Cloud Engineer Solutions

Anusha

Sr. DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Ph: +1-856-***-****

Email: ******.*****@*****.***

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anusha-b-0b83091a2

SUMMARY:

Accomplished IT professional with 9 years of experience architecting, implementing, and managing secure, scalable cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes (EKS). Demonstrates expertise in designing and automating CI/CD pipelines, optimizing DevOps workflows, and driving digital transformation initiatives. Skilled in leveraging a wide array of tools and technologies, including Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and Kafka, to deliver efficient, resilient, and high-performing infrastructure solutions. Adept at working in Linux environments and cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), bringing a proactive approach to streamlining deployments, enhancing system reliability, and ensuring operational excellence.

Excellent in managing System Development Life Cycles (SDLC) such as Agile Methodology. Command on Agile Framework, Sprint plan, Daily scrum, and sprint reviews.

Manage Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure Application Proxy, Azure AD connect, Azure AD Pass through Authentication.

Professional in Azure API Management, security, and Cloud-to-Cloud Integration. Fixing the security issues by reviewing the user access. Used Azure Functions to spin up the Infrastructure for Developers, Testers, Pre-prod, and Prod teams.

Experienced configuring and managing Azure AD connect, Azure AD connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

Strong skills on Orchestrating the Deployment using Kubernetes, creating the customized resources in Kubernetes, managing the Containerized applications in Kubernetes, updating the Kube components, Kubelet without any outage and maintaining the Auto-scaling to scale up and down the containers depending on the usage.

Automated the infrastructure used Azure CLI and involved in accessing subscription using PowerShell, to monitor and troubleshoot azure resources and azure app insights.

Expertise on installing and configuring the Jenkins, master, and slave nodes, generating the SSH keys to establish the connection between Master and Slave nodes, plugin management and creating the various jobs to ensure the continuous integration.

Used Bamboo for building and Maintaining the Continuous integration effort with GIT along with scheduled builds and configured the Urban code deploy using Bamboo.

Efficient in installing, configuring, and administrating the GIT and GITHUB. Worked on implementing GIT workflows and branching models.

Integrate with Kafka design ensure reliable message delivery and fault tolerance for failures and manage Kafka eco system cooling to process frameworks like Apache Flink, Apache spark and monitoring tools for enhancing functionality.

Knowledge on Atlassian product Bitbucket which is useful for maintaining the unlimited free private repositories, creating the branches for various teams, giving access to push the code to repository.

Experienced in developing the Maven scripts to automate the code compilation, deployment, testing and packaging the artifacts of Web applications.

Good knowledge on building the ANT scripts for the automation and the ability to manage the pom.xml and build.xml files to achieve the proper deployment of the code.

Ability to set up the monitoring tool called Nagios, monitor the infrastructure CI/CD pipeline, Database servers and Web servers using Nagios.

Used Splunk to send and manage logs component and deployed code on Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Servers for UAT and Development environments and used JIRA as Life Cycle Management tool to handle project activities in sprint fashion.

Ability to understand the Scripting language Python and hands-on experience on Power shell, Bash and Shell.

Good understanding of Java environment and MVC Architecture, built many Java code applications using Maven.

Expertise in Java builds tools like ANT, MAVEN for building deployable artifacts such as (jar, war & ear) from source code and configured setup Maven profiles.

Experience with Relational and NOSQL Database Management systems like MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Couch DB and Mongo DB.

Excellent in installing, configuring, and managing the RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Systems and provisioning& updating the patches in RHEL.

Ability to manage access to infrastructure for the groups and individuals, managing ownership and the entire infrastructure with Unix/Linux.

Expertise in implementing and maintain monitoring tools like Splunk, New relic, Datadog, Grafana to the applications to monitor application performance monitoring and debug issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

MSKCC, NJ

Sr. AWS/DevOps Engineer

May 2021- Present

Responsibilities:

Experience in working cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Authentication (2-Factor, SSO) and Access controls (Roles, IP ranges, permissions).

Expertise with cloud platforms AWS using Ansible to provision and configure virtual machines, networks, storage and other resources.

Strong experience in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Administration and expertise in creating and managing user accounts, groups, and access keys.

Designed and managed scalable AWS infrastructures using EC2, S3, Glacier, Auto-scaling groups, ELB, EBS, and ECS. Leveraged RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Elastic Search, and AWS EMR for database and big data services.

Deployed applications using API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, and SQS for serverless architectures, with networking via VPC, Route53, and integrated IAM for security.

Integrated security controls into DevOps workflows, automating security policy checks and IAM role assignments in CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Ansible.

Designed and managed secure AWS cloud infrastructures using Terraform and CloudFormation for deploying scalable, highly available applications.

Automated scaling policies and resource optimization using AWS CloudWatch and Datadog, achieving cost efficiency and optimal performance across AWS workloads.

Supported hybrid cloud environments with AWS and Azure, implementing observability solutions using Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace to ensure real-time visibility and operational excellence.

Designed and deployed scalable AWS and Azure cloud infrastructures, utilizing Azure App Services, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), and serverless services like Azure Functions and AWS Lambda. Integrated Azure Blob Storage for efficient data storage and retrieval.

Developed and deployed Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with Helm and Istio Service Mesh to orchestrate microservices. Automated container management using Docker and Kubernetes, leveraging Kubernetes RBAC for secure cluster operations. Integrated Zero Trust principles with automated key rotation for Lambda and EKS deployments.

Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, integrating security tools such as SonarQube and Snyk for vulnerability scanning and compliance checks in each pipeline stage.

I have configured Ansible playbooks to send a notification on Job status via email and other communicational channels, also generated custom reports to provide job execution, insights, utilization on metric.

Proficient in setting up and managing IAM Policies, roles and permissions, In-depth knowledge of AWS IAM best practices and security standards.

Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins to automate the build and deployment of .NET applications, leveraging YAML scripts for pipeline configurations. Integrated SonarQube for automated code quality checks and security analysis in every deployment stage.

Developed advanced PowerShell scripts for automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments across hybrid environments. Automated key management tasks such as role-based access control (RBAC) enforcement and security auditing.

Developed Python and Bash scripts for automating infrastructure management, security auditing, and cloud provisioning tasks.

Implemented containerization and orchestration solutions using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring secure, scalable deployments.

Implementing security checks into CI/CD pipelines and automating IAM role creation using Terraform and CloudFormation. Applied RBAC and OPA policies to Kubernetes environments, enhancing security and compliance.

Implemented policy as code using OPA/Cedar for Kubernetes environments and ensured compliance with industry security standards. Integrated multi-factor authentication (MFA) and SSO with Azure Active Directory (AD) for robust identity management.

Developed Python-based automation scripts to deploy infrastructure on AWS, including provisioning EC2 instances, S3 storage, and VPC configuration. Automated IAM role creation and permissions and implemented AWS Lambda functions to ensure scalable security monitoring.

Developed continuous integration pipeline using Jenkins and developed various Groovy scripts for deploying the application onto the AWS cloud and Azure.

Strong skills in Orchestrating the Deployment using Kubernetes, creating customized resources in Kubernetes, managing the Containerized applications in Kubernetes, updating the Kube components, and Kubelet without any outage, and maintaining the Auto-scaling to scale up and down the containers depending on the usage.

Automated the tasks with Ansible Playbooks by using YAML functions migrating the servers with the required configuration changes and testing and deploying the machines using Ansible Commands.

Skilled in monitoring servers using Nagios, Datadog, CloudWatch, and EFK stack Elasticsearch Flaunted Kibana.

Experience in account management SSO/SAML and multifactor authentication.

Experience with bug-tracking tools like JIRA. Created and wrote Shell scripts in bash, Ruby, groovy, YAML JSON, Python, and PowerShell for automating tasks.

Expertise in configuring ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana), Nagios, and Splunk for Log monitoring of various applications.

Installed, Configured and Managed Docker Containers, Docker Images for Web Servers, and Applications servers such as Apache, and Tomcat using Docker and integrated with Amazon MySQL RDS database.

Optimized performance across Linux and Windows environments, leveraging automation tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation to standardize infrastructure deployments.

Coordinated closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation, significantly reducing interdependencies and streamlining workflows.

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, Glacier, DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, Elasticsearch, API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Route 53, CloudWatch, Kinesis), Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Python (Boto3), Datadog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, Nagios, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure DevOps, Jenkins, IAM, KMS, SSL/TLS, SSO, SAML, MySQL, RDS, DynamoDB, Azure SQL, Linux (RedHat, CentOS), Windows Server.

Ferguson, VA

Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

January 2020- May 2021

Responsibilities:

Experienced in designing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and experience in designing custom build steps using PowerShell and implementing high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager Deployment models.

Performed security assessments on Azure AD structure and performed security assessments on Azure hub spoke environment.

I worked on purchasing licenses with Bitbucket Cloud and configured repos in it for various dev teams for multiple projects and played an admin role in creating and maintaining Bitbucket Cloud.

Worked on Azure API Management, Azure Functions, and Azure Security.

Installed and configured the Jenkins platform, which was built into Docker Containers, and maintained and built various Jenkins pipelines for various application projects.

Developing and deploying plugins custom workflow activities and JavaScript extensions for using Visual Studio and it deployed using Azure DevOps pipeline services on the cloud.

Deploy and optimize two-tier Java, Python web applications to Azure DevOps CI/CD to focus on development by using services such as reports to commit codes, test plans to unit test, deploy app service, azure application insight collects health performance and usage data of the procedure, stored artifacts in BLOB storage.

Managed hybrid cloud environments, integrating Azure DevOps with AWS for cross-cloud CI/CD automation and system provisioning.

Automated infrastructure as code using Terraform and Azure ARM Templates, allowing seamless deployment of cloud services.

Deployed scalable applications using Azure App Services, improving performance and reducing maintenance costs by 30%.

Configured NGINX as a reverse proxy to efficiently route incoming traffic to backend services, enhancing application performance and security.

Experience in Automating, Configuring, and Deploying Instances on Azure environments and in Data centers and migrating on-premises to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups. Experienced in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS).

Professional in Azure API Management, security, and Cloud-to-Cloud Integration. Fixing the security issues by reviewing the user access. Used Azure Functions to spin up the Infrastructure for Developers, Testers, Pre-prod, and Prod teams.

Implemented End-to-end automated CI/CD pipeline for build and deployment using Jenkins, groovy & and shell scripting with stages like checkout, unit testing, build, and package.

Wrote unit tests in JUnit and Groovy for REST APIs in the banking industry as part of an oversized Agile/Scrum team.

Integrated CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Azure DevOps to automate deployment processes, enabling rapid iteration and consistent deployments across cloud environments.

Administered Linux and Windows environments, optimizing configurations for enhanced performance and security.

Assisted in the implementation of security measures in cloud environments, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices.

Contributed to retrospectives and planning sessions, driving continuous improvement in team processes and workflows.

Facilitated communications between teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment of project goals and deliverables.

Using Terraform and Jenkins files we build Kubernetes clusters Environments, where using docker images services will run in for various K8 clusters with Namespaces and configured Nignx as Load Balancer.

Worked on configuring New Relic as a Monitoring tool for On-prem servers as well as AWS Resources.

Worked on Writing Bash and Python Scripts to Automate tasks on Linux and Windows platforms.

Worked on Ansible Tower and wrote various Playbooks from Scratch for patches and installing New Relic Agents and for maintaining deployments.

Environment: Azure (API Management, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, ARM Templates), Jenkins, Terraform, PowerShell, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, IIS, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Splunk, IAM, RBAC, Azure Security, Encryption, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu), Windows Server.

HSBC, New Jersey, USA

Sr. DevOps Engineer

February 2019 – December 2019

Responsibilities:

Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure and configuration management on Amazon web services (AWS) using Puppet. Used Puppet dashboard for Configuration Management of hosted Instances within AWS.

Participated in configuring and monitoring distributed and multiple platform servers using Puppet. Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.

Worked on container-based deployments using the Docker images and Docker registries, pulled the required images from Docker Hub. Used Docker to avoid the environmental difficulties between Developers and Production.

Worked on Ansible playbooks in creating Roles for Scalability and Reusability in Ansible, wrote playbooks for provisioning, orchestration, packages, services, configuration, and deployment using Ansible.

Created and automated the Jenkins pipeline using a groovy pipeline script for the applications.

Created Ansible roles in YAML and defined tasks, variables, files, handlers, and templates. Created inventory and configured the Ansible files for parallel deployment in Ansible for automating the Continuous delivery process

Creating the Dashboards in Splunk, and Grafana for logging and monitoring metrics for OpenShift Applications.

Configuring and deploying instances on GCP environments and Data centers, also familiar with Compute, Kubernetes Engine, Stack driver Monitoring, Elastic Search, and managing security groups on both.

Extreme Knowledge in creating GCP's VPC, network (Firewalls, IP Addressing, Ingress and Egress throughput caps), Sub-networks, VPN, and Cloud DNS.

Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the CI/CD system to build, test, and deploy.

Design, Plan, and create Azure virtual machines; Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure to connect to on-premises environments; and implement high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

Experienced working with both A/B deployment and deployments orchestrated multiple ETL jobs using AWS step functions and Lambda, also used for loading, and preparing data analytics for customers..

Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents, documenting findings, and working with development teams to implement preventive measures, reducing reoccurrence and improving system reliability.

Used Octopus deploy and PowerShell to reduce production deployment times and Deploy Infrastructure using ARM templates for Azure PaaS services with deployment tools such as Octopus and VSTS.

Designed GCP Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, and NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.

Management and Build Automation with Azure-DevOps Developed automation scripts using Power Shell, supporting multiple hosts and VMs for Azure cloud deployments and Experience in Big Data, Azure SQL, and SQL Clusters. Uploaded Vhd files into Azure Storage Account using AZ Copy.

Experience in ZOOKEEPER, GROOVY, TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT, Cs, Continuous Integration, Monitoring, and Change Management Processes and Procedures.

Environment: PUPPET, RUBY, GCP, Azure (Azure Site Recovery, Azure VMs, Azure Storage, Big Data, Azure SQL), Jenkins, PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, Splunk, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Docker, Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git, IAM, Firewall configurations, VPC, VPN, Cloud DNS, Linux, Windows Server

BNYM, Plano, TX

DevOps Engineer

July 2018 – February 2019

Responsibilities:

Created playbooks for deploying Linux and windows on VMware vSphere, VMware guest modules in Ansible.

Writing playbooks to deploy services on cloud, applications and to write modules in Ansible for implementing automation of continuous deployment.

Using Ansible to manage web applications configuration files with YAML scripting.

Maintained Ansible playbooks using Ansible roles, utilized file modules in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems.

Used Ansible and Ansible tower (AWX) as configuration management tool to deploy the application to multiple servers at once.

Hands on experience in designing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and extensive experience in designing custom build steps using PowerShell and implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager Deployment models.

Worked on Installing and configuring Jenkins platform, which built Docker Containers and maintained and built various Jenkins pipelines for various application projects.

Experience in developing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, ECS, Code Deploy, AWS Code Commit, and Route53.

Designed and Implemented CI/CD pipeline using GIT, Maven, MS Build, IIS Web Deploy, SonarQube, Ec2 plugin, JaCoCo, etc.

Comprehensive system administration involves managing both Linux and Windows operating systems, supporting a diverse range of applications in mixed environments. Enhanced system performance through proactive monitoring and maintenance, achieving a reduction in system downtime by 25%.

Managed Linux and Windows operating systems in mixed environments, ensuring optimal system performance and security.

Knowledge of MVC design patterns with web services deployed .Net and C# applications using TFS.

Installed multiple Sonar plugins on the server, SCM, integration, auth., and governance plugins.

Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, MS Build & and Nexus on Windows, and Linux environments.

Worked on Disaster Recovery in Multi-AZ to improve performance.

Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, and NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.

Worked on creating multiple servers for Linux machines using Chef on AWS.

Created an inventory in Ansible to automate continuous deployment; wrote playbooks using YAML scripting; maintained and patched servers.

Integrated Splunk with AWS for configuring and monitoring AWS logs.

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, ECS, Code Deploy, Route53), Jenkins, Git, Maven, MS Build, SonarQube, Nexus, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, IAM, Multi-AZ Disaster Recovery, MySQL, RDS, Linux (CentOS, RedHat), Windows Server

American Water, NJ

DevOps Engineer

February 2017 – November 2017

Responsibilities:

Experience designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, and Ops Works.

Worked at optimizing volumes and EC2 instances and created multiple VPC instances.

Experience creating new accounts, roles, and groups with IAM.

Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.

Experience involving configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to back up files and archive files in Glacier.

Developed server-side application to interact with the database using Spring Boot and Hibernate.

Configured Git with Jenkins and scheduled jobs using the POLL SCM option.

Performed integration of Code Quality Analysis techniques like Checking style and finding bugs with CI tools.

Managed Sona-type Nexus repositories to download the artifacts (jar, war & ear) during the build.

Installed SonarQube on sandbox and installed plugins based on developer requirements.

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, Auto-scaling, OpsWorks), Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, CloudWatch, Nagios, Jenkins, Git, IAM, S3 versioning, Glacier backups, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux (CentOS, RedHat), Windows Server

Alliance Global Services – Hyderabad

Linux Administrator

June 2014 – July 2015

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking on UNIX-based platforms.

Administered and maintained Git source control, managing branches, labels, and merges in both Git and Stash.

Configured and managed Jenkins to support Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes, automating builds and deployments.

Integrated Git with Jenkins to automate code checkout and streamline development workflows.

Created and maintained build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, ANT, and Maven to ensure smooth migration between environments.

Set up proactive alerts in Jenkins to monitor and manage server inventory, ensuring timely attention to critical capacity issues.

Worked with Docker to enable portable deployment of applications and implemented multi-tiered application structures for efficient orchestration.

Automated delivery pipelines by integrating Jenkins with Nexus, Puppet, and Yum for end-to-end CI/CD workflows.

Utilized Confluence for creating, managing, and sharing project documentation and workflows.

Monitored infrastructure and application health using Nagios to ensure system reliability and uptime.

Environment: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Nexus, Puppet, Shell Scripting, Ansible, Nagios, Stash, Docker, Linux (CentOS, RedHat)

CERTIFICATION:

AWS Developer Associate

Azure Developer Associate.

EDUCATION:

Master’s in computer science – Silicon Valley University, CA, USA. 2016

Bachelor’s in computer science – JNTUK, AP, INDIA. 2014

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