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Manjunath Wajjaramatti **************@*****.*** +917*********

Summary

DevOps Architect with close to 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Cloud, DevSecOps, Containerization, and Config Management. Demonstrated proficiency in leading migration initiatives, advocating for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and deploying effective DevSecOps methodologies. Established history of leadership in delivering successful milestones.

Experience:

Independent Consultant Contracted by xfactr.ai [March 2024 – ToDate]

DevOps Architect

For a customer seeking to onboard multiple projects to Azure Landing Zone, led the initiative for the entire devops team to achieve:

• Creation of Dynamically scalable runners that are controlled via webhooks to ensure transparent scalabilty.

• Ensure each project is onboarded via IaC to ensure composable, modular infra is implemented. Including ones that run AKS clusters.

• Each IaC deployment/rollback was done with the usage of Github Action using aforementioned runners.

• And for each project application rollout was performed by Github Actions using aforementioned runners.

The entire implementation from Blueprint to Deployment was led by me. For Another Smart Building solution provider:

• Taken, the initiative of simplifying and streamlining their existing infra and networking, with the usage of Managed VPN Gateway services.

• Rolling our Azure EventGrid Solution to ensure MQTT based connectivity from various endpoints to Azure.

• Upgrade and cleanup of AKS cluster.

• As a part of SoC compliance, created and tested the DR Setup for Production. Attempted and Failed in the initial attempt for CKS certification. Msys [May 2022 – Feb 2024]

DevOps Architect

• Led a team of multiple devops engineers in diverse projects orchestrating implementation of DevSecOps practices.

• Managed CI activities using reusable Jenkins libraries and scripting highly modular Jenkins pipelines.

• Led the migration of workloads running in Jenkins to Azure DevOps due to deprecated plugins and lack of scalability.

• Integrated Fortify and Blackduck scans into migration pipelines, ensuring security compliance.

• Instrumented migration of mongo instances from a managed provider to native underutilized docker swarm to be offered as a service to swarm native services. Certifications:

• Certified Kubernetes

Administrator

• AWS Solution Architect -

Assoicate

Skills:

• CSP: Azure, AWS, GCP

• Container: Docker

• Container Config

Management: docker-

compose, docker stack,

Helm, ArgoCD

• Orchestrators: Swarm,

Kubernetes

• CI/CD engines: Jenkins,

ADO, Github Actions

• Config Mgmt: Ansible

• IaC: Terraform

• Scripting: Bash, Python

• Python tools: boto3,

pandas, venv etc

• Repo Management:

Azure Repos, GitHub,

Bitbucket

• Management Tools: JIRA,

Confluence, ADO-

Boards, Wiki

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• Evaluated and initiated the transition to Github-actions for workflow automation.

• Developed Github actions for provisioning infrastructure, streamlining the SDLC process on Azure landing zone.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd [Nov 2020 - May 2022] DevOps Lead

British BFSI client

• Instrumented extensive, reusable Terraform modules for AWS that were version controlled and could be unit tested for AWS, used by migration engineers to deploy Infrastructure.

• Streamlined infrastructure testing by integrating tftest and pytest with boto3.

• Authored ansible playbooks that could be deployed with the usage of AWS Systems Manager. Platform Engineer

Indian BFSI client

• Created reusable modules that were used for creating GCP Landing Zone.

• Worked in a capacity of Platform Engineer for rapid deployment and testing of afore-mentioned modules in multiple env leading upto deployment in prod.

• Ensured guardrails are present for infrastructure to ensure it is compliant for DevSecOps. Data Ingestion Engineer

Australian Telecom company

• As a part of MLOps team, worked on creation of Python programs that leveraged boto3 to interact with AWS services for ingesting data in secure way.

• Handled data arriving in multiple formats and offloaded them to S3 buckets which acted as data lakes holding files in Parquet format.

• These buckets were used as downstream application to run Redshift queries. TCS [Dec-2015 to Nov-2020]

DevOps/Platform Engineer

US Telco Client

• Led the technical execution of a large-scale migration project for a major US telco client, successfully migrating multiple workloads to a cloud-based infrastructure, improving system reliability.

• Designed & Implemented HA solutions based on requirement for the application being migrated with usage of Terraform to leverage IaC.

• Managed staged deployments for complex telecom infrastructures, overseeing the cutover process for 30+ applications, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with deployment standards. DevOps Engineer

US Manufacturing Client

• Developed and implemented fine-grained IAM policies numerous EC2 instances and Lambda functions, significantly enhancing security and compliance with company-wide DevSecOps standards.

• Engineered and deployed hardened AMIs using Packer, reducing potential security vulnerabilities across multiple production environments.

• Authored Ansible playbooks for provisioning Kubernetes clusters on VMs, facilitating rapid deployment and scaling of containerized applications for enterprise projects. Senior Middleware Consultant

UK Pharma client

• Managed IBM Middleware Suite integrations, which included XI50, IIB/WMB, and WMQ to streamline data exchange and enhance security protocols for critical pharma operations.

• Oversaw B2B appliance management, improving log capture and audit capabilities, reducing transaction errors and enhancing compliance with regulatory standards. Public

Artech Infosystems [Nov-2014 to Nov-2015]

Senior Analyst

• Collaborated with delivery team to handle Deployment of MQ infra needed by developers.

• Managed BAU request for creation of assets for MQ.

• Undertook a major cluster upgrade for MQ, which impacted close to 400 servers for varying nature, ranging from redhat enterprise linux to solaris servers. CSC [Mar-2013 to Oct-2014]

Analyst

• Managed Incident/Problem and Change management for midrange and middleware systems.

• Conducted root cause analysis for recurring incidents across multiple accounts, identifying and resolving critical issues that decreased incident recurrence. CMS Computers Limited [Mar-2010 to Jan-2013]

Snr Customer Support Eng

• Served as an operational analyst for major automobile companies, optimizing middleware and mainframe operations

• Managed operational aspects of Middleware (IBM-MQ, IBM-WMB), Midrange (AS400) & Mainframe System (z/OS), these included weekly maintenance, application patching etc.

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