Cloud Engineer Solutions Architect

Prashanth Reddy Gollamudi

Cloud Engineer/SRE/DevOpsEngineer

Contact: +1-240-***-****

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

LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasanth-reddy-gollamudi/

Professional Summary:

●IT Professional with over 12 years of experience as Cloud Engineer, DevOps, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, WebLogic Administration, Configuration Management, CodeMigration, and System Administration.

●AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.

●Worked on Automation Project to automate Failover/Failback Testing for high availability applications.

●Worked closely with the Application team, Database team, Security team, testing team during Failover/Failback activity.

●Worked on Splunk Dashboard to monitor Application Performance and alerts standardization.

●Designed SLX(SLI/SLO) for each application in Splunk and created the SRE Dashboard which covers all the golden signals like Latency, Errors, Saturation & Traffic.

●Deployed applications for monitoring and maintaining backend systems of UPS.com.

●Provided 24x7 production support for clients on a rotation basis, including support during off-hours.

●Worked closely with Application Architects and InfoSec team on implementation of firewall rules.

●Worked closely with application teams for DNS requests with valid hostnames and IP addresses.

●Developed microservices and implemented DevOps related technology on UPS.com.

●Background in Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform and automating with Jenkins.

●Full Stack Web/DevOps developer with experience in cloud native technologies.

●Strong understanding of modern cloud architectures and DevOps principles.

●Good experience with provisioning different environments using Chef and Ansible Configuration management tools.

●Experience working within Google Cloud Platform for integration processes.

●Configured Prometheus, Grafana and Netdata on 120 hosts using Ansible to display important metrics on servers and provide host visibility.

●Configured egress gateways and core DNS for applications connectivity in Argo CD.

●Experience working on Dashboard Designing for Cloud migration projects using tools like Splunk, Dynatrace and Cloud Watcher.

●Expertise providing security and user access management using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including creating new policies for user management in JSON.

●Experience with developing containerization and clustering technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

●Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker hub and Docker registries, installation and configuring Kubernetes and clustering them.

●Designed a high availability environment for application and database servers on GCP with Auto-scaling.

●Participated in release level discussions and worked through the full SDLC and Agile process.

●Built clustered environments for high availability applications and increasing resources to accommodate the applications in multiple data centers.

●Experience with End-to-End Administration knowledge using the Dynatrace suite of tools.

●Dynatrace monitoring on different landscape technologies.

●Expert in deploying code through web application servers like WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat and JBOSS.

●Extensive Experience using version control tools like GIT and Bitbucket across platforms like LINUX, UNIX, and Windows environment.

●Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using SQL for data integrity.

●Experienced in Application Performance/Monitoring tools like APM, Introscope, Splunk, Dynatrace.

Technical Skills:

DevOps Tools

Argo CD, Bit bucket, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, SonarQube, Jenkins, GIT, JFrog, UCD, Moogsoft

Cloud Technologies

AWS,GCP, Red Hat OpenShift

Languages/Scripting

Java/J2EE, ColdFusion, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Groovy

Monitoring Tools

APM, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Argo CD, Loki, Istio, Icinga, Opsview, Moogsoft, cmdb, Sentinus.

Web Servers

Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, Nginx

Configuration management

Argo CD, Chef, Docker

Build Tools

Maven, Gradle

Containerization Tools

Docker, Kubernetes

Repositories

Git, Nexus, Artifactory, Bit Bucket

VMware Products

VirtualBox, vCenter, vSphere, VNC

Databases

Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, NO-SQL, Amazon RDS

Networking

DNS, SMTP, Ethernet, LDAP, FTP, TFTP, SSH, TCP/IP

Operating Systems

Linux (RedHat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu), UNIX (IBM-AIX, Solaris) Microsoft Windows

Professional Experience:

Client: BNSF Railways, USA. June 2024 – Till Date

Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Configured release pipeline for auto deployments for staging, development and production.

●Worked on creating new Virtual Machines from Scratch and Deprovisioned old VMs.

●Implemented continuous Integration and continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins.

●Created alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.

●Experienced with automation tools like Jenkins, Gradle and SonarQube.

●Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and setting up automated build and deployments and installed and configured using Kubernetes.

●Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

●Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of applications across multiple cloud providers.

●Used Blue-Green deployment strategy for zero downtime.

●Managed the Openshift cluster including scaling up and scaling down AWS app nodes for high availability applications.

●Collaborated closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.

●Worked closely with application security engineers, Information Security teams for submitting firewall rules to ensure end to end connectivity of applications.

●Provided 24x7 production support for clients on a rotation basis, including support during off-hours.

Tools/Technologies: Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Dynatrace, Bash, Python, GitLab, Bitbucket, Agile, LINUX, CloudForms, Splunk, OpenShift.

Client: Fannie Mae, Virginia Nov 2023 - June 2024

Title: DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Worked on Automation Project to automate Failover/Failback Testing for high availability applications.

●Documented cloud design guidelines for both new business applications and the porting of existing business applications to align with a cloud model.

●As a DevOps Engineer educated multiple team members on DevOps principles and helped them to implement those principles at micro service level architecture.

●Established SLA’s for the app teams depending on the architecture, up-stream and down-stream application dependencies.

●Automated the deployment of Alerts and Dashboards in AWS from Lower environments to prod Environments using CFT & Terraform scripts.

●Worked with L2 and Appl teams to identify the Toil and automate the tasks to reduce the Toil so that application can be part of YBYO mode.

●Worked closely with the Application team, Database team, testing team during Failover/Failback.

●Worked on Splunk Dashboard to monitor Application Performance.

●Designed SLX(SLI/SLO) for each application in Splunk and created the SRE Dashboard which covers all the golden signals like Latency, Errors, Saturation & Traffic.

●Deployed applications on AWS and troubleshooted issues.

●Worked on weekends and after hours during latest releases and Failover/Failback activities.

●Automated the deployment of Alerts and Dashboards in AWS from Lower environments to prod

Environments using CFT & Terraform scripts.

● Worked with L2 and Appl teams to identify the Toil and automate the tasks to reduce the Toil so

that application can be part of YBYO mode. Configuring of Virtual Private Cloud ( VPC ) with

networking of subnets containing servers

●Create and Maintain CICD pipelines for Java and Mainframe applications using Gitlab, Jfrog, Jenkins, Junit, Ansible, UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), Sonarqube.

●Performed troubleshooting for application systems and resolved issues.

●Worked with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53 etc.

Tools/Technologies: AWS, Splunk, Jenkins, Bitbucket, CFT, Terraform, Dynatrace, Python, GitLab, CMDB, UCD, LINUX, Moogsoft, Sentinus.

Client: UPS, MD Jan 2022 – Oct 2023

Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Deployed applications on GCP and troubleshooted issues using Argo CD.

●Configured user groups, dashboards, alerts and notification services on Grafana.

●Configured Prometheus, Grafana and Netdata on 120 hosts using Ansible to display important metrics on servers and provide host visibility.

●Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible tower to deploy on OpenShift with the oc command line tool.

●Worked on Application Resiliency, Disaster Recovery build book creation and run book creation.

●Worked closely with network and application security engineers.

●Worked closely with the Information Security teams for submitting firewall rules to ensure end to end connectivity of applications.

●Automated legacy deployments through WebLogic and Tomcat using Ansible.

●Worked with automating infrastructure setup with terraform on GCP.

●Set up CI/CD pipelines for Micro-services and integrated tools such as Maven.

●Created Clusters using Kubernetes and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing YAML files.

●Collaborated on GitLab and implemented Git branching strategies like developing branches, staging branches, master, push, pull requests and code reviews.

●Installed and configured Ansible and wrote Ansible playbooks to create Kubernetes clusters on VMs.

●Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced them in pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.

●Developed Ansible Playbooks to streamline numerous application deployments on production servers along with security patching on Tomcat.

●Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using nodes, config maps, selector services and deployed application containers as pods.

●Worked on migrating applications from OpenShift3 to OpenShift4 and GCP environments.

●Performed weekly and on-call deployments of application codes to production environments.

●Implemented and used CA APM performance management tool to troubleshoot applications and identify the root cause of issues.

Tools/Technologies: Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, Python, GitLab, Bitbucket, JFrog, LINUX, Argo CD, Grafana, Loki, Istio, Dynatrace, APM, Opsview

Client: Spectrum USA, CO. Jan 2019 – Dec 2021

Title: VideoOps/DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Implemented continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins.

●Created alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.

●Experienced with automation tools like Jenkins, Gradle and SonarQube.

●Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and setting up automated build and deployments and installed and configured using Kubernetes.

●Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

●Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of applications across multiple cloud providers.

●Managed the Openshift cluster including scaling up and scaling down AWS app nodes.

●Implemented ansible playbooks with different roles for easy deployment during continuous delivery.

●Integrated Dynatrace with custom tools like Jenkins, PagerDuty and Slack for alerting and raising incidents.

●Collaborated closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.

Tools/Technologies: Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Dynatrace, Bash, Python, GitLab, Bitbucket, Agile, LINUX.

IBM India, Pvt Ltd May 2016 – Aug 2018

Title: DevOps Engineer/ WebLogic Admin

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Performed WebLogic installation 12.1.3, domain configuration, clustering, load balancing and performance tuning.

●Deployed, monitored and troubleshooted J2EE Applications.

●JDBC connection pool (data source) configured with Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and SQL Server.

●Managed and monitored the JVM performance by adjusting WebLogic heap size.

●Deployed various WAR, JAR and EAR applications in a clustered environment in WebLogic Application Server. Deployed J2EE applications that involved in creating clusters for Load Balancing and Failover.

●Configured resources like JDBC provider, created Virtual Hosts, created Environment Variables, and configured session Management.

●Created security roles, group policy, user authentication, auditing, and authorization.

●Worked with vendors and developers for application related issues.

●Scheduled Cron jobs on production servers as per the application requirements.

●Installed root and intermediate certificates into Java KeyStore (cacerts) and server certs or domain certs into WebLogic KeyStore (.jks)

●Configured Apache web servers & Tomcat application containers in a RedHat Linux/CentOS environment.

●Responsible for debugging the project monitored on Bug tracking tools and the JIRA ticketing tool.

●Integrated defect tracking tool JIRA with Jenkins CI server for identifying, logging, tracking & documenting defects/issues in real-time.

●Worked with the Dynatrace team to set up measures, dashboards, business transactions, incidents, and alerts.

●Provided 24x7 production support for clients on a rotation basis, including off hours support.

●Identified and resolved multiple production issues by investigating transaction paths in Dynatrace.

Tools/Technologies: WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Opsview, APM, Dynatrace, Jira, Shell, Python, Windows, Linux

Varnasco India Pvt Ltd

ROLE: DevOps/ Middleware Administrator Mar 2014 – Apr 2016 Relevant Project Work

●Installed WebLogic 10.3.6 and created a WebLogic domain.

●Deployed application software to Linux servers running WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Apache Web Server.

●Deployed applications in WebLogic Application server.

●Performed troubleshooting for application systems and resolved issues.

●Monitored all of the WebLogic resources like admin and managed servers, clusters, machines, node manager, connection pools, data source and JMS (Java Message Service) component.

●Configured JDBC connection pool (data source) with Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and SQL Server.

●Managed and monitored JVM performance by adjusting WebLogic heap size.

●Created security roles, group policy, user authentication, auditing, and authorization.

●Analyzed log files, thread dumps and exception stack traces.

●Worked with vendors and developers for application related issues.

●Scheduled cron jobs on production servers as per application requirements.

●Installed root and intermediate certificates into Java KeyStore (cacerts) and server certs or domain certs into WebLogic KeyStore (.jks)

●Knowledge of IBM Mainframe environment including z/OS (MVS), SysPlex, CICS, DB2, UNIX System

Services (USS) and WebSphere for hosting Web Services.

●Involved in mainframe modernization into cloud AWS.

Tools/Technologies: Putty, WinSCP, WebLogic, Jboss, Tomcat, Apache, Jira, Windows, Linux

LandMark IT Solutions, Hyderabad, India Jan 2012 – Feb 2014

ROLE: UI/ Middleware Administrator

●Analyzed project requirements and developed code for displaying reports and dashboards.

●Analyzed and modified existing code wherever required and documented business and system requirements and developed design documents.

●Involved in project coordination and implemented Test methodologies.

●Used JavaScript EasyUI for displaying content of the transaction in table format.

●Deployed application software to Linux servers running WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Apache Web Server.

●Deployed applications in WebLogic Application server.

●Performed troubleshooting for application systems and resolved issues.

●Work Experience on all browser compatibility issues.

●Worked on Browser compatibility issues.

●Identified issues during the unit level testing and resolved them.

●Provided technical expertise to ensure proper functioning of user interfaces, database systems and web systems for the software.

●Set up necessary roles and privileges for data sources on ColdFusion administrative servers.

●Resolved security issues including protection against SQL injections and cross-site scripting attacks before the applications went live.

●Developed and maintained ColdFusion8, HTML, JavaScript and CSS code for two websites.

●Built several singleton utility components to aid in reducing code redundancy.

Tools/Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, JavaScript, XML, ColdFusion, SQL, MS Excel.

Education:

Master’s in Management Information Systems (MIS)

Bowie State University, MD, USA

Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

JNTUA University, India

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