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Aksutha Vegunta

Welland,ON

Summary

Professional DevOps engineer prepared to bring innovative solutions to complex challenges. Extensive experience in automating workflows and maintaining high availability systems. Known for reliability and adaptability, with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in containerization, cloud services, and monitoring tools.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SR.Devops Engineer

SS&C Technologies
01.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: SS&C Technologies provides technology- Enabled Solutions - On-Premises Private Cloud Provider.
  • Works on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that allow for efficient and frequent deployments.
  • Use tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
  • Manage and optimize cloud environments for the services hosted on Private Cloud, and other platforms.
  • Implement and monitor cloud-native solutions like containerized applications (using Docker, Kubernetes) and server less architectures.
  • Implement control (RBAC) and managing secrets securely (using HashiCorp Vault).
  • Ensuring compliance with internal and external security and data protection standards.
  • Setting up and maintaining monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Wrote Script for Automating manual tasks and operational procedures using scripting languages (using Bash, Python).
  • Install, configure, modify, test & deploy applications on Apache Webserver, Tomcat, JBoss App Servers.
  • Responsible in maintaining legacy bash scripts used to configure environments not yet converted to Chef.
  • Used Docker that automates the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers.
  • Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk. Integrated delivery (CI and CD) using Jenkins and puppet.
  • Used Jenkins and Ansible for CI/CD in multiple environments Configured plugins for the integration tools to the version control tools.
  • Migrated applications to the AWS cloud. Involved in DevOps processes for build and deploy systems.
  • Created Python scripts to totally automate AWS services which includes web servers, ELB, CloudFront distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, or joins web servers to stacks.
  • Responsible for build and deployment automation using Docker containers, Vagrant and Chef.
  • Troubleshoot the automation of Installing and configuring applications in the test environments.
  • Created Terraform scripts to move existing on-premises applications to cloud.
  • Daily routine is to deploy the code to the lower environments, automating the deployment.
  • Knowledge on Azure functions, runbooks, and automation.
  • SS&C Technologies provides technology- Enabled Solutions - On-Premises Private Cloud Provider.

SR. Devops Engineer

Freedom Mobile
12.2019 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: Freedom Electronic Payment Processing System (FEPS) - On-Premise to AWS Migration.
  • Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
  • Build and configure a virtual data center in the Amazon Web Services cloud to support Enterprise Data Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer.
  • Used AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, PHP, NodeJS, Python, Ruby and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache and IIS.
  • Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
  • Designed, configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts for a multitude of applications.
  • Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.
  • Worked with DevOps practices using AWS, Google Cloud, Elasticsearch and Docker with Kubernetes.
  • Written Ansible modules to Create, terminate, start and stop AWS EC2 instances.
  • Automated local dev environment using Vagrant/chef-solo, Ansible.
  • Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
  • Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
  • Maintained user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
  • Wrote Gradle tasks and build. Gradle files for each module with their specified product flavors and build types.
  • Automated builds from Dev to Prod in .NET and Java.
  • Developed puppet manifests for different application and web servers like Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere applications.
  • Developed new and undocumented solutions via the Azure REST API for product functionality.
  • Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Chef, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts.
  • Excellent knowledge on Complete Cassandra architecture with in detail understanding of read, write and delete processes. Expert in benchmarking and load testing a Cassandra cluster using a Java-based stress testing utility called Cassandra -stress tool.
  • Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.
  • Experience in managing the artifacts generated by MAVEN in the NEXUS repository.
  • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving GitLab, Jenkins, Chef, Docker, and Selenium for complete automation from commit to deployment.
  • Used ANT and MAVEN as a build tool on java projects for development of build artifacts on the source code.
  • Experience using cloud providers and APIs for Amazon (AWS) with Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience in Developing KORN, BASH, PERL, Python shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance.
  • Experienced in organization of uses on Apache Web server, Nginx, JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere Application.
  • Responsible for moving data between different AWS compute and storage services by using AWS Data Pipeline.
  • Created a Python process hosted on Elastic Beanstalk to load the Redshift database daily from several source.
  • Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.
  • Freedom Electronic Payment Processing System (FEPS) - On-Premise to AWS Migration.

SR. Devops Engineer/Build & Release Engineer

Genera Solutions
04.2017 - 11.2019
  • Company Overview: General Solutions LP provides the world's leading periodicals with cost effective business solutions.
  • Developed build and deployment processes for Pre-production environments.
  • Developed Ansible Playbooks to simplify and automate day-to-day server administration tasks.
  • Developed Shell/Python Scripts for automation purpose.
  • Resolved merging issues during rebasing and re-integrating branches by conducting meetings with Development Team Leads.
  • Automated Weekly releases with ANT/Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository.
  • Experience in migrating physical Linux/Windows servers to cloud (AWS).
  • Experience in writing Ansible playbooks, defining roles and using Handlers.
  • Experience in Private Cloud and Hybrid cloud configurations, patterns, and practices in Windows Azure and SQL Azure and in Azure web and database deployments.
  • Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
  • Used Puppet to automate Configuration management and to manage Web Applications, Configured Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points and Packages.
  • Migrating servers, databases and applications from premise to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud perform.
  • Configured S3 to host static web content, versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive.
  • Configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Database Subnet Group for isolation of resources within the Amazon RDS Aurora DB cluster.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration and Deployment using Jenkins, Gradle and Chef.
  • Work experience in implementing Automation in multiple QA projects using Selenium & Ruby\Cucumber.
  • Have deployed various applications through Docker containers.
  • Used Ansible Server and Workstation for configuring nodes.
  • Used AGILE MVN method to develop a build and also ANT as a build tool.
  • Used these scripts to replicate production build environments on a local dev box using VAGRANT and VIRTUAL BOX.
  • Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization.
  • Worked with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment.
  • Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines.
  • Installed, configured and maintained web servers like HTTP Web Server, Apache Web Server and WebSphere Application Server on Red Hat Linux.
  • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using GIT source control.
  • AWS EC2 and S3 integration planning. Revision of multiple availability zone Amazon VPC routing to internal network.
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting server related issues using tools like Splunk and Icinga.
  • Aligned AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform capabilities and services with work load requirements.
  • Automates the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers with Docker.
  • Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
  • Managed different infrastructure resources, like physical machines, VMs and even Docker containers using Terraform It supports different Cloud service providers like AWS and Digital Ocean.
  • Used Jenkins, Build forge for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
  • Migrated the production MySQL schema to the new AWS RDS Aurora instance.
  • Managed and supported AWS Security related issues, such IAM and S3 policies for user access.
  • Written Ansible playbooks for deployment of WAR, JAR, and EAR files across all the environments & for restarting applications.
  • Developed code using programing languages like .NET, Java on the Devops tool to manage the code and applications set up on the environment.
  • Configuration and Deployment of SQL server 2005/2008 Reporting services.
  • Deployed and modified aurproxy, a load balancer manager using nginx for Apache Aurora.
  • Handled deployment of JAR, EAR and WAR files to the respective application server instances.
  • Designed an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and secured.
  • Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.
  • Worked on creation of Change requests and Service requests using ITG.
  • Involved in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve build, compile, and test issues/problems.
  • Setup Octopus Deploy tool to automate .NET deployments across different projects.
  • Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas according to the schedule published.
  • Participated in all Product Release and Patches.
  • General Solutions LP provides the world's leading periodicals with cost effective business solutions.

Devops Engineer

Coca-Cola
03.2016 - 03.2017
  • Company Overview: The Coco cola Company is an American historical multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups.
  • Involved in designing and deploying a large application utilizing almost the entire AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.
  • Working on migration project of moving current applications in traditional datacenter to AWS by using AWS services.
  • Launching AmazonEC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/Ubuntu/RHEL) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
  • Installed application on AWS EC2 instances and also configured the storage on S3 buckets. Assisted the team experienced in deploying AWS and Azure Cloud Platform.
  • Managed IAM policies, providing access to different AWS resources, design and refine the workflows used to grant access.
  • Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration. Converting production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.
  • Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
  • Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch.
  • Build and deployed the .NET applications on the IIS servers.
  • Implemented ITIL process while pushing builds and deployments to prod and pre-prod environments.
  • Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Puppet, Chef Configuration management.
  • Experience in using Nexus Artifactory Repository Managers for ANT, Maven and Gradle Builds.
  • Expert in automation using .Net, PowerShell and Bash.
  • Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
  • Created Chef Automation tools and builds and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
  • Launched Compute (EC2) and DB (Aurora, Cassandra) instances from Amazon Management Console and CLI.
  • Experienced with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud infrastructure Azure.
  • Experience in Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
  • Integrated Eclipse with Selenium Server for doing the automated smoke testing of the application standalone URL's related to deployed package after the build and deployment process.
  • Experience with Build Management tools Ant and Maven for writing build.xml and Pom.xml.
  • Experienced in build and deployment of Java applications on to different environments such as QA, UAT and Production.
  • Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools: SVN, GitHub, Bit Bucket.
  • Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and Hudson.
  • Configuring and deploying OpenStack Enterprise master hosts and OpenStack node hosts.
  • Experienced in deployment of applications on Apache Web server, Nix and Application Servers like Tomcat, JBoss.
  • Manage the configurations of multiple servers using Ansible.
  • Deployed microservices, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks.
  • Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs and also configuration automation using Docker containers.
  • Experienced in setting up MongoDB, MySQL, SQL, Aurora on AWS.
  • Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA, Bugzilla and Remedy.
  • Worked with various scripting languages like Bash, Perl, Shell, Ruby, PHP and Python.
  • Coordinated with the Offshore and Onshore teams for Production Releases.
  • The Coco cola Company is an American historical multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

JNTU
Kakinada, India
05-2013

Skills

  • Microservices architecture
  • Cloud computing expertise
  • Containerization technologies
  • Scripting languages

Languages

English
Full Professional

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

SR.Devops Engineer

SS&C Technologies
01.2023 - Current

SR. Devops Engineer

Freedom Mobile
12.2019 - 12.2022

SR. Devops Engineer/Build & Release Engineer

Genera Solutions
04.2017 - 11.2019

Devops Engineer

Coca-Cola
03.2016 - 03.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

JNTU
Aksutha Vegunta