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Uchitha Unni

Bengaluru

Summary

Total 13+ years in IT experience in which 5+ years as skilled Azure DevOps and Azure cloud Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on experience in supporting, automating, migrating and optimizing mission critical deployments in Azure, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, On-premises to Azure migration and DevOps processes.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Architect

Tech Mahindra
01.2023 - Current
  • Currently working on implementing microservices architecture using AKS with high availability and scalability.
  • Working on implementing Blue-Green and Disaster recovery for Azure services.
  • Trouble shooting microservices deployment issue in AKS.
  • Implementing continue deployment pipeline for microservices using Helm.
  • Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
  • Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
  • Provided current best practices and third-party solution alternatives when necessary for functional design documentation.
  • Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
  • Upgraded old application architecture with Azure services.

Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud Lead

Mindtree
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Deployed infrastructure using Terraform and configured application using Ansible.
  • Created terraform modules as part of reusability.
  • Replaced on-premise components with Azure services.
  • Taken ownership of on-call production support after migrations of applications to Azure Cloud.
  • Configured monitoring of applications using Prometheus and notifying on-call team using pager duty.
  • Project Administrator for Azure DevOps and working with yaml files for build and deployments.
  • Configuring Blue-Green deployments.
  • Analyzing infrastructure for checking cost reduction probability.
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Responsible for migrating On-Premises applications to Azure cloud.

Knowledge in below Azure services

  • Virtual Machine Scale set
  • Internal and External Load balancer
  • VMSS : Autoscaling , automatic health repair
  • Vnet, Subnet , NSG , Inbound and Outbound rules
  • Vnet peering , Private endpoint , Service endpoint
  • Azure storage account , CDN profile , custom domain
  • Application gateway : SSL termination, WAF , load balancer
  • Traffic manager and endpoint
  • Azure kubernetes service : Ingress , services , pods , config maps
  • MySql
  • Azure metrics and alerts
  • Azure functions , Azure logic apps , App services
  • Azure Active Directory : AAD roles and RBAC for resources
  • Managed identity : User managed and system assigned
  • Service principle
  • Azure App service plan

Azure Devops and Azure Cloud Lead

Accenture
10.2015 - 12.2019
  • Acting as Administrator for Azure DevOps and Azure repository (GIT).
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment in DevOps and Azure Infrastructure.
  • Managed Docker images and Azure containerization using Kubernetes (AKS) to cloud environment.
  • Experience in AKS architecture and writing yaml files.
  • Installing and configuring Docker in Virtual machines
  • Configuring Azure container registry (ACR) to upload docker images in cloud.
  • Writing PowerShell to automate tasks.
  • Experienced in SonarQube to help maintain source code quality.
  • Monitoring applications using App insights.
  • Experience in managing micro-service application.
  • Experience in Amazon cloud by hosting virtual machine and configuring networks.

Technical Lead

Cognizant
04.2015 - 10.2015
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Octopus Deploy and Azure devops.
  • Acting as administrator for maintaining Team Foundation Server 2017 including installing and Configuration of application, Database, proxy and build servers.
  • Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
  • Migrating TFS lower versions to latest versions.
  • Migrating TFS on-premises servers to Azure cloud with help of Microsoft team.

Software Configuration and Build Engineer

IMS Health
12.2013 - 04.2015
  • Automated build and deployment using TFS build services and Microsoft release management tool.
  • Migrating codes from VSS version control tool to TFS.
  • Customizing build xaml template according to project requirement.
  • Maintain TFS project collections and permissions, including branching and tagging.

Software Configuration Engineer

Infosys
08.2010 - 12.2013
  • Deploying codes in lower environments
  • Setting code repositories

Education

Master of Science - Electronics and Communication

Sri Krishna Arts & Science College
Coimbatore
03.2011

Skills

  • Version Control : TFVC , GIT
  • Deployment Tool : Terraform , Azure DevOps and Octopus
  • Configuration Tool : Ansible
  • Code Quality tool : Visual studio test , SonarQube
  • Scripting : Power shell
  • Container: Docker
  • Orchestration : Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Cloud : Azure services
  • Monitoring : Prometheus and Netdata
  • On-call : Pager duty , production support , handling RCA meetings
  • AZ-900 certified

Timeline

Technical Architect

Tech Mahindra
01.2023 - Current

Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud Lead

Mindtree
01.2020 - 01.2023

Azure Devops and Azure Cloud Lead

Accenture
10.2015 - 12.2019

Technical Lead

Cognizant
04.2015 - 10.2015

Software Configuration and Build Engineer

IMS Health
12.2013 - 04.2015

Software Configuration Engineer

Infosys
08.2010 - 12.2013

Master of Science - Electronics and Communication

Sri Krishna Arts & Science College
Uchitha Unni