GC Nagendra Vara Prasad
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced professional with Over all 14+ years of experience in Enterprise Production Systems. Skilled in building and maintaining cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes, Docker, and other containerization technologies. In Private and Public Cloud. Experience deploying containerized applications on Private & Public cloud platforms such as Robin.io, AWS, Google Cloud
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief System Engineer
ePam Systems
Bengalore
02.2024 - Current
- Developed and implemented system engineering processes to ensure quality control of all systems.
- Regular communication of SLA performance and incident reports to stakeholders, highlighting clear and concise communication skills.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to refine SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs reflects effective communication and teamwork abilities.
- Implemented monitoring and logging solutions for AWS resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other services. Created dashboards and alerts to track the performance and health of applications and infrastructure. Implemented tracing tools like AWS X-Ray to track the performance of microservices and identify bottlenecks.
- Deployed ArgoCD application to an EKS cluster using Helm charts. Configured ArgoCD to connect to Git repositories hosted in gitlab. Defined application manifests using Kubernetes manifests or Helm charts.
- Experienced New Relic to monitor microservices for key performance metrics and application health. Created custom dashboards and alerts for specific microservices and infrastructure components. Used New Relic's tracing capabilities to diagnose performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot service calls across microservices.
- Generated reports to track progress towards SLOs and SLAs, highlighting key metrics and trends.Communicated SLA performance to stakeholders regularly, including reporting on incidents and corrective actions. Collaborated with stakeholders to continuously refine SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to reflect evolving needs
Staff Engineer
DISH Network Technologies
Bangalore
08.2023 - Current
- implemented RESTful APIs, Websocket API using AWS API Gateway in AWS
Utilized Lambda functions for authentication and authorization. of API
Monitored API performance and usage with CloudWatch.
Created API Gateway documentation using Swagger. - Implemented routing policies for high availability and failover of Route 53 ,Utilized health checks to monitor the health of backend resources.
- Implemented monitoring and logging solutions for AWS resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other services.
Created dashboards and alerts to track the performance and health of applications and infrastructure.
Implemented tracing tools like AWS X-Ray to track the performance of microservices and identify bottlenecks. - Deployed ArgoCD application to an EKS cluster using Helm charts.
Configured ArgoCD to connect to Git repositories hosted in gitlab.
Defined application manifests using Kubernetes manifests or Helm charts. - Experienced New Relic to monitor microservices for key performance metrics and application health.
Created custom dashboards and alerts for specific microservices and infrastructure components.
Used New Relic's tracing capabilities to diagnose performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot service calls across microservices. - Generated reports to track progress towards SLOs and SLAs, highlighting key metrics and trends.Communicated SLA performance to stakeholders regularly, including reporting on incidents and corrective actions.
Collaborated with stakeholders to continuously refine SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to reflect evolving needs - Experienced in using Confluent Control Center to monitor and manage Apache Kafka clusters. Created dashboards and alerts for key Kafka metrics, including consumer lag, topic size, and producer throughput.
- Designed and implemented reliable and scalable infrastructure on GCP using services like Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, and Load Balancing.
- Established monitoring and alerting systems with Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, and Grafana to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Implemented incident response processes for efficient troubleshooting and service restoration in GCP environments.
- Utilized logging and tracing and mointering via new relic
Site Reliability Engineer
Rakuten Symphony
Bangalore
05.2021 - 07.2023
- Designed and implemented microservices architecture utilizing GCP API Gateway and GKE.
- Leveraged API Gateway to expose microservices as secure and scalable RESTful APIs.
- Deployed and managed microservices on GKE, taking advantage of its containerized environment and autoscaling features.
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
- Developed automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins rolling upgrades and Blue Green
- Managed Docker private Image repositories
- Monitored Kubernetes cluster's health and resource usage
- Created and managed application deployments on the cluster using the CI/CD pipeline
- Scaled applications based on demand or resource usage
- Implemented backup and disaster recovery plan
- Upgraded Kubernetes versions and updated images used by applications
- Configured networking and storage for applications
- Automated analysis of logs using Kibana Dashboard and customer Scripts
- Ensured availability, performance, and scalability of software in production
- Implemented Sixth sense APM tool
- Fixed vulnerabilities during security scan
- Configured Istio service mesh
- Defined and implemented traffic routing rules
- Monitored and maintained Istio service mesh
- Used Kafka Operator to provision and scale Kafka clusters.
infra-Technology Specialist
Cognizant -CTS
07.2019 - 05.2021
- Configured and maintained Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform services
- Provided highly available and fault-tolerant applications using orchestration technologies like Kubernetes
- Created Kubernetes clusters with Terraform templates
- Managed AWS and GCP infrastructure as code
- Designed and installed CI/CD tools pipelines.
Technology Service Specialist
IBM
11.2016 - 07.2019
- Configured and maintained Amazon Web Services
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2
- Migrated on-premise servers to the cloud
- Involved in ISEC Remediation.
Sr. System Engineer
Techmahindra
08.2013 - 11.2016
- UNIX server administration
- Solaris, AIX, and Linux OS installation and configuration
- System performance monitoring
- Installation of packages and patches
- Configuration of NFS and NIM servers
- Involved in SCD Remediation
- Enterprise environment support
- Yearly DR environment maintenance.
Delivery Software Engineer
Mphasis
03.2010 - 08.2013
- Active participation in server consolidation projects
- UNIX system administration
- User and group administration
- Disk configuration and management
- RAID configuration
- Scheduling of automatic jobs
- Configuration of ESX Server.
Education
Master of Computer Application -
Sri Venkateswara University
Skills
Cloud:AWS , GCP, Robinio ,
OS:LINUX (RedHat,OEL),
Container &ContainerOrchestration :Docker,Kubernetes , GKE, EKS,
Monitoring & Logging,Traces :OBF, Prometheus , Grafana,CloudWatch,
Open telemetry
APM : Sixth Sense, New Relic,Dynatrace
Certification
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (Ex-124&Ex134)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (Ex294, With Ansible)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Sun Certified System Administrator 10 OS part1 (SCSA)
- VCA-DCV510
Timeline
Chief System Engineer
ePam Systems
02.2024 - Current
Staff Engineer
DISH Network Technologies
08.2023 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Rakuten Symphony
05.2021 - 07.2023
infra-Technology Specialist
Cognizant -CTS
07.2019 - 05.2021
Technology Service Specialist
IBM
11.2016 - 07.2019
Sr. System Engineer
Techmahindra
08.2013 - 11.2016
Delivery Software Engineer
Mphasis
03.2010 - 08.2013
Master of Computer Application -
Sri Venkateswara University
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