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Mahendra Reddy Dwarasila

Pune

Summary

A team player and security-driven DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer with over 6 years’ experience in systems administration, software configuration management, cloud integration using various CI/CD and SCM tools for end-to-end automation & deployment of software to different environments. Experience in implementing security best practices to provision and manage secure, fault-tolerant, scalable and highly available architectures. Hands on experience in containerization and orchestration of microservice applications into different environments leveraging various DevOps automation tools. Familiar with agile and Scrum SDLC mythologies.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Devops Engineer

Snowflake
05.2021 - Current
  • Built, configured and administered managed Kubernetes Clusters(EKS).
  • Experience using docker to containerize monolithic and micro services applications and Kubernetes for container orchestration using various Kubernetes objects such as Deployments, replicasets, stateful sets.
  • Used terraform AWS/CLI/AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure on AWS such as VPC, subnets, route tables, DNS, IGW, ELB, IAM, Auto Scaling, EBS, Databases, S3, Security Groups NACLS etc.
  • Experience using Jenkins to build complex CI/CD pipelines and integrating with other tools for end-to-end automation of builds and deployments.
  • Managed and monitored Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus for data aggregation & Grafana for data visualization well as data analytics and log management using EFK.
  • Troubleshoot issues during build, and failed deployments of Kubernetes pods.
  • Experience in applying best practices in Cloud Security, auditing and implementing security controls to.
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc.
  • Applied security by design concepts through the SDLC and leveraged best practices to build highly secure, fault-tolerant, highly available and scalable architecture and applications.
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting server performance by using Performance Monitor and Performance logs and counters.
  • Used Service Now to track vulnerabilities, requests and incidents.
  • Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.
  • Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.

Unix Administrator

Nvidia
06.2017 - 05.2021
  • Create Self Service Portals and automation for Operational requests using python.
  • Set up and maintain domain name system servers.
  • Utilized Logical Volume Manager to create/modify/delete filesystems
  • Setup and maintained Nagios monitoring for monitoring servers and applications.
  • Performed standard system administration tasks, installation of OS using kickstart from standard build, patching, hardware upgrades , troubleshooting and problem resolution.
  • Used puppet tool for managing system configurations , creating and pushing profiles for new servers.
  • Involved in daily incident management and resolved day to day problems raised by users and incidents which are logged by event monitoring systems.
  • Managed infoblox for DNS entry's creation and deletion.
  • Managed NIS for user account management in Linux Servers

Internship Student

Nvidia
01.2017 - 06.2017
  • Automated admin profile creation/deletion in DUO Portal
  • Automated Ingesting logs and Performance metrics of LSF servers into ELK stack and visualized them in charts for analytics.


Education

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Reva Institue Of Technology & Management
Bangalore
09.2017

Skills

  • Containerization Tools: Docker, EKS, ECS, Kubernetes
  • Automation Tools: Ansible, Jenkins, Lambda, ArgoCD
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm
  • Version Control: Github
  • Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
  • Scripting Languages: Python, Yaml
  • AWS Cloud Compute: IAM, VPC, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route53, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, EC2, ECR, API Gateway, Secret Manager
  • Platform: Linux (RedHat, CentOS, SUSE), Ubuntu, Windows
  • Virtualization: Hyper-V, VMware
  • Service Mesh: Istio, Gloo Enterprise Mesh and Gateway
  • SCA/SAST Tools: Snyk
  • IDP: Okta
  • Logging & Monitoring: Datadog
  • Ticketing: SNOW

Blogs

I have written a blog for managing RBAC on snowflake account using Okta Workflows

  • https://medium.com/snowflake/streamlining-snowflake-access-control-empower-your-enterprise-with-okta-workflow-google-sheets-d6744dd08f8e

Timeline

Senior Devops Engineer

Snowflake
05.2021 - Current

Unix Administrator

Nvidia
06.2017 - 05.2021

Internship Student

Nvidia
01.2017 - 06.2017

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Reva Institue Of Technology & Management

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