Ashok Kumar Reddy Gollapalli

Client Industry: Aerospace

Description: Cloud Services

Role: Cloud Cost Architect/Finops Lead

• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, show back, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
• Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes using the cloud health tool.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose freed-up capacity.
• Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi-cloud landscape.
• Created custom reports giving personalized recommendations to customers based on budget, best practices, timeline, and goals
• Created cost and usage reports, forecasting reports and best practices documentation for cloud adoption
• Expertise in using cloud tools such as Cloudability, CloudHealth or AWS native tools
• Developed and implemented methods for balancing performance, scalability, and cost-savings while maximizing the cost of technology.
• Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Participate in business case development, cost modelling, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and trade-off exercises.
• Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps processes and data.

Client Industry: Banking Services

Description: Global Cloud Services and Cloud Financial Operations

Role: Agile Lead/AWS/Google Cloud/DevOps Specialist

• Provision AWS resources (Including EC2, VPC, IAM, ELB, Auto scaling, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM, Lambda) using management console
• Plan, build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets.
• Implement and maintain monitor, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch and SNS.
• Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.
• Established cost management standards in partnership with SRE teams
• Developed and implemented methods for balancing performance, scalability, and cost-savings while maximizing the cost of technology.
• Proven Experience in using AWS Cost Explorer and other AWS Cost Management
• Multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC’s for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, and integration and cost control.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for routing traffic between zones, and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Monitoring metrics on EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer and RDS with the help of Cloud Watch.
• Acquiring understanding of security policies like Security Groups, IAM Roles and Multi-factor Authentication.
• Deploying & provisioning Cloud resources and implementing automation through Amazon Cloud formation.
• Created VPC Network,Subnet,Firewall Rules,Custom Routes,Shared VPC.
• Created Instance Templates,Instance Groups,Autoscaling,Autohealing,HealthChecks in GCP.
• Created Cloud Loadbalancer(HTTP/HTTPS),SSL,Frontend,Backend, CDN Setup.
• Created Cloud DNS,Cloud CDN,NAT Configurations
• Created FileStore,MemoryStore,GCS Buckets & Maintatining.
• Created PubSub Topics/Subscriptions(Push/Pull).
• Working Closely with development/Test team and resolving issues on time.
• Managed Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using Jenkins.
• Good hands-on knowledge of Source Code Management (Version Control System) tools like Git
• Written Ansible Playbooks to configure remote servers and configured some applications.
• Writing (Modules) to automate infrastructure using Ansible.

Client Industry: Higher Education

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Applications as per best practice and hosted on AWS Cloud.
• Migrated Applications From On-Premises to AWS.
• Alone handled this Project and set up VPC with HA and set up Autoscaling.
• Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Built VPC, and established site-to-site VPN connection between Data Center and AWS.
• Amazon IAM service enabled to grant permissions and resources to users. Managed roles and permissions of users with help of AWS IAM.
• Initiating alarms in CloudWatch service for monitoring server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc. to take recommended actions for better performance.
• Configured AWS Multi-Factor Authentication in IAM to implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Google Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA.
• Included security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, and Elastic IPs to ensure safe area for organizations in AWS public cloud.
• Wrote UNIX shell scripts to automate jobs and scheduling cron jobs for job automation using commands with Crontab.
• Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC , subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control.

Client: Multi-Client Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS)

Role: Oracle Cloud Administrator (OCI)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as PeopleSoft Administrator and Oracle DBA for production environments
• Installed PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.8/9.0/9.1, HCM 8.9/9.0/9.1/9.2& CRM 8.8 on People Tools 851/52/53/54
• Implemented Maintenance Packs & Bundles, People Tools Upgrades, Tax Updates, and POCs using change assistant, DST patches and Oracle database patches/patch sets/Upgrades.
• COBOL Installation/Troubleshooting/Compilation in Linux environment
• Performed Database Backups (Cold/Hot/Export) and Recovery
• Day-to-day PeopleSoft admin activities such as Project/Data/file migrations to support Production environments
• Troubleshooting & handling customer cases to resolve PeopleSoft issues like performance issues (batch process, application navigation), configuration issues, load balancing issues etc.
• Performed Web logic upgrades and applied patches for web logic using BSU tool.
• Involved in Application upgrade from HRMS 8.9 to 9.0 MP5.
• Worked with internal team extensively to create automation scripts by providing valuable inputs/feedback.
• Implemented LDAP Microsoft active directory for PeopleSoft application authentication.
• Interface setups for file transfer/attachment uploads using FTP/SFTP/HTTP (URL server)

Client Industry: Banking Services

Role: Peoplesoft Database administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 9.0/9.1, HCM 9.0/9.1 on People Tools 8.49/50/51/52/53
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of PeopleSoft Applications
• Implemented Maintenance Packs & Bundles, People Tools Upgrades, Tax Updates, and POCs using change assistant, DST patches and Oracle database patches/patch sets/Upgrades.
• Application Server Load Balancing and Fail-Over Testing
• Application Server and Batch Server Level Traces
• SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and RPS (Reverse Proxy Server) Implementation/Troubleshooting
• Project Migration, Data Mover, Application Designer, Configuration Manager
• Cobol Compilation on Windows and Unix
• Integration Broker setup and troubleshooting usual issues.
• Provided 24x7 on-call support.