SANTHOSH KUMAR BALLU

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Professional Summary:

11+ years of experience as specialized AWS cloud Engineering, DevOps tools and Database Administration.

AWS Certified Solution Architect -Professional (Feb 2021 to eb 2024)

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Mar 2021 to Mar 2024)

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AWS Certified Solution Architect -Associate (June 2018 to Feb 2024)

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Expertise in Amazon Cloud Services and its features (EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, IAM, RDS, SQS, SNS, RDS, ELB, Cloud Watch, SMS, ECS, EKS, ECR, Config, RAM, Kinesis, WAF Config etc.).

Experienced in setting up EC2 instances, security groups and setting up applications and databases in AWS.

Experience in delivering solutions to improve cloud architecture, deployment for AWS private and public cloud.

Experience in Build tools and CICD tools like Hudson, ALM and Jenkins, Code pipeline, code build and Code Deploy

Experience in working with configuration management tools like Ansible.

Experience with different operating systems like Unix, Linux, Ubuntu and Windows.

Created and managed security groups for inbound and outbound traffic for instances in both public and private subnets.

Created S3 buckets and implemented the policies for Pre-prod and Prod environments.

Configured IAM Roles and security groups.

Good experience on IAM.

Good Experience in Terraform to build Infrastructure

In depth knowledge of Linux system administration with the ability to write custom-specific shell scripts in bash and Perl

Good experience into IT operational and maintenance.

Good Knowledge on Snowflake.

Implemented monitoring process of cloud environment and notification system using cloud watch and SNS.

Experience in creating AMIs and rehydrating the EC2 instances.

Experience in implementing the Caching mechanism using Redis Cache and Oracle Coherence Server.

Experience in sonar cube validation.

Experience with a relational database such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Experience in versioning systems like Bitbucket and Git repository.

Experienced in writing complex SQL queries and scheduled tasks using cron jobs.

Good knowledge in AWS Database services like RDS, Dynamo DB and Database Migration Services.

Experienced at installation and configuration of Oracle software in production and development environments.

Good understanding of Database Architecture.

Experience on installation of oracle server software.

Performing upgradation of databases to newer releases of Oracle 10g/11g/12c.

Effectively communicate data design to other members of the team to ensure proper implementation and utilization of the data structures.

Good work experience with Agile model and using agile tools like Scrum and Jira.

Excellent in communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.

Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.

Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.

Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.

Experienced in Orchestration tools like AWS ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and Nirmata.

Worked with SMS (Server Migration Service), DMS and Cloud Endure.

Education & Certifications:

Bachelors in computer science engineering from JNTU.

Experience Summary:

Working as AWS Architect at 9Logic Technologies from June 2022

Worked as Cloud Architect Associate Manager at Accenture from May 2021 to June 2022

Worked as AWS Lead Engineer in 9Logic Technologies from Sept 2020 to May 2021.

Worked as Senior Consultant in Ciber Sites HTC from May 2019 to July 2020.

Worked as IT System Consultant in Oracle India pvt ltd from 2014 to May 2019.

Worked as Software Engineer in ADP India pvt ltd from 2011 to 2014.

Certifications:

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (June 2018 to Feb 2024).

AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional (Feb 2021 to eb 2024).

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Mar 2021 to Mar 2024).

Technical Skills:

Cloud Technologies : Aws (Amazon Web Services), Dockerization.

Configuration Management : Terraform

CI/CD Tools : Jenkins, Hudson, REMO, Codebuild, Codepipeline and Bitrise.

Ticketing Tools : Remedy 7.5, Service Now, Bug DB.

Databases : RDS, Oracle Databases.

Versioning Tools : Git, Bitbucket.

Monitoring Tools : Cloud Watch, Nagios.

Scripting : Shell/Bash Script & Python scripting.

Oracle Product : Oracle Software (10g, 11g & 12c), Oracle Application Server, Oracle Business Intelligence, Web Cache, APEX, WebLogic, Agile, SSL and SSO, SQL Server, MySQL

Language : SQL, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems : Oracle Enterprise Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Orchestration tools : AWS ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and Nirmata.

Work Experience:

Projects : Nutrien

Duration : June 2022 to till Date

Implementor : TCS

Role : Migration SME

Location: : Colorado

Responsibilities:

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications migrations (AWS)

Did migrations from onprem to cloud using MGN and cloud endure migration tools

Doing more than 50+ servers’ migrations with multiple waves.

All migrations strategies are applied to all the environments

Projects : MODEC

Duration : July 2021 to May 2022

Employer : Accenture

Role : Cloud Architect

Location: : North America

Responsibilities:

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications on IAAS(AWS)

Working on multiple PAAS services like, elastic beanstalk, RDS, ECS, EKS

Gathering information from client to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.

Working on ECS clusters and EKS Clusters and build applications using Docker images.

Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.

Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.

Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.

Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has worked on integrating Ansible YAML Scripts.

Automated deployments with Code build, Codedeploy and Code pipeline services.

Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.

Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.

Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.

Worked with Terraform to build infrastructure

Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.

Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.

Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.

Experience installing, configuring and supporting Amazon AWS.

Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.

Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.

Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.

Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.

Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.

Experienced in Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and EKS.

Projects : Invent Health, Curai, Talosix, TLC, Juno

Duration : Sept 2020 to till May 2021

Employer : 9Logic

Role : AWS Architect

Location : Seattle

Responsibilities:

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications.

Gathering information from client to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.

Working on ECS clusters and EKS Clusters and build applications using Docker images.

Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.

Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.

Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.

Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has worked on integrating Ansible YAML Scripts.

Automated deployments with Code build, Codedeploy and Code pipeline services.

Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.

Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.

Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.

Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.

Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.

Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.

Experience installing, configuring and supporting Amazon AWS.

Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.

Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.

Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.

Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.

Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.

Experienced in Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and EKS.

Project : MBSIQ

Duration : May 2019 to July 2020

Client : MBSi

Employer : Ciber

Role : AWS Architect

Location : Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications.

Gathering information from client to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.

Working on ECS clusters and build applications using Docker images.

Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.

Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.

Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.

Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has worked on integrating Ansible YAML Scripts.

Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.

Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.

Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.

Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.

Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.

Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.

Experience installing, configuring and supporting Amazon AWS.

Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.

Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.

Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.

Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.

Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.

Experienced in Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Nirmata.

Project : Determination Engine, LWS

Duration : June19 to July 2020

Client : MBSi

Employer : Ciber

Role : AWS Architect & Devops engineer

Location : Phoenix, AZ

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications.

Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.

Gathering information from client to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.

Working on ECS clusters and build applications using Docker images.

Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.

Must create ECR repository to save the docker images.

configure codebuild to create the images using docker file and push the images to ECR repository.

To configure codebuild, prepared buildspec.yml and save it to bitbucket repository.

created RDS database for application.

create internal network load balancer to distribute the traffic between the containers and assigned static ip's.

configure code pipeline to automate the process.

configure the code pipeline, prepared pipeline script and s3 artifacts.

Code pipeline watches the updates in s3 bucket and starts creation of task definition using latest ECR images.

Project : MMA

Duration : June19 to July 2020

Client : Disney

Employer : Ciber

Role : AWS Architect & Devops engineer

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications.

Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.

Created Automation CI/CD process for mobile applications.

Used Bitrise Pipeline process to configure Deployments.

Creating a application in Bitrise from the scratch and publishing it to the store.

Responsible for creating the workflows for both Android and iOS.

Responsible for creating the code signing profiles for both android and iOS.

Responsible for creating the certificate and provisioning profile for iOS app deployment.

Creating the workflow for Android and iOS and specifying to deploy to AppStore and Play Store.

once the build gets successful it can view in the respective track.

Responsible for modifying the app.json file by incrementing the build value.

Created a copy and modified the Bitrise.yml file so that the process of workflow creation is simplified for the new application creation in Bitrise.

Created Triggers, so the build process will be automated whenever there is a code push or code pull.

Responsible for creating and adding the testers group, so that whenever there is a new build the testers can download the new version in the mobile for testing.

Project : Recovery Connect

Duration : June19 to July 2020

Client : Myrecoveryconnect

Employer : Ciber

Role : AWS Architect & Devops engineer

Working with client and designing architecture for production applications.

Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.

Set up Ubuntu EC2 Brown instance.

Create Brown Deployment profile in Jenkins.

Add Brown deployment key to Brown Deployment profile in Jenkins.

Set up the software/config on the EC2 Brown instance.

install git. Get the new instance key to Bitbucket repository.

install PHP5 + PHP-FPM 5.x - for RC web app. Enable FPM service autoload.

install NGINX Openresty distro with extra add-ons.

make sure NGINX + FPM running on UNIX file sockets. Configure FPM to run on a socket and NGINX config to look for that socket.

install wildcard SSL certificates in NGINX config.

Project : iProjects

Duration : June 2015 to May 2019

Employer : Oracle India

Role : AWS Developer & DevOps Engineer

Location : Bangalore

Responsibilities:

Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.

Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.

Design and develop the Jenkins jobs to create a application and infrastructure jobs to deploy the applications/ deployment.

Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has worked on integrating Ansible YAML Scripts.

Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.

Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and OpsWorks.

Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash.

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.

Create and maintain the documentation accordingly in Project SharePoint websites.

Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.

Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.

Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.

Experience installing, configuring and supporting Amazon AWS.

Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.

Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.

Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.

Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.

Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.

Experienced in Orchestration tools like Nirmata.

Project : IMPACT, DIMPLE

Duration : Sept 2014 to May 2015

Employer : Oracle India

Role : Database Administrator

IMPACT stands for Implementation of Advanced Consulting Tools. It is primarily used by the Global Consulting Project Management Office and the DPOs of various regions within Consulting. Impact application has extensive BI reporting that serves the business needs of Oracle Consulting Globally.

DIMPLE Global Sales Operations - CDM Portal is been providing an enhanced workflow management system for all its users. DIMPLE 4.0 is not only used internally but also been used by various external groups like Finance, Support, Marketing, A&C, Territories etc. This application supports the PULL strategy and executes other activities such as Development, Support Services, Database Migration & DBA Support

Responsibilities:

Providing 24x7 support on all the Production, Stage, Test and Development Databases for resolving issues related to databases.

Understand the business requirements, analyze the source systems.

Automating the jobs like backup checks, tablespace size alerts, blocking sessions, etc., by using shell scripts. Scheduling jobs through crontab.

Performing user managed backups like hot backups for daily backups and Cold backups for weekly and monthly.

Attending the design review, code review meetings.

Performing logical backups using the conventional export & import data pump utilities at various levels like schema level, database level and tablespace level.

Taking Daily incremental backup and full backup on weekly basis using RMAN.

Installation and configuration of Oracle Application Server 10g and WebLogic 11g.

Installation and configuration of Discoverer (Business Intelligence).

Generating the AWR and ADDM reports for checking the database performance.

Performed tablespace and database reorganization.

Upgraded the databases to the newer releases of the Oracle.

Applying quarterly CPU and PSU patches using OPatch utility.

Installation and configuration of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g and 11g.

Configuring Data guard and hands on Experience on both Logical and Physical Standby databases, performing Restoration and Recovery on Standby when needed.

Co-ordinated with security team for opening the required firewall ports between the servers.

Project : DASH (Delivery Awesome Service Here)

Duration : Aug 2011 T0 Aug 2014

Role : Database Administrator

Location : Hyderabad

Installation of Oracle software & creation of database.

Provided regular DBA support for the database servers.

Creating the Users, Roles and assign privileges required.

Monitoring the database growth using appropriate views and managing it by providing the necessary spaces for users.

Planning, Implementing and Testing Backup strategy.

Taking Daily incremental backup and full back up on weekly basis using RMAN.

Configuration of standby database.

Multiplexing and managing redologfiles, controlfiles & datafiles.

Managing undo segments and redo logs.

Checking alert logs and trace files for errors.

Applying CPU and PSU patches on regular basis.

Upgrading the databases to the newer releases of the Oracle.

Generating AWR reports and gathering statistics.

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