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Devops Engineer 07/2023 - current
Sequoia consulting service, bangalore, karnataka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years.
Making sure our AWS infrastructure is up and running 24x7 without any issues. Building whole stack ELBs, containers, databases, then moving and launching our site at its new home, guiding the team through the entire process. Work along with solution architect to make sure security of the application is intact, Building and maintaining tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that meet our customer service standards and reduce errors. Actively troubleshooting any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch. Testing our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and othe processes related to infrastructure, making iimprovements as needed. Automated operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our security requirements. Implemented observability solution from scratch, Creating and Enhancing alarms. Deploying valuable and insightful dashboards, Enabling distributed tracing by using Jaeger and datadog. Enhancing custom metrics by using Prometheus and open telemetry and pushing infra and application logs to logging solution such as elastic search, datadog. Managing code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes. Worked on POC projects with open-source technologies Working on CI/CD tools and GIT.--
Spireon 09/2022 - 06/2023
Principal SRE Engineer, Banglaore, karnataka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years.
Managing AWS Infrastructure and service, Administrating Kubernetes deployed in KOPS and EKS environment , Managing and monitoring Kafka cluster deployed in VM EC2 nodes, K8s environment and MKS. Addressing Incident’s and remediating issue on time. Managing influx of data ingesting in kafka cluster and make sure consumer apps are able to consume data and process it. Quickly identifying the lag and restarting consuming pod to catch up the lag, Identifying kafka broker core issues such as unbalancing, repartition and rebalancing. Continues monitoring for Infrastructure and application health. By using data dog deployed and instrumented along with service running in VM host and K8s pods, enabled APM for better visibility on each infra layer. Created SLO metrics, dashboard and Alerts along with remediation steps to quickly triage and calculate service availability. Lenses was used to monitor kafka health and product was not adaptable for higher version of kafka, So to be in parity deployed another alternative tool Kpow, which improved the kafka cluster level visibility, Can easily pinpoint and quickly address the issue. Automating the incidents such as pod restart, disk cleanup and VM host reboot. Reduced the manual effort for kannel failover during maintenance and it is achieved through ansible books. Remediating security issue as version upgrade and constant monitor during deployment.--
System Architect 02/2020 - 08/2022
Huawei technologies, bangalore, Karnatka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years. I have experience in building reliable cloud infrastructure by using AWS. I have practiced SRE and devops principles. I do have experience in building and deploying Monolithic apps on middleware technologies.
To improve SLA Automating repeated alarms such port abnormalities, disk and inode optimization by using stackstorm, to reduce events identifying non genuine alarms which don’t have value to investigate and auto clearing it on time. Identifying repeated manual works and automating by using stackstorm which includes installing agents, restarting services, Deploying new services and clearing alarms. To reduce the cost of system resources identifying low load resources on a daily basis and optimising it by reducing it. Addressing certificate expiry request and remediating it on-time. For security related issues such as applying patches, Remediating vulnerabilities by upgrading kernel and OS to advanced versions. Getting network related requirements from developers and opening specified range ip and port on ACL and security group inbound/outbound. Creating a dashboard on Grafana for the newly deployed k8s cluster. Metrics such as CPU, memory, network, disk and gpu resources were added. Creating templates on Prometheus for monitoring port,CPU, memory, load,inode,disk GPU resources. Creating AIOPS based dashboard to monitor Platform and Business level success rate and delay. Creating alarms for system and functional related indicators. Ensuring service success request rate is always 100%, Addressing Incidents and events whenever an alarm triggers, Monitoring API call failures and addressing issues on time. Fixing issues within defined SLA timeframe, quickly identifying rate limiting, cascade failure issues, latency and high resource utilisation issue. Addressing functional related issues reported by users. Analysing issues on elastic search, logs collaborating with development teams.--
Site Reliability Engineer 2 07/2018 - 02/2020
FICO, Bangalore, Karnataka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years. I have experience in building reliable cloud infrastructure by using AWS. I have practiced SRE and devops principles. I do have experience in building and deploying Monolithic apps on middleware technologies.
Managing Infrastructure and monolithic/micro service running on-premises servers and AWS infrastructure. Addressing P1/P2 Incidents whenever alarm triggers and resolving issue within defined SLA. Ensuring service is available in 24x7. Deploying AWS resources using IAC tool terraform, Resources like VPC, Subnets, Route 53 hosted zone, Ec2 instances, security group, S3 buckets, EKS cluster, ALB, Autoscaling Lambda functions. Customizing IAM and bucket policy as per application needs. Deploying application/Environments as part of Blue-Green Strategy on AWS and OpenShift Environments. Configuration and Administration of Jboss EAP 6 Application server which is hosted in Outsystem and OpenShift environments, deploying application artifacts such as JAR, WAR, and EAR, config tuning, adhoc changes on Outsystem. Applying Patches ensuring service is reliable and secure, Upgrading Outsystem Components including Jboss App tier. Instant restart on service running on Outsystem and OpenShift/EKS Container Gears/Pods to mitigate memory leak, application resource overwhelming issue, Tuning JVM Parameters to bridge the gap for application performance issue, Renewing SSL Certificates on-time and deploying certs without impacting production service, Troubleshooting Deployment Related issue on OpenShift Gears/Pods/Containers. Driven failover activity to test service running in failover datacenter, quick failover on GTM/LTM when service is disrupted on primary data centre. Installing and Instrumenting App Dynamics for Outsystem Jboss App server and Gears/Containers/Pods which is Hosting Jboss Webservice Version. Toil the manual work by writing Shell Scripts for Process backup, Files movements, Certificate URL Validity Check, Application Response Validity check. Creating and Running Jenkins Jobs for AppDynamics Installation, Decommission Ideal OpenShift Gears/Containers, Deploying Patches, Deploying Java code on application servers using Jenkins and bitbucket repo.Managing Infrastructure and monolithic/micro service running on-premises servers and AWS infrastructure.--
Associate 07/2017 - 08/2018
JPMC, bangalore, Karnataka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years. I have experience in building reliable cloud infrastructure by using AWS. I have practiced SRE and devops principles. I do have experience in building and deploying Monolithic apps on middleware technologies.
Managing chase Lower environment, ensuring monolithic/microservice service and infrastructure is stable and reliable, Providing environment were QA team runs the test cases 24X7. Ensuring quality code is promoted to production environment. Addressing P1 issues/Critical functionality failure such as (Website down, Page rending latency, login failures and content issue) and remediating within defined SLA time, Triaging functionality failure bug tickets and determining bug is from service code or infrastructure. Constant monitoring on synthetics test, application functionality and health of application service, Quickly escalating to development team whenever service is failed to start post deployment, to mitigate the issue rolling back to older version. Troubleshooting deployment related issue on WAS/Tomcat and instant service restart, working with development ,DB and siteminder teams to document service functionality flow’s, Creating standard query and dashboard in splunk to quickly identify and address the issue. Creating Run books for new Issue. Deploying artifacts in application servers using Jenkins and bitbucket repo. Running hand-over call with US team for updating pertaining issue and outage during India daytime.--
Technology specialist 07/2014 - 07/2017
Wells Fargo, Bangalore, karnatka India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years. I have experience in building reliable cloud infrastructure by using AWS. I have practiced SRE and devops principles. I do have experience in building and deploying Monolithic apps on middleware technologies.
Gathering requirement from application team to deploying Middleware technologies such as (Apache httpd, tomcat, Weblogic and Websphere) and Instrumenting observability products like Wily Introscope and Splunk. Customizing Middleware technologies depending upon application needs.( Installing Siteminder agents, Enabling Reverse proxy on httpd server to route connection to backend service nodes, Integrating with LDAP, Datasource for establishing connecting to database and other MQ products, installing third party CA certs on java keystore). Deploying WAR/EAR artifacts from lower to higher environments by using anthill pro, Creating SSL certificates on venafi and deploying approved certificates on middleware technologies. Performance config tuning based on the stress testing results (Mapping correct heap memory, Tweaking timeout configuration, Identifying issues like memory leak issues, connection draining and version bug issue). Monitoring the performance of Applications while Load Test and DR fail over test, Applying updated standard patches for Runtime JDK and Middleware technologies, Working with Oracle support when we found issue with product. Validating Project as per security and compliance Base lines. Documenting project overview, Infrastructure details, escalation details, issues faced during build phase, SSL certificate validity, alert setup and remediation steps for restoring issue., Initiating project handover call with Middleware support team for 24X7 support.--
Software engineer 02/2012 - 07/2014
Birlasoft, Hyderabad, Telangana India
Industry: Information technology
I have 12 years of experience, Relevant to SRE/Devops i have 6 years and for middleware build and administration I hold 6 years. I have experience in building reliable cloud infrastructure by using AWS. I have practiced SRE and devops principles. I do have experience in building and deploying Monolithic apps on middleware technologies.
Gathering information from application development teams for deploying Enterprise application aligned with three tier architecture, Deploying and configuring middleware technologies such as Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Jboss, Websphere and Weblogic on Linux servers. Customizing Middleware technologies based on application team requirements (Enabling apache httpd as a proxy, Tweaking JVM configuration, Installing Siteminder agent for authentication, Configuring data source for DB connectivity). Configuring F5 LTM profiles for application service for request ingestion, placing the iRules code in F5 for routing request from network to service layer. Constant monitoring on request flow from F5 LTM to Service layer and ensuring middleware service available for 24X7, Deploying application packages such as WAR/EAR file’s from Lower environments to production environments. Renewing SSL certificates before it expires and deploying new certificates on Linux servers, Providing support to application team for instant restart on middleware service, checking logs, troubleshooting along with product teams. Providing support to QA team for Load testing to make sure service is reliable. For better visibility Instrumenting monitoring agents such as wily Introscope on Java services. Acknowledging Incidents, troubleshooting issue and restoring the service on defined SLA, Identifying Root cause of the issue and documenting. Toil the manual work by automating file movements, deploying the code from UAT to production, purging old logs.--

KLN College of engineering 07/2017 - 07/2011
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Information technology
Minor:IT
I have completed by engineering at KLN College of engineering. Major as Information technology.

Methuna prabhu KS SRE, Observability engineering, Devops
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