Azure Devops Engineer

BHANU PRASAD

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bhanu-prasad-16b746319

Git Hub Link: https://github.com/BhanuReddy002

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

•DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing CI/CD systems, automating infrastructure, and deploying scalable cloud-native and embedded software applications. Proficient in Python, Bash, and C, with expertise in Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Skilled in static code analysis tools (SonarQube, Clang) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). Experienced in collaborating with Agile teams to optimize development pipelines and deliver innovative solutions.

•Hands on experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery strong background in Build and Release Management and Cloud Implementation all within that suite the needs of an environment under DevOps Culture.

•Designed, deployed, and maintained services on Azure IaaS and Microsoft 365 landscapes, ensuring seamless integration with on-premises systems.

•Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, automating microservices deployment, code quality checks, and integration with Azure services like API Gateway and Functions, reducing deployment times by 30%.

•Experience in Implement, Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production).

•Critical production issues were rapidly resolved by identifying misconfigurations in AWS services, pipelines, and container orchestration.

•Optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment times by 30%.

•Automated release cycles for Java-based applications using Maven, Jenkins, and SonarQube, ensuring 100% code quality compliance.

•Developed YAML-by using with Azure DevOps pipelines to deploy microservices on Kubernetes clusters, reducing manual intervention by 40%.

•Worked on central repositories like GitHub, Bitbucket and Gerrit also configured the webhook.

•Worked on AWS Cloud platform services are and Cloud Watch EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, EBS, AMI.

•Hands-on experience implementing and managing DevSecOps practices to ensure secure and efficient software development lifecycles.

•Proficient in managing and automating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO), including pipeline-as-code (YAML).

•Expertise in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, EKS, ECS, AMI, EKS, ECS, SNS, RDS, IAM, AWS config, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Security Groups.

•Integrated and managed tools like Nexus IQ for software composition analysis and vulnerability management.

•Expertise in managing OS and configuration states with SaltStack, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments.

•Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines and build processes, Develop and maintain Azure DevOps automation scripts. Monitor and troubleshoot Azure DevOps pipelines and builds, Create, and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards.

•Design and implement Azure DevOps security policies, Manage Azure DevOps source control repositories, Develop and maintain Azure DevOps release process. Develop and maintain Azure DevOps deployment automation.

•Expertise Azure services like Azure functions, storage, VM's, AKS, ACS, IAM roles, network security groups (NSGs), ALB, AG, virtual networks (VNets), subnets, IP addresses etc.

•Integrated Azure Databricks, including knowledge of Databricks clusters, notebooks, jobs, and libraries.

•experienced in integrating Azure Databricks with other Azure services such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, etc.

•Used Cpp Check to identify and resolve code defects in CI/CD workflows for embedded systems Worked on installation of Docker using on Linux Environment & creation of Docker container images, tagging, and pushing the images to Docker Registry.

•Worked with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub, and Docker-registries.

•Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all micro-services builds out to the Docker-registry and then deployed to Artifactory.

•Installing and configuring Ansible and Involved in writing Ansible playbooks for configuring the servers.

•Integration of SonarQube and Selenium with Jenkins to automate the testing of java applications.

•Implemented fault-tolerant microservices architecture using AWS ECS and Terraform, reduction service downtime by 25%.

•Designed and automating container orchestration workflows with Docker and Kubernetes, increasing deployment efficiency by 40%.

•Deployed the java application into web application servers like Apache Tomcat, Nginx, and WebLogic servers.

•Worked on helm charts to deploy on Kubernetes cluster using the Rancher dashboard.

•Deploy YAML files on Kubernetes clusters using ranches and helm charts.

•Implemented the terraform scripts for provisioning the infrastructure in AWS cloud as IaC.

•Integrating Terraform into the CI/CD pipeline for automated infrastructure deployment.

•Worked on Azure services like VM’s and subnets cloud storage functionalities.

•Worked on Kubernetes and configured in AWS EKS and ECS clusters.

•Written the python and shell scripts to automate the build process in pipelines.

•Deployed microservices-based applications on AWS, leveraging Docker containers, ECS/EKS, and Terraform for fully automated infrastructure.

EDUCATION DETAILS:

•Masters in Computer Science(CSE), Auburn University, United States of America . Bachelors in Computer Science,ACE ENGINEERING COLLEGE,Hyderabad.

CERTIFICATION:

Certified: AZ-900, AZ-104 & AWS Solution Architect (Associate)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System

Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu), Windows, UNIX

Container Platforms

Dockers, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Languages

Java,Python,Golang,C++

DevOps Tools (IaC)

Puppet, Chef, Terraform and Ansible

Build Tools

Ant, Maven, MS Build, Gradle

CI Tools

Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson, Azure Pipelines

Version Control Tools

Subversion, GIT (GitLab, GitHub), CVS, Perforce, Bitbucket

Monitoring Tool

Nagios, ELK and Splunk,Prometheus, Grafana

Cloud Environment

Amazon Web Services (EC2, EMR, VPC, AMI, S3, CFT, CDK, Cloud Trail, Lambda), Azure

Scripting Languages

Python, Perl, YAML, Shell Scripting, Java Script, PowerShell

Web /Application

Servers

Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic

SDLC

Agile/ Scrum Methodologies, Waterfall

Databases

MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle.

Networking

DNS,Load Balancers(AWS Route 53, ELB,Azure Virtual Networks)

Logging

Azure Monitor, Azure App Insights, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

LumenTechnologies(Louisiana,USA)

May 2024 - Present

Role :Devops Engineer

oCreated and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, automating test, build, and deployment processes, reducing manual efforts by 60% and deployment times by 40%.

oImplemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, enabling rapid environment provisioning, repeatable deployments, and streamlined scaling across AWS EC2, S3, and RDS.

oDeveloped automated scripts in Python and Bash for routine maintenance tasks, monitoring configurations, and system health checks, minimizing manual operations and human error.

oUsed Chef for configuration management and automated compliance validation across environments, ensuring consistency and security adherence.

oManaged Dockerized applications and orchestrated deployments across Kubernetes clusters, improving resource utilization and reducing server costs by 30%.

oDeployed Citrix VDI environments on AWS for secure, reliable access to applications, focusing on high availability and disaster recovery planning.

oUtilized AWS Lambda functions to automate routine tasks, reducing manual intervention and supporting event-driven processes within cloud infrastructure.

oDesigned and managed multi-environment deployment pipelines, ensuring seamless code integration from development to production and increasing deployment reliability. o Coordinated with stakeholders to define migration requirements, ensuring smooth transitions and addressing compatibility and performance needs for Citrix users.

oIntegrated AWS CloudWatch and PagerDuty for real-time monitoring and alerting of critical Citrix-specific metrics, and alerting to minimize response times during critical incidents, proactively managing infrastructure health.

oUtilized Ansible playbooks for consistent configuration across Citrix environments, ensuring compliance with organizational security policies.

Client: Tata Consultancy Services(Hyderabad, India) Jan 2021-Jan2023 Role: DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Integrating Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and Maven with Jenkins to achieve continuous integration and configured Jenkins with Poll SCM and webhook build trigger.

•Designed and developed REST APIs in Java and Python, integrating with cloud-native systems on AWS and Kubernetes.

•Designed scalable microservices-based systems deployed on Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm charts, achieving 99.9% uptime.

•Integrated SonarQube and Clang into Jenkins pipelines for static code analysis, improving code compliance by 15%.

•Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment times by 30%.

•Automated embedded software builds using Python and Jenkins pipelines, reducing manual intervention by 40%.

•Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, ensuring consistent AWS resource configurations across environments.

•Integrated testing tools (SonarQube, Selenium) into CI pipelines, improving code quality and reducing production issues by 20%.

•Conducted root cause analysis for CI/CD failures, implemented corrective measures, and improved pipeline success rates by 25%.

•Configured and maintained networking protocols, subnets, VLANs, and load balancers in multi-cloud environments.

•Proficient in writing automation scripts using PowerShell (for Windows environments) and Bash/Python (for Linux automation).

•Utilized Grafana and ELK Stack to monitor and analyze CI/CD pipeline performance, reducing downtime by 20%.

•Collaborated with client FTEs during design, deployment, and implementation of DevOps solutions, ensuring continuous delivery of mobile backend services and successful CI/CD integration.

•Experienced in managing DevOps pipelines for mobile backend ecosystems using CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and cloud-based integration.

•Integrated Azure API Gateway with microservices, ensuring secure access and efficient API management while leveraging Azure Functions for serverless computing.

•Collaborated with Agile teams during sprint planning and retrospectives to align DevOps solutions with business requirements.

•Designed CI/CD processes in the context of a Cloud bees Jenkins orchestration, including the usage of automated build, test/QA and deployment tools.

•Developed automated test scripts using Python for monitoring and validating system performance on Kubernetes clusters.

•Configured DNS and SSL for various domains using Route 53 and Cloudflare, supporting both marketing and production needs.

•Implemented DevSecOps practices by integrating SonarQube and Nexus IQ into CI/CD pipelines for code quality analysis and vulnerability detection.

•Configured SELinux policies and security groups to harden Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems.

•Deployed and managed containerized applications on Kubernetes clusters using Helm charts and Rancher.

•Proficient in deploying compute, network, and storage infrastructure across private cloud platforms (VMWare, Ovirt) and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI) using Terraform and Ansible.

•Given the support to multiple projects and offering the git, maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, GitLfs, and Selenium box services.

•Collaborated with development teams to test and deploy embedded software on Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, ensuring high availability and scalability.

•Configured Jenkins Nodes to build jobs to distribute the load of Jenkins Master and achieved parallel builds.

•Automated CI/CD process using Cloud bees Jenkins Administrations, and build-pipeline plugins.

•Integrated static code analysis tools (SonarQube, Clang) into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring code quality for embedded software projects.

•Used SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality and to perform automatic reviews of code to detect bugs. Also used Cobertura and cucumber plug-in.

•Worked on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer, and AMIs, and Auto scaling to design cost-effective, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems.

•Automating deployment cycle using DevOps Tools like Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker and Maven.

•Worked on AWS services like EC2, Lambda, AMI, VPC, IAM, S3, ELB, EBS, EFS, RDS, Auto Scaling, EKS, Cloud Watch, SNS, SQS for monitoring.

•Experience in different services of AWS like EC2, AMI, Lambda, VPC, IAM, EKS, ELB, S3, SNS, Cloud Watch

•Implementing AWS security controls such as VPC configurations, security groups, and encryption settings through Terraform.

•Writing Terraform configuration files (.tf files) to define the desired state of AWS resources.

•Implementing version control systems (Git) for managing Terraform code repositories.

•Managing Terraform state files and backends to store infrastructure state securely.

•Participate in building the DevOps Platform using configuration management tools like Ansible.

•Write Ansible Playbooks to provision several pre-production environments and several proprietary middleware installations.

•Writing inventory files, Ansible configuration files and creating playbooks in Ansible for configuration and Deployment activities.

•Convert the playbooks in Roles for reusability and Scalability.

•Written Ansible YAML scripts that can store the credentials for various sandboxes and secured them on the remote servers.

Environment: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Maven, Cloud Bees Jenkins, Ansible, NodeJS, Artifactory, AWS, ELK Kibana, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, WebLogic, Tomcat, Nginx, Jira, SonarQube, Selenium, Shell, Bash, Python, Groovy.

Client: Incubate Soft Pvt Ltd (Hyderabad, India) Oct 2018 to Dec 2020 Role: Devops Engineer.

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Responsibilities of Build/Release/Software Configuration and DevOps methodologies and setting up and maintaining CI & CD pipelines (Groovy) and delivering releases for multiple Applications running on both Linux-based distributed Infrastructures.

•Administered VMware vSphere and ESXi environments for provisioning virtual machines and optimizing performance.

•Deployed serverless applications using AWS Lambda integrated with S3 and DynamoDB, ensuring scalability and fault tolerance.

•Migrated monolithic Java applications to serverless microservices architecture, improving scalability by 50%.

•Developed custom scripts to automate deployments, monitoring, and system configurations on Kubernetes and AWS environments.

•Automated vulnerability management using security scanning tools to improve system integrity and maintain compliance in AWS and Linux environments.

•Conducted security audits and assessments using DevSecOps practices for applications and infrastructure to comply with DoD security standards.

•Developed and deployed Java-based REST APIs using Spring Boot, integrated with AWS Lambda for serverless processing.

•Deployed secure web applications by integrating Docker containers and Kubernetes on premise and in cloud environments.

•Optimized Java microservices deployed on Kubernetes (EKS), reducing response time by 20%.

•Configured GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate application build, test, and deployment stages.

•Familiar with GCP services such as Compute Engine, IAM, and Cloud Functions for multi-cloud integration.

•Implemented Kubernetes security best practices, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Network Policies, and encrypted secrets.

•Used New Relic and Dynatrace for real-time system monitoring, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 30%.

•Used New Relic and Dynatrace for real-time system monitoring, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 30%.

•Implemented DevSecOps practices, integrating SonarQube and Nexus IQ into CI/CD pipelines for security and compliance enforcement.

•Managed Windows Server environments, including configuring Active Directory and Group Policy, to ensure seamless user access and system integration.

•Configured and managed VPC networks in AWS, including DNS routing with Route 53 and security policies with firewall rules and security groups.

•Configured and utilized Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes cluster performance, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 25%.

•Developed Azure DevOps pipelines for automated CI/CD, reducing deployment time by 40%.

•Implemented auto-scaling policies for Dockerized applications on AWS, reducing downtime and optimizing resource utilization.

•Collaborated with clients to ensure solutions aligned with security best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI, FedRAMP).

•Involved in installing Cloud bees Jenkins on a Linux machine and created a Master and Slave configuration to implement multiple parallels builds through a build.

•Worked on branching strategy on git also implemented Github, Bitbucket with Webhook for automatic trigger.

•Prepare build report monthly /yearly basis.

•Worked as Cloud bees Jenkins administrator and manage the users and setups etc.

•Proven expertise in designing, automating, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless delivery and robust testing of software systems.Hands-on experience implementing IaC practices (Terraform) and deploying scalable applications on AWS and Kubernetes.

•Designed and maintained logging/reporting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and time series databases, enabling real-time insights into infrastructure performance.

•Improved Jira server latency and database performance through root cause analysis and optimization of MySQL configurations.

•Good experience in Configuration management experience in a complex environment including software application build, packaging, and build machine environment management.

•Configured and deployed tools to automate the build, test, and release processes. Responsible for executing scheduled and unscheduled application builds and automating these processes.

•Automated build scripts using Maven and Shell Scripts and automated smoke tests using Selenium WAR files testing tool.

•Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like SonarQube.

•Administration and creation of Individual Jenkins jobs, including automatic generation, reporting, and alerting of build failures and build status indicators.

•Experience in using Tomcat application servers for deployments.

•Experience with Linux/Unix environments and building & release automation scripting.

•Aware on IBM UC deployer (UCD) for how to deploy the applications for multiple environments.

•Account Creation and Administration giving Permission etc.

•Troubleshooting issues like system accessibility problems, Poor system performance, network connectivity problems, unanticipated reboots, etc.

Environment: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ant, Maven, Cloud Bees Jenkins, Jira, Shell scripting, Tomcat, frog Artifactory, WebLogic, Nginx, SonarQube, Groovy.

Client: ICOM (Hyderabad, India) May 2017 to Sep 2018

Role: Build and Release Engineer.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities of Build/Release/Software Configuration and DevOps methodologies and setting up and maintaining CI & CD pipelines (Groovy) and delivering releases for multiple Applications running on both Linux-based distributed Infrastructures.

Diagnosed and resolved Kubernetes node failures, minimizing downtime and ensuring high availability.

Collaborated with teams to implement DevOps practices that align with healthcare data privacy standards like FHIR and HL7.

Implemented secure infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform, following best practices to comply with HIPAA and other data privacy standards.

Automated security audits and vulnerability scans within CI/CD pipelines using tools like SonarQube and Nexus IQ for healthcare projects.

Deployed scalable and fault-tolerant healthcare applications using Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker, ensuring high availability and data protection.

Automated infrastructure for cloud-based healthcare applications on AWS using Terraform and Ansible, reducing downtime by 25%.

Designed and implemented data pipelines for processing sensitive patient data securely in compliance with healthcare regulations.

Configured databases (MySQL, MongoDB) and automated backup/recovery solutions for healthcare systems, ensuring data integrity.

Developed custom Grafana dashboards to monitor healthcare applications, ensuring proactive issue resolution and minimal downtime.

Implemented ELK Stack and Splunk for real-time log monitoring of healthcare infrastructure to meet uptime and reliability SLAs.

Led the migration of monolithic healthcare applications to microservices architecture on Kubernetes (EKS), improving scalability by 40%.

Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and SonarQube to ensure secure and compliant software deployment for healthcare clients.

Ensured infrastructure and applications comply with regulatory standards, including HIPAA and GDPR, through secure CI/CD pipelines.

Developed and deployed Java-based REST APIs using Spring Boot, integrated with AWS Lambda for serverless processing.

Optimized Java microservices deployed on Kubernetes (EKS), reducing response time by 20%.

Implemented serverless workflows using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, enabling real-time data processing for 50,000+ daily transactions.

Designed DynamoDB NoSQL database schema for a scalable e-commerce application, reducing query latency by 30%.

Involved in installing Cloud bees Jenkins on a Linux machine and created a Master and Slave configuration to implement multiple parallels builds through a build.

Worked on branching strategy on git also implemented Github, Bitbucket with Webhook for automatic trigger.

Prepare build report monthly /yearly basis.

Worked as Cloud bees Jenkins administrator and manage the users and setups etc.

Good experience in Configuration management experience in a complex environment including software application build, packaging, and build machine environment management.

Configured and deployed tools to automate the build, test, and release processes. Responsible for executing scheduled and unscheduled application builds and automating these processes.

Automated build scripts using Maven and Shell Scripts and automated smoke tests using Selenium WAR files testing tool.

Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like SonarQube.

Administration and creation of Individual Jenkins jobs, including automatic generation, reporting, and alerting of build failures and build status indicators.

Experience in using Tomcat application servers for deployments.

Experience with Linux/Unix environments and building & release automation scripting.

Aware on IBM UC deployer (UCD) for how to deploy the applications for multiple environments.

Account Creation and Administration giving Permission etc.

Troubleshooting issues like system accessibility problems, Poor system performance, network connectivity problems, unanticipated reboots, etc.

Environment: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Ant, Maven, Cloud Bees Jenkins, Jira, Shell scripting, Tomcat, Jfrog Artifactory, WebLogic, Nginx, SonarQube, Groovy.

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