Paidi Leela Srinivas
Cloud Solutions Architect
Hyderabad
Summary
Overall 17+ years of IT experience in which Cloud and DevOps Architect with 6+ experience in Amazon Web Services,AWS, Google Cloud Platform, GCP, Microsoft Azure and DevOps. Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) and DevOps tools for Cloud and IT industry.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Sr. Systems Architect
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.
02.2022 - Current
- Analyze, design, and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
- Review and/or analyze and develop architectural requirements (AWS, Azure & GCP) at the domain level within the product portfolio or team.
- Contribute to the designs (AWS, Azure & GCP) and deployment of infrastructure solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, Total Cost of Ownership, security, regulatory compliance, and application system qualities.
- Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.
- Develop, motivate, and direct staff to create a team environment.
- Learn & gain expertise in our Product Architecture.
- Lead and coordinate the domain technical (AWS, Azure & GCP) and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the product portfolio or product line.
- Provide advisory & training content to internal/external stakeholders.
- Developed network and cloud system architecture (AWS, Azure & GCP) according to business needs.
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for multiple users.
- Incorporated cloud architecture into new facility planning, reducing need for on-site equipment and technical support personnel.
- Drafted conceptual and logical data models for high-level system planning tasks, optimizing each model to customers' needs and budgets.
- Integrate with platform engineering groups and influence the outcomes.
- Review & confirm Solution Deployment Architecture (AWS, Azure & GCP) for each customer site.
- Participate in customer-facing engagements during sales & service activities.
- Review & approve lifecycle management requests.
- Actively participates in Incident & Problem Management Services
- Identifies & implements lifecycle management automation opportunities.
Consultant
HCL Technologies
07.2020 - 01.2022
- Creation & updation of Technical Design documents.
- Ensure Functional/Enterprise Architects are updated on program status, progress and plans.
- Foster DevOps and Continuous Development working model.
- Work with Engineering and Operations to ensure the service operational strategy and technical strategy are aligned.
- Engineering and Operational support changes are timed to meet technical strategy, service projects are planned to support technical strategy, technical operational improvements are included in technical strategy which result in improved operational effectiveness (improved agility and/or reduced cost.).
- Responsible for execution of technical and capability roadmaps for public cloud e.g., creation of new, updating existing design patterns, design of cloud platform and underlying services.
- Monthly review of Engineering and Development to ensure these areas are keeping within strategic path and identify areas which strategy should be updated to reflect near term engineering trends.
- Creation and approval of Cloud Architectural Principles and Standards (IaaS and Infrastructure PaaS).
- Contribute to Public Cloud Strategy.
- Transformation requirements for new capabilities or changes from architecture, operations or customers to include them in the design of Foundational, Service and Customer components.
- Technical infrastructure design (High Level and Low Level Solution design), testing, deployment including required documentation and change control.
- Maintain Design documents such that the Design documents illustrates current state of the environment.
- Engineer third party tools to use / promote in the public Cloud.
- Automation Services: Engineer and drive implementation of automation services into the Public Cloud.
- Hands-on experience in Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Command Line Interface, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Control Tower.
- Hands-on experience in Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Compute and PaaS & IaaS services in Azure.
- Experience using Maven and Ansible as build tools for the building of deployable from source code.
- Good working experience on DevOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Maven, GIT, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop, enhance and maintained reference architectures for various capabilities.
- Coordinate with application architects and other stake holders for requirement gathering.
- Estimation and Optimization of Cost for IaaS and PaaS services on AWS and Azure platform.
- Ensuring the architecture is in compliance with the well architected frame work of AWS and Azure design principles.
- Support alignment to architecture patterns as well as capture unmet needs for infrastructure services.
- Delivery of services in Hybrid/Multi cloud environment by integration of on prem and public cloud platforms.
- Automation of deployment of AWS/Azure resources and services through AWS Cloudformation and Azure ARM templates respectively.
Infra. Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2017 - 06.2020
- Currently working as a DevOps Engineer for Cloud environments such as AWS and Azure.
- Performing Architecting and Solution design (High Level design and Low Level design) documents and deployments in Cloud area which includes integration of various services.
- Good understanding of and Hands-on experience with multiple DevOps tools i.e. Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Experience on Cloud DevOps environment i.e. Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Command Line Interface, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Control Tower, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Compute and PaaS & IaaS services in Azure.
- Hands-on experience on build releases and production deployments on AWS infrastructure.
- Experience in using Git, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines for Application deployment and AWS services which reduce the effort of Developers and operation teams in performing maintenance and daily operations.
- Created images stored in the Docker container and uploaded to Docker hub.
- Provisioning and Managing of Instances over AWS & Azure as per requirement.
- Knowledge on Writing Playbooks in Ansible for various administrative tasks.
- Having Experience to IT infrastructure automation using Ansible.
- Having experience in creating custom Docker images using Dockerfile.
- Configuring the Docker containers and creating docker files for different environments.
- Hands-on experience on Application Containerization and Application deployment on containers via Docker and Kubernetes.
- Management and governance of the Cloud environment through some of the native services in Cloud such as Costs Optimizer and Billing and Subscription level.
- Good knowledge and hands-on Python code using Lambda and Az Functions in Cloud for application development and various service integrations.
Lead Administrator
Wipro Technologies
05.2014 - 07.2017
- Providing L3 level of backup implementation specialist and provide technical support in Symantec NetBackup, EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain activities.
- Managing and participating in major change & migration activities in Symantec NetBackup and EMC Avamar.
- Achieve task Completion with in SLA & Support delivery improvement Validation of order, implementation of tasks and time planning.
- Involved in Data Center migration activities at Onsite (Dallas, Texas, USA).
- Had been to site duties and onsite categorical activities such as racking, stacking, cabling and labelling the equipment’s etc.
- Working as part of a project in a demanding environment and meeting client commitments.
- Providing solution to customer issues, following proper escalation procedures, in a timely fashion.
- Interactions with Onshore Team, Clients and Project Management Teams.
Assoc. Delivery Specialist II
EMC Technology India Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 02.2014
- Provides software related custom integration and implementation support of EMC Avamar 6.1, Symantec NetBackup and EMC Data Domain at customer sites involving unique environments and configurations; this may include initial installation, troubleshooting, implementation, customization, integration, and product orientation for the customer. Also, performing new client additions and scheduling them, creation of datasets and groups, working on replication issues, working along with EMC Vendor/Symantec NetBackup for any P1 issues and up gradation of EMC Avamar application.
- Performs moderately complex and/or extended-stay software implementations such as system recovery and DR capabilities. Demonstrate system capabilities, review software operation and management tools, and provide information to customer concerning the operation.
- Regularly communicates status of project and all applicable customer issues to the project owner. Advises project owner on level of effort required to perform assigned implementations. Seeks advice or assistance from management as required during difficult customer situations. Works in conjunction with colleagues to ensure effective resolution of technical issues.
- Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through resolution of customer situations, handling product issues, pre-installation site planning, installations/implementations, and upgrades. Successfully manages relations with customers utilizing negotiation and influencing skills to acquire the internal and external resources necessary for optimal results
- Prepares, maintains, and submits activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports in accordance with published procedures.
Engineer - System Administration
CSC, Computers Sciences Corporation
11.2008 - 12.2012
- Administration of NetBackup and EMC Avamar Backups and Restoration.
- Managing client additions and related policies/Avamar groups, domains.
- Performing installation, configuring and upgradation of backup servers (master, media and client servers) and Avamar servers.
- Performing installation, configuring of storage units and robots.
- Performing DR and system recovery.
- Performing maintenance and capacity checks for the backup environment.
- Administering and Managing Data Domain. Performing installation and configuring the data domain and SLP’s from the backup perspective.
- Troubleshooting the backup related issues and devices attached to the backup servers.
- Configuring and Managing replications of the backups.
- Working with Vendors such as Symantec, EMC Avamar to resolve critical backup issues and to provide a backup solution for the business.
- Working with Wintel, UNIX and Database teams to provide a backup solution to the environment.
- Working on backup solutions such as File System Backups, Database Backups, NDMP Backups and Flash Windows Backups etc.
- Working on various project implementations and providing backup solutions to the project teams.
- Attending various Project calls, DR calls, Daily Status Review calls, Backup Performance and Maintenance calls etc.
- Point of Contact for few accounts and working as a leverage resource for different projects and handling multiple requests and maintaining SLA consistency.
Technical Solutions Engineer II
Hewlett-Packard
10.2006 - 05.2008
- Troubleshooting of software related issues on all the Operating systems and providing appropriate solution to resolve the issue through web-based applications Cisco, Astro (Sap based tool) also involved in making outbound calls for service, sales for HP Pavilion Desktops and Presario Desktops.
- Providing technical solutions for Wired and Wireless Networking for HP Pavilion Desktops and Presario Desktops.
- Supporting United States customers to troubleshoot the issues that customers are experiencing through web-based tools.
- Troubleshooting the network related issues in Windows environment.
- Troubleshooting issues related to User management, Disk management.
- Supporting the customers on latest operating systems Windows Vista and Windows XP and installing the third-party applications & software.
Education
B. Tech - Information Technology
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, AP 04.2002 - 04.2006
Skills
Cloud Computing & DevOps
Certification
Certified in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Sr. Systems Architect
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.
02.2022 - Current
Consultant
HCL Technologies
07.2020 - 01.2022
Infra. Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2017 - 06.2020
Lead Administrator
Wipro Technologies
05.2014 - 07.2017
Assoc. Delivery Specialist II
EMC Technology India Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 02.2014
Engineer - System Administration
CSC, Computers Sciences Corporation
11.2008 - 12.2012
Technical Solutions Engineer II
Hewlett-Packard
10.2006 - 05.2008
B. Tech - Information Technology
Andhra University
04.2002 - 04.2006
Certified in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Certified in Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies - AZ-300
Certified in ITIL Foundation V3 in IT Service Management
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate - AZ-104
Microsoft Certified: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - AZ-305
Microsoft Certified: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions - AZ - 400
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
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