Lavan Kumar Thota
Toronto,Canada
Summary
Dedicated and results-driven DevOps and Linux professional with 10 years of hands-on experience in optimizing and streamlining IT operations and overall, 5 years of experience in DevOps Industry. Seeking a challenging role to leverage expertise in DevOps technologies and cloud infrastructure to contribute to a dynamic team.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Consultant
CGI INC - Multi Client
03.2018 - Current
- Administration of On-Prem/Cloud Linux RedHat Environment
- Design, Deploy, and Manage highly available and scalable Cloud Infrastructure on Azure
- Demonstrated proficiency in Ansible and Terraform, creating Infrastructure on Azure Cloud platforms using Terraform and managing package configuration changes using ansible
- Automating repetitive tasks using Bash Script and Ansible
- Migrated On prem VMs to Azure Cloud using Azure Migrate
- Responsible for maintaining Multiple DevOps tools and configuring across all projects GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus Artifactory, Ansible
- Implemented and maintained CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins and Git to automate software Delivery Process
- Managed Git repositories for branching, merging, and tagging
- Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT
- Provided support to Application Deployments, troubleshooting issues using XLR dashboard and CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins
- Used Maven as build tool on Java projects for development of build artifacts using source code
- Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat
- Containerizing Applications using Docker and ensuring successful deployment on Kubernetes service
- Notify Broken builds to appropriate Team / Team Members and enable for successful build
- Maintained monitoring and alerting systems, reducing mean time to resolution, and improving system availability using Prometheus and Azure Monitoring.
System Engineer Sr
Ceridian Canada
08.2015 - 09.2016
- Provide primary system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting of t Linux environment and performance issues
- User management by using LDAP, package management and patching Linux servers, and troubleshooting Linux Booting Issues
- Experience in DNS, NFS, LDAP, Zabbix, remote access security management, and troubleshooting in Red Hat Linux
- Managing file systems, Partitions, and managing logical volumes/volume groups using Logical volume management
- Setting up NFS file systems between Linux servers and exporting file systems from NFS server to Client
- Collaborating with Internal application teams to troubleshoot OS performance and network performance-related issues in Linux
- Assisting application teams during installation and configuration of Middleware applications in Linux servers which includes Apache Web services/Guidewire and Middleware Agents
- Performed 24x7 on-call duties on rotation basis with other system administrators as part of incident management.
System Administrator
Broadridge Financial Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 07.2014
- Administration of Remote Linux Systems with more than 400 servers
- Configured Raid and created LUNs and Logical volumes
- Creating application and database file systems using volume manager LVM
- Managed, monitored, and tested individual and group user access privileges and security
- Managed daily activities to include user support and system administration tasks
- Assisted users in configuring internal applications so users can carry out specific tasks
- Created Cron jobs that monitored and reported system and security issues
- Collaborating with application teams to start Applications and Resolve any issues and Resolve security Hardening items
- Monitored performance of systems using system built-in tools
- Decommissioned old servers and keep track of new server's inventory List
- Experience using Veritas Disk Management and Veritas Cluster Services
- Archive, compress, and unpack files using tar, zip, and bzip2 and Configure firewall using iptables and SELinux for system security.
Education
Post-Graduation Deployment -
Lambton College
Toronto, Canada01.2015
Bachelor of Technology -
DRKCET
India01.2010
Skills
- Version Control System tools: GIT
- Operating Systems: RedHat Linux, Windows
- Configuration Management: Ansible
- Scripting: BASH
- Build Tools: Maven
- Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins
- Cloud Environment: Azure, AWS
- Infrastructure as Code Tools: Terraform, Docker
- Artifact Repository: Nexus, Azure Container Registry
Certification
- Certified Azure Administrator AZ-104
- Certified RedHat Linux System Administrator (RHCSA)
Timeline
Sr. Consultant
CGI INC - Multi Client
03.2018 - Current
System Engineer Sr
Ceridian Canada
08.2015 - 09.2016
System Administrator
Broadridge Financial Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 07.2014
Post-Graduation Deployment -
Lambton College
Bachelor of Technology -
DRKCET
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