Srikanth Vanamala
Contact Information
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Relevant Work Experience
9+ Years of experience in IT Software Industry and 7+ in Jira, expert in Atlassian Tools Jira, Jira Align, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Crowd, DevOps tools – Bit bucket, Bamboo, Jenkins and Docker, AWS, MS Azure, DC & DR, Linux, Groovy Scripting, REST API, Python Scripting and Service Now
Expert in Upgradation, Migration to Cloud.
Experience
Phenom People Private Limited- Product Integrations Engineer (Sept 2021 – July 2024)
Tata Consultancy Services- (Jul 2018 – Nov 2019)
ConneQT Business Solutions- (Feb 2017 – Jun 2018)
Tata Consultancy Services (Direct Contract)- (Oct 2015 – Oct 2016)
CMC Ltd - (Nov 2012 – Sept 2015)
Education
Completed MBA from Osmania University, Hyderabad. (Jun 2009 – Jun 2011)
Bachelor in Computer Science’s (Bsc) from Osmania University, Hyderabad. (Apr 2006 – May 2009)
Support Skills
Around 7+ years of experience in Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo Administration, analysis, design, development, Project management, Agile methodologies, Collaboration tools and Continuous integration
Expert in Atlassian Jira Tool Administration
Detailed technical knowledge and hands-on experience of DevOps, Automation, Build Engineering and Configuration Management
Extensive experience in the design and implementation of fully automated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment pipelines and DevOps processes for Agile projects across the Financial, Broadcast and Media Sectors
Leading, planning, and managing documentation projects for product releases.
Upgrade and Migration of Atlassian Products in both Linux and Windows Servers
Subject Matter Expert in all Jira project schemas such as Custom fields configuration, Screen Schemes, Workflows, Issue type schemes, permission scheme & notification schemes
Extensive experience in integrating Jira with other applications such as confluence, stash, fisheye & Crucible
Integrated Jira with CRM tool Salesforces, Test Management Tool Zephyr & Repository Management tool SVN
Mentor, coordinator and leadership roles in creation and execution of Software implementation
Experience to administer Software Planner ALM for requirements management.
Expert in CI/CD and Pipeline Jobs in Jenkins
Very good in DC and DR for Jira and Confluence
Extensively worked in Scrum environment with active involvement in daily meetings.
Interact with business analysts and software developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
Expertise in handling SVN, GIT-Stash administration and configuration.
Experience in setting up project baselines, branching strategies, merging.
Experience in installing plugins on Atlassian tools like Bamboo, JIRA and Confluence
Implemented SSO/SSL/OKTA/SAML/LDAP/AD/Mail configuration
Good in Advanced work flow in Jira with Condition, Validation and post functions
Experience in migrating source code from SVN to GIT.
Sound knowledge over build automation using Ant scripting.
Knowledge on monitoring the servers and client systems.
Experience in writing Ansible roles to install packages on bamboo agents.
Worked on the containerization tool like Docker and their components like Docker engine, Docker Hub
Implemented Groovy Scripting and JS in Advanced workflows in Jira
Experience in AWS building systems using EC2
Assisted Scrum team in preparing the Sprint backlog.
Experience with developing high-level Design documents and participating in design reviews.
Experience providing training to development teams on how to track, plan and analyze using JIRA.
Expert in Incident Management Problem Management and Change Management
Skilled at Software Development Life Cycles and Agile Programming Methodologies.
Experience with Jenkins, Hudson as Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment Tool and strong expertise with Ant and Maven Build Frameworks.
Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solutions.
Experienced in authoring pom.xml files, performing releases with the Maven release plug-in and managing Maven repositories.
Involved in ARTIFACTORY Repository Managers for MAVEN and ANT.
Extensive experience with AWS (Storage, Application Services, Deployment and Management) and managed servers on AWS platform instances using Puppet, Chef Configuration management.
Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual level and possess excellent presentation, interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience in proposal and presentation creation.
Key Skills
Jira Core, Jira S/W
Workflows, Screens
Custom Fields, Boards
User Management
Scrum/Kanban board
Filters/Reports
Up gradation
Migration of instances
Performance Analysis
Indexing, Add-On’s
Application Links
SSO/SSL/OKTA/SAML
Database Migration
Test automation
Confluence
Space Creation
Child page Creation
Local & Global permissions
Templets /Blue prints
Macros, Collaboration
Migration/Up gradation
Digital signs /CRF-21
Stash/Bitbucket
Installation
Migration
Up gradation
Creation of repositories
Comparisons of Branches
Migration of Database
Bamboo & Jenkins
Project, Plan, Jobs creation
Deployment with Docker
Chef Configuration
Preparation of shell & Python scripts
Implementation of CI & CD
Back up & Restore
Local & Remote Agents
Automation Testing
Artifacts
Master and Slave
Integration with GIT/GITHUB
Jira Service Desk
Crowd
FishEye & Crucible
Ant
Maven
JDC & JDR
AWS –EC2 and Atlassian Cloud
Oracle 11G/12C
MySQL
SQL Server 2012 R2
Postgres
LDAP/AD
Core Java
HTML
C
Groovy Scripting
Python Scripting
UNIX Shell Scripting
Operating Systems
Windows
Linux (Redhat & Ubuntu)
Project #1
Company Phenom People Private Limited
Team Size 4
Duration 2021 -2024
Description:
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
Roles & Responsibilities
Designed, implemented and supported an integration solution between the Salesforce, Jira, Rally, Qmetry applications to share tickets across global time zones.
Implemented Jira, Confluence in AWS-EC2
Very good exposure in PostgreSQL
Prepared many shell scripts to monitor the Jira, Confluence and Bamboo
Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
Working with and supporting multiple World-wide development teams delivering a wide range of software applications
Automating the build, deployment and testing of Front End, Middleware and Database components
Developing custom reporting tools, setting up automated health monitoring and alerting for builds and environments
Worked very closely with Global Project Teams including IT architects, Operational Architects to ensure the solution is compatible and a long term fit for the company.
Carried out application Jira, Confluence, FishEye & Crucible upgrades, database backups, database restore, database performance, backup scripts, deployment of patches and maintained data files and transaction logs.
Installed and managed Jira, Confluence, FishEye & Crucible, Oracle, SQL Server and Linux.
Enhanced profitability through building new relationships with multi-national accounts by supporting customers with technical assistance, resulting in additional business transactions.
Configuring ‘nginx’ for proxy RESTful API calls to micro-services in Docker containers.
Produced scripts for viable combination of JIRA applications with different tools.
Customized both JIRA and Confluence to integrate into the pre-existing systems with an eye towards making the programs extensions of their systems, and not hindrances to their systems.
Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.
Used Ruby Respect framework and wrote test cases for regression and to resolve refactoring problems.
Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Experience with Elastic Search, Log stash & Kabana stacks.
Experience with Nagios/Observe/New Relic monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services.
Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that were risen during the deployments in different environments. Configured Bamboo with Jira to update the build status in Jira tickets under Development tools
Implemented and connected with AD from Bamboo to maintain the users
Configured SVN, GIT and GITHUB repositories in Bamboo
Involved in code migration from SVN repositories into GITHUB
Developed a new process design workflow to ensure on-time delivery of all solutions and within the budget leading to increase in monthly productivity by 23%.
Project #2
Company Emirates Telecommunication Corporation - TCS
Team Size 3
Duration 2018 to 2019
Description
Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC, doing business as etisalat by e&, is an UAE state-owned telecommunications company. It is the 18th largest mobile network operator in the world by number of subscribers.
Roles & Responsibilities
Developed technical solutions by coordination with internal project teams and understanding of requirements.
Responded to all incoming questions and inquiries related to JIRA applications.
Prepared projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services.
Implementing and developing solutions enabling Development and Operations teams to build, deploy, monitor and test applications and environments
Implementing monitoring and reporting solutions across a range of environments and platforms
Evaluating and advising on virtualization and containerization solutions
Environment provisioning solutions using Docker, Vagrant, Red Hat Satellite
Setting up and introducing Continuous Deployment processes and advising on best practice
Generated scripts for effective integration of JIRA applications with other tools.
Suggested improvement processes for screens, workflow procedures and reports of applications.
Conducted analysis and evaluation of existing systems to upgrade latest versions of JIRA.
Assisted in assessment of existing production systems and configuration services for upgrading.
Provided technical expertise for analysis and assessment of current security and database configuration services.
Leading, planning, and managing documentation projects for product releases.
Upgrade and Migration of Atlassian Products in both Linux and Windows Servers
Subject Matter Expert in all Jira project schemas such as Custom fields configuration, Screen Schemes, Workflows, Issue type schemes, permission scheme & notification schemes
Extensive experience in integrating Jira with other applications such as confluence, stash, fisheye & Crucible
Integrated Jira with CRM tool Salesforces, Test Management tool Zephyr & Repository Management tool SVN
Mentor, coordinator and leadership roles in creation and execution of Software implementation
Experience to administer Software Planner ALM for requirements management.
Extensively worked in Scrum environment with active involvement in daily meetings.
Interact with business analysts and software developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
Project #3
Company ConneQT Business Solutions
Team Size 2
Duration 2017 to 2018
Assisted Scrum team in preparing the Sprint backlog.
Experience with developing high level Design documents and participating in design reviews.
Experience providing training to development teams on how to track, plan and analyze using JIRA.
Conducted trainings for teams on team collaboration on effective use of Jira & confluence.
Preparing documentation plan, estimating work, and assigning work to the team
Experience in Repository creation/managing in Fisheye & Crucible
Expert in Incident Management Problem Management and Change Management
Experience in Configuration of backend database for the tools
Extensive experience in SQL queries
Participated in reviews and Requirement analysis.
Exposure in using Bug Tracking Tools.
Experience in Oracle fusion middleware support
Experience in Oracle Forms coding
Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual level and possess excellent presentation, interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience in proposal and presentation creation.
Developed technical solutions by coordination with internal project teams and understanding of requirements.
Responded to all incoming questions and inquiries related to JIRA applications.
Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects
Using Docker, Jenkins, VMWare, RHEL, Satellite, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Ansible & GitLab
Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams and their pipelines; distributed Jenkins, Selenium and JMeter images, and ElasticSearch, Kibana and Logstash (ELK & EFK)
Working closely with Architecture, Development, Test, Security and IT Services teams
Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash
Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools
Prepared projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services.
Generated scripts for effective integration of JIRA applications with other tools.
Suggested improvement processes for screens, workflow procedures and reports of applications.
Conducted analysis and evaluation of existing systems to upgrade latest versions of JIRA.
Assisted in assessment of existing production systems and configuration services for upgrading.
Provided technical expertise for analysis and assessment of current security and database configuration services.
Leading, planning, and managing documentation projects for product releases.
Upgrade and Migration of Atlassian Products in both Linux and Windows Servers
Subject Matter Expert in all Jira project schemas such as Custom fields configuration, Screen Schemes, Workflows, Issue type schemes, permission scheme & notification schemes
Extensive experience in integrating Jira with other applications such as confluence, stash, fisheye & Crucible
Integrated Jira with CRM tool Salesforces, Test Management tool Zephyr & Repository Management tool SVN
Mentor, coordinator and leadership roles in creation and execution of Software implementation
Experience to administer Software Planner ALM for requirements management.
Extensively worked in Scrum environment with active involvement in daily meetings.
Interact with business analysts and software developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
Assisted Scrum team in preparing the Sprint backlog.
Experience with developing high level Design documents and participating in design reviews.
Experience providing training to development teams on how to track, plan and analyze using JIRA.
Conducted trainings for teams on team collaboration on effective use of Jira & confluence.
Preparing documentation plan, estimating work, and assigning work to the team
Experience in Repository creation/managing in Fisheye & Crucible
Expert in Incident Management Problem Management and Change Management
Experience in Configuration of backend database for the tools
Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management.
Involved in performing application deployment to AWS Elastic Bean Stack environment.
Configured & deployed Java applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the AWS stack, cloud formation.
Created environment on AWS platform, AWS Hadoop EMR cluster, Kafka Cluster, Cassandra Clusters and implemented system alerts on DataDog.
Very good exposure in DC and DR implementation
Configured SVN, GIT, GITHUB and BITBUCKET repositories in Bamboo
POC on Implementing AWS Kinesis based consumers in Lambda and pipeline data to a data lake while allowing real time analytics using DynamoDB and ordering based on the location of mobile users and ordering trends
Installing and Configuring Monit, AppD & Grafana and Logstash and FileBeat for monitoring and transferring logs to Elastic search
Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and OpsWorks.
Used Micro services architecture with Spring Boot based service through REST
Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
Creating Lambda function to automate snapshot back up on AWS and set up the scheduled backup.
Project #4
Company TCS - USAA
Team Size 3
Duration 2015 to 2016
Analyzing and reporting upon JIRA usage and activity.
Regular review, clean-up, management and configuration of JIRA accounts and work closely with the different teams like LDAP, Network, and Infrastructure.
Setting up alerts and enforcing policies
Created users on Active Directory, synched the users on Jira and assigned groups and spaces
Installed and managed plug-ins for Jira and confluence in production environment.
Experienced in installation, configuration, usage and management on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Jenkins and GIT for application servers
Managed JIRA Add-ons and Worked on Setup JIRA for Helpdesk/Tickets.
Published JIRA gadgets and dashboards on confluence page.
Migrated Jira, Confluence from CentOS to AWS-EC2 and Windows
Migrated from Atlassian Cloud to In House Servers
Maintained Various Add-ons and resolved the performance issues in Jira and Confluence
Implemented and prepared data for REST API calls in Jira and Confluence
Worked with Jira Service Desk 3.0.x to set up service desk, creates service desk request types, and makes queues for service desk teams.
Implemented SSO/SSL.
Implemented Master and Slave(s) to maintain the load
Prepared Various Shell and Groovy to automate few conditions and Server restarts
I have created integration with AD/LDAP/Crowd.
Implemented and customized many add-ons as per business requirement
Implemented DVCS for GITHUB
Implemented Agile boards
Created filters for various request.
Implemented CI & CD with Bamboo
Created various plans in a Bamboo
Implemented Local and Remote agents in Bamboo
Configured Code review options in Bitbucket
Fork and Clone implementation has been done in Bitbucket
Created required repositories in GIT and GITHUB
Improved the Database Connection pools
Prepared few shell scripts for automation
Prepared and configured Docker images and agents for Bamboo and Jenkins
oImplemented few Groovy scripts in script runner add-on
oConnected with Various repositories in FishEye
oCreated users to review the code in Crucible
oCreation of Jira Projects based on business request.
oCreation of new Jira, Confluence, FishEye, Bamboo, Jenkins users and groups.
oManaging Issue types for Jira Projects.
oConfigure the JIRA workflow for the project for improvement processes for screens, workflow procedures and reports of applications as per business requirement.
oMaintained JIRA team and program tech lead with Change management review dashboards.
oTrain Business leads with the new JIRA functionalities
oChecking for operating system, and JIRA patches and cumulative updates and work with DBA's to apply patches on Oracle environment.
oDeploy Test DR environment with X-Ray add-on.
oHelping Scrum master across the company to customize JIRA for their requirements.