Gayathri P
gayathripolakam2@[Link] | (720) 541-9948
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Around 3+ years of experience as a Cloud/DevOps in IT industry, which includes Build and Release
Management, DevOps cycle, AWS, AZURE, Continuous Integration/Deployment and Configuration
Management.
Working experience in Agile development environment and exposed to all aspects of software development
lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps culture of improved collaboration and continuous improvement.
Expertise with AWS platform features of VPC (Subnets, NACLs, EIPs, VPC Peeing and Direct Connect), EC2
(Provisioning, Reserved, Spot instances, clusters), Security groups, Auto scaling, Monitoring (CloudWatch, SNS,
Cloud trail, Health checks), Data Storage (S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS), Route53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, IAM,
Database.
Experience with infrastructure assessment, design improvements and suggestions, implementation, and
provisioning of AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
Experience on DevOps tools such as Virtual Box, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience in creating the change request (CR) and follows up with the respective team (change Management
Team) for the Change approvals.
Experience in provisioning Kubernetes cluster like deploying, maintaining, and Scaling workloads.
Experience with source control management systems like Git and used them to initiate continuous integration
tools like Jenkins.
Expertise in writing Ansible playbooks and creating roles for configuration management of servers and their
orchestration using YAML.
Experience in Docker/Kubernetes for containerization, virtualization, Ship, Run and Deploy the application
securely to fasten Build/Release Engineering.
Experience in creating AWS Infrastructure using Terraform scripts.
Migrated services to OpenStack an open-source software platform for cloud service design, network layout data
migration, automation, monitoring, deployments and cutover, documentation, overall plan, cost, analysis.
Maintained Jenkins servers, Upgrade the software and plugins. Setup Cron jobs on Jenkins to clean up unused
docker images, containers, and workspace on all build servers.
Experience in build pipeline setup using Jenkins with tools plugins of Git, Maven, Ansible for Continuous
Integration and Continuous Deployment.
Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating
Docker containers from scratch.
Worked on provisioning and deploying Docker containers, working experience with AWS EC2 Container Service,
and managing the services and tasks.
Experience with writing script in different languages like Bash, Python, Shell and having ability for
troubleshooting problems.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelors in Computer Science at Monad University, India.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Cloud Environment AWS, Azure
OS Platforms Linux (RedHat, CentOS), Ubuntu and Windows.
Version Control Tools GIT, GITHUB and Bitbucket
CI/CD Tools Jenkins
Configuration Management Ansible, Knowledge of Puppet and Chef
Containerization Docker, Kubernetes
Build Tools Maven, ANT
Bug Tracking Tools JIRA, ServiceNow
Monitoring Tools Splunk, Cloud Watch and Knowledge in ELK
Scripting Languages Bash, Shell, Python and JSON
Application servers Web logic, Apache Tomcat.
EXPERIENCE:
Yellow, Overland Park, KS. June 2021 to Present
AWS Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
Created RDD's Extracting the data from Azure Blob Storage (Blobs, Files, Tables and Queues) and making
transformations & actions.
Designed highly scalable, distributed and digitally modernized New Business and Underwriting systems, utilizing
EDA, microservices, Kafka, Spring boot, REST, Dockers, CI, CD, AWS, OpenShift.
Helping Scrum master across the company to customize JIRA for their requirements.
Provisioned Terraform modules for Creation of EC2 Instance and VPC using Terraform scripts.
Implemented S3 bucket policies like block public access policy, life cycle policy.
Configured the Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS
resources using it.
Worked on scripts that will be triggered by CloudWatch when the user launches any EC2, RDS, and S3 and it
automatically tags it by adding creator tag and get the name of the user as value and sends us an email
notification about service creation using SNS.
Built AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), for instance, SSH logon, operated with the security teams to
secure groups and created IAM roles so that AWS resource can interact with cross account securely.
Application servers were configured with EC2 Auto Scaling groups, set up memory and CPU based Auto Scaling
policies and scale instances based on usage without having an outage or needing manual intervention.
Responsible for Docker installation and configuration, setting up the Change Management process and
standardizing the policies for various applications.
Created Ansible playbooks to automate the process of installation and maintaining servers like patching and
upgrading the applications.
Configured the Docker containers and created Docker files for various environments. Deployed Docker Engines
in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple apps.
Involvement in developing APIs using Kubernetes to manage and specify the copies of the containers to run the
actual servers in the cloud environment.
Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and deployed
Docker containers through Kubernetes to manage the microservices using its Nodes, Pods, Config Maps,
Selectors, Services.
Works on Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced
versions using Helm charts.
Responsible for design and maintenance of the Git repositories, views, and the access control strategies and
Managed Git repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.
Responsible for design and maintenance of the GITHUB, Stash Repositories, views, and the access control
strategies.
Worked with Jenkins for Maven Repository, Maven Builds, Artifactory, Junit testing and deployments using
multiple Jenkins’s plugins.
Hosted application database on AWS RDS instances and architected a centralized reporting server for
distributed storage of data for various database servers.
Worked on Automation scripts like Bash, Python, and JSON.
Environment: AWS, Ansible, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Docker Kubernetes, GIT
Toptal, Denver, CO Apr 2019 to May 2021
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
Designed and managed public/private cloud infrastructures using AWS which include EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Elastic
File System, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, ECS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, and IAM which
allowed automated operations.
Installed AWS systems manager agent on all AWS Instances and on-prem servers and assign IAM role to instances
to talk back to service and use session manager to patch all servers, to get rid of security vulnerabilities by
upgrading outdated packages.
Created S3 buckets and managed policies and utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and archiving.
Written terraform scripts to create AWS services like EC2, IAM, VPC, ELB, Security groups and s3 buckets.
Installing and configuring the Jenkins pipelines on Linux machines to drive all the microservices.
Managed 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 Ansible.
Implemented AWS Code Pipeline and Created Cloud formation JSON templates in Terraform for infrastructure as
code.
Implemented Infrastructure automation through Ansible for auto provisioning, code deployments, software
installation and configuration updates.
Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines and used Jenkins Pipelines to drive all
Microservices builds out to the Docker Registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed
using Kubernetes.
Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure.
Created and configured management reports and dashboards in Splunk for application log monitoring.
Administered and managed a Splunk server to monitor both Windows and Linux, physical and virtual
environments.
Responsible for creating package collections for Linux operating systems, installation and deploy applications,
updates, and security patches.
Environments: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, MySQL, Linux, Scripting languages.