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Education
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Certification
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Sidharth Achugatla

Mumbai,MH

Summary

Knowledgeable AWS DevOps Engineer with a solid background in automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing system reliability. Proven track record of implementing scalable solutions and optimizing deployment processes. Demonstrated expertise in cloud services and scripting, effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS DevOps Engineer

Wipro Technology
11.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded the management of AWS infrastructure across multiple teams, overseeing 2 production accounts and 2 QA/Test/Development accounts, ensuring high availability and scalability.
  • Architected and enforced scalable, high-availability infrastructure on AWS using EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda to support specific projects and organizational goals.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS Code-Pipeline, Code-Build, and Code-Deploy to automate deployment workflows.
  • Utilized AWS CloudFormation to explicitly manage infrastructure as code, ensuring consistency and reliability across various environments.
  • Supported application deployments on EKS, troubleshooting issues that arose during deployment processes.
  • Upgraded EKS versions for clusters and configured SNS notifications for real-time alerts.
  • Supported the deployment of new RDS instances, establishing connectivity with applications, and creating new schema databases as required.
  • Created IAM policies and managed access to applications and infrastructure using IAM roles during new application deployments.
  • Managing GCP Cloud Armor and AWS-WAF for security, Layer 7 filtering, and scrubbing incoming requests for common web attack issues.
  • Provided expert support to users for access issues and infrastructure modifications within AWS accounts.
  • Worked with Security Hub and Security Command Center, coordinating with application vendors to identify and mitigate security risks within the AWS environment.
  • Collaborated with the security team to develop and implement best practices for AWS infrastructure management, including backup and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Monitored resource actions on AWS using Cloud Trail and AWS Configs for enhanced security and compliance.
  • Used Git and GitHub for repository management.
  • Executed advanced monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch to enhance application performance and availability metrics.
  • Audited monthly AWS billing reports to ensure cost-effective and scalable business solutions, continuously monitoring and optimizing costs by analyzing usage patterns and implementing savings strategies.
  • Stay updated on the latest cloud security trends, emerging threats, and industry best practices.

Cloud Architect

Atos Syntel Pvt Limited
04.2020 - 10.2022
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and employed the AWS Well-Architected Framework to design and build robust cloud architectures.
  • Spearheaded the design of architecture diagrams for a brokerage firm application hosted on AWS Cloud, leveraging native AWS services.
  • Designed and implemented four environments—Production, UAT, QA, and Development—for the project.
  • Developed and deployed around 15-16 websites from the ground up on AWS and GCP platforms, involving tasks such as allocating external IP addresses, configuring instance groups and health checks, setting up front-end and back-end balancer configurations, generating SSL certificates, establishing routing rules, and implementing firewall policies.
  • Established EC2 environments from AMIs, troubleshoot and monitored Linux servers to ensure optimal performance.
  • Supervised day-to-day IT infrastructure and operations across AWS and GCP platforms.
  • Utilized custom dashboards with CloudWatch, Grafana, and Zabbix for application and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Proficiently created, managed, and deleted users and groups using AWS IAM as per operational requests.
  • Create firewall Rules as per requests for accessing VMs on specific ports, geographic locations and threat signatures.
  • Prepared comprehensive cloud security documentation covering infrastructure security, data security, and secure connections to on-premises and customer data on AWS Cloud.
  • Generated daily reports on latency and ICMP metrics for TCL and BHARTI interconnect links to monitor network performance and reliability.

Operational Production Control Analyst

Atos Syntel Pvt Limited
07.2018 - 03.2020
  • Scheduled special requirements jobs through Zeke and performed a daily basis.
  • I received a spot award for handling alone during a maintenance activity, which is carried out once a week. Perform actions for utilizing the pool.
  • Performed JCL overrides. Installed change-man packages from development to production environments.
  • Generated and provided one-time ID and password to the client. Performed LPAR shutdown process. Performed the enterprise batch processing and batch monitoring.
  • Implemented one-shot as per client requests. Monitored and replied to outstanding messages.
  • Performed different operations on jobs in Zeke and Zebb commands. Worked on the work-order console. I have also used remedy ticketing tools.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Mumbai University
06.2018

Skills

  • Cloud Services (AWS & GCP): EC2, EKS, S3, ELB, CloudTrail, Route 53, CloudWatch, Security Hub, SCC, VPC, Cloud Armor, WAF, EBS, IAM, ASG, Guard Duty, Config, Cost Explorer, Logs Explorer, Opensearch, DynamoDB, SNS, Step Functions, Lambda
  • DevOps & Infrastructure Tools: Git, Terraform, Docker
  • Monitoring & Logging Tools: Grafana, Zabbix, Prometheus
  • Programming Languages: Python, Shell Scripting
  • Ticketing & Issue Tracking: ServiceNow (Client), Jira (Internal)
  • Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, Windows

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Google Certified Cloud Engineer Associate

Timeline

AWS DevOps Engineer

Wipro Technology
11.2022 - Current

Cloud Architect

Atos Syntel Pvt Limited
04.2020 - 10.2022

Operational Production Control Analyst

Atos Syntel Pvt Limited
07.2018 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Mumbai University

Disclaimer

I do hereby declare that the statements made above are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Sidharth Achugatla