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Amarnath Kyatham

Hyderabad

Summary

Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 14 + years of overall IT experience specializing in Linux/Unix administration, Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and DevOps automation. Extensive expertise in managing large-scale enterprise production environments, designing high availability architectures, cloud migration, disaster recovery planning, and infrastructure automation. Proven track record of enhancing SLA performance, minimizing production downtime, and delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimized infrastructure solutions across on-premises and Azure cloud environments.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

ITO Delivery Consultant III

DXC Technology
Malaysia
04.2017 - 04.2025
  • Plan, design and implement the following independent technologies for each business unit.
  • Azure Landing Zone is comprised of virtual WAN, Hubs, S2S & P2S VPN Sites, express routes, network gateways, Azure firewalls, and application gateways.
  • Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environment in Azure cloud as Container Orchestration solution.
  • Migrate on-prem virtual workloads to Azure cloud using Azure Migrate.
  • Plan, design, and maintain workloads on Azure.
  • Expertise in design and configure Hub & Spoke Model, Virtual Networks (VNet), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Subnets, Network Peering, Security Policies and Routing.
  • Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization, and intrusion detections).
  • Coordinate and assist developers in establishing and applying appropriate Git workflows, including branching strategies, merging, labeling/naming conventions, tagging, stashing, and configuring Git hooks.
  • Utilized Jenkins for end-to-end automation of build and deployment processes.
  • Create and manage new Jenkins jobs, install and maintained plugins, and configured master-slave architectures for scalable CI/CD pipelines.
  • Configured and maintained a centralized Ansible server for managing infrastructure.
  • Developed and modified Ansible playbooks to support provisioning and configuration tasks across various environments as per client requirements.
  • Automated environment provisioning processes for development teams, improving deployment speed and consistency.
  • Implemented data center migration strategies and project plans.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Bridgestone
Malaysia
05.2022 - 09.2024
  • Provided end-to-end support for AWS services, handling escalations and resolving technical issues with EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Diagnosed and resolved networking issues, including VPC configurations, load balancing, and DNS management using Route 53.
  • Managed SFTP environment and AWS storage gateway which is hybrid cloud services that gives on-premises environments access to virtually use unlimited cloud storage for the backups.
  • Led infrastructure audits and cost optimization projects, leveraging AWS Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer to reduce client costs by up to 20%.
  • Assisted with security configurations and compliance requirements, ensuring IAM policies and security group settings aligned with industry best practices.
  • Monitored and managed AWS resources using CloudWatch, creating custom metrics and dashboards to track application performance and availability.

Cloud Engineer

MISC
Malaysia
06.2020 - 03.2021
  • Provided technical support for Azure services, troubleshooting issues Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure App Services.
  • Developed and optimized hybrid cloud environments, ensuring seamless interoperability and compliance across Azure.
  • Resolved networking issues, including Azure Virtual Network configurations, DNS management, and load balancing setups.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, creating customized dashboards to track performance metrics across both platforms.
  • Guided clients through cost optimization initiatives using Azure Cost Management, achieving up to 25% reduction in cloud costs.

Virtualization Engineer / DC Support

Affin Bank
Malaysia
06.2019 - 05.2020
  • VMware Support
  • Installation/Configuration/ Maintenance/Trouble Shooting of VMware ESXi 5.1 & 5.5.
  • Patching ESX servers and update Hardware.
  • Hyper-V Support
  • Managing 500+ Windows 2008 R2 & 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts & 2000 + VM Servers.
  • Plan, install, and configure deployments of Windows Server and Hyper-V
  • Datacenter experience : ( STRATEQ , Bridge Data Centres )
  • Datacenter experience in server and VMware support involves managing physical servers, hypervisors, and virtual machines (VMs) through installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Key skills include working with server hardware, VMware's vSphere suite (like ESXi and vCenter), and managing virtual environments for high availability and performance optimization. The experience also includes tasks like VM migrations, backups, disaster recovery, patching, and security.

Unix Deliver Lead / DC Migration

APL logistics
Malaysia
04.2017 - 05.2019
  • Worked within the ITIL process guidelines with the team, responsible for dealing with Incidents and Services Requests, capacity management and monitoring, as well as reducing the number of Incidents logged though problem management.
  • Dealing with support calls and implement technical change/project work for our client in an efficient and timely manner and working towards contracted SLAs delivering best in class service to the customer.
  • Build the systems based on the project requirement using Gold Disk images which is customized proprietary software, responsible for the RTPA acceptance for the Linux environment using the HPSA method.
  • Worked on data center migration including application and database using various tools such as Double take Tool.
  • Managed high availability solution such as PCS cluster for Critical DB availability.
  • End to end participation in Migration of application (Micro focus) from Main frame servers to Linux environment servers.
  • Worked for Disaster recovery activities on Physical &Virtual environment for the Database & web application availability.
  • Involved in security related tasks which are reported from Tenable security scan for the server hardening and Audit Checks.
  • Data Center experience : Travelled United States of America for DataCenter migration project which involves Total infra move from HP Data center to NTT Datacenter ( DC Windcrest Dr, Plano, Texas )

Unix Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Malaysia
11.2014 - 03.2017
  • Worked on server build and support for HPUX, Linux and Solaris servers on various hardware architecture.
  • Performed File system management, satellite server configuration, patching and troubleshooting software/hardware problems, backup, testing and performance tuning.
  • Worked on Incidents, changes, problem management RCAs.
  • Identify and drive continual improvement program in UNIX environment and improve the service efficiency.

Service Delivery Consultant III

NOKIA
Malaysia
03.2014 - 03.2017
  • Worked on server build and support for HPUX, Linux and Solaris servers on various hardware architecture.
  • Performed File system management, satellite server configuration, patching and troubleshooting software/hardware problems, backup, testing and performance tuning.
  • Worked on Incidents, changes, problem management RCAs.
  • Identify and drive continual improvement program in UNIX environment and improve the service efficiency.

Service Delivery Consultant III

Hewlett Packard (HP)
Malaysia
12.2010 - 10.2014
  • Worked on Server hardening based on the Security policies.
  • Performed Internal Audit Checks, Security scan, privilege validations and Identity and access management tasks. Worked on risk assessment and provided compliance and non-compliance reports to the client.

Service Delivery Consultant III

Carrefour
Malaysia
10.2013 - 02.2014
  • Worked on Server hardening based on the Security policies.
  • Performed Internal Audit Checks, Security scan, privilege validations and Identity and access management tasks. Worked on risk assessment and provided compliance and non-compliance reports to the client.

Service Delivery Consultant III

Delphi Automotive
Malaysia
12.2010 - 09.2013
  • Responsible for handling escalated incidents as part of incident Management on UNIX Platform.
  • Installation of the Operating system on HPUX on PA-RISC and Solaris on SPARC servers.
  • Performing Logical Volume based operations adding additional storage space to file system, also LVM and Root disk mirroring activities.
  • Managing High availability solution environment MC-Service guard.
  • Applying the system and security patches as part of the improvement plans in environment.

Education

B.Sc. - Science

Kakatiya University
Warangal

Skills

  • OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris, Windows Server
  • Virtualization: vCenter, Hyper-V
  • Datacenter experience: Managing physical servers and involved in Infra movement in-between the Datacenter and migration activities ( Strateq - Petaling Jaya , Bridge DataCenter - Cyberjaya, WINDCREST DR PLANO - Texas USA, NTT Garland Texas Datacenter USA )
  • Azure Infrastructure Services: Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) , Azure's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ( VDI ), Azure Express Route, Network Gateway, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway (WAF), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Storage and Computing: Azure Web App, App Service Plan, Blob Storage, File share
  • Cloud Migration and Recovery: Azure Migrate, Azure Backup with Recovery Services Vault
  • AWS Core Skills: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, API Gateway, Auto Scaling
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes , CI/ CD, Orchestration : Ansible , Jenkins ,Git , Terraform

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
  • Sun Certified System Administrator
  • ITIL–V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.

Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer

Bridgestone
05.2022 - 09.2024

Cloud Engineer

MISC
06.2020 - 03.2021

Virtualization Engineer / DC Support

Affin Bank
06.2019 - 05.2020

ITO Delivery Consultant III

DXC Technology
04.2017 - 04.2025

Unix Deliver Lead / DC Migration

APL logistics
04.2017 - 05.2019

Unix Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
11.2014 - 03.2017

Service Delivery Consultant III

NOKIA
03.2014 - 03.2017

Service Delivery Consultant III

Carrefour
10.2013 - 02.2014

Service Delivery Consultant III

Hewlett Packard (HP)
12.2010 - 10.2014

Service Delivery Consultant III

Delphi Automotive
12.2010 - 09.2013

B.Sc. - Science

Kakatiya University
Amarnath Kyatham