Venkata Ramanaiah Vavilla

AWS Solution Architect & Devops Engineer

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Professional Summary

Nine years of professional experience in Information Technology as a AWS Solution Architect, Devops Engineer, Linux Admin.

Team-oriented Cloud engineer with Nine Years' experience in system and network administration, managing server infrastructures and datacenter operations.

Currently working as a AWS Solution Architect with client DuPont Pioneer.

Maintain and enhance documentation for hardware, software, and firmware as it relates to configurations, changes, problems, standards, procedures, and processes.

Hands on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, Directory Services, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, SNS,SQS etc.

Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC. Architected, Designed and Developed the Backup and Archiving, Disaster Recovery in AWS Cloud.

Experience into End point security, Application Security and Change Management.

Proficient in AWS services EC2, EBS, Lambda, Elastic Bean stalk, IAM, S3, Cloud front, Cloud Watch, Cloud trail, Redshift, Dynamo DB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, EMR, VPC, ELB, Route 53.

Experience in planning, designing, consulting, Implementation & technical skills in areas of AWS Cloud, Windows and Linux .

Experience with databases RDS like MySQL, Oracle Database .

Have worked on designing highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs.

Good Knowledge on Zerto, Commvault for backups in AWS.

Created an AWS Identity and Access Management role for specific privileged user with cross-account access to resources in AWS Account.

Expertise in using build tools like Maven for the building of deployable artifacts such as war & ear from source code.

Experience in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GitHub.

Experience in Using Continuous improvement and contagious deployment tool using Jenkins.

Experience in development and configuration experience with software provisioning tools like Chef, Puppet.

Proactive and analytical problem solver with strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills; also has good client interaction and team skills.

Technical Skills:

Title

Tools used

AWS Services

Ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Code Pipeline, Elastic Search.

Devops Tools

Maven,Git,Jenkins,Chef,Puppet,Docker.

Backup Software Products

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (7.x, 6.x), BA Client, Storage agents, IBM Tivoli Data Protector for SQL, Oracle, SAP, TSM VE and HP Data Protector.

Operating systems

AIX 6.1 & 7.1 Win 2K3/2008/2012 & Linux (Red hat)

Hardware

IBM VIO, IBM P series, IBM 3584 Ultrium Library, IBM 7650 Virtual Tape libraries (vtl), Dell, HP, Cisco server and Blade servers.

Programming Languages

Korn and Bash,Perl.

Ticketing Tools

EZ Remedy, IBM Maximo, Jira.

Professional Experience:

DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA. March 2015 to Till Date

Role: AWS Solution Architect & Devops Engineer

Description: DuPont Pioneer, formerly Pioneer Hi-Bred is a large U.S. producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture. They are a major producer of genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops with insect and herbicide resistance.

Responsibilities:

Work with application development teams to ensure that their applications are designed properly for interacting with AWS.

Hands on experience in EC2, VPC, Subnets, Routing tables, Internet gateways, IAM, Route53, VPC peering, S3, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, SNS on AWS.

Create AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup.

Configure and managing daily and hourly scheduled snapshots backup and Restore the data from snapshots if needed.

Setup and manage security groups, VPC specific to environment.

Manage Red Hat Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2.

Work on Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch (monitoring), AWS S3 (storage) and AWS EBS (persistent disk storage).

Planning, deployment and tuning of Elastic search for Linux based infrastructure.

Implemented and supported creating EC2 instances, S3 storage, Auto Scaling of instances and Cloud Watch Monitoring based on requirements.

Assigned and managed roles for users and groups by defining policies via Identity and Access Management using MFA.

Configured web servers to enable caching, configured CDN application servers and load balancers.

Deployed templates using Cloud Formation for the required environment.

Configured networking with route tables, access control lists, HTTP and DNS.

Configured AWS Virtual Private Cloud environment and networking inside the VPC.

Worked with Glacier to archive old files as needed.

Administered databases using RDS.

Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.

Migrating a production infrastructure into an Amazon Web Services utilizing AWS Cloud Formation, Code Deploy, EBS, and Ops Works.

Automated the cloud deployments using AWS cloud formation templates.

Estimate cost for each service to use the each AWS Services using AWS calculator documenting the cost analysis report and to get approval from manager and Client.

In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) and CI/CD in Agile.

Experience in creating branches, merging, rebasing, reverting, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT on Linux and Windows environment

Experience in build tools like MAVEN to write Pom.xml scripts.

Hands on experience working with Configuration Management tools like Chef.

Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.

Managed Virtual servers (Ubuntu Linux and Windows) on AWS EC2 using Open-Source Chef Server.

Expertise in Installation & Setup of code versioning tools like GIT Repository (Version Control System) on Linux at client side.

Strong Knowledge/ Experience in creating Jenkins CI pipeline. Experience in Jenkins to automate most of the build related tasks.

Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) & IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

Knowledge on troubleshooting any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.

Ability to grasp latest technologies and to properly apply new tools to build applications.

Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, smart working with a quest and zeal to learn modern.

Having good Knowledge in Docker container.

State Street Corporation, Boston, MA. Oct 2013 to March 2015

Role: AWS Solution Architect & Devops Engineer.

Responsibilities:

In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) and CI/CD in Agile, Waterfall methodologies.

Experience in build tools like MAVEN to write Pom.xml scripts.

Hands on experience working with Configuration Management tools like Chef.

Automated CI/CD pipeline jobs using Groovy script using the pipeline plugin on Jenkins.

Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.

Understanding of virtualization technologies like VMware, vSphere client etc.

Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) & IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

Knowledge on troubleshooting any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.

Worked as a DevOps Engineer with configuration management tools such as Docker, Chef, Continuous Integration using GIT,Jenkins, VMWare,Maven.

Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route53, Lambda, etc.).

Worked with different database Environments like MySQL, Oracle.

Assigned and managed roles for users and groups by defining policies via Identity and Access Management using MFA.

Configured web servers to enable caching, configured CDN application servers and load balancers.

Deployed templates using Cloud Formation for the required environment.

Configured networking with route tables, access control lists, HTTP and DNS.

Configured AWS Virtual Private Cloud environment and networking inside the VPC.

Worked with Glacier to archive old files as needed.

Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.

Experience in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GitHub.

Expertise in Atlassian Tools Confluence and Jira.

Experience with and thorough understanding of automated implementation/deployment of a cloud based infrastructure (Web apps, Application Service Environments, firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, AD, DNS etc.)

Experienced in build tools such as Apache Maven.

Expertise in building of deployment artifacts such as war & ear from source code using Apache MAVEN.

Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Chef.

Worked on Managing the Private Cloud Environment using Chef.

Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.

Automated centralized configuration using Puppet.

Performed EC2 instances provisioning on AWS environment and implemented security groups, administered Amazon VPCs.

Involved in all projects that move to production and work closely with the Data Center, Development, Quality Assurance and Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of all production changes.

Performed Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control Tools: GIT.

Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.

Written make, Maven and Ant build tools for application layer modules.

Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.

Involved in editing the existing MAVEN files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.

Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between projects.

Installed/Configured/Managed Jenkins CI Automation.

Jenkins is used as a continuous integration tool for automation of daily process.

Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the releases.

Created and updated Puppet manifests and modules, files, and packages stored in the GIT repository.

Architected and implemented automated cloud infrastructure using Chef.

Designing and implementing fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment By Using Technologies like Chef, Puppet.

Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using puppet.

Involved in implementing Amazon VPCs and Securities group for EC2 instances.

Communication between the client and development team

Detecting or Scanning the LUN allocated to the Linux servers by storage team.

Server hardening work such as setting password complexity, removing world writable permissions, etc.

Handling the day-to-day Operations, Troubleshooting & Solve Server Problems.

Creating Change Requests for implementation of specific task.

IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India. Oct 2008 to Sep 2013

Role: Senior TSM Administrator.

Description: A global leader in the beverage industry, the Coca-Cola Company offers hundreds of brands, including soft drinks, fruit juices, and sports drinks.

Responsibilities:

Configuring SERVER process like Expiration, Storage Pool Migration, Collocation and Reclamation of TAPE Storage Pool Volumes.

Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG; if any failures working on it based on the priority.

Registering nodes to the proper Policy Domain and associating to schedules.

Migration of data from Disk pool to Tape pool.

Halt and Restart the TSM Server in critical situations.

Backup performance optimization & monitoring for alerts and remedial action steps.

Checking activity log for any HARDWARE or Application related errors.

Worked on Lanfree configurations and backups.

Worked on DRM

Worked on TDPSQL,TDP ORACLE, DB2 For SAP and TSM for VE Backups.

Worked on NAS backups and knowledge on NDMP configurations.

Worked on VTL Lanfree configuration .

Knowledge on DR.

Worked on Node Movement from one server to another sever.

TSM Server and TSM Clients like BaClient,TDP ORACLE and TDP SQL, DB2 For

SAP Upgradation.

Worked on File system, VE Restores .and configured files for DP ORACLE and TDP SQL,

DB2 for SAP Cross node restore.

Worked on Sap HANA Backups and configuration..

Library Management:

Configuring library and library paths, drives and drive paths, device class.

If any Drive related or Volume related errors, move the data of the volume to destroy the Volume based on the number of READ/ WRITE errors.

AUDIT VOLUME if any inconsistency in Volumes, Data Restore Volume.

Audit Library if any mismatch in LIBRARY inventory and TSM inventory.

Worked on error and pending tapes.

Worked on VTL Lanfree configurations for huge data bases for oracle Dbs.

Performance Tuning:

Configuring Performance tuning parameters in Client as well as in TSM SERVER to improve the Backup and restore speed.

Checking OS error logs and events for any OS related performance issues which effects TSM.

If any change needed for improving the performance of TSM SERVER or BACKUP speed, contacting leads for change request.

Role: IBM TSM Administrator.

Description: Belk Inc. (stylized as Belk) is an American upscale department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in North Carolina. It is a large family owned and operated department store Company, with 299 locations in 16 states.

Responsibilities:

Configuring TSM DB, Recovery Log and Storage Pools as per the Client requirements.

Configuring Server process like Expiration, Storage Pool Migration, Collocation and Reclamation of Tape Storage Pool Volumes.

Checking administrative schedules like DB Backup, Backup Stg; if any failures working on it based on the priority.

Backup performance optimization & monitoring for alerts and remedial action steps.

Worked on Lanfree configurations and backups.

Worked on DRM

Worked on TDPSQL,TDP Oracle, DB2 For SAP and TSM for VE Backups.

Worked on NAS backups and knowledge on NDMP configurations.

Worked on VTL Lanfree configuration.

Knowledge on DR.

TSM Server and TSM Clients like Ba-Client,TDP Oracle and TDP Sql,DB2 For SAP Upgradations.

Worked on File system, VE Restores .and configured files for DP ORACLE and TDP SQL, DB2 for SAP, Cross Node restore.

Worked on Sap HANA Backups and configuration..

Education:

Bachelors of Computer Science in Engineering from Osmania University, India -March- 2008.

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