SAMANTH PULLURU
Summary
Senior DevOps practitioner with 7 years relevant experience and overall 17+ years of experience in IT. Purpose-driven professional with team leading capabilities and also ability to work effectively and independently. Bilingual DevOps Engineer with architecting and implementing infrastructure and application delivery solutions.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2008
2008
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer
Reinsurance
06.2024 - Current
- Lead infrastructure implementation, maintenance, operations and management in Data & Analytics space
- Lead data architecture, coordinate with stakeholders, prepare roadmap, identify OKRS, translate into actionable stories, refine backlog and drive towards achieving them. Identify technical debts, initiate and drive changes
- Lead a team of DevOps engineers and Data Engineers
- Optimize costs across operating Azure subscriptions (achieved 80K USD savings for the year 2025)
- Supporting developers with needs pertaining CICD pipelines using Azure DevOps, deploying infrastructure via Terraform, creating scripts/automations using Python/Shell, etc.
- Deployed and maintaining Azure Databricks workspaces for multiple products and environments
- Troubleshoot, fix, implement a monitor in place and document considerable impact issues
- Operate majorly on Azure data services like ADF, Azure Databricks, ADLS, Azure DevOps, DBaaS, KeyVaults, Entra(Identify management), etc.,
- Embed security practices and tools into CI/CD pipelines to ensure code, applications, and infrastructure meet security standards before deployment(SAST, DAST, vulnerability scans, dependency scans, image scans, etc)
- Setup monitoring and alerting for ADO pipelines, ADF pipelines, Databricks pipelines, scheduled jobs, services, API applications, resource utilizations, etc.
- Implement versioning practices using Git, essentially moving towards maintaining everything as code
- Setup ETL/ELT pipelines across environments using ADF, Azure Databricks, that ingests data, transforms/enriches data and stores in the gold layer for downstream usage
Senior DevOps Engineer
Retail
06.2021 - 05.2024
- Created and delivered 2600+ CICD pipelines using GitHub Actions for project teams working in Data & Analytics domain. Teams deploy/update artifacts to applications and services deployed in GCP and Azure. Reduced build and deploy times by 60%
- Maintained infrastructure as code for all projects in GCP using Terraform. Versioned the code in GitHub. Created GitHub actions pipelines to run all TF actions to deploy the Infra
- Maintained GitHub Enterprise Cloud Organization as owner, developed automated template systems to onboard project teams to GitHub platform that resulted in 70% effort saving
- Created and maintained central repositories that host template actions which are used by all project repos
- Types of pipelines include deploying/updating GCP native services, Azure native services, helm charts to GKE and AKS clusters, docker image build (python, nodejs and reactjs based apps) and Terraform based lac
- Other regular activities included troubleshooting and fixing pipeline failures and addressing enhancements, user management in GitHub, actions upgrades (wherever applicable), prepare and maintain documentation, etc.
DevOps Engineer
Telecom
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Migrated a complex micro-services based application hosted on-premise to Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) as a part of migration strategy
- Prepared the entire Infrastructure as code using Terraform HCL that covered all components and services required by the micro-services based application to run on AKS. These include (but not limited to) resource group, virtual network, LBS, DNSS, Application gateway, Traffic manager, AKS cluster, bastion VM, storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure monitor, VMSS, private link, private endpoints and many more
- Versioned the entire lac for the AKS resource group in Azure DevOps repo
- Created pipelines that run TF actions to generate plan and deploy the entire Infra to target Azure subscription
- Created helm charts for the micro-services and pipelines that deploy/update the helm charts
- Troubleshooted and fixed all issues faced while deploying the micro-services, integrating them and making them all work together as expected
- Setup branching strategy to ensure any infra source code change or helm chart updates are done through proper review and approved fashion
- Coordinated with application support team, project management, microsoft support colleagues and all other stakeholders to acquire required information and share progress on the migration and on the challenges involved
- Migrated the application before targeted dates, transitioned the knowledge to support teams, documented all necessary information and handed them over for them to sail the ship smoothly
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
HealthCare
06.2019 - 05.2020
- Transitioned from Middleware SME to Cloud and DevOps Engineer
- Upskilled with Azure, Azure DevOps and Terraform
- Built Proof of Concepts in Azure to simulate on-premise middleware environments (Websphere based)
- Prepared code to deploy parts of Azure Infrastructure using Terraform HCL. Few components include VMs to deploy VMs that hosted Websphere deployment manager and nodeagents, networking components, resource group, bastion hosts, VMSS, LBS, private endpoints, etc.
- Created pipelines that deploy the Infra written as code to target Azure subscription
- Created pipelines that deploy/update the application jars to target JVMS hosted in Azure VMs
Middleware SME
Healthcare
09.2016 - 05.2020
- Maintained and administered 3500+ Websphere middleware instances across 12 environments
- Migrated applications from WAS6.1 to WAS8.0 and from WAS8.0 to WA8.5
- Trained new members, guided team during critical implementations and issues, documented major issues, SOPs, etc.
- Performed periodic security review of hosting environments
- Troubleshooted and fixed issues at Web-layer and App-layer
- Worked with platform teams, application teams and other stakeholders to create and handover the application JVMS
- Created monitoring solutions that measured performance of application, simplified system administration
Middleware Sr Engineer
Telecom
04.2010 - 09.2016
- Built, deployed and maintained multiple middleware environments.
- Architected middleware environment blueprints
- Developed automated solutions to operate middleware environments at various stages of the lifecycle
- Migrated applications from WebSphere 5.0 to 6.1, from WebSphere 6.1 to 8.0
- Coordinated issues with other operation teams included and aligning all team colleagues with a general overview on the issue, performing problem analysis and coming up with solutions to permanently fix the problem
- Coordinated activities between a shore and clients that involve knowledge transition to offshore about new components, clearing knowledge gaps over existing products, planning and executing critical projects involving entire team
- Participated in Incident, change and problem management concerning all application servers, their behaviors and the components involved in management
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
HyderabadSkills
- Azure, AWS, GCP(Cloud platforms)
- Docker(Container)
- Kubernetes(Container orchestration)
- Terraform(Infrastructure as Code)
- Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Gitlab (CI/CD, git versioning, plan, track and release projects)
- Jira, confluence (plan, track and release projects)
- Data Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- Python programming
- Bash, Powershell (scripting)
- Linux
- Git
- Websphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat(Middleware)
- Security focused
- Analytical and problem solving expertise
- Effective Communication
- Self driven
- Team leadership
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- Google certified Associate cloud Engineer
- Linux Foundation certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Hashicorp certified Terraform Associate
- Linux Foundation's Prometheus certified Associate
- Microsoft certified Azure Fundamentals
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Telugu
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer
Reinsurance
06.2024 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Retail
06.2021 - 05.2024
DevOps Engineer
Telecom
06.2020 - 05.2021
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
HealthCare
06.2019 - 05.2020
Middleware SME
Healthcare
09.2016 - 05.2020
Middleware Sr Engineer
Telecom
04.2010 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University