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
Mumbai, India
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
Pune, India
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
Pune, India
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
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