Piyush Vijay Shukla

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

• Led the program from both infrastructure and DevOps perspectives for an Energy customer within the UK,(OVO and SSE Plc) overseeing Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud implementation.
  Successfully led numerous go-lives for the client, ensuring smooth transitions and high customer satisfaction.
• I worked as an SRE for M&G plc, providing them with solutions for DevOps design consisting of Exadata, Azure DevOps, and CyberArk.
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on both Azure ,AWS and Oracle Cloud platforms.
• Implement best practices for scalability, reliability, and security in cloud environments.
• Manage virtual machines, storage, networking, and other infrastructure components on Azure and Oracle Cloud.
• Utilize Azure networking services such as Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Azure Front door and Virtual Networks for secure and efficient communication.
• MTLS for Oracle cloud by Fortigate Firewall
• Configure and maintain Oracle databases, specifically Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Developed custom scripts for automating manual tasks, increasing team productivity and minimizing errors

DevOps Implementation:

• Lead implementation of DevOps practices and principles within organization.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment of applications. Additionally, have experience using Oracle Visual Builder Studio (VBCS) for Oracle workload.
• Implement automation scripts for provisioning, configuration, and deployment tasks using tools like PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Terraform.
• Utilize Azure Functions and Logic Apps for serverless computing and workflow automation.
• Implement Azure Data Factory for data integration and orchestration tasks.

Team Leadership and Collaboration:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the cloud infrastructure and DevOps team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, architects, and operations to ensure successful project delivery.
• Mentor team members on cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and best practices for infrastructure management.

Terraform and Ansible Expertise

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in developing and maintaining industry-wide modules and configurations for Ansible and Terraform.Thsese modules are used in other projects as base to spin up infrastructure
• Strong understanding of Ansible playbooks and roles for automating infrastructure tasks.
• Expertise in writing Terraform configurations for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements and implement solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Creating web applications that are both resilient and scalable is an essential part of any application architecture. A well-designed application should scale seamlessly as demand increases and decreases, and be resilient enough to withstand the loss of one or more compute resources
• Handling Infrastructure-Networking ,Compute , Block volumes , FSS for Azure AWS,OCI .
• Install multi-node Cassandra cluster, induce failure, create a keyspace / table and access from the client
• Responsible for maintenance of Security rules, Load Balancer Configuration, DNS on both the cloud platforms.
• Entire Provisioning automated by Terraform and Ansible.
• Entire Infrastructure is managed by Gitlab Pipeline where Plan and apply phases are approval based.
• Deploying Java web applications based on Microservices on Amazon ECS , Fargate .
• Managing the Billing Dashboard and writing the automated scripts to shut down and startup the services during weekends.
• Lift and shift of Oracle Weblogic Forms 12c application to OCI
• Deployed a Java based application on 5 node Kubernetes cluser in Google cloud
• Also worked with DBA for backups and troubleshooting issues in Oracle RAC DBCS OCI .
• Provisioned and managed Oracle RAC DBCS in OCI (Starting , Stopping,Dataguard Sync up, PSU patching )
• Project II – Senior Devops Engineer Lift and shift of Oracle EBS Application from on premise to AWS and Azure for Publishing Firm based in UK.
• DevOps Engineer for automating entire AWS ,OCI,Azure Infrastructure for all the cycles (Dev, Test, OAT and Prod) by Terraform.
• Entire configuration of Compute Instances done by Puppet, Ansible and Terraform .
• All resources including Load balancer , Compute Engine , Block Volumes managed by Terraform and Ansible.
• Integrated Shell scripts for Managing Block volumes and Swap spaces i.e to add entries in fstab .
• Integrating the applications to get monitored by ElasticSearch.
• Configuring Cloud Watch Alarms in AWS.
• Project III : Lift and shift of Oracle On prem databases to On prem for Major financial client
• Worked as DevOps Engineer on moving On 300 +Premise Databases (Solaris ,Linux, On Prem Exadata) to ExaCS cloud by Datapump and exp-import ,Entire code written in Ansible and integrated with Jenkins
• Project IV – Oracle MSP
• Part of Infosys team to build automated solution for automating on-Prem workload to OCI.
• Worked with Front end team for the Solution to make an interactive tool for easy deployment in OCI based on Terraform and Microservices architecture
• Project V - Azure Cloud Administrator for a Germany based Manufacturing Client.
• Lift and shift of Oracle PeopleSoft from on Premise to Azure cloud.
• Responsible for Network architecture and Database Migration of the cloud solution.
• Used Terraform to deploy application in Azure Cloud.
• Well versed with Azure Direct connect architecture .
• Introduced agile methodologies and effective development best practices to division to enhance product development.

• In the connected world, it is imperative that the organizations be interlinked with the customers and vendors. This process has been very sluggish, manual, batch-based and prone to failures. Such Integration design has lead to impaired decision making and delays in the detection of fraudulent actions. This project created an automated, event-based real-time process using managed cloud services that do not have these limitations. Services & Concepts - VPC, IAM, EC2, Athena, SQL, Programming etc.
• Two automation tools developed for client – To transfer the VMDK images from on premise to Cloud and listing of all the client resources according to the tenancy using Ansible, Terraform and Elastic Database.
• Skill used : -Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, SNS

• Troubleshooting PeopleSoft Issues, and Connect direct (IBM tool) issues.
• Support various applications for any issue which includes HR and Finance applications.
• Involved in patch applications, Maintenance packs and upgrades for the applications.
• Upgraded 8.53 to 8.55 tools and application upgrade for HCM.
• Supported NDM which is a third party tool(IBM) both in setting/configuring up and troubleshooting issues.
• It is for secure transmission of files between.
• Extensively worked on disk usage alerts for PS_HOME and other report repository usage and created automated scripts for them to monitor the server health.
• Co-ordinating with teams (database, SA team) for application of packages and Database related upgrades.
• SSH and SFTP trouble shooting related to public key certificates and Firewall issues.
• Experience in DRR (Disaster Recovery activity), Worked in both Pre and Post COB activity for major applications such as Prod-Cob sync up.
• Configuration, interaction with different teams and coordinating during testing and managing testing plans.

• 9.0/9.1,8.49/8.51/8.52/8.53 Oracle 10g/11g.