Siva Prasad
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With over 18 years of holistic IT expertise, highlighted by 6+ years specializing in DevOps & SRE, I bring a dedicated focus to optimizing software development workflows and delivering top-tier products. My background seamlessly blends operational and developmental realms, enabling adept navigation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile methodologies. Notably, I excel in designing and implementing intricate cloud architectures, facilitating seamless application deployment across diverse cloud platforms. Leveraging robust experience in CI/CD pipelines, along with adeptness in monitoring, alerting, and security implementations, I construct resilient, scalable systems tailored to the rigors of the modern software development lifecycle. Additionally, my proficiency extends to automotive systems, enriching my repertoire with versatile skills and insights.
Professional Experience
Monitor and manage AWS, GCP cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance of applications and services.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer is a senior technical professional responsible for overseeing the development and operations processes within an organization
With expertise in automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, guiding the team in implementing best practices, optimizing performance, and enhancing security.
Manage AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS etc.
Manage GCP services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Functions, etc.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.
Monitor and troubleshoot containerized applications and infrastructure.
Develop and maintain Docker files and Kubernetes manifests.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are containerized and optimized for Kubernetes.
Automate the deployment of infrastructure AWS, GCP Infrastructure using Terraform.
Optimize infrastructure costs by using Terraform to manage resources more efficiently.
Manage and maintain
GitLab instance(s)
Create and manage repositories, branches, and access controls.
Manage and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes cluster issues.
As a SRE, provides the technical support to users and teams to resolve the application issues.
Monitor system performance and take actions to improve reliability and scalability.
Maintain and update GitLab documentation and procedures.
Stay up to date with GitLab releases and features and recommend upgrades and improvements.
Experience in Java, python, GOLANG and shell script programming.
Experience in handling big data analytics with Python, PySpark, Glue, Athena and Redshift.
Collaborate with development teams to integrate GitLab into their workflows.
Provide training and support to new users and teams.
Assignments
Jan 2023 –Jun 2024 CEVT Senior DevOps Engineer
As a Senior DevOps engineer, Design AWS infrastructure and networking. Implementing cloud Infrastructure Solutions.
Lead the implementation of CI/CD for the transmission software.
Establish a roadmap, set milestones for implementation.
Facilitate code releases on a Gitlab CI/CD basis for the android and HMI modules.
Develop and maintain the Gitlab task and administrations.
Working as team member within team of cloud engineers and my responsibilities
Identifying technical problems and deploying updates and fixes
Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks. quickly deploys critical applications.
Proficient in automation and orchestration tools: Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, Argo CD.
Skilled in setting up monitoring for infrastructure and applications: Prometheus, Datadog, Open Telemetry.
Experienced in configuring and troubleshooting container environments.
Proficiency in software release strategies within production environments.
Demonstrated strong communication and collaboration skills.
Working on System and platform integration in a large enterprise Linux-base environment
Used Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project.
Completed set up of CI/ CD environment with Unit Test, Mutation Test, SAST – Static Application Security Testing, DAST – Dynamic Application Security Testing, Integration Test for all env’s.
monitoring vulnerabilities and Kubernetes cluster using various tools.
Spearheaded the integration process for Onboard system and platform secondary development adaptation, ensuring seamless functionality.
Established system integration versioning and release protocols, overseeing integration engineers in achieving high-performance module integration.
Assignments
Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 Swedbank Senior DevOps Engineer
Extensively worked on AWS Cloud services like VPC, EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, ECS, Autoscaling, S3, Cloud Front, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Elastic Cache, Route53, Cloud Watch, RedShift, SNS, SQS, EKS, ECS and IAM.
Maintain and improve our developer platform (GitHub, Kubernetes)
Support the teams' operations (build systems, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines)
Implemented Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks. quickly deploys critical applications.
Configuring the AWS Infrastructure, Dev, Stage and Prod env’s for the applications through Terraform
Coordinated with developers to establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming Conventions using GIT source control.
Working with Rest API to develop the API integration like integration request and response of application Services.
Responsible to build & troubleshoot the CI/CD Pipelines and coordinate with different teams.
Created the Dashboards in Splunk, Grafana for logging and monitoring metrics for applications.
Identifying the technical problems and deploying updates and fixes
monitoring vulnerabilities and Kubernetes cluster using various tools.
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021 Credit Suisse DevOps Engineer
Extensively worked on AWS Cloud services in designing and implementing scalable cloud-based web applications
Worked on AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, cloud watch, etc.
Developed a continuous deployment pipeline using shell scripts in Jenkins.
Build and maintain data pipelines that collect, process and store data from various sources.
setting up data warehouses, data lakes using Google Cloud Platform tools such as Big Query and Cloud Storage
Create Kubernetes clusters in GKE & EKS and deployed code to on clusters.
Developer GCP and AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform.
Configured monitoring tools like Prometheus for application monitoring.
Troubleshooting the pipelines and application issues.
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019 IKEA AB Infrastructure Automation Engineer
May 2015 - Sep 2016 ICA AB Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Designing the environments like production and preproduction.
Installation and Configuring the Oracle ATG, Endeca, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Web centre, IBM WebSphere Application Servers.
Deploying the applications in the clustered WebLogic and WebSphere environments.
configure the Oracle Http Server, IBM HTTP Server & Apache.
Analysing Activity of log files and diagnosing Application Server problems using Log Analyzer
Installation & Configuration of WebLogic Server in clustered and non–clustered environment
Developed solutions to improve ongoing systems management.
Provide 3rd level support to teams and managing the access management system.
Troubleshooting the applications, web servers and application server issues.
Jul 2011 - Apr 2015 Telstra Middleware Administrator
Aug 2009 - Jun 2011 Amdocs Middleware Administrator
Installation, configuration, deployment and troubleshooting of SOA Suite products.
Configure the SSO with web applications and Enterprise application.
Create the Authentication schemes and custom login pages.
Collaborating with customers or those engaged in customer related activities to help resolve any customer issues and provide pro-active assistance to customers as they embark on new projects.
Developed automate daily batch job scripts and WLST scripts using python.
Work closely with developers, consultants, and systems engineers.
Nov 2006 - Jul 2009 Thompson Reuters Java Developer
Mar 2003 - Oct 2006 Puma Java Developer
Design on use case, class, sequence diagrams etc.
Coding using HTML pages, JSP and Java Script, Java
Database management and JDBC connectivity
Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
Responsible for Code Reviews, Bug fixing.
Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWS, GCP, Open Stack
CI/CD Tools
Jenkins, Gitlab, Circle CI, Bamboo, TeamCity
Containerization Tools
Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Rancher and OpenShift
Version control
Git, SVN, CVS, GitHub/GitHub actions and Bitbucket
Infrastructure as a Service
Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet
Web/Application Servers
WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, and Nginx
Operating Systems
UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac
Programming & Scripting
Java, Python, YAML, JSON, GOLANG, JavaScript and Node JS
Databases
Oracle, MS SQL Server, and Postgres SQL
NoSQL databases
Mango DB, Dynamo DB, Cassandra and Redis
Monitoring tools
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, AppDynamics, Nagios and Zabbix
Bug Tracking Tools
JIRA, Bugzilla
Employment
VIPAS AB
Jan 2023 to till date
Nexergroup AB Sweden
September 2021 - December 2022
Freelancer
August 2019 - June 2021
Cubane Solutions AB, Sweden
September 2016 - June 2019
Infosys Ltd, India
July 2011 - September 2016
Mahindra Satyam Ltd, India
November 2006 - June 2011
Viable Infotech Ltd, India
Mar 2003 - Sep 2006
Education
Master of Computer Applications
University of Madras, India
Bachelor of Compute Science
Sri Venkateswara University, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
November 2021
Google Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
October 2020
ASM EXIN Agile Scrum Master
March 2019
Additional Info
Swedish Citizen – Eligible to work in EU
Valid Swedish driving license