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Siva Thadiboina

Siva Thadiboina

London

Summary

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive experience, adept at designing CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments. Skilled in container orchestration and cloud migration, I excel in enhancing operational efficiency and ensuring compliance. Proven ability to collaborate effectively and document processes, driving successful project outcomes in high-security environments.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

CIBC
Toronto
04.2024 - 12.2024
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, and GitLab to automate deployments, ensuring faster and more reliable releases in a high-security environment
  • Utilized Ansible Tower to automate configuration management and provisioning, ensuring consistency and compliance across development, staging, and production environments
  • Implemented Docker-based containerization strategies and orchestrated container deployment using Kubernetes and OpenShift to improve scalability, resource utilization, and application resilience
  • Collaborated with security teams to integrate security controls into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring compliance with banking regulations and industry best practices
  • Led cloud migration projects, leveraging AWS and Azure to transition legacy banking applications to scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructures
  • Hands-on experience using centralized logging and monitoring solutions like ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure proactive incident management and improved troubleshooting in critical banking applications
  • Conducted performance testing on HashiCorp Vault using the Vault Benchmark tool to assess system scalability, response times, and throughput under various load conditions, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for sensitive banking data management

Hashicorp Developer Consultant

BMO
Toronto
06.2023 - 03.2024
  • Collaborated on the integration of HashiCorp Vault into the BMO technology stack to enhance secrets management
  • Proficiently deployed, administered, and configured HashiCorp Vault
  • Achieved seamless integration with LDAP for streamlined user access
  • Established integration with Splunk to enhance audit logging capabilities
  • Thoroughly documented processes and procedures
  • Collaborated effectively with diverse teams
  • Conducted production hardening measures for enhanced security and reliability
  • Integrated HashiCorp Vault with OpenShift to enhance security by managing secrets and encryption keys effectively, ensuring data protection
  • Designed and implemented policies in Vault to control access and permissions, ensuring the principle of least privilege across OpenShift applications
  • Proficient in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to OpenShift and Vault, ensuring continuous service availability
  • Provided training and knowledge sharing sessions for team members to promote proficiency and understanding of OpenShift and Vault integration
  • Proficient in utilizing IBM UrbanCode Deploy to automate the deployment process, ensuring efficient, error-free, and consistent application releases
  • Experienced in creating deployment pipelines and orchestrating complex release workflows
  • Skilled in configuring and managing deployment pipelines within UrbanCode Deploy, incorporating version control integration, environment promotion, and approval gates
  • Capable of defining and customizing deployment processes for diverse applications
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate UrbanCode Deploy with various tools and platforms, including source code repositories, continuous integration systems (e.g., Jenkins), and cloud services (e.g., AWS and Azure)
  • Experienced in creating custom integrations and plugins
  • Proficient in managing deployment environments, including environment provisioning, configuration, and maintenance
  • Proficient in using Ansible Tower for automation of configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration tasks
  • Experienced in creating playbooks, roles, and automation scripts to streamline IT operations and improve efficiency
  • Proficient in designing and implementing automation solutions that streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance operational efficiency

Site Reliability Engineer

Coinsquare
Toronto
09.2020 - 05.2023
  • Hands-on experience in Installing and managing the application from CI to CD
  • Experienced in ELK set up for observability and Prometheus for monitoring and alerting purposes
  • Installed, managed and upgraded Hashicorp Vault as a secrets manager for our application
  • Managing the infrastructure for all the environments for our applications in AWS cloud using Terraform
  • Make sure all our microservices follow the proper CI and CD from GitHub to ArgoCD which we use for deployments
  • Experience in GitOps approach and Kubernetes
  • Used Kubernetes Operations (KOPS) for building and managing the clusters
  • Proficient in creating and maintaining Helm charts for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications
  • Experience in customizing charts to accommodate specific application requirements and configurations
  • Skilled in using Helm to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of Kubernetes applications
  • Proficient in Helm releases, including upgrades, rollbacks, and version management
  • Experienced in setting up and managing Helm repositories for chart distribution, version control, and collaboration across teams
  • Knowledgeable in maintaining chart repositories, both public and private
  • Capable of integrating Helm charts and releases into CI/CD pipelines to automate and standardize application deployment in Kubernetes clusters
  • Familiar with best practices for versioning and rollback strategies
  • Proficient in setting up and configuring Jenkins to automate and streamline the CI process
  • Experienced in creating build pipelines, integrating version control systems, and orchestrating the automated testing of software applications
  • Skilled in creating and managing Jenkins jobs and pipelines, including job scheduling, parameterization, and job chaining
  • Proficient in maintaining job libraries for reusability
  • Expertise in managing Jenkins plugins for extending functionality and integrating with various tools and platforms, such as Docker, AWS, and more capable of custom plugin development when needed
  • Adept at monitoring Jenkins performance, ensuring job reliability, and diagnosing and resolving build and deployment issues
  • Familiar with best practices for Jenkins administration and security, including user management and access control
  • Used VPC, EC2 and auto scaling to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handle load bursts
  • Worked on multiple AWS instances, set security groups, Elastic Load Balancer, AMIs and auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems
  • Drive stand ups and manage production deployments
  • Lead and manage DevOps(Interns and junior level) in assigning and making them understand the tasks
  • Help transform the Data team to adapt and own their applications or pipelines in Kubernetes
  • Release customer struck trades and adjust the balances accordingly in database Cassandra
  • Perform Kafka offsets reset which we use to replay the messages when there is any lag

Sr.DevOps Engineer

CGI
Montreal
10.2019 - 08.2020
  • Created chef recipes for installing and managing different environments, ssl configurations, proxy deployments, credential store set up and implementing vanilla db using ruby scripts
  • Deployed the applications on a weblogic server using chef cookbooks
  • Written Chef cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize product configuration, converting production support scripts to Chef Recipes and server provisioning using Chef Recipes
  • Successfully deployed Jenkins on OpenShift, optimizing the scalability and container orchestration capabilities of OpenShift for CI/CD processes
  • Proficiently managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, from code commits to deployment, utilizing Jenkins
  • This included creating and maintaining automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying applications
  • Developed automation scripts and workflows within Jenkins to enhance the efficiency of software delivery, ensuring rapid, repeatable, and error-free deployments
  • Integrated Jenkins with containerization platforms, such as Docker and Kubernetes, to enable containerized CI/CD, enhancing the agility and scalability of application deployment processes
  • Worked on container based technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • Integrated AWS Chatbot with slack to send alerts using AWS SNS
  • Experienced in writing terraform modules for the infrastructure in AWS
  • Proficient in configuring and managing SonarQube for continuous code quality and security analysis
  • Experienced in setting up quality gates and customizing rule profiles to enforce coding standards and best practices
  • Capable of integrating SonarQube with CI/CD pipelines to automate code scanning and analysis
  • Capable of integrating SonarQube and Nexus tools with CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins, to automate code quality assessment and artifact deployment
  • Skilled in scripting and creating custom solutions to enhance the functionality and automation of SonarQube and Nexus tools

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Opsroute
Toronto
06.2018 - 09.2019
  • Supported an agile CI/CD environment as a DevOps Engineer where we make use of the tools like jira and github for ticketing and VCS to ensure end to end productivity
  • Proficient in OpenShift administration, including cluster setup, configuration, and maintenance
  • Experienced in managing user access, security policies, and resource allocation for optimal cluster performance
  • Skilled in container orchestration with OpenShift, utilizing Kubernetes as its foundation
  • Capable of deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications effectively
  • Demonstrated experience in integrating OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
  • Proficient in creating and managing deployment pipelines for improved software delivery
  • Knowledgeable in scaling applications and ensuring high availability using OpenShift features
  • Experienced in load balancing, failover configurations, and scaling strategies to enhance application performance and resilience
  • Worked closely with the development, testing and infrastructure teams to analyze and design scalable solutions with high availability, globally distributed, clustered, supporting database replication, disaster recovery and data resiliency
  • Configuration of various plugins for Jenkins for automation of workflow and to optimize and smooth running of build jobs
  • Responsible for onboarding an application from build to deploy using Github, Jenkins and Ansible
  • Provided 24x7 On-call support for technical problems or production issues on a weekly rotation basis

Education

PG Diploma - Wireless Information Technology

Sir Sandford Fleming College
Peterborough, ON
04-2018

B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India
04.2015

Skills

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Container orchestration
  • Version control
  • Cloud migration
  • Configuration management
  • Secrets management
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Monitoring solutions
  • Incident management
  • Team collaboration
  • Documentation practices
  • Agile methodologies
  • Process automation
  • Best practices implementation
  • Multitasking capacity
  • Resource allocation
  • Effective communication
  • Teamwork

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Consultant

CIBC
04.2024 - 12.2024

Hashicorp Developer Consultant

BMO
06.2023 - 03.2024

Site Reliability Engineer

Coinsquare
09.2020 - 05.2023

Sr.DevOps Engineer

CGI
10.2019 - 08.2020

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Opsroute
06.2018 - 09.2019

PG Diploma - Wireless Information Technology

Sir Sandford Fleming College

B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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