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Krishna Koushik Gogulapaty

London,UK
Krishna Koushik Gogulapaty

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Open for relocation anywhere in UK Currently on Tier2, would require Sponsorship to switch

DevOps, AWS Kubernetes, Linux Admin, CI/CD, Python Highly motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure on public and private cloud platforms. Proficient in automation, CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring technologies. Proven track record of improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and delivering high-quality services to clients.

Overview

8
years of professional experience

Work history

Aidizital Solutions
London

DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer
10.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Here as some details about the key technologies on which I am working
  • AWS :
  • Designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure
  • Troubleshooting by reviewing logs, monitoring metrics and getting feedback from users
  • Reviewing logs, errors or warnings in CloudWatch or CloudTrail
  • Review Security Group 3network ACL's, IAM policies
  • Planning disaster recovery (DR) by identifying critical systems and services like application, data etc
  • Develop DR based on recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective(RPO)
  • Implementing High availability by including ELB, Autoscaling, Multi AZ in RDS
  • Design, build, manage, and operate the infrastructure and configuration of SaaS applications with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code
  • Ensure infrastructure security compliance
  • Disaster recovery planning and regional failover testing
  • Automatic scaling of infrastructure and services
  • Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
  • Kubernetes:
  • Ensuring reliability and high availability of the cluster
  • Monitoring the cluster health, resource usage and application performance with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
  • Regularly updating Kubernetes cluster for bug fixed, security patches
  • Managing worker nodes like adding or removing nodes, monitoring node health and resources
  • Backing up Cluster configuration and data for DR
  • Testing the recovery process
  • Maintaining the security of the cluster by configuring network security policies, managing user access and authentication, monitoring the cluster for security threats
  • Troubleshooting network connectivity, application failures
  • Analyzing logs, metrics and other data to identify the root cause of problem
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):
  • Monitoring the health, performance, and availability of production systems and services using tools like Prometheus, Grafana
  • Automating operational tasks and procedures using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Jenkins to reduce manual work and improve efficiency
  • Responding to and resolving incidents in production environments, working closely with development teams to identify and resolve the root cause of the problem
  • Azure DevOps/Jenkins:
  • Used Azure DevOps to build a complete pipeline with integration of multiple plugins like Sonarqube, Nexus, Kubernetes, Docker compose
  • Setting up build and release pipelines, configuring testing and deployment environments, and automating the entire pipeline
  • Implementing IAC using Terraform and automating with Azure Devops
  • Application Performance Monitoring: Setting up and monitoring application performance using tools like Application Insights, Log Analytics, or other third-party tools, to ensure that applications are performing optimally
  • Implementing security best practices and regulatory compliance in the Azure environment
  • This includes monitoring security vulnerabilities, applying security patches, configuring access controls, and enforcing compliance policies
  • Setting up and maintaining monitoring and logging solutions to track system and application health, monitor resource utilization, and troubleshoot issues
  • Docker:
  • Developing and building docker images
  • Writing dockerfiles, configuring dependencies, and optimizing image size
  • Deploying Docker containers to various environments, such as development, staging, and production
  • Monitoring the health and performance of Docker containers
  • Integrating Docker into your CI/CD pipeline to automate the building, testing, and deployment
  • Ensuring the security of Docker containers by implementing best practices, such as restricting access, scanning for vulnerabilities, and using secure images
  • Optimizing the performance of Docker containers and minimizing resource utilization by tuning settings like CPU and memory usage
  • Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams such as developers, testers, and operations teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery of products
  • CI/CD:
  • Design and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ArgoCD and Spinnaker
  • Develop and optimize continuous integration and deployment processes (CI/CD)
  • Created several CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
  • IAAC:
  • Expertise in systems architecture and design, infrastructure automation using Terraform
  • Develop and maintain Terraform configs, extend these configurations to support new services, features and multiple environments
  • Configure CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
  • Configure Zero-downtime deployments
  • Python:
  • Ability to write scripts in an administrative language (Python, Shell)
  • Puppet/Ansible:
  • Tasks related to Software/Package Installation
  • Tasks related to the changes to be made to the configuration files and Scheduling jobs
  • Tasks related to Installing, Configuring, and managing various services
  • Configure Puppet Modules and manifests
  • Monitoring:
  • Establish monitoring and alerting of production systems and critical applications
  • Monitor and ensure smooth operation of production and test environments by executing common sysadmin (system administration) tasks and automating repetitive tasks
  • Occasionally provide support and initial troubleshooting when required by reviewing dashboards and logs to ensure system issues are timely addressed
  • Setup production monitoring with Zabbix, Grafana and Prometheus
  • Setting up 24/7/365 production logging, monitoring, and alerting
  • Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as New Relic, ELK, DataDog, and PagerDuty
  • Linux:
  • Maintaining and provisioning Linux servers (Centos, Ubuntu)
  • Experience supporting and managing RedHat LINUX operating systems
  • Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills with a focus on performance tuning, security hardening and high availability
  • GIT:
  • Maintaining GIT repository
  • Implementing GitFlow and GITOps practices
  • Handling merge request
  • Configuring Post and pre commit hooks
  • Define Branching and release strategy
  • Advice on Solution versioning control best practices
  • Non-Technical Skills:
  • Own on-call shift to prevent incidents
  • Great communication skills
  • Likes to work in a team environment
  • Knowledge and experience using Jira and Confluence
  • Proficiency with case documentation and digital communications
  • Experience managing the entire customer issue lifecycle from case creation to development escalation, to resolution
  • Experience writing escalation tickets to fully describe customer issues and dive deep into root causes
  • Experience working within an Agile/Scrum SDLC
  • Troubleshoot and solve customer issues on production deployments
  • Ensure that SLAs are met in executing operational tasks
  • Manage risk and resolves issues that affect release scope , schedule, and quality.

Saba Software

DevOps Engineer
08.2016 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • CI/CD:
  • Task: To setup CI/CD pipelines on cloud platforms
  • Designing DevOps workflow for multiple applications by orchestrating Test, Build, Release and Deploy phases through various CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible & Cloud formation tools
  • Built end to end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, compile applications, perform tests and push build artifacts to Nexus Artifactory
  • Automated CI/CD pipeline for the monitoring tools Docker containers and written script to test them
  • Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/GIT support for different projects and responsible for designing and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies
  • Used GIT as source code repositories and managed GIT repositories for branching, merging, and tagging
  • Monitoring Setup:
  • Task: To setup OpenNMS and Nagios monitoring for RS and NTT production Servers for monitoring Severs and Service Availability
  • Installing and configuring NMS to poll Production Servers for availability of services like Ping, SSH, Http, Tomcat, Redis, Active MQ etc
  • Configuring SNMP to create SNMP Graph for all servers with Disk Space Utilization, CPU Load, Service Availability
  • Configuring Dashboard with Alarms, Events, and graphs with 120 sec refreshes
  • Scheduling Reports via Email for Service Availability for particular time Period
  • Creating Notification via Emails about Alarms generated
  • Configured NMS to be available via https traffic
  • Monitoring Remote servers' connectivity with Remote Pollers
  • Created Threshold for alerting disk space at reaching 80 %
  • Integrating CLMS to Create Events in NMS Events Dashboard
  • Integrating Nessus for Vulnerability Scan
  • Configuring PEN proxy for Partner Connectivity Monitoring
  • Setting up Cron for daily backup from PG_SQL server
  • 3) AWS environment setup:
  • Worked on Amazon Web Services daily to work on EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Amazon Glacier and EBS
  • Worked on the migration from VMware to AWS and used Chef to automate the infrastructure in AWS by creating EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and Route 53
  • Managed storage in AWS using Elastic Block Storage, S3, created Volumes and configured Snapshots
  • Configured Inbound/Outbound in AWS Security groups according to the requirements
  • Extensively automated the deployments using AWS by creating IAMs and integrated the Jenkins with AWS plugins to pipeline the code
  • Created Cloud Formation templates to automate the AWS Deployments
  • 4) Docker and Kubernetes:
  • Configured Docker container for branching purposes and Implemented Docker automation solution for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery model
  • Deployed Kubernetes application on multiple cloud provides like AWS EKS, GKE and AKS
  • Created CI/CD pipelines for deployment to Kubernetes clusters.

Salmon Commerce Pvt Ltd

DevOps Engineer
03.2015 - 06.2016

Job overview

  • Major Projects:
  • Cloud Hosting:
  • Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Puppet
  • Deploy Ansible and Jenkins to completely provision and manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3
  • Involved in creating and working through Docker images, containers, and Docker Consoles for managing Application Life cycle
  • Azure :
  • Used Azure DevOps to build a complete pipeline with integration of multiple plugins like Sonarqube, Nexus, Kubernetes, Docker compose
  • Build pipelines to orchestrate containers with Azure Kubernetes services
  • Optimized CI/CD pipelines for best performance
  • Used multiple agents to run pipeline on many servers in parallel
  • Containerization:
  • Involved in creating and working through Docker images, containers, and Docker Consoles for managing Application Life cycle
  • Responsible for continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins, Maven and Chef
  • Worked with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes
  • Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods
  • Troubleshoot and resolved Build failures due to infrastructure issues reduced by 95% stabilizing the build process
  • Setup and executed process to code review system effectively
  • Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process
  • System Administration:
  • Performed Installation, Configuring and troubleshooting the WebLogic Application Servers 8.1/9.2
  • Installed and configured Apache 1.3 as a plug-in on the UNIX environment and deployed applications
  • Involved in Supporting LDAP, admin Console, iPlanet, WebLogic Applications, Sales Tools
  • Worked closely with designers, developers, and partners
  • Installed, configured, and maintained iPlanet web server on Solaris 2.x
  • Worked for Application Deployment on WebLogic 8.1 on a single server and a cluster of Servers
  • Worked on the Red Hat Enterprise 4/5 platform and Sun Solaris one
  • Configured Clusters on WebLogic using the WebLogic Console
  • Performed hot deployment of the application on WebLogic7.0and 8.1
  • Performed analysis Memory Leaks, JVM heap settings and tuning
  • Configured SSL communication between Admin Server and Node Manager
  • Troubleshoot network problems between servers (clustering failover issues)
  • Designed, tested, and realized a wide range of services based on the latest technologies
  • Migration of application from WebLogic 8.1 Installation and administration of WebLogic
  • Installation of SUN Solaris-2.x, 8 on Sun Boxes Building a development, testing, staging Environment
  • Configured database connectivity using JDBC and Configured WebLogic Virtual hosts
  • Managed and Monitored the JVM performance by tuning WebLogic Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools
  • Involved in 24/7 support for production environments.

Education

Middlesex University

MSc
2022

Skills

  • Top Skills:
  • Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services(Major) , Azure, Google Cloud
  • Container tools: Docker, Kubernetes
  • OS : Linux
  • Provisioning Tools: Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation , HELM
  • App Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Apache tomcat, WebSphere, WebLogic, Python
  • Version Control Systems: GIT
  • Build Automation: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, GITHUB Actions, Aws Code build, Pipeline, Code build and Code pipeline for CI/CD
  • Build Tools: Bamboo, Maven, ANT, Gradle
  • Artifactory: Nexus, Jfrog
  • Code Quality: SonarQube, Trivy
  • Continuous Deployment: ArgoCD , FluxCD
  • Service Mesh: Istio
  • Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
  • Ecommerce Solutions: Hybris, Intershop, Magento, IBM WebSphere, Oracle SOA
  • Linux Versions : RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu
  • Web Servers: Apache, Nginx
  • Upgrading and Patching: Spacewalk, RHN Satellite
  • Virtualization: Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMware
  • Directory Services: Open LDAP
  • Load Balancing: HA Proxy, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Autoscaling
  • Monitoring tools: Zabbix, Nagios DataDog, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK, Azure Monitoring, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, New Relic, DataDog
  • Log Management: Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Solr
  • Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TLS
  • Other AWS Services Knowledge: S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, ECS
  • Troubleshooting, Server security, Service monitoring, Backup management, Capacity planning, Strategic planning, Documentation, SLA's, Agile workflow, JIRA
  • Experience working in a hybrid production environment (SaaS/PaaS - AWS Azure on-premises)
  • LANGUAGE
  • Scripting: Python, Bash
  • Kubernetes
  • Software development
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Languages

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Fluent

Timeline

DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

Aidizital Solutions
10.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Saba Software
08.2016 - 08.2021

DevOps Engineer

Salmon Commerce Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 06.2016

Middlesex University

MSc

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