Pavan Kumar Kotra
Visakhapatnam
Summary
Cloud Operations Lead: Managed and optimized cloud environments across Azure, AWS, and Openshift, ensuring system stability and high availability.
Infrastructure Automation: Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, boosting deployment efficiency by 30% and reducing manual errors.
Kubernetes Troubleshooting: Expertly resolved critical issues related to Kubernetes and node memory utilization, ensuring seamless application performance.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Earned AWS Associate Solutions Architect certification, demonstrating strong expertise in cloud architecture and services.
CI/CD Automation: Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, significantly reducing deployment times and improving system reliability.
Ansible Automation: Automated server configuration and package installations using Ansible and YAML, improving operational efficiency.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infra Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2022 - 10.2024
- Having 3 years of experience in Microsoft Azure operations, AWS operations, Oracle integrated cloud, and Oracle analytical cloud operation engineering.
- Having strong knowledge of Ansible, creating Ansible servers and nodes, connecting by using YAML scripts, and installing packages.
- Provisioning, configuring, and managing AWS IAM policies and roles using Terraform.
- Day-to-day PaaS operations on Red Hat OpenShift and Hydra cloud operations, and troubleshooting issues on Kubernetes, pipelines, and deployments.
- Worked on project decommissions, CPU memory utilization, and various space errors of nodes on Hydra and OpenShift.
- Daily monitoring of the server's health status and event logs of critical servers to ensure availability.
- Involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, and resource groups.
- We used to fix and remediate the Azure public cloud vulnerability.
- Project implementation, such as deploying, configuring, and maintaining compute in OIC/OAC.
- Day-to-day PaaS operations involve troubleshooting issues for users on OpenShift and Hydra deployment errors.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using the Jenkins automation tool.
- Troubleshooting the Kubernetes node memory utilization issues.
- Having Ansible experience, connecting nodes by using YAML scripts, installing packages, etc.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Lovely Professional University
Phagwara, Punjab07.2021
Class XII - M.P.C
Sri Chaitanya junior college
Visakhapatnam05.2017
Class X -
Sri Gurukula Vidyalayam
Srikakulam05.2015
Skills
- Azure and AWS
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Hydra (on premise cloud)
- Terraform
- YAML
- Shell
- Bash
- Git
- Kubernetes
- Snowflake, ServiceNow, JIRA (ticketing tools)
- Ansible
- Azure Defender (vulnerability fixes)
- Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch (monitoring tools)
Affiliations
- Looking for a dynamic role in Cloud or Support where I can leverage my skills in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. Eager to solve complex challenges, enhance cloud operations, and contribute to innovative, fast-paced environments.
Certification
- AWS Associate solution Architect
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Timeline
Infra Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - 10.2024
B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Lovely Professional University
Class XII - M.P.C
Sri Chaitanya junior college
Class X -
Sri Gurukula Vidyalayam
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