Srikanth Chagarlamudi

Key Responsibilities

As an accomplished DevOps Manager, I lead the team responsible for infrastructure, build, and release processes, ensuring robust and scalable operations. My expertise encompasses designing and building isolated data centers, managing complex server environments, and implementing advanced automation and monitoring solutions.

• DevOps Leadership: Direct and oversee DevOps team responsible for infrastructure, build, and release processes, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Data Center Design and Implementation: Successfully designed and built isolated data centers from ground up, tailored to meet specific organizational requirements and executed comprehensive capacity planning to guarantee adequate resources for future growth and expansion.
• Server and Storage Management: Manage over 50 HPE Blade Servers running VMware ESXi 7 & 8, and oversee five storage solutions including 2 Nimble, 1 Alletra, 1 HPE 3PAR, and 1 HPE Primera, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Network Administration: Deploy and manage Cisco switches to maintain secure and efficient network connectivity.
• Load Balancing: Implement and manage Citrix VPX NetScaler Load Balancers to enhance application performance and traffic distribution.
• Azure Cloud Management: Oversee multiple Azure subscriptions, including account and subscription management, resource allocation, virtual machine and storage management, and monitoring and troubleshooting.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Create and maintain Jenkins build plans for application builds and deployments, enhancing continuous integration and delivery processes.
• Optimized CI/CD Pipelines: Implemented SonarQube to ensure high code quality and security in CI/CD pipeline.
• Automation: Automated end-to-end deployment of complex SumTotal products, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.

• Enhanced application availability by efficiently monitoring and troubleshooting VMware infrastructure issues.
• Implemented robust monitoring and alerting strategies for early detection of potential system issues, ensuring quick resolutions and minimal impact on end users.
• Ensured business continuity through regular backups, snapshots, and replication of mission-critical data across multiple sites.
• Trained colleagues on virtualization concepts, tools, and techniques, fostering collaborative team approach to problem-solving.

• Enhanced system performance by optimizing VMware configurations and settings.
• Established effective monitoring and alerting strategies for early detection of potential system issues, enabling swift resolution and minimal impact on end users.
• Ensured seamless integration of new hardware and software components into existing VMware environments.
• Safeguarded business continuity with regular backups, snapshots, and replication of mission-critical data across multiple sites.
• Contributed to successful completion of numerous IT projects by providing expert VMware administration support throughout all stages of planning, implementation, and post-deployment maintenance.