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Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

• Operating and deploying resources within AWS using CloudFormation Templates, AWS CLI, and AWS Lambda.
• Deploying and troubleshooting web applications within AWS, Amazon RDS, Amazon EKS, and Amazon S3 storage buckets.
• Created pipelines using AWS Glue to move data from one data lake to another lake, data lake to a data warehouse, and on-premises to a data lake.
• Migrating an On-premises VM to AWS Resource Manager Subscription with AWS Server Migration Service and deployed to AWS and customized build process using AWS Lambda. Worked on AWS VPN-Client to Site, Amazon VPC, AWS.
• Made use of automation frameworks such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform templates while creating new applications that are like applications in the production environment using Blue/Green deployment strategies.
• Experience in automating the process of deploying new configuration and container images to Kubernetes using FLUX. Managed K8s charts using Helm and created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Designed and implemented automated deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and integrated them with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), enabling rapid and consistent application deployments.
• Used Octopus Deploy to deploy releases from Development to Test, Stage, and Production.
• Managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters using Helm, simplifying deployment and management tasks while maintaining high availability.
• Configured and optimized Azure Cosmos DB clusters for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB administration and optimization.
• Utilized Terraform to define and orchestrate infrastructure as code, ensuring consistent and reproducible deployments in Azure.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Lead the deployment of cloud services, optimize infrastructure, and ensure overall cloud infrastructure stability.
• Spearhead Proof of Concepts (POCs) for new cloud services, meticulously evaluating their feasibility and facilitating successful adoption within small user groups before general availability.
• Implemented AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code, deploying resources such as VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, ELB, and more, ensuring consistent and repeatable environment setups.
• Utilized AWS API Gateway for efficient management of REST APIs in microservices architecture, focusing on authentication, authorization, caching, throttling, and monitoring.
• Designed and executed blue/green deployment strategies, leveraging AWS Route53 for DNS routing updates and environment URL swapping in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• Employed Docker and Kubernetes for container-based deployments, managing Docker images, registries, and orchestrating containerized applications with Kubernetes nodes, Config-Maps, Selector, and Services.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Led end-to-end management of cloud-based search clusters, optimizing performance and automating deployment processes with Ansible.
• Coordinated project priorities, ensuring transparent communication of progress to internal teams and executives.
• Collaborated with NBC Universal partner divisions to drive innovation in ELK platform capabilities and roadmaps.
• Automated deployment and testing processes using Ansible, including the setup of new nodes and configuration of machines/servers across multiple environments.
• Engineered complex applications with a focus on scalability and high-volume production quality.
• Developed configuration scripts for both development and production servers.

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked on a variety of Linux platforms (Ubuntu, Redhat, centos) which included installation, configuring, and maintenance of applications in this environment.Configured the NFS servers, setting up servers in network environment and configuring FTP/NTP/NIS/servers, for various departments and clients