Nagarjuna Nuthalapati
Bangalore
Summary
With over 13 years of extensive experience in Cloud Architecture, DevOps, Security, and SRE/Platform Engineering, I am a results-driven Technical Manager committed to driving excellence in software delivery and infrastructure management. My career is marked by a track record of successful transformations and optimizations, leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions.
Key Qualifications:
- Cloud Architecture: Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing cloud solutions using AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- DevOps: Proven ability to streamline CI/CD pipelines, automate processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging tools like Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Security: Comprehensive knowledge of security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR).
- SRE/Platform Engineering: Skilled in building and maintaining reliable, scalable infrastructure, monitoring systems, and enhancing platform performance through proactive measures and incident management.
- Leadership & Team Management: Strong leadership skills with a focus on mentoring and developing high-performing teams, promoting collaboration, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Strategic Planning: Adept at formulating and executing strategic plans that align technology initiatives with business objectives, driving innovation and operational excellence.
Career Highlights:
- Led a successful migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud environment, resulting in a 30% reduction in operational costs and a 50% improvement in system performance.
- Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment times by 70% and improved overall code quality.
- Designed and enforced security protocols that led to a 40% decrease in security incidents and ensured compliance with industry regulations.
- Championed SRE practices that enhanced system reliability and achieved a 99.9% uptime for critical applications.
I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and drive business success. My diverse experience and technical expertise make me well-equipped to lead initiatives that improve efficiency, security, and performance in any organization.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Project Manager
Veracode/Accion Labs
Bangalore
10.2023 - Current
- Leading a team for critical security applications by handling cloud (Azure, AWS), SRE, and DevSecOps roles to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems.
- Implemented strategies and automation to optimize cloud resource usage, resulting in significant cost savings.
- Overseeing the deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Datadog, and Sumologic.
- Spearheading the incident response process, ensuring quick resolution, and minimizing downtime.
- Assessed vulnerabilities exposed by web applications hosted on public clouds.
- Automated cloud deployments using Terraform and Ansible to enhance operational efficiency.
- Engineered disaster recovery strategies in cloud environments, ensuring business continuity.
- Conducted cloud assessments to identify opportunities for cost reduction and performance improvement.
- Implemented software tools to assist in threat detection, prevention and analysis.
- Conducted periodic reviews of existing cloud environments for compliance with industry standards such as PCI DSS or HIPAA.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for seamless code deployment to cloud platforms.
- Provided technical guidance on secure implementation of services in public clouds such as AWS and Azure.
- Developed and maintained project plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Built end-to-end monitoring solutions using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana integrated with Kubernetes clusters hosted on MS Azure.
- Assisted development teams with troubleshooting issues related to deploying applications on various platforms including Kubernetes clusters and serverless architectures such as Azure Functions,App Services tasks.
Senior Principal Consultant
Jio Platforms Limited
Hyderabad
12.2022 - 09.2023
- Company Overview: Hyderabad
- As part of Cost Optimization we were able to reduce 30%(~45Lakhs)/Month on Azure billing by effectively tracked the resource utilization through Scripts/Azure Advisor recommendations by effectively downsized the AKS Cluster along with limiting the POD level usage limits
- Attached policies to auto shut down the resources in the lower environments during non-Business hours
- Effectively monitored the billing by tagging the resources properly and maintained proper dashboards and costing alerts
- Troubleshoot and resolved the issues related AKS clusters, ADO pipelines etc
- Have setup CI/CD pipelines for NodeJS Applications in Azure DevOps and deployed in Azure Web App Services and Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters
- Deployed application APIs in Azure APIM service for connectivity between micro front ends and backend micro services deployed in AKS clusters
- We were able to manage the highly available and highly scalable application related infrastructure with no/less downtime
- Hyderabad
- Environment: Architecting, Azure VM's, Azure, VNets, Azure Security Groups, Azure Container Registry, Git, SonarQube, Synk, Checkmarks, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitoring, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Azure Web Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Defender, Datadog, ADB, ADF, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure APIM etc
Lead Devops Engineer
Providence Global Center (R&D Center)
Hyderabad
12.2020 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Hyderabad.re Domain Product Based
- Able to architect the solution from end to end and deployed the required infrastructure and developed the CICD pipeline and made the application highly available
- Upgraded AKS clusters from lower version to higher versions and resolved issues raised during ASK upgradation
- Deployed Nginx ingress controllers in AKS clusters As Application load balancers
- Deployed Application gateway Ingress controller for configuring with Azure Kubernetes Clusters
- Configured App gateway listers for Azure App services
- Expert in writing Kubernetes manifest files and deploying them on Kubernetes clusters
- Good at writing Azure power shell and shell scripts for devops automation
- Good at GitHub administration for managing branches and implementing branch policies for restricting user actions on respective branches
- Deployed Azure Cosmos DB and used ADO pipelines for loading onto Azure Cosmos DB
- Worked on both private and public AKS clusters and expert in troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
- Source code management and creation of Branching Strategy for smoother release process and maintenance of codes
- Written Docker files for .Net, Node Js, React Js applications, build and push docker images to Azure container registry
- Created, Deployed and Configured SSL/TLS certificates for Azure App Services Applications Gateways and Azure Kubernetes Services via Application Gateway Ingress Controllers
- Have setup CI/CD pipelines for NodeJS Applications in Azure DevOps and deployed in Azure Web App Services and Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters
- Troubleshoot and resolved the issues related AKS clusters, ADO pipelines etc
- Deployed and Configured Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller as load balancer for AKS clusters
- Deployed Nginx Ingress Controllers as load balancers for private AKS clusters
- Worked on migration of data from On-prem SQL server to Cloud databases (Azure Synapse Analytics (DW) & Azure SQL DB)
- Have extensive experience in creating pipeline jobs, scheduling triggers, Mapping data flows using Azure Data Bricks and using Key Vaults to store credentials
- Expert in designing azure pipelines for the deployments of synapse analytics and data bricks
- Managed arm templates for the configurations of data bricks and synapse analytics
- Environment: RHEL, Docker, Azure VM's, Azure, VNets, Azure Security Groups, Azure Container Registry, Git, SonarQube, Synk, Checkmarks, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitoring, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Azure Web Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Defender, Datadog, ADB, ADF, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure APIM etc
Azure Platform Engineer
Tata Consultancy Service
Bangalore
04.2017 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: Bangalore
- Responsible for implementing containerized based applications on Azure Kubernetes by using Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Kubernetes Cluster, which are responsible for cluster management, Virtual Network to deploy agent nodes, Ingress API Gateway, MySQL Databases and Cosmo DB for stateless storage of external data, and setup reverse proxy Nginx in the cluster
- Deployed and optimized Java, .Net web applications to Azure DevOps CI/CD to focus on development by using services such as Repos to commit codes, Test Plans to unit test, deploy App Service, Azure Application Insight collects health performance and usage data of the process, stored artifacts in blob storages
- Used Terraform for creating Azure infrastructure which consist of API Gateway, Azure Load balancers (Network and Application), AKS Clusters, Azure Container Registries etc
- Evaluated Kubernetes for Docker container orchestration
- Managed Azure Container Registry to store private Docker images, which are deployed and Azure pipelines to build, test, and deployments
- Azure Monitor to collect metrics and logs
- Configured Monitor to track performance and maintain security, and used Splunk tool to collect metrics, queries
- Worked on new relic, Azure log Analytics tools for monitoring all the Kubernetes clusters for efficient cluster visibility, proactive monitoring and triggering action
- Deployed python based azure functions on to Azure Function, Azure runbooks on to Automation account, synapse objects onto Azure synapse Analytics using Azure yaml Pipelines
- Written yaml pipelines for deploying application onto AKS, vm's, and vmss
- Implemented Microsoft Azure defender to secure the Azure infrastructure
- Written terraform modules for deploying Azure infrastructure like AKS, ACR, VM, ALB, APGW, VNets, Subnet etc
- Written yaml pipeline for deploying terraform modules on to azure to create infrastructure
- Bangalore
- Environment: Ubuntu, Docker, Azure VM's, Azure, VNets, Azure Security Groups, Azure Container Registry, Git, SonarQube, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitoring, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Azure Web Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Terraform
Technical Lead Engineer
ABB India
Bangalore
06.2016 - 03.2017
- Company Overview: Bangalore
- Develop and manage CI/CD process for different types of application and automate as many processes as possible
- Manage and support customer environments in Microsoft Azure cloud
- Consult customers on technical aspects of installation, sizing, scaling
- Support development teams in technical questions of continuous integration/continuous delivery, delivery organizations
- Escalated technical issues to development or technical operations team following prescribed support guidelines.
- Established communication channels between various departments within the organization in order to facilitate timely collaboration during major incidents.
- Established monitoring frameworks to identify potential performance issues in the platform.
- Environment: Azure, Azure Security Groups, Azure Container Registry, Azure Monitoring,Azure Web Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Terraform, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Defender
Technical Lead Engineer
British Telecom/Tech Mahindra
Watford
11.2010 - 06.2016
- Company Overview: Watford, United Kingdom
- Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker
- Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) capabilities, which include virtual machines, container services, virtual networks, and cloud services.
- Building and maintain the existing workflow using Informatica Power Center
- Create the new Workflow and SCD’s based on the requirement and support the Data pipeline for Data ETL transformations to load data from Source to Destination.
- Work on the Data Pipeline Blockers and fix the issues within the SLA. ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
- working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
- Maintaining a daily log of events encountered and addressing issues daily during testing / deployment. As an L2 support lead responsible for application availability by effectively following the ITIL process.
- As a L2 support Lead responsible for application availability by effectively following the ITIL process. This involves working with developers, QA engineers, and operations teams to ensure that the Application are efficient and reliable.
- Monitoring and improving system performance: DevOps Engineers are responsible for monitoring the performance of the system and identifying areas for improvement. They must understand system architecture and network design to troubleshoot and optimize performance.
- ● Managing and troubleshooting incidents: As L2 Infra Engineers are responsible for managing and troubleshooting incidents that occur in the system. This involves analysing logs and metrics to identify the root cause of the problem and implementing a solution to prevent the problem from occurring again.
- Technologies Used: Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Informatica Power Center,SQL,Control M,ITIL,Service Now
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad07-2008
Skills
- Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS & GCP
- Logging & Monitoring: Datadog,Sumologic,Azure Log Analytics,Azure Monitor,AWS Cloud Watch,Grafana &Promethus
- Devops Technologies:Azure Devops,Jenkins,Gitlab
- Security : Veracode,Snyk,SonarQube,MS Defender
- IAC :Terraform,ARM Templates
- Containerization &Orchestration: Kubernetes(AKS,EKS),Docker
- Cloud Architecture Designing: Visio,Draw io
- SCM:Git,GitHub
Certification
- Az-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
- Az-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Az-304-Azure Solution Architect Associate
- AWS sysops Administrator Certified
- Gremlin Chaos Engineering Certified
- Cloud Certified Security Specialist(Target Completion:Jan 25)
Timeline
Senior Technical Project Manager
Veracode/Accion Labs
10.2023 - Current
Senior Principal Consultant
Jio Platforms Limited
12.2022 - 09.2023
Lead Devops Engineer
Providence Global Center (R&D Center)
12.2020 - 12.2022
Azure Platform Engineer
Tata Consultancy Service
04.2017 - 12.2020
Technical Lead Engineer
ABB India
06.2016 - 03.2017
Technical Lead Engineer
British Telecom/Tech Mahindra
11.2010 - 06.2016
- Az-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
- Az-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Az-304-Azure Solution Architect Associate
- AWS sysops Administrator Certified
- Gremlin Chaos Engineering Certified
- Cloud Certified Security Specialist(Target Completion:Jan 25)
Bachelor of Technology -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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