Murthy Somanchi

• Technical Expertise areas:
• Operating Systems RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian
• Cloud Platforms Azure, AWS
• Azure services, Azure Networking
• Containerization Docker, Kubernetes
• Configuration Management Ansible
• Scripting Languages YAML
• Databases MS SQL server, MongoDB
• Logs and Monitoring Azure monitoring and cloud watch.
• Source Code Management GIT, GitLab (Basics)
• Technical delivery on ACR, AKS, , Azure services, Azure Networking, and Azure DevOps.
• Deep technical experience in software design and systems operations & management, virtualization, IP networking, storage, IT security, and Linux system administration.
• Thorough understanding of Hybrid Cloud Computing, including virtualization technologies, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud delivery models.
• Network load balancers, ingress rules, and the Traffic Manager to enable dynamic routing and facilitate scaling.
• Developed scalable applications and implemented the technical requirements and build procedures for the company’s Azure cloud-based applications.
• Used Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
• Created Ansible Playbooks to deploy, manage, and configure software on remote servers.
• Developed and maintained application images using Docker files and docker-compose and Proficient with Docker, containerization, and Kubernetes concepts.
• Monitored the health of several virtual machines and apps operating on various environments using tools such as Splunk.
• Adopted the agile methodology to organize project requirements into smaller milestones that could be reached through multiple sprint cycles.
• Strong understanding in agile methodologies and Scrum concepts & Jira bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management tool.

2016 April I moved to IBM, as my business unit was acquired by IBM. Apart from the below-listed projects, I have also worked on AT&T client projects VWR, BBB, Indian health, Target, M&S, Hyundai, at&t AIC OpenStack Cloud, ToysRUS.

Data center migration from the AT&T data center to IBM Private and Public Cloud Bluemix and AWS. I am a team member for this project working as Infrastructure DevOps Engineer. I am responsible for support of the systems during the migration and installation and configuration to move the physical data center to IBM Cloud and AWS and Docker and Kubernetes.

With 7 years of experience at AT&T as a Linux Build Engineer, worked with different Business units to build their infrastructure as per client’s requirement, having troubleshooting knowledge and expertise in the below areas over the period.

OS – RHEL 5, 6 and 7.

Virtualization – ESX servers, clusters, datacenter, farms, vSphere, vCenter, Storage vMotion, HA and DRS.

Configured OVMs, and OVS (Physical servers) making them ready to join in the existing OVM manager.

Volume Manager - VxVM, Redhat LVM

High availability Cluster – Veritas

Hardware - Cisco UCS, HP Blade C-class, Dell, HP G5 to G9 servers (proliant 380,480,580).

Esxi installation and add the Esxi host to VC

VC configuration (Storage, Networking, Adding Esxi hosts, Datacenter creation)

Networking configuration (vSwitches (vSS) will be configured, a Production (Front net),

Management (Back net), and a 10 GB Backup vSwitch. Each vSwitch will have 2 Uplinks configured in an Active / Standby Mode.)

CONFIGURE PRODUCTION VSWITCH and creating VLANS

Installing and Configuring Nagios