Aishwarya Reddy

Sr. Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Engineer
+1 424-292-2828 | aishrddy@gmail.com | Morrisville, North Carolina

An enthusiastic professional with around 9 years of IT experience with major focus in Configuration Management tools like
Ansible, Chef and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Cloud Automation, Version Control, End-to-
End Automation, Build and Release, Linux and System Administration with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Web Services (AWS), under the Unix/Linux/Windows platforms with strong knowledge on the principles and best practices of
Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

Professional Summary

 In-depth knowledge on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Security Center, Azure AKS,
HDInsights/Databricks, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Azure Peering, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API
Management, Azure Analytic Workspace, Event Hub, Logic App, Auto Scaling and Power Shell Automation.
 Handled Microsoft AZURE IaaS –Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route,
Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways.
 Proficient in Azure networking and security, implemented Azure RBAC to manage access to Azure resources based on users'
roles and responsibilities, improving security and compliance with industry standards.
 Configured custom roles in Azure RBAC to provide granular access control to Azure resources, ensuring that users only have
access to the resources they need to perform their tasks.
 Expertise in Azure security and identity management, including Azure Service Principal for managing application access to
Azure resources like Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for user authentication and authorization.
 Experience with Azure Key Vault for securely storing and managing cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates.
 Integrated HashiCorp Vault with different cloud platforms and DevOps tools, such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or
Jenkins, using Vault plugins, APIs, or command-line interfaces, enabling seamless and automated access to secrets in various
cloud environments.
 Expertise in migrating the existing v1(classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end to end
process. Migrated on-prem to Windows Azure by building Azure Disaster Recovery Environment, Azure Recovery Vault and
Azure Backups from the scratch using PowerShell.
 Proficient in using Microsoft Azure including Azure CLI, Azure Management, Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure
Management PowerShell Cmdlets.
 Involved in migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure Database using SQL Azure Migration Wizard and used Python API
to upload agent logs into Azure blob storage.
 Implemented Enterprise Integration architecture using Azure Service Bus, Azure AppService, Azure Active Directory, Azure
Storage, Azure hybrid connection manager, active directory authentication for azure SQL server and other offerings by azure.
 Automated infrastructure provisioning for AWS core services such as Ec2, VPC’s, Load Balancers, Internet Gateways, Security
Groups, and platform services like Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Fargate, Auto Scaling Group.
 Constructed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, security groups.
 Efficiently implemented tagging standard for proper identification and ownership of AWS EC2 instances and other AWS Services
like Cloud Front, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail and Worked on Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Notification
Service (SNS) and CloudWatch.
 Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources like EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, EBS volumes to set alarms for
notification or automated actions to monitor logs for better understanding of the operations.
 Provisioned immutable Infrastructure through Terraform which includes multiple virtual machines, databases, and blob
storages.
 Expertise in integrating Terraform with Ansible, Packer to create and Version the Azure Infrastructure, designing, automating,
implementing and sustainment of Azure VM images across the Azure Cloud environment.
 Experienced in Configuring the updates, changes and integrating the servers with different environment and creating new
machines using configuration management/provisioning tools like Chef, Ansible and Puppet.
 Worked on Docker to containerize the Application and all its dependencies by writing Docker file, Docker-Compose files, Docker
container snapshots, managing Docker volumes.
 Proficient in scheduling, deploying, and managing Kubernetes container replicas on a node cluster and creating clusters with
frameworks running on the same resources. Experienced with building and deploying application code using Kubectl, kubelet,
kubeadm, kubespray and schedule jobs using kube-scheduler.
 Expertise in App Containerization technology Docker, creating Docker images, Containers, Docker Registry to store images,
cloud based registry Docker Hub and Kubernetes services such as ISTIO Service Mesh, Flux and ISTIO.
 Implemented the concept of storage class and deployed postgres database as a stateful set into Kubernetes cluster. Development of
automation of Kubernetes clusters via playbooks in Ansible.
 Administered setting up the complete Kubernetes Dev Environment from scratch to deploy latest tools which is related to CICD
using helm charts on premises BareMetals for different teams, Configured V-net integration, Active directory, Encryption, and
Security in helm charts using configmaps.
 Responsible for migrating various services from a managed hosting environment to AWS such as automation, monitoring
deployments and cutover, documentation, overall plan cost analysis and timeline, service design, network layout, and data
migration.
 Approached Continuous Deployment as GitOps that leverages Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and
applications, providing both revision and change control using Flux.
 Expertise in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and
setting up master/slave configurations.
 Expertise in building Jenkins jobs to create Azure Infrastructure by pulling Terraform code from GitHub repositories, ability to
work closely with teams, to ensure high quality, timely delivery of builds & releases.
 Expertise in using monitoring servers like Nagios, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace and CloudWatch for Resource & Network
Monitoring and ELK, EFK for Log Trace Monitoring.
 Proficient with the version control tools such as GIT, Subversion (SVN) and Bitbucket wherein experienced with tagging,
branching on platforms like Linux and Windows.
 Experience in different Issue Tracking Tools like Remedy, Jira and ServiceNow. Designed, deployed, and coordinated with
different teams to enhance ELK platform and took ownership of new technologies.
 Experienced in system builds, server builds, install, upgrades, backup, performance monitoring, reliability of various flavours of
Linux like Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat Linux, Debian, Fedora and SUSE, UNIX (Solaris, IBMAIX) along with Windows.
 Exposed to all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and In-depth understanding of the principles.
 Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile and SAFE
methodologies.
Technical Skills
Cloud Technologies & SDK’s AWS, Azure
Containerization Tools Docker, Packer.
Build tools Maven, Ant, Gradle.
SCM Tools Git, Subversion SVN, Bit-Bucket.
CI/CD Tools Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson, Spinnaker.
Orchestration Tools Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Kickstart, Kubernetes.
Infrastructure as code Cloud Formation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Servers Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP server, Nginx.
Version Control SVN, GIT, Bitbucket.
Bug Tracking Tools Jira, Remedy, Service Now.
Monitoring tools Nagios, Splunk, CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace.
Operating Systems Windows, MacOS, Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu.
Networking DNS, DHCP, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP
Virtualization Tech VMwarevSphereESXi5.x/4.x,ESX/3.x,VMwareWorkstation, Oracle Virtual box
 Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Certificate ID Number: LF-b6pb72o6g5
Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ 104 – Certificate ID Number: 993273842
Microsoft Azure DevOps Expert AZ 400 - Certificate ID Number: 993273842

SR. AZURE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER | Credit Suisse - Raleigh, NC. Aug ‘21 - Present
Description: “Credit Suisse Group is a leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, across the globe
and around the clock.”

® Proficient in creating and managing Azure virtual machines (VM), storage accounts, network interfaces, and other Azure
resources through the Azure portal, CLI and IAC and written scripts and commands to automate infrastructure deployment and
management.
® Experience with IAC tools such as Terraform or ARM templates to deploying creating and managing Azure resources using
declarative code and automate the deployment of complex Azure infrastructure environments.
® Used Azure Service Fabric to build and manage scalable and reliable applications composed of microservices that run at high
density on a shared pool of machines.
® Configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure stack Including
Compute, App Services, Blobs, Resource Groups, Azure Data Lake, HDInsight Clusters, Azure Data Factory, Azure
SQL and ARM Services and utilities focusing on Automation.
® Designed and Implemented Azure Site Recovery in both Disaster Recovery Scenario and for migrating the workloads from On-
Premises to Azure and Build SQL Data Sync job on Windows Azure to synchronize data from SQL databases to SQL Azure.
® Supervised two tier Java, Python web applications to Azure DevOps CI/CD to focus on development by using Repos, Test
Plans, deployed App Service, Azure Application Insights, collects health performance and usage data of the process, stored
artifacts in blob storages.
® Configured Azure Bastion to enable secure remote seamless RDP and SSH access to virtual machines (VMs) in Azure Portal
without the need for a VPN or public IP address, ensuring secure connectivity without exposing VMs to the public internet in a
highly available configurations across multiple Azure regions to ensure service availability and resiliency.
® Designed and implemented RBAC policies and role assignments that align with organizational policies and industry standards and
conducted periodic reviews to ensure that users only have access to the resources they need, and that access is consistent with their
roles and responsibilities.
® Configured Azure Service Principal to enable applications and services to access Azure resources securely and with least
privilege, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.
® Used Azure AD to manage Service Principal access to Azure resources and integrate with organizational identity systems, such as
LDAP or Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
® Integrated Azure Service Principal with other Azure security features, such as Azure AD Conditional Access or Azure AD
Privileged Identity Management (PIM), to provide additional security controls and monitoring capabilities. ---
® Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints.
® Configured Azure Service Connection to securely connect Azure DevOps pipelines to external services and resources, such as
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Registry (ACR).
® Used Azure Key Vault to securely store and manage sensitive information, such as secrets or certificates, used by Azure
pipelines and Service Connection endpoints, providing centralized and auditable access control.
® Implemented and managed HashiCorp Vault for securely storing and accessing secrets, such as passwords, API keys, or
certificates, across cloud environments, and integrated Vault with cloud-based DevOps tools, such as Azure DevOps, for
streamlined deployment and management.
® Used PowerShell to automate the creation of Virtual Machines (VMs) using Packer for more efficient and quicker image
creation process and made the image available such that all the required configurations and applications for the organizational
standards and made it available.
® Automated and orchestrated the image build process using Azure DevOps or other CI/CD tools, enabling faster and more reliable
image creation.
® Configured Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens and Storage Access Policies in Azure Cloud Infrastructure.
® Identified, analyzed, and interpreted the pattern, trends, and conversational flow in complex data sets.
® Deployed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and configured Azure CNI networking, Azure Internal standard Load
balancer through Azure Resource manager templates and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines.
® Involved in setting up VPN connections between individual servers and a Windows Azure virtual network using Azure point to
site VPN connectivity option and between on-prem virtual network and azure virtual network using site to site VPN Connectivity.
® Deployed Azure PAAS stack which includes containerized App service hosted in App Service Environment, Key vault with
private endpoints and Service Bus to the development team for Node based Application.
® Utilized Cosmos DB for a flash sale requirement, where the hits-per-second requirement is very high, where the application was
storing the users and orders details from multiple regions.
® Set up Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Micro-services on an AZURE cloud using Azure App services and Created Web Apps
on an Azure portal for deploying web applications.
® Implemented a unified infrastructure security management system (Azure Security Center) to strengthen the security posture of
the data centers and to provide advanced threat protection across hybrid workloads in the cloud.
® Involved in setting up Azure Functions, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application insights
for monitoring and performing the load testing on the Applications in QA and Pre-prod using Artifacts, Test Plans and Release
pipelines in Azure DevOps.
® Written Terraform reusable modules to deploy the required infrastructure for applications in Azure on multiple environments
such as development, test, and production environments.
® Modified existing Terraform Modules that had version conflicts to utilize cloud formation during Terraform deployments to
enable more control or missing capabilities.
® Written Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration of remotely configured
machines and to deploy new builds.
® Worked with Ansible to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and
Packages. Ansible to assist in building automation policies.
® Configured and Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes deployments and used Python Scripts to
schedule, deploy and manage container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes.
® Developed Kubernetes templates for various applications like Cassandra, Grafana, Kafka and setting up Kubernetes Clusters
for running micro services, pushed micro services into production with Kubernetes Infrastructure.
® Configured Kubernetes Replication controllers to allow multiple pods such as Jenkins master server in multiple minions.
Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm and created reproducible builds of Kubernetes applications, templatized Kubernetes
manifests, configured parameters to customize the deployment and releases of Helm packages.
® Provided consistent environment using Kubernetes for deployment scaling and load balancing to the application from
development through production, easing the code development and deployment pipeline by implementing Docker
containerization.
® Implemented ISTIO service mesh to decentralize application networking infrastructure that transparently enables applications to
communicate securely and reliably and adds observability and traffic/policy control.
® Defined Ingress & Egress routing rules connecting external HTTP and HTTPS requests with internal services and individual pods
using ISTIO, Configured default backend as part of the Ingress controller.
® Implemented HTTPS Ingress controller and use TLS certificate on AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) to provide reverse
proxy, configurable traffic routing for individual Kubernetes services with multiple ingressclasses.
® Migrated all Kubernetes container logs, application logs, event gs and cluster logs, activity logs and diagnostic logs into
logstash and various azure blob storage activities using filebeat and configured kibana dashboard for accessing logs.
® Configured Nexus as enterprise artifactory solutions by writing snapshot and released policies and Managed application
deployments by integrating with maven build cycles and applied semantic versioning concepts to achieve stability across
application releases.
® Implemented New Relic's suite of monitoring and observability tools, such as APM, Infrastructure, Browser, Mobile, Synthetics,
and Logs, and configured and used them to gain insights into application and infrastructure performance, identify and resolve
issues, and optimize system behavior along with integrating New Relic with other tools and systems using APIs and webhooks, for
advanced automation and customization of monitoring and reporting.
® Demonstrated ability in designing, developing, testing, and deploying cloud-based solutions and manage and prioritize tasks, track
progress, and adapt to changing project requirements using Azure Agile tools and methodology.
® Created branching and merging strategy with multiple branches and used Bitbucket as source code management repository to
keep track of version changes.
Environment: Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Shell, Python, Linux, Jira, BGP routes, Apache Tomcat 7.x, Docker, Virtualization,
Kubernetes, NGINX, Data Dog, Splunk, Pager Duty, Slack, Prometheus, ELK

Sr. Azure Cloud ENGINEER | BCBS – Detroit, Michigan Sept ‘19 – July ’21
Description: “Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a federation, or supraorganization, of 34 independent and locally operated BCBSA
companies that provide health insurance in the United States”

 Experienced in Microsoft Azure IAAS, SAAS and PAAS services such as Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Blob storage,
Azure Data Factory, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing,
Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, deploying Web Apps, monitoring by Azure Application Insights, and creating Web-
Jobs.
 Expertise in Azure Development and worked on Azure web application, App Services, Azure SQL Database, Fabric
Controller, Azure Search, and Notification Hub.
 Configured Azure Virtual Networks, subnets, DHCP address blocks, Azure network settings, DNS settings, security policies and
routing. Also, deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure Virtual Networks and
subnet.
 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and VM
Migrations from Transitional hosts on VMWare/ Boxes.
 Migrating existing Active Directory and Exchange users to Microsoft Azure AD using Azure AD Connect, Active Directory
Federation Service ADFS and DirSync tools.
 Configured private end point for Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Private Link through automatic approval method, combined with
NSG policies to secure data.
 Provide high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resources Manager deployment models. Setup Azure Virtual
Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (Firewall, WAN optimization and
intrusion detections).
 Configured the Kubernetes provider with Terraform to interact with resources supported by Kubernetes to create several services
such as Deployments, services, ingress rules, Config Map, secrets etc.
 Designed and implemented Continuous Integration (CI) using tools Azure DevOps over multiple environments to facilitate an
agile development process which is automated and repeatable, enabling teams to safely deploy code many times a day while
ensuring Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) are supported.
 Deployed and optimized two tier .NET web application to Azure DevOps to focus on development by using services such as
Repos to commit codes, Test Plans to trigger application and unit test, deployed artifacts to App Service, Azure Application
Insight collects health performance and usage data of the process.
 Designed and implemented Azure Repo branching strategies, CI builds and CD releases using Azure DevOps / VSTS and Azure
Platform and Designed Azure Infrastructure Architecture for globally distributed PAAS web applications.
 Experience in using Kubernetes for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and adding them to Routes by accessing
from outside, created Pods through new application and controlling, scaling, and troubleshooting pods through SSH, managed
manifest files and releases of Helm charts.
 Functioned as a key player/coach in the implementation of DevSecOps model across the organization and implemented
security/vulnerability scans at multiple phases.
 Worked on Kubernetes Containerization, Orchestration, Pod configuration, Kubernetes API Objects, Federated Deployments,
setting and creation of Custom Resources.
 Created Docker Swarm using Docker CLI to Orchestrate, schedule and deploy the services to Swarm and managed the Swarm
behavior and created virtual networks to connect Docker containers across multiple hosts using Docker weave.
 Configured Sentinel policies in terraform enterprise and making them available across the workspaces to perform compliance
checks prior to provisioning of the cloud resources.
 Worked with Security Compliance squads to configure Sentinel policies (Policy as a code) to perform pre provisioning security
compliance rule validations prior to infrastructure provisioning and extended scope to perform post provisioning infrastructure
scans.
 Provisioned the high availability of Azure VMs using Terraform and ARM templates, wrote new plugins to support new
functionality in Terraform and involved in using terraform to migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Azure.
 Configured VNET Peering to enable communication between resources across multiple Virtual Networks and configured NSGs
 for two tiers and three tier applications to filter network traffic using Terraform modules.
 Implemented jobs to create Azure Infrastructure from GitHub repositories containing Terraform code and created on-premises
active directory authentication using automation with Ansible playbooks and migrated the servers with the required configuration
changes and testing and deploying the machines using Ansible Commands.
 Implemented Ansible Tower and written ansible roles, playbooks maintained in SCM to create workflows and schedule nightly
jobs to automate patching’s from Ansible Tower.
 Configured Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the
CI/CD system to build and test and deploy.
 Used .Net API for uploading all the agent logs into Azure blob storage. Managed internal deployments of monitoring and alarm
services for the Azure Infrastructure (OMS). Developed micro-services onboarding tools leveraging .Net and Jenkins for easy
creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
 Configured RBAC and Azure Monitor for adding security in Azure Cloud and Network Security Groups for Subnet and NIC
level for Azure Virtual Machine.
 Created and optimized Node.js web app and deployed by Jenkins into Kubernetes and used Azure Container Registry and
automated development by authenticating new codes and deploying into staging or production platforms.
 Modified application's code and push the updated code to automatically build and deploy your changes to production by using the
canary testing pipeline.
 Used different Prometheus operations to collect metrics from monitored targets by scraping metrics from http endpoints on these
targets and to store the backend data and used Grafana dashboards as the interface for analysis and visualization.
 Worked on azure log analytic workspace where bulk logs are available once the Kubernetes is enabled, then used logic app to
filter the required logs and used event hub to transfer the logs to Splunk.
 Used Jira to track the activities of tasks done by the developers and Confluence for documentation purpose.

CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER | Comcast - NYC, NY Feb ’18 – Aug ‘19

Description: “Comcast is a telecommunications conglomerate that provides cable television, internet, telephone, and other related services to
both residential and commercial customers in the United States”.

 Involved in designing and deploying a multitude of applications utilizing almost all the AWS stack including EC2, Route53, S3,
RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, LAMBDA, REDSHIFT, focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling in AWS
cloud formation.
 Implemented various services like AWS Device Farm, Fargate, SES, TimeStream, IoT Core, Aurora etc., and
integrated with the existing tools and authentication methods.
 Configured Docker Swarm Cluster and setup Jenkins inside it to reduce the failover downtime.
 Managed data warehouse using Amazon RedShift to analyze all data using SQL & existing business intelligence tools.
Converted existing AWS infrastructure to serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis) deployed via Terraform & AWS
Cloud formation.
 Worked on Terraform for automating VPCs, ELBs, security groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets, and continuing to replace the
rest of our infrastructure and managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMware, Bare Metal Servers, and Docker
containers.
 Utilized Terraform as IaC for the project and used terraform modules for different services like Application Load
Balancer, EMR, ECR clusters for the project we use in AWS for Infrastructure provisioning.
 Created terraform templates for provisioning virtual networks, subnets, VM Scale sets, Load balancers, and NAT rules and used
terraform graph to visualize execution plan using the graph command.
 Utilized AWS Cloud Formation and AWS Opss Works to deploy the infrastructure using Chef that is necessary to create
development, test, and production environments for a software development project.
 Launched EC2 instances with various AMI's and Configured Application Servers on those instances by deploying a code in AWS
Elastic Beanstalk.
 Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, Node.js, Python and Ruby
on familiar servers like Apache, Nginx, Tomcat.
 Data Migration projects such as Teradata to AWS Redshift, Teradata to Snowflake Migration, AWS from on-premises.
 Created Jenkins jobs for continuously building the projects and integrated Jenkins with SonarQube for code inspection and stored
the artifacts in Nexus. Wrote Groovy script in Jenkins jobs to do pre-and post-build operations.
 Integrated Ant, Nexus, Jenkins, JIRA, and Used Git with Jenkins to integrate to automate the code checkout
process.
 Configured and maintained the AWS Lambda function to trigger when there is a Jenkins build kicked off, which
internally gets stored on AWS S3 bucket for everybody to access. Created Route53 to route traffic between
different regions. Worked with Security groups & Network ACLs.
 Developed AWS Lambda functions in Python to automate AWS Cloud Watch Scheduled Events between services like AWS
SNS and AWS SES to deliver notifications regarding AWS EC2 instances to the team.
 Designed and configured bastion host in AWS cloud by using Terraform modules and controlled Network Access to EC2
Instances to withstand attacks.
 Extensively worked on Chef Roles, Cookbooks, Recipes, Templates, Resources, Attributes & Data bags. Proficient in the setup of
Chef Servers, workstations & bootstrapping infrastructure Chef Nodes for configuration management. Written Chef Recipes
to automate build/deployment process and data bags in Chef for better environment management.
 Configured the Weave Net such that it creates the Virtual networks which connects Docker Containers to multiple hosts.
 Designed strategies for optimizing all aspect of the continuous integration, release and deployment processes using container and
virtualization techniques like Docker and Kubernetes.
 Expertise in automating Jenkins to build code based on Ruby, YAML, Python, Shell, PowerShell, JSON, PHP and Perl triggered
from GitHub to run web applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk including EC2 build server for continuous delivery with less
failover.
 Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI/CD process and integrated the tool with Maven to schedule the builds.
Took the sole responsibility to maintain the CI Jenkins server.
 Configured the users accounts for continuous integration and created Upstream and Downstream jobs using build Pipeline in
Jenkins. Configured SVN with Jenkins and scheduled periodic builds. Involved in Branching and Merging of the code in
Tortoise SVN.
 Experience in writing Jira API Tools to auto-move Service Desk tickets of one issue type to a Jira project of another issue type
and to extract the list of Jira users with the respective Jira Groups and Project Roles.

CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER | Accenture -Hyderabad, India June ’16 – Jan ‘18
Description: “Accenture is a multinational professional services firm that offers services in strategy, consulting, digital,
technology, and operations .”

 Responsible for all software builds, including continuous integration builds, nightly builds and release builds using Jenkins.
 Configured GIT with Jenkins and utilized the POLL SCM option to schedule jobs, enabling the automation of the code checkout
process. JUnit test cases for unit, integration, and functional tests were written and set to run automatically by Jenkins triggered
by each push to GIT.
 Scheduled both Linux Cron and Jenkins jobs for build automation, developing Perl and python/shell scripts to automate the
build and release process and facilitate deployments to JBoss and Tomcat Web servers.
 Integrated Ansible with Jenkins to provide Automation and Continuous Integration through Jenkins-managed nodes over
SSH/PowerShell using Ansible and also extensively worked on other tools like Bamboo and Hudson for continuous integration
and for all end-to-end automation functions with all build and deployments.
 Collaborated on integrating Ansible Tower with a cloud environment, implementing role-based access control, establishing job
monitoring, email notifications, scheduling jobs, and utilizing multi-playbook workflows to chain playbooks.
 Leveraged Ansible Galaxy to pull reusable modules for Ansible and successfully completed the installation and configuration of
middleware.
 Configured and integrated the servers for different environments to automatically provision and configuration management of
Linux instances using Puppet.
 Developing MAVEN and Shell scripts to automatically compile, package, deploy and test J2EE applications to a variety of Web
Logic platforms.
 Worked in Agile Project management Process, JIRA for Issue Tracking and monitoring and with the Architects on SDLC
process being the owner of post-development environments.

BUILD & RELEASE ENGINEER | Citi Bank – Hyderabad, IN Apr ‘15 – May ‘16
Description: “Citibank, also known as Citigroup, is a global financial institution that offers a wide range of financial
products and services to individuals, corporations, and governments.”

 Worked with AWS API to manage EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, ELB, Auto-scaling and SNS. Created python
 scripts using AWS API calls to manage all AWS resources. Integrated AWS DynamoDB using AWS Lambda to
store and backup the DynamoDB streams.
 Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS and NIS in Linux and implemented Samba for sharing of resources
between Linux and Windows environments.
 Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using
GIT source control and analyse and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT.
 Worked on GIT (GIT Hub) repositories as Distributed Version Control System. Extensively worked on integrating
GIT into the Continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins configured the services using modern
DevOps tools.