Azure Cloud Architect

Mohan Sagiraju

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732-***-****

Experience Summary

IT Professional with 17+ years of experience currently working as AWS/Azure Cloud Architect/ Engineer

Managing offshore and onsite as a Lead & work closely with Stake holders, Business IT users, Monitoring and Security Teams

Strong Experience in Linux and Windows Systems Platforms

Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Slack and AzureDevOps

Well versed in Orchestrating and maintaining the infrastructure in the Cloud, Budgeting and Cost, Monitoring, Migrations, DB activities

Strong experience in migrating applications to AWS and Azure Cloud platforms & Monitoring Applications Performance

Strong experience in working with Version control systems such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Git.

Experience in scripting languages such as JSON, YAML, Python, Ruby & Shell scripting.

Good knowledge of virtualization and container technology like Docker. Experience in creating Dockerfiles and working with Docker containers.

Expertise in setting up Kubernetes Clusters using Amazon EKS & maintaining the PODS health.

Hands on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, AWS native tool Cloud Formation in provisioning Cloud Infrastructure.

Experience in Webservers -Websphere, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Nginx, IS.

Actively participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, QA, UAT and Production.

Worked with Project documentation and documented other application related issues, bugs on internal portal website.

An initiative-taking, energetic individual, a collaborator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technical /Functional Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS, Azure, GCP

BI Tools:

SAP BI, Tableau, QlikView, Qlik sense, Tibco Spotfire, Qlik Replicate, Qlik Enterprise Manager

Programming Skills:

C#, .NET, Java, Python, R Language, JSON, YAML

Databases:

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, DB2, Teradata, Hana, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, Redshift

Operating Systems:

Linux, Windows

App/Web Servers:

IIS, Tomcat, WebLogic 9.x/10.x/12c, Apache 2.x/1.3.x, JBoss 7.1, Websphere

SCM Tools:

SVN, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure Repos, TFS, ServiceNow

DevOps tools

JIRA, SonarQube, Nexus, Jenkins, Slack, Azure DevOps

Build Tools

Ant, Maven, MS Build, Cloud Formation Template

SCMs

SVN, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure Repos

IAC Tools

Puppet, Ansible, Terraform

Containers/Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes

Scripting & Other Tools:

Groovy, UNIX Shell Scripts (Ksh, Bash), Git Bash, Putty, iTerm, RESTful Webservices, API, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Visual studio

Project Experience

DOE, Cincinnati, OH – Cloud Administrator

May 2024 – Current

Roles and Responsibilities:

Administered and maintained cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure ensuring uptime and optimal performance.

Managed cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and deprovisioning using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation Templates.

Monitored and optimized cloud environments using tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, splunk, Prometheus and grafana dashboards.

Implemented and maintained identity and access management (IAM) policies to enforce least privilege across cloud accounts.

Configured cloud security settings and managed encryption protocols to meet compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, or GDPR standards.

Conducted regular security audits and vulnerability scans using tools like AWS Inspector, Azure Security Center, and Tenable.

Automated backup and disaster recovery processes, ensuring RTO/RPO compliance and zero data loss in test scenarios.

Automated routine administrative tasks using Python, Bash, and PowerShell scripts, improving efficiency and productivity.

Deployed configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to manage large-scale cloud environments.

Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps to streamline deployment processes.

Collaborated with DevOps and engineering teams to optimize deployment pipelines and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.

Provided support for cloud-related incidents, resolving tickets within SLA.

Delivered documentation to team on cloud tools, monitoring systems, and best practices.

GAIG, Cincinnati, OH - Cloud Platform Engineer

Mar 2023 – Mar 2024

Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked with Setting up the elastic search / open search in Azure and AWS

Migrating the data from legacy on- prem elastic to cloud elastic and adding the app search model

Worked on Snowflake – data ingestion, migration from raw silver to dev, int, cert and production.

Part of Support – includes change management, automation in creating users, roles, scripts for creating Warehouse, Schema, Databases, and data management tasks using python.

Using GITHUB as a code repository, CyberArk for setting passwords, safe pass, UC4 jobs creation and Service now tickets requests

Using Qlik replicate and Qlik Enterprise manager and fivetran integration to ingest the data with and without masking policies defined.

Worked on Humio for creating diagrams and enhance dashboards.

involved in Applying Qlik Servers operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes. Installing and configuring software changes, applying certificates, installing drivers and connectors to snowflake.

Deployed microservices in Kubernetes using helm releases and Automated CI/CD process for the deployments using flux CD for Kubernetes.

Written configuration files in YAML as part of getting request and response for multiple applications.

Configured the Disaster Recovery for the Application by creating Read Replicas in another region with the minimum instances possible.

Utilized the Python Boto3 AWS API to work on the AWS Services.

Created the modules driven AWS Infrastructure with Terraform.

Automated, integrated application services and provided cloud security in DevSecOps environment.

Customizing the AWS cloud Watch metrics and SNS accordingly using Amazon API for the custom metrics to appear on the cloud watch to know the health of the Instances and to monitor the performance accordingly.

Created the modules driven AWS and GCP Infrastructure with Terraform

Involved in designing, data migration and deploying applications utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, ELB, EFS, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, IAM, KMS, Lambda, EKS (Kubernetes)) and focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation, deployment services (OpsWorks and Cloud Formation) and security practices.

Worked on building Micro services Architecture (with Docker Containers), as an approach to make development more Agile and code base easier to maintain.

Implemented Security groups for inbound/outbound access, network ACLs for controlling traffic through subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and Route Tables to direct the network traffic and ensure secure zones for organizations in AWS.

Experience in using and configuring monitoring tools such as Splunk, App Dynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus

Used Amazon cloud watch to monitor major metrics (Load Balancer Latency, CPU Utilization, network packets) and Splunk for Infrastructure/Application Monitoring.

Experience in using and configuring monitoring tools such as Splunk, App Dynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS, SNS, Route53, VPC, YAML, Cygwin,OpenSSH, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation), ADS (Azure pipelines, azure repos), Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Big Query, SecOps, ANT, Python, Terraform, Redis, Linux, WebLogic, ELK, Gateway APIs, JIRA, Prometheus Grafana, Akamai, Docker, Kubernetes, Qlik

Siemens, Cincinnati, OH – Cloud Engineer

Nov 2021 -Feb 2023

Roles and Responsibilities:

Solution delivery expertise, migration of applications to the cloud, automation through various tools both AWS native and third-party.

Creating alarms in Cloud Watch service for monitoring the server’s performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage

Worked on VPC network and establishing the subnets, route tables, internet gateways, Elastic IP, NAT Gateways, Access control lists & VPN connections as internal and external access.

Managed users and groups using the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Managing IAM accounts (with MFA) and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements.

Created Cloud Formation template stacks to automate for building new VPCs using JSON files.

Worked with various SQL databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server to migrate into AWS SQL RDS database.

Worked in conjunction with network administrators, database administrators, and security personnel, to provide architecture solutions and administration guidelines for Enterprise Projects.

Implementing Route tables, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, NAT, and DNS

Applying AWS Security Features along with traditional Information and Application Security

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS, SNS, Route53, VPC, YAML, Cygwin,OpenSSH, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation), ADS (Azure pipelines, azure repos), Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Big Query, SecOps, ANT, Python, Terraform, Redis, Linux, WebLogic, ELK, Gateway APIs, JIRA, Prometheus Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes.

Cisco, San Jose, CA – Cloud Architect

May 2021 – Oct 2021

Roles and Responsibilities:

Automated and managed the workflows between development and operations stages while managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) which are achieved through true automation using scripting languages like bash and python.

Created the modules driven AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and Azure infra with Azure Resource Manager.

Involved in designing, data migration and deploying applications utilizing all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, ELB, EFS, VPC, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM, KMS, Lambda, Kinesis, EKS (Kubernetes)) and focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation, deployment services (OpsWorks and Cloud Formation) and security practices.

Monitored the applications deployed on IBM WebSphere application server and integrated configuration of web apps with WebSphere.

Installed, configured, and managed HTTP, NGINX, NTP, NFS, FTP, DHCP, DNS on the VM’s as needed.

Created Shell Scripts to monitor the administrative tasks and automated the tasks to free up the resources using Cron jobs.

Worked on Azure DevOps Server for code collaboration and deployment of applications.

Used Amazon cloud watch to monitor major metrics (Load Balancer Latency, CPU Utilization, network packets) and AppDynamics/Splunk/Dynatrace for Infrastructure/Application Monitoring.

Deployed Java applications/web services using CI/CD tools like Jenkins in standalone and clustered environments.

Worked as a Site Reliability Engineer, being responsible for the reliability and consistency of the applications that are deployed.

Environment: AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS, SNS, Route53, VPC, YAML, Cygwin, OpenSSH, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation), ADS (Azure pipelines, azure repos), Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Big Query, SecOps, ANT, Python, Terraform, Redis, Linux, WebLogic, ELK, Gateway APIs, JIRA, Prometheus Grafana, Akamai, Docker, Kubernetes.

Anthem, Cincinnati, OH – DevOps Engineer

Nov 2019 – Apr 2021

Roles and Responsibilities:

Rebuild of entire existing platform over to Docker containers.

Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket,

SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code check-in.

Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting

Ansible, created and automated platform environment setup.

Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in GitHub for Agile teams.

Integrated GitHub web hooks into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.

Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.

Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.

Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.

Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.

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

Setup Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.

Avista, Spokane, WA – Cloud Architect

Jul 2019- Oct 20 19

Roles and Responsibilities:

In-depth understanding and proficiency with Amazon Web Services and solutions to properly secure the environment using IAM policies, MS encryption methods, high availability to resolve latency issues.

Proficiency with DevOps and CI/CD methodologies and tools for automated infrastructure code testing, integration, deployment, and maintenance.

Experience with platform and containerization technologies, such as Open shift, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Working knowledge of Big Data, analytics, and machine learning technologies on AWS such as EMR, Apache Spark.

Experience with creating Cloud Formation Template/Terraform for provisioning services and applications using stacks.

Good knowledge on performing restful services like APIs calls, SSO, SAML and SOAP, http, https&cli commands.

Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as S3, Redshift, Aurora, Athena, Glue, EMR, DMS.

Used Azure DevOps for provisioning CI/CD pipeline in Team Foundational Services, build using the ant, running the agent to kick off the continuous integration and deployment as code checks in.

Experience in Networking like DNS, LoadBalancer, Route 53, NAT instance, firewall management and TLS, SSL, SSO, SAML certs.

Designed the architecture diagrams for AWS deployments using Lucid charts.

Interacted with various cross-functional teams, cloud governance team, networking, and operations teams for cloud environmental approvals.

Configure Monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Splunk, AES, CloudTrail for analyzing the logs and health checks.

Setting up branching strategy in GIT, Bitbucket, Jira for story boards, Confluence for documentation, Atlassian suite, managing artifacts in nexus repository, creating triggering in Jenkins pipeline, maven builds deploying using Ansible.

Following up Agile methodology –Tracker, Sprint, Epic, Stories, Jira tasks and aligning with deadlines to complete.

Environment: AWS, Jenkins, GIT, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse IDE, TFS, AWS CLI, S3, Snowflake, S3, SQL, Bash, Shell Scripting, Windows, Linux

Thermofischer, Cincinnati, OH – Cloud Architect

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019

Roles and Responsibilities:

Used cloud watch for monitoring the logs, metrics, events and troubleshooting the issues.

Migrations with Cloud Endure for Live Migrations and Disaster Recovery from on prem to Cloud with stages of replication, test mode for testing, cutover mode. Failback in case of failure.

Regular operational checks on Trusted Advisor for recommendations, best practices on five pillars and take action.

Extract, transform, migrate data from ODS, EDW, and data lake environment for reporting and analytics purpose.

Initiating the AWS Well Architected Tool to review at Improvement plan, Milestones, evaluate each pillar and risk factors on overall workloads.

Experience in implementing BI data solution on Azure PaaS using Azure SQL Database, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Automation, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake and Blob Storage.

Developed Adhoc reports, performance reports, drill-down reports, matrix reports, charts using Tableau Desktop.

Provisioning AWS FSx as a File server on the windows EC2 instances to map and copy the data with Robocop-POC.

Experience in spinning infrastructure as code using terraform or cloud formation templates.

Experience in running container management systems like ECS/EC2.

Have good Knowledge and understanding on Netapp, Turbot, Dhruva&Splunk.

Environment: AWS CLI, S3, ShellScripting, Windows, Cloud Endure, Cloudscape, NetApp, Turbot

NetJets, Columbus, OH – Analytics-Cloud Engineer

May 2018- Feb 2019

Roles and Responsibilities:

Managing infrastructure - EC2, ECS, S3, EFS, LB, IAM Roles, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, AMZ Linux & Windows.

Application Assessment is validated using the VSM tool to check the tech stack suitability, migration complexity, migration recommendation as low, medium, or high & decision factor of rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild patterns to be followed.

Executing CI/CD pipeline as a workflow of developer code deploying to the GitHub repository, running the Jenkin jobs to create a WAR file and uploading to the Nexus Repository, creating a manifest file in the CAC repo and running the Jenkin jobs to provision the cloud formation template and hosting the ECS instances along with required resources.

Designed complex Analytical and Calculation views by combining data from ECC and Non- ECC sources using HANA Studio.

Creating the Docker images and containers for the apps locally or in EC2 instance. Moving to different environments from to dev, test and prod & managing yaml files.

Migrating on-prem databases like oracle, sql server to AWS RDS using DMS & SCT tool. Involved manual steps to manipulate the order of Triggers, Functions, Stored Procedures.

Migrating applications from on-prem to AWS cloud.

Creating Cloud formation template in provisioning the services/stacks. Updating and replicating as needed for re-use.

Initiating and maintaining EBS Volumes, Snapshots, Network-SGs, Elastic IPs, Key pairs. Image backups etc.

Used cloud watch for monitoring the logs, metrics, events and troubleshooting the issues.

Experience in building Data Warehousing, Data modelling/Architecting, strategies for ETL, identifying metrics, dimensions, hierarchies, and design of dimensional schema (Star, Snowflake)

Maintaining AWS System Manager for parameter store that can be shared globally in the account.

Environment: AWS CLI, Shell, Perl scripting, python, SAP Hana, JSON, source tree, gitrepo, confluence, Jenkins, NexusRepo, CACrepo, Tomcat, Linux, SSH, Windows, EFS, S3, glacier, storagegateway, dynatrace

PepsiCo, Chicago, IL – Cloud Engineer

Sep 2017- Apr 2018

Roles and Responsibilities:

Experience with application development on AWS using AWS ELB, EC2, S3, VPC, Elastic Cache, Lambda.

Experience with data management using AWS services like RDS, PostgreSQL, Aurora, EMR, Dynamodb

Experience with automation/configuration management using Elastic Beanstalk, Chef, and Ansible.

Experience with CI/CD tools and automation like Jenkins and familiarity with containerization including Docker, AWS ECS.

Worked on AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting on various Amazon images for server migration from onprem to cloud.

Designed Architectural diagrams for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost- effective, dependable, scalable, high-performance, and secured.

Translated complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions meeting Data warehousing standards.

Interacting with Business Users to analyze the business process and requirements and transforming requirements into screens, designing/analyzing database and documenting.

Experience in implementing AWS networking including Direct Connect, VPCs, AWS Transit Gateways, Elastic Load Balancing, & Route53.

Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53, SES and SNS in the defined virtual private connection and secure content delivery using CloudFront.

Launching EC2 (Spot, Reserved, Dedicated) instances for applications, web servers, RDS. Taking Image backups (AMI’s), Creating Snapshots and maintain security.

Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone instances.

Responsible for the designing, installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of the SAP Business Objects environment in AWS Cloud.

Environment: AWS Cloud, BI, Oracle, SQL Server, Shell Scripting, PERL, Java, HP Service Manager, Wily Interoscope, Apache Tomcat, Windows Server Redhat Linux, SSH, SCP, FTPS, SAP Hana

GE, Cincinnati, OH – BI Cloud Engineer

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017

Roles and Responsibilities:

Mapping Multi-Tier Architectures to AWS Services, such as web/app servers, firewalls, caches and load balancers.

Implementing Route tables, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, NAT, DNS and applying AWS Security Features along with traditional Information/Application Security.

Deploying and Managing Services with tools such as CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk.

Experience in building BOBJ in AWS cloud – VPC, EC2 instances, configuring firewalls for client access and managing regular image backups.

Managed RDBMS through AWS RDS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aurora) with Loose Coupling and Stateless Systems.

Built Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins, GIT, Bit Bucket and AWS AMI.

Using Compute, Networking, Storage, Database AWS services and Architecting Large Scale Distributed Systems.

Providing strategy for backup and DR (Disaster Recovery)

Experience on IAM Administration (Directory Service), migrations like Snowball & Database migration service to move to the AWS Cloud.

Experience in software development life cycle, Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects, Design and architecture review.

Environment: AWS, SAP BI4.2, Oracle, SQL Server, Linux, Windows Server, Tibco Spotfire, Apache Tomcat, Java, API, JSON.

Prior Work Experience:

Distinguished Clients

Jan 2003 – Sep 2016

SAPBI Lead Administrator

Education:

Masters in MIS, Kingston University - UK - 2002

Bachelor's in computer science - AU, India - 2000

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