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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

years of professional experience

years of post-secondary education

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)

CentOS (5x, 6x and 7x)

Ubuntu

Windows Server 2003/2008/2012

AWS

Azure

GCP

ANT

Maven

Gradle

Jenkins

Bit Bucket

TFS

SVN

Nexus

Artifactory

SonarQube

Junit

Webhooks with Git/SVN

uDeploy

Bamboo

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Apache Mesos

Kubernetes

VMware

MySQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

CouchDB

Apache

IIS

HIS

Tomcat

WebSphere Application Server

JBoss

Shell scripting

Python

Vagrant

Perl scripting

HTML

CSS

XML

Servlets

JSP

Splunk

Nagios

Monit

SolarWinds

Pandora FMS

JIRA

Remedy

Clear Quest

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Services Like EC2, Cloud functions, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch, NACL Events, ECS, KMS, SNS, SQS Step Functions, AWS Data Pipeline, Network, Subnetwork and CloudFormation and SaaS, PaaS and IaaS concepts of Cloud computing architecture and Implementation using AWS

Branching, Merging, Tagging, and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT and Bitbucket

Terraform to provision Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms, including Amazon EKS

Terraform workspaces to manage infrastructure as Code (IAC) across multiple environments (development, staging, production)

Microservices deployment into Kubernetes Clusters using Jenkins and ECO Pipeline

Scheduling, deploying and managing container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes

Building Kubernetes runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy in an open-source platform

Implementing DLP policies within SSE solutions to prevent unauthorized access and leakage of sensitive data

Deploying artifacts such as JAR, WAR using build automation tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, ANT, SVN, GIT and Gradle

Installing, upgrading and configuring SUSE, Solaris, Dell, IBM and HP x 86 server, Centos, VXVM, SVM Red Hat Linux using Kickstart Servers and Virtualization with VMWare, vSphere ESXi, vCenter

Designing and building CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS Cloud using GitHub/Bitbucket, Cloud build and Terraform

Designing and implementing Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions to ensure secure internet access and protect against web-based threats for corporate users

Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby scripting on Linux

Ensuring firewall configurations adhered to industry standards and regulatory compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR

Using AWS Firewall Manager to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts and resources

Using AWS Services like EC2, IAM, Subnets, VPC, Cloud Formation, AMI, S3, SNS, SES, RedShift, CloudWatch, SQS, Route53, CloudTrail, Lambda, Kinesis and RDS and obtaining High Availability and Fault Tolerance for AWS EC2 instances utilizing the services like Elastic IP, EBS and ELB

Using Chef for server provisioning and automating infrastructure

Administration of Production, Development and Test environment’s carrying Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, and CentOS servers

Designing and provisioning AWS services like projects, Redshift datasets, GCS buckets, Cloud VM’s, Cloud pub/sub, EMR, IAM, EKS clusters, Shared VPC’s, Network/Sub-network components and service accounts using Terraform and bitbucket version controls

Implementing data-security, network security features by using google tools like IAM, KMS(Encryption/decryption), Macie for PII data, Security Groups, VPC service controls

Spinning GCP services like projects, BQ data sets, GCS buckets, Cloud VMs, IAM, Service accounts using Terraform and Bit-bucket version controls

Hands on experience in Azure Development, worked on Azure web application, App services, MDS storage, Azure SQL Database, Virtual machines, Fabric controller, Azure AD, Azure search, and notification hub

Designing and developing Cloud Service projects and deploying to Web Apps, PaaS, and IaaS

Configuring SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) in Windows Azure IaaS

Good understanding of Openshift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters along with installing of Docker using Docker toolbox

Well versed with Open stack-based cloud infrastructure

Experience in AWS ETL services like AWS Kafka, AWS Glue, etc