Saikumar Ganta

Career Objective:

To build a successful and challenging career in IT industry by making effective use of system administration skills and upgrading continuously to the latest and powerful technology available.

• 3.4 Years of experience as a system admin in Linux, AWS (Amazon Web services).
• Migrated the servers from on-premises to cloud & cloud to cloud environment
• Supporting clients and providing 24/7 production support in AWS and Linux environments.
• Worked on Amazon EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, Auto scaling, Cloud watch, SNS, SES, Route 53, S3, RDS, Elastic beanstalk, Cloud formation, AWS config, Cloud trail.
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be build and operated on AWS.
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Deployed a server less portal with web layer hosted as a static website on S3
• Deployed .Net web application using Elastic beanstalk, S3, Route 53, RDS, Cloud watch, SNS, ACM services.
• Writing Cloud Formation Templates to launch the different AWS resources like EC2, Auto scaling, Load balancers, security groups and DB instances.
• Worked on Multiple AWS instances set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and AMIs, Auto-scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups and polices, Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (Cloud Trail, AWS Config, etc), cloud-security technologies (VPC, Security Groups, etc.) and cloud-permission systems (IAM).
• Have done End to End Encryption Architecture for Applications.
• Automating Volumes and AMI's Backup using Bash Script and Cron jobs in Amazon Linux.
• Taking EBS volume snapshots using cloud watch events.
• Have done migration of SQL server database on AWS.
• Updated the AMI with latest patches.
• Worked on creation and managing IT infrastructure and application stack using AWS Cloud Formation.
• Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups.
• Done SES bounce mail automation using lamda function.
• Responsible for deploying SSL Certs across AWS ELB.
• Installed and configured awstats tool for analytics purpose of application.
• Monitor AWS EC2 & RDS instances from site 24x7 & new relic monitoring tool.
• Writing shell scripts to accomplish day to day system administration task.
• Worked on LAMP Stack By using AWS
• Worked on application deployments and troubleshooting application related issues.
• Experience on creating and Resizing Linux Partitions with LVM.
• Coordinating with Windows team, Application team, DBA team and Backup team to resolve server issue and giving suggestion.
• Maintenance and scheduling backup jobs using cron-tab.
• Experienced in Configuring Servers to provide Networking Services, SSH(password less),NFS, Samba, FTP
• Hands on experience in configuring SSH and FTP &NFS server to transfer files
• Good knowledge on booting process.
• Installing Packages using RPM and YUM.
• Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON.
• Mounting and Un-mounting the File System
• Configure multi-hop SSH to login private ip servers.
• Log rotate policy to delete logs older than seven days
• Create users with password and give them access minimal commands in sudoers file.
• Installed and configured SAR utility to capture server metrics at every 2 minutes.
• Created SWAP space for Amazon ec2 instances and make it ready at boot.
• Work on ticketing based system where we get requests for Change Management