SUSHEEL KUMAR DASARI

Email: ady62d@r.postjobfree.com

Phone No: 346-***-****(Houston)

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Professional Summary:

DevOps and Cloud Engineer having 13 years of experience in Architecting/Automating and Optimizing critical deployments over a large Infrastructure.

Experienced with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery with Azure Pipelines.

Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker.

Developed and maintained Continuous Integration (CI) using tools in Azure DevOps spanning multiple environments, enabling teams to safely deploy code in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using YAML scripts.

Use of Docker, Docker Compose and local Kubernetes as development environment for developed microservices.

Design and maintain a CI/CD pipeline that automates the build, testing, and deployment of applications using AWS services.

Use of Argo CD for the CI/CD to deploy applications.

Expertise in managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS, particularly using EKS

Experience in using ARM templates (JSON) to create Azure services, while ensuring no changes were made to the existing infrastructure.

Deploying codes to different environment PROD, QUA, DEV using Azure DevOps Build and Release pipelines

Hands-on with JSON scripting in Visual Studio Code.

Implemented Workload management for maintenance of Azure Datawarehouse and Azure SQL Database.

Deployment of Data as a Service (DaaS) Databricks Framework.

Expanding the existing windows task scheduler tasks for automating the AAS, ADW, AD tasks.

Experience in migrating on-premises to Microsoft Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.

Experience in Azure VNET, NSG’s, Azure Storage and Azure VM’s Implementation.

Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and availability.

Have knowledge in troubleshooting, debugging, evaluate, modify, deploy, and document infrastructure software.

Experience in managing & troubleshooting virtual Machines using, Hyper-V, FCM and Windows Azure portal.

Experience with day-to-day systems administration, troubleshooting, health monitoring, & general support of Windows & Linux Servers.

Good experience in managing & administrating servers/services like AD, DNS, DHCP Server.

Education:

Bachelors of Technology(B.Tech) in Computer Science from JNTU in the year 2009.

Certification:

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert I441-2989

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate I441-2752

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate I418-4503

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate I413-9747

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Technical Skills:

CI\CD

Azure Pipelines, Argo CD, Jenkins

Source Code Management Tool

Git, GitHub

Cloud Technologies

Azure, AWS

Containers

Kubernetes, Dockers

Provisioning Tools

Terraform, ARM, Ansible, B

Serverless

Azure Logic Apps, Azure Function Apps, Azure App Service,Lambda

Scripting script

PowerShell, JSON, YAML, Python, Bash

Operating System

Windows, Linux

DB

Azure SQL, MySQL

Logging & Monitoring

Grafana, Prometheus

Security Tools

SonarQube, Fortify

Professional experience

DevOps Architect

Discovery Analytics Inc. (May 2023 – Present)

Job Responsibilities:

Design and maintain a CI/CD pipeline that automates the build, testing, and deployment of applications using AWS services.

Configure Jenkins pipelines for automated builds and deployments, and use Ansible to automate configuration tasks.

Write Python scripts for tasks like resource provisioning and Bash scripts for automating system administration.

Set up and manage Kubernetes clusters using EKS, ensuring seamless container orchestration and scaling.

Define and provision AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation templates, ensuring consistency and repeatability.

Containerize applications for consistency across environments, simplifying deployment and managemen with Docker for creating and managing containers.

Develop and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda, optimizing resource utilization and cost-efficiency.

Implement monitoring and logging solutions with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail to gain insights into system performance and security.

Configure IAM policies and roles to enforce security and compliance standards, ensuring secure access control.

Set up Prometheus for monitoring infrastructure and applications, and ELK Stack for real-time monitoring and logging, enabling proactive issue resolution.

Troubleshot and resolved technical security issues promptly.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards.

Technical Consultant

Client: Henkel (Dec 2022 – April 2023)

Job Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented end-to-end Azure DevOps infrastructure, driving efficient collaboration between development and operations teams.

Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, resulting in reliable and rapid application deployment.

Developed pipelines using Jenkins and Docker, enabling efficient continuous integration and deployment processes.

Leveraged expertise in Azure Cloud and PaaS services to design and implement solutions that meet performance, security, and scalability requirements.

Utilized Azure services for problem-solving and solution implementation, optimizing cloud infrastructure and services.

Monitor and optimize the performance, scalability, and availability of Kubernetes infrastructure.

Automate server configurations, networking, storage provisioning, and security settings using tools like Azure DevOps and scripts.

Implement automated workflows using ServiceNow and other tools to streamline collaboration between teams for efficient resource provisioning and updates.

Develop automation scripts and templates for deploying, scaling, and managing containers and applications on AKS.

Set up regular reviews and assessments to identify areas for optimization, and implement updates and improvements as needed.

Terraform was used along with Packer to create custom machine images, and Ansible was used to install the software dependencies once the infrastructure was provisioned.

Deploying latest updates to Linux machines with automated Python script.

Deployed various automation scripts using Microservices Architectures such as Azure Runbooks, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API management & Azure Key vault.

System monitoring and centralized logging platform using Prometheus.

Senior Consultant

Client: Henkel (May 2019 – Dec 2022)

Job Responsibilities:

Deploying bugs Fix and updates for the applications to all environments PRD, QUA, DEV using Azure Release pipelines.

Worked on GitHub Actions to manage Source code.

Deployed Application to Kubernetes using Argo CD.

Created Build and release pipeline to copy blob data from one storage account to another storage account.

Adding New Instances and Roles to JSON file and merge to the master using Azure Repos.

Creating alerts for every release and troubleshooting high load memory using Grafana.

Automate Code Scan using SonarQube In Azure Pipelines.

Implementing Workload management for Azure Data warehouse for the performance & Maintenance of Instances.

Development of Azure Data factory pipelines for data movement from Azure SQL datawarehouse to Azure SQL database.

Deployment of Data as a Service (DaaS) Databricks Framework through Bash.

Created alerts like Classic alerts regarding metric utilization, budget alerts for all the Azure resources.

Providing support for modules such as Azure Analysis services, Azure Data warehouse, Azure SQL Database, windows virtual machines

Handled software installations on the virtual machines and maintenance through ADO.

Creation of SQL user for Azure SQL DB and placing the users in Azure Key Vault, and creation of Active Directory groups for respective applications in Azure.

Handle usage and copy operations, deletion in Azure storage accounts, used ADF triggers & schedules and creating linked services for copy operations in ADF.

Expanding the existing windows task scheduler tasks for automating the AAS, ADW, AD tasks like pausing, resuming, scaling via JSON using Azure DevOps and visual studio code.

Execute release pipelines for different applications hosted on Linux & Windows machines.

Senior Specialist

Client: Microsoft (May 2018 – May 2019)

Job Responsibilities:

Engineering team to provide guidance/resolution to the Microsoft CSS engineers on the Azure portal issues within defined SLA’s.

Bugs identification in the Azure portal. Primarily in Azure UX, Azure IaaS (Public cloud/Public sector cloud) and collaborating with Portal Dev’s to fix them under new deployments.

Identifying, validating, and implementing engineering and incident reduction opportunities.

Capturing the feature requests in Azure portal to consider them for future releases.

Troubleshooting and resolving Dashboard issues reported by Customers.

Troubleshooting CRI using Kusto DB to check backend logs and provide solutions.

Troubleshooting IaaS Exp issues (VM, Storage, Network and Cloud Service blades)

Troubleshooting and fixing VM related issues (RDP, Start/Stop, Performance etc.)

Created Troubleshooting guides to resolve incidents and publish them to teams.

Senior Specialist

Client: Microsoft (July 2015 – May 2018)

Job Responsibilities:

As a Level 2 support, maintaining multi domain Windows based network over 48K+ servers running on Windows 2003/2008/2008R2/2012/2012 R2 operating systems.

Migrating On Prem to Azure.

Managing azure servers based on subscription access and troubleshooting the server issues.

Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and availability.

Configuring /removing server roles, upgrading drivers / OS, applying patches, rollbacks, rebuilding server in case of fatal OS crash.

Maintaining high availability environment using Hyper-V and SCVMM, Configuring Hypervisor, Configuring virtual networks, Clustered Shared Volumes, High Availability VMs

Creating / Migrating / Rebuilding virtual machines, Live Migration, Quick Migration

Resolving break fix incidents related to core OS, Connectivity, File Share.

Updating servers with latest service packs/patches.

Specialist

Client: Johnson & Johnson Services (Nov 2013 - June 2015)

Job responsibilities:

Administration over 2lacs users with 600+ Active Directory domain controllers, replication, configuration, troubleshooting AD replication on all remote DC.

FSMO role management.

RODC and Server Core domain controller management.

DNS/DHCP Installation and troubleshooting.

Removing of lingering object from domain Controllers.

Backup and Restore of AD.

Managing DNS, zones, resources records and DHCP server administration

Manage AD Forest and trust / server secure channel and users authenticating issue.

Administration of DFS roots and root links

Project Engineer

Client: J P Morgan Chase (March 2012 – Feb 2013)

Job Responsibilities:

Working on iSpace Gen Y users HomeDrive data migration from Source DFS path to Destination DFS path from ASIAPAC, EMEA, NAEAST and RB domains.

User profile migration between several live Domains such as ASIAPAC, EMEA, NAEAST, US-AD and RB.

Handling the Gen-Y and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)

Handling the iSpace data migration (WinXp to Windows 7) for NAEAST, ASIAPAC, and EMEA Domain.

Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Active Directory Services.

Reconciliation of user Accounts in Active Directory.

Trouble Shooting on errors from log files.

Maintaining the customer Data without loss / corruption.

Interacting with users through IM and mail.

Working on ARS (Active Roles Server) to remediate the Homepath for Domain users.

Raising EURC (End User Request Center) to make changes to New Homepath for users.

Raising RSAM Request to make changes to New Homepath for RB domain users.

Project Engineer

Client: Johnson Diversey Inc (April 2010 – March 2012)

Job Responsibilities:

Implementation of Legato Networker.

Performing the backup and restore operations.

Installation of client agents and configuring master servers and devices. Media Management and configuring the alerts for failures and success.

Expertise in Building, Expanding, and managing of different Clusters for data backup for online services.

Responsible for stabilizing the backup environment globally.

Played a key role in migration of the server from Arcserve to EMC Networker

Responsible for scheduling the jobs and troubleshooting the same via TWS.

Troubleshooting the alerts and Performing Level2. Scheduling Critical Applications running on these servers using IBM Tivoli (TWS).

Decommission of Server which includes removal from all monitoring tools, Formatting, disconnection of server. VM deletion in case of Virtual server decommissions.

Critical Implementation of DR Site.

Critical Server Data Movement responsibility from one region to another.

Monitoring, backup, restore and configuration Networker.

Performing Critical Restores.

Configuring SAP related Backups.

Critical Data center Tape / Tape Library operations.

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