensure high availability of the infrastructure
• Conduct operational excellence meetings as a POC to improve the operational/customer experience of services

Dec 2015 – Sep 2016 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Role: Development Engineer at ATT (AT&T Integrated Cloud)
• Technologies:
• OpenStack Cloud
• RedHat Linux, Ubuntu servers
• VMware, KVM
• Responsibilities:
• Deployment and defect fixing for the OpenStack Cloud environment
• Worked on different OpenStack components such as controller, compute, nova, ceilometer, neutron, heat, glance, cinder, etc.
• Automated tasks using Ansible playbooks and shell scripts
• Worked with various flavors of Linux Operating systems such as RedHat and Ubuntu
• Experience in cloud IaaS i.e OpenStack platform
• Experience in compute, network, and storage cloud technologies
• Experience in KVM hypervisor and VMware ESXi
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with VMware vSphere
• Experience with server platforms such as HP and DELL
• Experience in monitoring tools such as Nagios
• Experience in automation tools for deploying IT infrastructures, such as Ansible
• Participated in knowledge transfer, documentation, and information sharing.

Apr 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Client: Tigo (Africa)
• Role: Linux Administrator.
• Technology: Red hat Linux,Solaris,Nagios,Vmware,VxVM, Application management, Windows.
• Job Responsibilities:
• Installation and Configuration of Unix Servers.
• Implementation and administration of DNS, DHCP and NIS.
• Application deployment and health check.
• Responsible for User Management over NIS and local machines.
• Managing file system using LVM,VXVM,NFS,Autofs,Samba
• Software and Package Management on different unix flavors servers.
• Checking and working over alert mails related to h/w failure, server’s resource utilization.
• Administration and monitoring resource utilization of Linux Servers using Nagios tool.
• Resolving unix tickets using ITIL based service-now ticketing tool.

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos

• Trained on Multiple Domains for overall management in maintaining a Data Centre.
• Linux and Unix systems administration, Virtualization, Cloud, Shell scripting, Windows system administration, Oracle Database Administration, SQL server administration, PL/SQL, Application management.