NAVEEN VEMULA

Experienced IT professional with 13 years in the industry, featuring 6 years in AWS cloud and Terraform and 5 years working with DevOps and SRE role tools, including Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Leveraging 8 years of Linux and shell scripting expertise, I rapidly learn and implement new technologies to drive innovative business solutions, excelling in both independent responsibilities and team collaboration.

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• AWS: AWS Solution Architect Associate
• Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Developed VPC infrastructure and managed subnets, employing Terraform to create and update routing tables for optimal networking configurations.
• Configured VPC peering across different AWS regions, fostering seamless connectivity between distinct AWS environments.
• Orchestrated Monthly AMI refresh cycles and AMI sharing different AWS accounts.
• Proficient in managing AWS services such as EC2 instances, Load Balancers, Autoscaling groups, and Security Groups to ensure robust and scalable architectures.
• Established S3 buckets and maintained their policies to enforce access control and security measures.
• Created and updated IAM roles and policies based on specific requirements, ensuring precise access management and security protocols.
• Extensive experience in Route 53, overseeing the creation and management of both public and private hosted zones to streamline DNS management.
• Designed a highly available and scalable AWS 3-tier architecture.
• Experience with RDS databases.
• Proficiently used Terraform to create a wide array of AWS resources.
• Established distinct Terraform workspaces customized for development, production, and QA environments, ensuring efficient management of resources across different project stages.
• Extensive experience in configuring and leveraging S3 as a backend for Terraform.
• Experience in creating and modifying Terraform modules to meet specific infrastructure requirements, ensuring efficient resource allocation and alignment with project objectives.
• Proficiently created and managed deployments and daemon sets within Kubernetes, ensuring efficient container orchestration and scalability.
• Demonstrated adeptness in troubleshooting Kubernetes issues, resolving challenges promptly and ensuring smooth operations within the cluster environment.
• Expertise in crafting services and configuring ingress controllers in Kubernetes, enabling effective routing and load balancing for applications within the cluster.
• Strong background in working with AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), leveraging its functionalities for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure.
• Skilled in creating and managing ConfigMaps and Secrets in Kubernetes, ensuring secure and efficient handling of configuration data and sensitive information within the cluster environment.
• Experienced in designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications in DEV, QA, UAT environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core concepts, including pods, deployments, services, volumes, statefulsets, Daemonset, replicaset, helm, secrets and configmaps.
• Proficient in configuring ingress resources and services in Amazon EKS, ensuring secure and scalable traffic management for containerized applications.
• Good experience in external DNS in Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge on Grafana and Prometheus.
• Creating the Kubernetes clusters through Terraform and upgrading the Kubernetes version.
• Creating the Helm charts and deploying the applications through Helm in Kubernetes.
• Proficient in crafting optimized Docker files, ensuring efficient and scalable container image builds.
• Good experience in renewing the SSL certificates for Java and HTTPD applications.
• Extensive experience in building Docker images, and implementing best practices for reliability, security, and performance enhancements.
• Creating the Jenkins console and upgrading the Jenkins console to the latest versions.
• Providing the Jenkins console access to the users depending on their project.
• Creating the repositories in Nexus and JFrog and providing access to the users.
• Hands on experience in Continuous integration tools Jenkins and GitHub actions.
• Experience in Administrating Jenkins, Plug-in installation, Master and Slave.
• Migrated the Nexus from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8 with the latest version.
• Good experience in creating GitHub actions workflows.
• Hands on experience creation the applications and other application sets in ArgoCD.
• Developed custom Ansible playbooks tailored to specific requirements, automating routine tasks and ensuring efficient system configuration.
• Proficient in shell scripting, creating scripts to automate processes and enhance system functionalities.
• Implemented and managed Logical Volume Management (LVM), adeptly increasing the size of LVM mount points to accommodate evolving storage requirements.
• Extensive expertise in Red Hat Linux, proficiently resolving day-to-day user-related issues.