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Suhana

Suhana

Summary

As a dedicated Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer with over 11 years of experience in the field of information technology, I am passionate about leveraging cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies to optimize deployment workflows and system performance. My career is driven by the pursuit of excellence in automating build, deployment, and configuration processes, with a particular focus on AWS and Azure, GCP cloud platforms. I thrive on innovation, consistently seeking to implement scalable solutions that align with the industry's fast-evolving landscape. My goal is to contribute to an organization that values continuous improvement, embraces cutting-edge technologies, and promotes a culture of learning and growth within its DevOps practices.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior DevOps /SRE Engineer

OPERS – Ohio
11.2023 - Current
  • • Led the migration of legacy applications to cloud-native architectures, coordinating between development, SRE team and operations teams to ensure seamless transitions and minimize downtime.
    • Leveraged Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure setup, which increased deployment speed and minimized errors.
    • Designed and implemented monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack, improving system performance visibility by 50% and ensuring high availability.
    • Integrated AI/ML models with cloud platforms such as AWS SageMaker AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure Machine Learning, and Google AI Platform to scale model training and deployment in production environments.
    • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitOps, and Kubernetes, accelerating software delivery and deployment processes.
    • Deployed and managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect web applications from common threats such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), resulting in 30% reduction in security incidents
    • Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification, validating advanced skills in designing and deploying complex, scalable, and highly available systems on AWS.
    • Optimized application performance by refining SQL queries, indexing databases, and employing Redis caching mechanisms, resulting in a 40% improvement in response times.
    • Assisted in the migration of applications from Rails 2.x to Rails 3, addressing compatibility issues and leveraging new features for improved functionality.
    • Built and Managed a Scalable Multi-Tenant Data Platform that supports critical health services, including maps.
    • Identified opportunities to incorporate AI technologies into products and services across healthcare industries.
    • Managed incident response processes by implementing SLOs and SLAs and increased overall system reliability by 95%.
    • Developed custom telemetry, tracing logging solutions with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger which reduced p99 latency by 40%, dramatically improving the responsiveness and efficiency of service interactions.
    • Implemented autoscaling and load balancing strategies using HAProxy, NGINX, and cloud-native solutions like AWS ELB, improving system scalability and performance.
    • Used IaC tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to automate infrastructure deployments, reducing manual configuration errors by 98% and ensuring consistent setups across environments.
    • Managed and optimized CentOS servers, set up custom AWS EC2 instances with VPC networks, and automated build and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps for Kubernetes clusters.
    • Monitored and troubleshooted production environments, created incidents and escalation policies in PagerDuty, Datadog and integrated logs from Sumo Logic and Splunk for real-time visibility.
    • Worked with large-scale data systems like Hadoop, Redshift, and Spark for data processing, and set up ArgoCD for automated application deployment and monitoring on Kubernetes clusters.

DevOps Architect

Veterans United Home Loans – Saint Louis, MO
05.2020 - 10.2023
  • • Led the development of multi-branch Jenkins pipelines for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, automating build and release processes with Python and Shell scripts, Golang, NodeJS.
    • Architected GitOps declarative configuration for deploying applications on AWS, and managed Kubernetes clusters using EKS and Helm Charts.
    • Architected and deployed a scalable event-driven system using Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and AWS ECS & container orchestration, resulting in improved data processing efficiency.
    • Led a strategic shift from REST to GraphQL, gPRC, improving API response times and increasing bandwidth efficiency.
    • Employed Rails 3's built-in testing framework (RSpec/Cucumber) to write comprehensive unit, integration, and acceptance tests, increasing code coverage and reducing bugs.
    • Experienced in using Akka for building scalable, distributed applications and deploying data processing jobs on AWS EMR with Spark for big data analytics.
    • Integrated service mesh technologies like Istio and Envoy for traffic routing, load balancing, and observability in microservices architectures.
    • Designed scalable SaaS solutions, improving customer onboarding, and hybrid cloud deployments with OpenStack.
    • Used Terraform for infrastructure automation, creating modules and provisioning AWS services, along with writing manifest files for Kubernetes (EKS) deployments.
    • Implemented cost-saving strategies using AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor, reducing cloud infrastructure costs by 40% while maintaining high performance and reliability
    • Integrated security tools such as AWS IAM, WAF, Guard Duty, and SSL/TLS encryption into production environments.
    • Performed static code analysis using Checkmarx to identify security vulnerabilities and created custom Salt Stack modules to enhance functionality.
    • Managed GitHub repositories with branching strategies, and integrated Nexus with Jenkins for artifact storage and auto-upload.
    • Developed Java Spring Boot applications, managing Maven dependencies and plugins, and integrated Docker applications from scratch using Dockerfile.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Western Union – SFO, CA
03.2020 - 05.2020
  • • Hands-on experience writing Terraform scripts for automating and maintaining infrastructure in the form of code.
    • Gathered Business requirements from the development and Operation teams to implement automation.
    • Experience in automated software deployment, testing, and rollback in production environments using Harness declarative pipelines.
    • Experience in creating Kubernetes-based controllers externally to control pods and nodes using Golang.
    • Experience in AWS ETL services like AWS Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Endpoints for EC2 to communicate with S3 etc.
    • Created Dashboards on Splunk which helps easy to monitor using regex codes.
    • Hands-on experience in deploying applications using Rolling Update, Canary, and Blue-Green deployments.
    • Hands-on experience creating Ansible Roles for managing configuration changes in various environments.
    • Setting CloudWatch Monitoring system Branch, Tag, & maintain the version across the environments using SCM GIT.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Lumeris – St. Louis, MO
01.2018 - 02.2020
  • • Deployed applications using Docker Swarm and managed MongoDB with Mongo Express, while designing and managing GCP resources including compute engines, Cloud SQL databases, VPC networks, Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes clusters.
    • Automated build and release processes using Python and Shell scripts to enhance CI/CD pipelines.
    • Implemented Continuous Integration with Jenkins integrated with Git and set up SCM polling for immediate builds.
    • Developed complex SQL queries and stored procedures for PostgreSQL to support application logic
    • wrote Ansible playbooks for installing and configuring application servers (Tomcat, JBoss, Nginx, etc.), ensuring failover and load balancing.

Site Reliability Engineer

Thomson Reuters, Saint Louis
05.2016 - 12.2017
  • Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, automating the build, test, and deployment processes for multiple projects
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using Grafana, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) by 30%
  • Jenkins to build and deploy Docker containers, enabling consistent and repeatable application environments
  • Developed custom Jenkins pipelines using Groovy DSL, ensuring flexibility and robustness in workflows
  • Set up and managed Jenkins agents (static and dynamic) to distribute workloads and optimize build performance
  • Installed and configured Docker, Chef Server/workstation and nodes via CLI tools and wrote Docker files to create new images based on working environments for testing purposes before deployment
  • Configured Puppet Dashboard and Puppet DB to monitor configuration changes, track compliance, and generate detailed reports for auditing purposes Implemented security best practices in Jenkins, including role-based access control (RBAC), secure credential management, and plugin management
  • Integrated Jenkins with various notification and monitoring tools, such as Slack, email, and Prometheus, to enhance visibility and alerting
  • Wrote and executed SQL DDL and DML statements to verify data validity and integrity across Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft databases
  • Integrated Docker containers with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, and Grafana, providing visibility and insights into container performance and health Created and requested test data dependent on other applications for current release testing activities
  • Hands-on experience in Java Development Spring boot applications in managing Maven dependencies and Plugins
  • Tested client-server and web applications across Windows and Linux environments, using Linux/Unix for manual testing
  • Hands-on experience with Python application development, GitHub, Jenkins, and Unix shell scripting

DevOps Engineer

Health net, Rancho Cordova, CA
01.2013 - 11.2014
  • Installation, configuring, administration of Web Logic 9.x, 10.x on Linux environment
  • Supported Builds for Multiple environments like Dev, QA, Staging, Perf, and Production
  • Performed Manual and Automation Builds using Maven and Jenkins
  • Troubleshooting the middleware issues and resolving the P2, and P3 tickets within SLA
  • Hands-on experience installing Security patches on Linux servers
  • Hands-on experience in deploying applications on various environments in both Manual and Automated processes
  • Provided on-call support on a 24/7 basis
  • Hands-on experience running test scripts on top of the application server it was successfully deployed
  • Work with Customers to migrate the Legacy application into the automation process
  • Involved in the creation and configuration of Domains, and JVM instances in production, QA, and UAT environments
  • Configured clusters to provide failover, load balancing, and deployed applications on clusters
  • Have excellent experience in Client Interaction
  • Worked with Agile process for planning and implementing them as per the Sprints
  • Deployment of web and enterprise applications and their updates in dev, production, and pre-production using the admin console.

Education

MSCS -

Frostburg State University
Maryland, MD
01.2015 - 05.2016

BCA - undefined

Sri Venkateswara University
Tirupati, AP
01.2000 - 05.2003

Skills

Redhat-Linux (5x, 6x& 7x)

Certification

AWS Certified Solution Architect

Languages

Golang
Shell
Yaml
Python
Terraform Scripts

Timeline

Senior DevOps /SRE Engineer

OPERS – Ohio
11.2023 - Current

DevOps Architect

Veterans United Home Loans – Saint Louis, MO
05.2020 - 10.2023

Senior DevOps Engineer

Western Union – SFO, CA
03.2020 - 05.2020

Sr DevOps Engineer

Lumeris – St. Louis, MO
01.2018 - 02.2020

Site Reliability Engineer

Thomson Reuters, Saint Louis
05.2016 - 12.2017

MSCS -

Frostburg State University
01.2015 - 05.2016

DevOps Engineer

Health net, Rancho Cordova, CA
01.2013 - 11.2014

BCA - undefined

Sri Venkateswara University
01.2000 - 05.2003

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