Murali Atluri

Release Manager/DevOps

Las Vega, NV

Email: adzg6b@r.postjobfree.com

Tel: +1-214-***-****

Result-oriented, hands-on Technical Leader and trusted client advisor with more than 15 years of global experience in digital Transformation, Systems integration, Networking, Consulting, Strategy & Program Management

Analytics and outcome-focused technical leader and certified DevOps RM+ Enterprise Agile Coach with broad experience across all phases of SDLC, specializing in IT transformation through Digital Engineering. Expertise in DR (Cloud Disaster Recovery) & Chaos Engineering (Gremlin)

Expert in managing large-scale, complex programs from initiation through closure- Involving daily hands-on management of technology activities utilizing Scaled Agile (SAFe) and Scrum-based software development practices - and applications of DevOps Culture Lean Automation and Metrics

Global experience in setting up DevOps organizations from scratch from assessment to determining right toolsets, driving culture change, training, Rollout Strategy, and measuring effectiveness and ROI of DevOps strategy. Leading cross-functional teams from a connected community platform.

Core Competencies

DevOps (CI, CD, Release Mngt)

Deloitte Cloud Platform Architect

Project Management/Delivery

PMI-ACP

System Integration

Business Systems analysis and design

Application Services and Production Support

Managing changes to the application in a controlled manner

Quality Management/Engineering

ITIL Change Management

Disaster Recovery

Designed Cloud DR for AI application on (Aws & OpenShift)

Experience-

Exelon DevSecOps Modernization - 12 months, Service Catalog (SNOW) Automation for DevSecOps

Role: Lead Release Manager

Directed and oversaw the end-to-end implementation of Service Catalog Automation through ServiceNow, aligning business objectives with technology solutions to enhance operational effectiveness and customer satisfaction.

Led a cross-functional team in automating Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) based environment provisioning for AWS applications, streamlining deployment processes and ensuring scalability and efficiency.

Pioneered the adoption of the Hub and Spoke model as a strategic framework for DevSecOps modernization, establishing centralized governance and fostering collaboration among teams to drive business outcomes and deliver value to stakeholders.

Create key metrics and identify opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release management process.

Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate observability practices into the audit process, ensuring visibility into security controls, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms.

Utilized monitoring and log management tools to gather and analyze security-related data, ensuring adherence to audit requirements and detecting potential security incidents or breaches.

Mentored and coached a team of Product Owners and Senior Analysts, fostering their professional growth and development, while promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, and high performance.

Anthem AI -12 months- Release Manager-DevOps

Cloud Migration (Aws/Terraform)

Role: Lead Cloud Migration

Lead Disaster Recovery implementation for AI applications.

Worked closely with data modelers and data engineers to align the solutions with the requirements and ensure optimal data architecture and structure.

Facilitated project team meetings and managed agendas, in collaboration with project management.

Assisted in setting up a framework for cross-central team communication, and coordination of integration among components, and provided related governance.

Worked with project management to facilitate project team meetings and manage agendas.

Worked with the development (technical) leads to establish and document release plans and communicated those plans to all necessary participants.

Collaborated with development and operations teams to define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs) in Datadog, establishing clear performance targets and monitoring thresholds.

Acted as a direct representative of the business, effectively communicating, and collaborating with one or more delivery teams throughout the entire product delivery cycle.

Led a cross-functional team of analysts in the successful implementation of a Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) Program technology solution within Anthem Enterprise Risk Compliance.

Established a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline using Jenkins and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) to automate the build, testing, and deployment of data integration workflows.

General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office expert-level knowledge of Excel, working Knowledge of Access

Client: Bank of America Corporation- Deloitte

Release Manager/Project management

Deloitte has partnered with Bank of America to develop a Data Resiliency Acceleration initiative for data corruption identification, containment, and remediation to improve the bank’s ability to respond to data breaches quickly.

Lead Project Management/Release management to build environment and automate software delivery using DevOps.

Architected and designed a standard blueprint to Onboard different teams and applications from various technologies (Neo4j, Hadoop, Kafka, AI/ML models, Angular, Node, Python and Spring boot) onto DevOps practices (CICD)

Provide guidance to local team members.

Managed packaging and deployment activities on the suite of applications in global Investments space working as part of the application development team.

Perform cyber-vulnerability scanning of the application using the provided tools.

Implement process improvements and automation solutions to increase economies of scale.

Work on creating custom tools to improve the overall deployment process.

Manage relationships and coordinate work between IT teams performing implementation, development team providing release, QA resources’ testing

Drive collaboration and alignment across all squads within a platform to ensure standards are maintained and evolved.

Lead and managed all ticket creation including JIRA (Atlassian), ARM, and INC for OpenShift

Built a CICD pipeline using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Ansible on a Microservices Architecture

Southern California Edison (SCE)Service Line

Lead DevOps/Release Manager Sales Force: 12 months.

Outage Maintenance Application.

Role:

Scrum management process and implementation.

Experience with designing and developing build and release processes for an enterprise-level product.

Good understanding of version control systems, incident tracking tools, and build/deployment tools

Knowledge of & experience working with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, providing solutions to IT Service Management clients

Has a good understanding of Change Management principles and the processes required to support them

Operate as a change agent, influencing and driving action organizationally.

Software Engineering in Test / Quality Engineering experience

Technical Environment: Azure Cloud-based, Jenkins, Git & Agile Methodology.

Technical Environment: Azure Manager, Security Compliance, Udeploy, WebSphere Liberty, Atlassian & Confluence.

DaVita

Release Engineer; 15 months.

Health Insurance & Financial Management- ETL

Role:

Evaluate, document, and analyze change requests for established platforms while identifying potential risks.

Liaise with business and third-party vendors to capture requested changes and risk mitigation actions.

Proactively identify opportunities for performance improvement in various operational areas.

Ensure compliance with the change management process, monitoring and approving regular and emergency changes.

Support Change Management delivery for Barclaycard within Technology Delivery, working with colleagues at all levels.

Work with customers to plan and schedule tactical events, minimizing disruption to Managed Cloud Services.

Include reporting on service and incident management, change management, and weekly initiatives in the service plan.

Farmers Market: Health Care Insurance

Release Engineer- 13 months.

Role:

Successfully led the release management process for a critical healthcare software project, ensuring timely and smooth deployments of new features and updates.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including development, testing, and operations, to plan and execute release schedules while minimizing downtime and risks to patient care.

Developed and maintained comprehensive release plans, including risk assessments and rollback strategies, to guarantee the stability and reliability of healthcare applications.

Implemented best practices in change management, ensuring that all changes adhered to regulatory compliance and security standards, such as HIPAA and HITRUST.

Led the coordination of release activities, including communication with stakeholders, scheduling of releases, and post-release validation, resulting in minimal disruptions to clinical operations.

Conducted impact analysis and risk assessments for each release, identifying potential issues and implementing mitigation strategies to safeguard patient data and system integrity.

MGM Grand International

Service Line: Entertainment

DevOps Cloud Engineer 40 months (about 3 and a half years).

Role:

Working on multiple projects for multiple properties under MGM group (Bellagio, Mirage, Grand) as a Lead.

Introduced Puppet/Chef as pilot project for SKYTAP and AWS Environment.

Implemented Nolio Lisa for PROD deployments by creating new templates as the environment requirements.

Extensively worked on Cloud-based environments like AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Sky tap.

Worked closely with TIBCO team helping them deploy the. Ear files as per the deployment requirements in parallel with the regular code changes.

Complete control over configuration changes as per the change management request and approvals.

Technical Environment: AWS, Skytap, AWS HSM, Nolio Lisa, AppDynamics, TFS & TIBCO.

Target: Promotional merchandising data Analytics

DevOps Lead; 6 months.

Role:

Worked with the onshore Target team in organized deployment process during Minneapolis times.

Created defect reports from MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) to support the role.

Proficient with MS Office applications.

Used MS Dynamics as a CRM system management tool to gather and update customer information.

Used Pivotal Cloud Foundry as PaaS service for building and deployments.

Strong proficiency in MS Project/MS Office suite/MS Visio/SharePoint portal.

Used Jira and CHO-CHO (like Jira) for tracking purposes.

Trained in Open Stack architectural services and deploying cloud systems.

General Motors: Spare parts distribution.

Code Migration lead; 6 months.

Roles:

Worked on Code migration project to migrate the code to GM Enterprise code Vault.

Closely managed the code migration to GM SVN repository from TFS, PVCS and Star Team.

Implemented the process from scratch and documented the process and explained the sustain team when required.

Wells Fargo: Housing loans

Build Engineer: 18 months (about 1 and a half years).

Role:

Implemented and managed CI/CD pipeline.

Used Web Builder as the CI tool which is custom designed tool like Bamboo.

Managed daily builds, scheduled builds, and patch builds.

Access provisioning for the source code repository.

Disney World

Build/Release Engineer: 6 months.

X-pass and X-band processing

Project:

NGE-Next Generation Experience is the new concept that Disney is working on for the future guest experience program. Xband and Xpass are the major aspects that they were brought up with because of the many services they provide.

Roles:

Managed 2 major repositories which Capgemini and Disney are using.

Two-way code synchronization every day, Build and release accordingly.

Knowledge of the Fitness tool for the Fitness test scripts.

AT&T

Build and Release Engineer- 6 months.

Instructional Designing

Role:

Managed multiple repositories which AT & T core projects are using.

Adobe Flash course material designing.

Education:

MBA- IT European Economy.

Dublin Metropolitan School- (affiliation to Dublin UK)

BSC Computers Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Sciences.

JNTU University.

Professional Affiliations / Certifications

Gremlin Chaos Engineering – Disaster Recovery (Cloud)

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