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Shashi Kiran Gajula

Hyderabad

Summary

DevOps Network Engineer with 5+ years of experience with Build and Release management, SDLC including gathering System Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Production Support, Maintenance, Enhancement. Talented performer with over 5+ years of experience using source control tools to identify and fix bugs in code. Consistent team player with exemplary multitasking skills.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Network Engineer - SOT

SIFY Technologies
07.2019 - Current


  • Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and for storage and backup on AWS.
  • Manage AWS EC2 instances using Auto Scaling, ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) for our environments.
  • Backing up the instances by taking snapshots of the required servers regularly using Life Cycle Manager.
  • Maintaining cloud infrastructure using EC2, S3, Cloud Formation, VPC.
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines by integrating Git,GitHub, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, and AWS (provisioning).
  • Responsible for tagging and maintain code on version control GIT.
  • Creating Branches in GIT and managing the repository along with initiating the Code Merge activities.
  • Uses different Jenkins’s plugins to create this CI/CD work flow.
  • Creating new jobs in Jenkins and managing the build related issues.
  • Automating build process for creating JAR/WAR artifacts using Maven.
  • Writing Playbooks, Role in Ansible for Application Deployment automation, Cloud Infrastructure Automation.
  • Jenkins pipeline for uploading Docker image into AWS ECR.
  • Created Docker files for creating custom Docker images.
  • Created Docker containers along with application, exposed ports for the application to the outside world.
  • Created Docker composed files for multicontainer run.
  • Created Kubernetes (k8s) pods and created Kubernetes (k8s) services to access application to the outside world.
  • Created Kubernetes ingress for routing application for http and https.
  • Experience on create Kubernetes cluster using Kops and kubeadm.
  • Having experience on creating pods, namespaces, deployment, ingress, services, jobs.
  • Experience in setting observability and monitoring using AWS CloudWatch and setting up alerts.
  • Responsible for implementing the monitoring solutions in Terraform, Ansible,Jenkins and Docker.
  • Written Terraform scripts for Cloudwatch alerts.

Netxcell Limited

Netxcell Limited
10.2017 - 06.2019


  • Responsible for implementing activities that are directed by organizational policies and performed by me to maintain, manage and configure the Data Centre Environment.
  • We have monitoring tools like CA for monitoring our IT infrastructure LAN/WAN, MPLS and P2P links between hubs and spoke locations & also use Solar Winds Real-time Bandwidth monitor for monitoring live bandwidth of ISP’s.
  • We coordinate with ISP if we are facing any issues with ISP by mail.
  • Experience in handling the Cisco Routers like 1700-ISR, 1800, 1900, 2800, 2900, 3700, 3900.
  • Experience in handling the Cisco Switches like 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560 and 4509 Catalyst switches, Dell switches, HP procurve switches.
  • Managing and maintaining routing between hub and spoke locations by using Static, Default & OSPF.
  • As per the client requirement we are giving support to remote users for accessing specific applications (like port access) with proper approvals from higher/IT head.
  • As per the client requirements we are giving local server web access to CTD external customers by using static NAT.
  • Providing free IP’s to users, and troubleshooting user level (software/Hardware) issues.
  • Handling Service requests raised by end users relating to network like checking network connections, IP configurations, proxy settings, etc.
  • Monitoring the ISP bandwidths and Coordinating with ISP’s when we have any technical issues which are belongs to WAN p2p links.
  • For once in a quarter we are coordinating with TP auditor regarding network maintenance and validations.
  • Daily taking backups of the network devices.
  • Coordinating and escalating to Security team if we receive any requests or security issues relating to firewall, like ports opening, ports blocking, providing access to end users according to requirements.
  • Remote Access to Cisco Routers, switches for checking connectivity till CPE (Customer Premises Equipment’s)
  • Providing support to the end users, troubleshoot customer queries on Transport Services Leased Lines & Data Services like L3VPN, Internet & L2VPN.
  • Providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Reason for outage (RFO) of service affecting faults.

Education

Bachelor's in Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
05.2013

Intermediate - Maths Physics Chemistry

Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Hyderabad
04.2009

Skills

  • DevOps Processes & Integration
  • Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps
  • Version Control system tools like GIT, GitHub
  • Build and CI/CD tools like Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
  • Configuration Management tools like Ansible
  • Containerization Tools like Docker, Kubernetes
  • Ticketing Tools like Jira, Service Now
  • Artifactory like Jfrog,S3
  • Operating system Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
  • Cloud Platform like AWS, Azure

Certification

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) – (CISCO ID: CSCO13342444)

Additional Information

  • Good experience as a DevOps engineer working on Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS, basic Azure and on-premise resources to create and run seamless infrastructure.
  • Good experience in continuous integration using Git, GitHub, Jenkins.
  • Used Maven to automate software build through build management.
  • Experience in creating Docker images and maintaining registries and images.
  • Adept in writing automation scripts and managing configuration via Ansible.
  • Used Terraform for provisioning infrastructure on cloud environments.
  • Used Kubernetes as an orchestration tool to manage, deploy and scale Docker containers.
  • Managed AWS services like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, AMI, security groups RDS, ELB
  • Good knowledge on Amazon Web Services like Cloud Formation, EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM roles through AWS Console.
  • Cloud Watch for monitoring server metrics, creating alarms & integrating with auto scaling.
  • Good knowledge in troubleshooting the MPLS links.
  • Good knowledge in troubleshooting on VRF’s which has last mile protocol as e-BGP, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP & Static routes as well.

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
German
Beginner (A1)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

DevOps Network Engineer - SOT

SIFY Technologies
07.2019 - Current

Netxcell Limited

Netxcell Limited
10.2017 - 06.2019

Bachelor's in Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Intermediate - Maths Physics Chemistry

Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Shashi Kiran Gajula