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Ravi Kumar Y

Hyderabad

Summary

Total 14 years of experience in the IT Industry with 7 years of experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, DevOps tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and middleware technologies like WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, and MQ.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Architect

Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad
05.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Banking Client
  • Conducted Infrastructure/VM/AWS/Azure/Kubernetes/Cloud/On-Prem capacity analysis based on the requirements of new and existing projects
  • Participated in kickoff meetings to understand infrastructure requirements such as CPU, RAM, and Storage for all layers including Web, Application, Messaging, and Database
  • Gathered solution papers from customers and prepared Infrastructure Design Documents (IDD), Utilization Reports, and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) under deliverables
  • Analyzed container requirements for application workloads across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments
  • Prepared Design/Deployment Architecture, ensuring that the DevOps, Systems Administration (SA), and DBA teams could build infrastructure according to specifications
  • Worked on Proof of Concept (POC) for NextGen products, collaborating with vendors for product evaluations across AWS and Azure platforms
  • Automated application deployment in the cloud using Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Worked on Docker components like Docker Engine, Docker Hub, and Docker Registry in both AWS and Azure environments
  • Wrote Terraform configuration files to provision VPC, subnets, NAT Gateway, Internet Gateway, EC2 instances, Azure Virtual Networks, Load Balancers, and Route 53, ensuring successful deployment of web applications and database templates
  • Attached Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) for AWS EC2 instances and configured Azure Load Balancers for VM instances
  • Maintained cloud solutions on AWS and Azure, utilizing services such as EC2, Azure VMs, ELBs, Route 53, Azure DNS, S3, Azure Blob Storage, EBS, Azure Disks, Auto-Scaling, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB
  • Set up monitoring tools like Nagios, Amazon CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor to track key metrics such as Network packets, CPU utilization, and Load Balancer Latency
  • Designed High Availability solutions for Amazon RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server) and Azure SQL Database through Multi-AZ Deployments and Read Replicas
  • Utilized Amazon CloudFront and Azure CDN to ensure low latency and high availability for global customers
  • Monitored user activity and access logs using AWS CloudTrail and Azure Monitor
  • Extensively used Ansible for managing users, application deployments, package installations, and applying security patches across both AWS and Azure environments
  • Planned EOVS and EOL remediations for various software including operating systems, vendor products, front-end applications, application servers, and databases
  • Prepared Bill of Materials (BOM) for costing and budget planning for cloud infrastructure projects on AWS and Azure
  • Banking Client

Associate Manager

DXC Technologies
Hyderabad
04.2017 - 05.2022
  • Company Overview: Farmers Insurance Group is an American insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products
  • Hands-on experience in most layers of AWS offerings and integrations and migration of existing on premise into virtualized hosting environments using EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, Autoscaling with CloudWatch metrics integration
  • Setting up databases in AWS using RDS including MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB & Dynamo DB
  • Storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket
  • Configured and maintained DNS Systems using BIND, Route53 and Power DNS
  • Experience in handling individual projects right from Dev to Production environments
  • Created Ansible Playbooks and Chef cookbooks to provision Apache Web Servers, Tomcat Servers, Ngnix, Apache Spark and other applications
  • Extensively experienced in using Build and Automation tools like Maven, Gradel and working knowledge on other tools like make file
  • Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla and Remedy
  • Experienced in writing Python, Ruby Scripts for building different pipelines
  • Building the Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm, KOPS
  • Configured pods, replicaSets, Deployments, statefulsets for deploying the applications using the images
  • Configured k8s services like ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, IngressController for accessing the pods
  • Configured RBAC using Roles, ClusterRoles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoleBindings for granting access to the users and service accounts to the cluster resources
  • Created Horizontal Pod AutoScaler(HPA) for auto scaling of the pods
  • Configured advanced scheduling of the pods on the nodes
  • Monitoring of the k8s resources using the Prometheus and generating the report using Grafana dashboards
  • Farmers Insurance Group is an American insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products

Team Lead

FirstTek
USA
12.2015 - 04.2017
  • Company Overview: Cardinal Health, Inc
  • Is an American multinational health care services company, specializing in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products
  • Experienced in Installing, configuring, maintenance and Troubleshooting of Java Applications in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x
  • Expertise in setting up of JVMs, Clusters, virtual hosts and configuring authorization and authentication models using LDAP
  • Configured JMS resources like Queues, Queue connection factories, Activation Specifications and JDBC resources like Data Providers, Data sources in IBM WebSphere 7.x Servers
  • Deployment and maintenance of Mission Critical applications in Production Environment
  • Experienced in Recovery and Backup of Web Sphere configuration using Web Sphere backup utilities
  • Worked with MQ Queue Managers and its objects using MQ Explorer and MQSC Commands
  • Experience defining and managing Full Repository Queue Manager Clusters
  • Experienced in applying fixpacks and refresh packs to mitigate the vulnerabilities in the product
  • Used garbage collection to evaluate application performance health and detect the presence of memory leaks
  • Team player and enthusiast in upskilling to new technologies
  • Cardinal Health, Inc
  • Is an American multinational health care services company, specializing in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products

Middleware Admin

Cloudeeva Inc
USA
01.2015 - 05.2015
  • Company Overview: State Farm Insurance, Bloomington IL
  • Strong experience in Installing, configuring, Patching, Troubleshooting and maintenance of Build to production servers
  • Experienced in migrating WAS 8.5 from AIX to Linux OS
  • Expertise in setting up of JVMs, Clusters, virtual hosts and configuring authorization and authentication models using LDAP
  • Configured JMS resources like Queues, Queue connection factories, Activation Specifications and JDBC resources like Data Providers, Data sources in IBM WebSphere 7.x, 8.x Servers
  • Experienced in Recovery and Backup of Web Sphere configuration using Web Sphere backup utilities
  • Good knowledge in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data
  • Experienced in enabling Global Security with Local OS, Custom and LDAP user registries and experience in configuring SSL communication between Webserver Plugin and WAS
  • Experienced in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server and also in Performance Tuning using Resource Analyzer and IBM Support Assistant (ISA) tool
  • Used IBM Support Assistant (ISA) to identify the memory usage, leaks and analyzing Garbage Collection and configuring right GC parameters for better performance, evaluated application performance health and detected the presence of memory leaks
  • Troubleshooting SSL issues & SSL command line tools like Keytool, GSkit for importing certificates, changing passwords and format of certificates in keystores
  • Created Self-Signed Certificates and created Certificate Requests (CSR) through IKeyman and sent it to get DigiCert and deployed the new certificates sent by Certification Authorities into the environment
  • State Farm Insurance, Bloomington IL

Websphere Admin

Cloudeeva
USA
02.2013 - 12.2014
  • Worked for Department of Enterprise Technology (DET), supporting Java Applications
  • My team is responsible for maintenance of applications related to Department of Health services (DHS)
  • Installation and Configuration of WebSphere MQ 6.x, 7.x on different environments like Windows, AIX and Unix
  • Implementing Distribution Communication and Cluster Communication over different platforms
  • Configuring and implemented Client/Server Architecture between applications and servers
  • Deployed applications in Development (Dev), Systems, Users Acceptance (UAT), Pre-Production and Production regions
  • Experienced in Recovery and Backup of Web Sphere configuration using Web Sphere backup utilities
  • Good knowledge in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data
  • Experienced in enabling Global Security with Local OS, Custom and LDAP user registries and experience in configuring SSL communication between Webserver Plugin and WAS
  • Experienced in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server and also in Performance Tuning using Resource Analyzer and IBM Support Assistant (ISA) tool
  • Worked with MQ Queue Managers and its objects using MQ Explorer and MQSC Commands
  • Experience defining and managing Full Repository Queue Manager Clusters
  • Experience using enhancing Shell Scripts, Jython and Python scripts
  • Hands on experience on adding and removing security SSL certificates to key.db file
  • Worked on creating and configuring Local Queue managers and Remote queue Managers

WebSphere Administrator

SRG America
Albany
12.2009 - 10.2010
  • Company Overview: New York State Department of Labor, Albany, NY
  • Experienced in Installing, configuring, maintenance and Troubleshooting of Java Applications in IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x
  • Expertise in setting up of JVMs, Clusters, virtual hosts and configuring authorization and authentication models using LDAP
  • Configured JMS resources like Queues, Queue connection factories, Activation Specifications and JDBC resources like Data Providers, Data sources in IBM WebSphere 6.x Servers
  • Experienced in Recovery and Backup of Web Sphere configuration using Web Sphere backup utilities
  • Good knowledge in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data
  • Experienced in enabling Global Security with Local OS, Custom and LDAP user registries and experience in configuring SSL communication between Webserver Plugin and WAS
  • Experienced in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server and also in Performance Tuning using Resource Analyzer and IBM Support Assistant (ISA) tool
  • Used IBM Support Assistant (ISA) to identify the memory usage, leaks and analyzing Garbage Collection and configuring right GC parameters for better performance, evaluated application performance health and detected the presence of memory leaks
  • Installing certificates are different layers on Load Balancer, Webservers, Plugin’s and application servers using iKeyman and different command line utilities
  • Troubleshooting SSL issues & SSL command line tools like Keytool, GSkit for importing certificates, changing passwords and format of certificates in keystores
  • Created Self-Signed Certificates and created Certificate Requests (CSR) through IKeyman and sent it to get DigiCert and deployed the new certificates sent by Certification Authorities into the environment
  • New York State Department of Labor, Albany, NY

Education

MBA - Strategy And AI

Indian Institute of Management Indore
Indore, India

Skills

  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Maven
  • SonarQube
  • JFrog
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Nginx
  • Apache webserver
  • Oracle
  • DB2
  • Python
  • Shell script

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

Architect

Wipro Technologies
05.2022 - Current

Associate Manager

DXC Technologies
04.2017 - 05.2022

Team Lead

FirstTek
12.2015 - 04.2017

Middleware Admin

Cloudeeva Inc
01.2015 - 05.2015

Websphere Admin

Cloudeeva
02.2013 - 12.2014

WebSphere Administrator

SRG America
12.2009 - 10.2010

MBA - Strategy And AI

Indian Institute of Management Indore
Ravi Kumar Y