NIKHIL DUBBA

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Summary

DevOps Engineer with background implementing infrastructure and applications. Talented performer with over 4+ years of experience in Cloud and DevOps. Expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD. Consistent team player with exemplary multitasking skills.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certifications

Work History

Software engineer

Infor

12.2019 - Current

Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
Worked with cross-functional teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
Maintained and built VMs and containers through Azure and Azure Kubernetes Services.
Created CI/CD pipeline with Azure devOps service to build and deploy the infrastructure using Terraform in Azure.
Created reusable Terraform modules in both Azure and AWS cloud environments.
Wrote Automation scripts using powershell.
Implemented a complete automated build-release solution using a technologies like Maven, Jenkins.
Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, Created builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and Managed releases of Helm packages.
Conducted Dry-Run Tests to ensure fool-proof execution of customized scripts before execution in production environments.
Assigned RBAC Roles using Organization Active Directory to required Groups/members.
Use of Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to manage micro services for development of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Create infrastructure in the Azure Cloud for Stage,Prod and QA environments.
Create AKS cluster and deploy micro services.
Expertise in Azure Administration which includes resources like Azure VM, Storage Account, VNET, Load balancer, Azure AD,Auto scaling, ACR, AKS,NSG,API Management, Application Gateway,CDN,App Service,WAF,Azure Monitor.
Trouble shooting issues with monitoring tools SUMO Logic, ELK, Grafana,
Experience with REST Api, Elastic Search.

Associate

Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services

07.2018 - 11.2019

Delivered application to the customers within specific timeframes
Provisioned the VM in private cloud for customer environments of QA,Prod,Pre-prod.
Installation, Configuration of web servers/Database/middleware & Upgrade of operating systems.
Deploying the applications with automation UAT, Pre-production.
Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
Collaborating with different application teams for resolving application post deployment issues.
Provided extended support during customers go-live in production
Performing the Smoke, Integrations, and performance testing
Worked closely with database administration team to ensure optimal performance of databases.
Migrating the application and database servers
Performing the maintenance activities of servers
Working on customer incident within the SLA
Upgrade the application with latest version as per the deployment/release schedule.

Analyst

USAA, Global Logic

09.2017 - 06.2018

Deploying daily builds on Serve
Analyzing performance of application with metrics
Reporting application issues to dev team.
Discovered root causes of problems and identified appropriate solutions.
Queried databases for information needed for report processing.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Electronics and Communication Engineering

JNTU-HYD

Skills

Cloud Technologies: AZURE (VM, Load balancer, Application gateway, Vnet, App Service, Storage account, ACR, AKS, API Management, API Gateway, WAF , CDN, Azure AD)AWS (EC2, Loadbalancer, VPC, S3, ECR, Lambda)

Containerization : Docker, Kubernetes

Versioning Tools: GitHub, GitLab

CI Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevopsIaC: Terraform, ARM TemplatesBug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Azure BoardsMonitoring Tool: Sumologic, ELK Stack, Grafana, SplunkOther Languages: JSON, YAML, XMLScripting: PowerShell, Shell

Certification

Certified Azure administrator associate (az-104) by Microsoft

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