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Srinivas Yanamandra

Srinivas Yanamandra

Hyderabad

Summary

Solution Architect with specialization in Cloud Migrations having excellent track record of providing strategic architectural guidance, thought leadership and management in all aspects of Cloud Migrations, OS/DB Migrations, Data Center Migrations, On-premises to Cloud Migrations, Cloud Data Modernization and Site reliability engineering (SLI, SLO, Latency, analyze service incidents).

Design and build high available and fault tolerant systems. Have good understanding in overall Enterprise Data Strategy and Advanced Business Analytics.

Highly motivated and results driven certified GCP/AWS/SAP Solutions Architect with over 10 years of professional experience implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure, database management and integrating it into Amazon web Services Cloud solutions in large and medium sized enterprise environment.

Detail-oriented Computer Systems Engineer committed to improving system design and operations for reliable workflow management. Researches and implements budget-conscious security and encryption solutions to protect user privacy and increase overall network health. Creates easy-to-follow guidelines and troubleshooting documentation for non-technical staff.

Experience includes project governance, managing projects, leading teams, collaborating with business and technical teams to establish project requirements, conceptualize, and delivering ERP and data solutions for diverse clients. Played key role in transition and transformation of a large global delivery projects across sectors, geographies, and cultures.

Lead the scoping and definition of projects (proposed solution, budget, time lines, staffing etc.), Preparing Capacity and Resource planning for all team members based on the production forecast, Providing Offshore Production, and Implementation Support (Global 24x7) to the Global Clients based out of Europe, ASEAN & USA and Management and maintenance of all Operational tools and processes.

Prepared Risk estimates and Risk planning with respect to resources, environments, and others. Prepared Business continuity planning in case of any eventuality. Have been responsible for achieving the project/service objectives. Good knowledge of Business process concepts with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Managed quality, timeliness, and cost of the deliverables along with control over the project’s status and budget.

As a Cloud Project Manager/Senior Manager - Delivery, successfully handled 32 customers as APAC Regional Head and rolled out Six SAP HANA HEC implementations, three GCP migrations, two MS Azure migrations and a AWS migration and rolled out Four SAP Net Weaver End to End implementations and a hybrid cloud migrations from On-premise to Cloud.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS/SAP ECS/GCP/Azure Cloud Solution Architect

Virtusa
Hyderabad
12.2021 - 05.2023
  • Configured and provisioned SAP workloads and instances on both Azure and AWS Cloud Platform using AWS ECS
  • Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3
  • Led teams to architect, design, develop and implement Cloud solutions (Amazon Web Services and/or Azure) encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
  • Migrated data from Legacy database to SAP HANA and AWS Dynamo database utilizing a combination for tools like SAP SWPM, SUM DMO and AWS wizard for Schema conversion tool and database migration service
  • Provisioned cloud networking architectures in a DEV/QA/PROD environment, utilizing Virtual Networks, VPN, Express Route/Direct Connect, Network Security Groups, and Load Balancers.
  • Consulted and advised engineers, architects and executives, help define the right choice of technology stack, serve as a leading technical expert on Data
  • Managed Microservices using Docker to quickly spin up into reproducible development environment and scaling them and orchestration using Amazon EC2 container service (ECS) and deploy it to an Amazon EC2 instance
  • Utilized Terraform to provision servers for quick deployment of application, web, and database servers
  • Utilized AWS CLI for Setting up scalability for application servers for Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53 Managing users and groups using the amazon identity and access management (IAM)
  • Analyzed code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects
  • Wrote CloudFormation Templates (CFT) in Terraform and YAML format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code
  • Configured and provisioned micro-services and instances on both GCP and AWS Cloud Platform using GCR Container Instance and AWS ECS.
  • Automated the cloud deployment using Python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates. Used Terraform for unattended bootstrapping in AWS.
  • Created custom IAM policies, Roles, and user management for delegated users within AWS specified region.
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.

GCP/Azure/AWS/SAP Cloud Architect

HCL Technologies Ltd
Hyderabad
07.2020 - 11.2021
  • Well experienced in migration activities including service discovery, assessment, interviews, planning, execution, and, operations.
  • Demonstrated excellent communication, presentation and lead the team for wave related activities from various data centers located across the globe to GCP.
  • Worked with Cloud Infra team, Storage, Network and Firewalls teams and participated as SAP migration SPOC in Google and Customer calls.
  • As part of the Migration team, Migrating SAP Servers from MS-Azure/On-premise environment to GCP using SAP Standard Migration tools and M4CE.
  • Involved in the automated deployment of SAP HANA on GCP using Terraform templates
  • Working closely with Automation team to automate the proactive monitoring using Zabbix
  • Participating in steering committee meetings with different stakeholders like Customer, Cloud Infra, OS, Network, SOC and Audit teams.
  • Built and maintained technical trusted advisor relationships with all levels from technical experts to senior executives.
  • Implemented business continuity/disaster recovery, runbook documentation, identifying the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company
  • Provisioned cloud networking architectures in a Dev& Test environment, utilizing Virtual Networks, VPN, Express Route/Direct Connect, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers.
  • Utilized Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch
  • Performed security monitoring, security event triage, and incident response; coordinate with other team members and management to document and report incidents
  • Enabled Cloud Trail across all geographic regions and AWS services to prevent activity monitoring gaps
  • Enabled access logging for Cloud Trail S3 bucket so that you can track access requests and identify potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts
  • Converted existing Terraform/Python modules that had version conflicts to utilize Cloud formation templates during deployments, worked with Terraform to create stacks in AWS, and updated the Terraform scripts based on the requirement on regular basis
  • Utilized Terraform/Python for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch
  • Designed, deployed, managed and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerance system on AWS
  • Implemented containerization strategy using tools like Docker and Kubernetes


Senior Cloud Architect

Virtusa
Hyderabad
12.2019 - 07.2020
  • Performed SAP migrations to GCP Cloud and DB refreshes from production to staging environment
  • Developed and maintained data access strategy for applications and internal teams to ensure optimal performance.
  • Automated daily backup/restore processes as well as implemented batch jobs to automate DBA maintenance tasks
  • Installed Service Pack and Hot fix and security patches on network computers and performed full backup, Transactional log backup, Differential backup, and restore them if needed
  • Created and implemented database designs and data models.
  • Planned and implemented security measures to safeguard vital business data.
  • Leading the team on SAP deployments from AWS to GCP using Velostrata and integration with Stack driver and monitoring tool.
  • Completely build SAP Commerce Cloud 1905 suite on GKE cluster, prepared the test bed scenarios for different recipes like B2C, Storefront, Apparel and configured HAC and backoffice Involved in the automated deployment of SAP HANA on GCP using Terraform templates

Associate Manager

Accenture
Mumbai
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • Lead the team on S/4 implementation from existing On-premise to MS Azure.
  • Responsible for Solution Manager integration with managed systems which were moved from on-premise to cloud and deployed and configured alert monitoring templates/technical Monitoring/EWA setup thru SolMan.
  • Worked closely with Automation/Splunk team to automate the proactive monitoring for production environments
  • Responsible for smooth delivery of daily HANA/Basis admin 24X7 production support activities with team of 50+
  • Responsible for Global Production Maintenance Activities (MTW) for APAC/MEU/AMS-Global regions and SPOC for smooth closure of MTW activities while coordinating with B2B Team, Atomic Team, MQ Team, Pointx Team, Mondelez Team, DXC Team and internal functional teams and sending status update reports till the closure of MTW window
  • Lead and responsible for smooth execution of APAC monthly refresh activities, Incident/Service/AMS ticket handling and regular updates.
  • SPOC for Basis team in weekly customer status calls along with SAP Functional Leads and SAP Team
  • Monitoring work of L1, L2, & L3 resources and guiding, providing directions to get issues resolved when got stuck and getting help from SAP as and when required on priority basis.

Cloud Project Manager

Cloud4C
Hyderabad
04.2017 - 08.2018
  • Building and delivering entire customer Landscapes as per the PRC/R&R, per amended CRs before Committed Date of Delivery.
  • Responsible for smooth delivery of daily HANA admin activities.
  • Responsible for smooth execution of Acceptance activities, Incident/Service/EMS/AMS ticket handling and regular updates.
  • Preparation of Monthly availability & performance reports, EWAs and making sure that recommendations were implemented accordingly.
  • Responsible for SAP Resolve ticket tool handling, Communication Support path, Production Down handling, Escalation handling, RCA quality vetting, SLA availability reporting, SLA credit calculation, Multi Customer Outage handling.
  • Participating in Customer cadence calls along with SAP EL/CESMs, CAAs and SAP Launch advisors.
  • Monitoring work of L0, L1, L2 & L3 resources and guiding, providing directions to get issues resolved when got stuck and seeking advice from SAP TQMs on the way forward.
  • Checking daily monitoring reports, back up reports and HCR for Non-HEC customers.
  • Participating in Business Review Meetings and CAB meeting for emergency CR approvals.
  • Participating in internal steering committee meetings with different stakeholders like Cloud Infra, OS, V&S, Network, SOC and Audit teams.
  • Participating in de-escalation meetings along with SAP DEAs and resolving customer issues and understanding customer expectations thereby achieving healthier NPS rating.
  • Participating in pre-sale activities and helping pre-sale team for better solution provisioning for direct customers across PODs.
  • Leading the SIT/RAF teams on Shared SolMan Servers integration across the PODs with Customer landscapes for technical monitoring and alert notification and making sure that regular stack upgrades happening. Leading Build Team/SAP Quality Team for timely deployments.

Senior Solution Architect

TechMahindra
Hyderabad
10.2005 - 03.2017
  • Setup Test Automation Frame work with Worksoft through SolMan. Successfully completed Qlikview setup.
  • Performance tuning and optimization during implementation. Designing landscape and Infrastructure.
  • Successfully performed Ehp Upgrades for APO 4.1 to SCM7.0 Ehp2. Leading the Basis team for Dress rehearsal, cutover and UAT activities for ECC, APO. Providing Daily Basis & Security support.
  • Performed System refreshes on Quarterly go lives on different servers like ECC, BW, SCM-APO.
  • Applied OSS Notes using SNOTE and support packs using SPAM after checking for dependencies based on SAP Marketplace Documentations, Functional Requirements.
  • Using Service-Now, IDM & SDM, for creating Change Requests/Tickets for problems managing all Transports, Documentations and Other useful details.
  • Analysis of existing SAP environment including Hardware setup for EHP Upgrade requirement. Generated Stack files through Solution Manager 7.1 for EhP6 Upgrade. Performed upgrade SAP ECC 6.0 to EhP7 from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 and Oracle 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.4 using SUM tool. Performed EhP6 Upgrade for SAP ERP 6.0. Provided support to developer team to resolve post-upgrade issues.
  • Successfully handled Periodic Go Live Activities on different servers SRM, SUS-MDM, GTS, ECC, BW, CRM, SCM-APO, Vertex, Vendavo. Performing emergency transports and acting as Emergency IT Transport coordinator.
  • Successfully handled activities of Test Cycle and Quarterly releases and Basis SPOC for Go live meetings for every quarter.
  • Successfully deployed and maintained 3000+ Production jobs in Redwood JSP and handled Redwood Job monitoring, troubleshooting and rescheduling.
  • Successfully handled for Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, and Change Management Activities.

Education

Master of Science - Mathematics

M.Sc. (Mathematics) From Osmania University, Indi
India
06.1995

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Economics, Statistics

B.A. (Mathematics, Economics, Statistics)
India
06.1991

Skills

  • Cloud Migrations,
  • Data Architecture & Solution Designing,
  • SAP Migrations/Implementations
  • Process Improvement & Automation
  • Team management and leadership
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Cloud Data Migration Strategy
  • Data Quality Management
  • Data Engineering & Science and Business Analytics
  • Delivery Management
  • Mentoring

Certification

  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, 2020.
  • Completion of Training course - Sys Ops on AWS Cloud Computing.
  • Completion of Training course - Solution Architecting on AWS Cloud Computing.
  • Completion of Training course - Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer.
  • SAP Certified Technology Associate – OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.4, 2016.
  • SAP Certified Technology Professional - Platform Technology with NetWeaver 7.0, 2010.
  • SAP Certified Discovering SAP Business Technology Platform Foundation, July, 2023
  • SAP Certified Discovering SAP Business Technology Platform Foundation, July, 2023.
  • Certified IBM AS/400 Specialist Programmer from IBM, Hyderabad IIIT Campus.
  • Certificate in Lean Six Sigma Green belt, 2017.
  • Certified ITIL V3 foundation course
  • Open SAP Certified High Availability and Disaster Recovery with the SAP HANA Platform, 2016
  • Open SAP Certified Implementation of SAP S/4HANA in Apr, 2016.
  • Open SAP Certified Transformation to Hybrid Landscapes in Aug, 2015.
  • Open SAP Certified SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA in a Nutshell in July, 2015
  • Open SAP Certified SAP S/4HANA – Deep Dive in July, 2015.


Tools & Technologies

ERP : SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver Business Suite and S/4 HANA Suite

Databases: SAP HANA DB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 UDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DB2 UDB, MaxDB, Sybase ASE

Cloud Environment: GCP, AWS, AZURE, SAP HEC (ECS)

Operating System: AIX, Linux (SLES/RedHat, Ubuntu), MS-Windows 201xR2

Scripting Languages: Python, Yaml,Json,Terraform

CPS tools: Redwood JS,Tidal, Esker, Readsoft

Tax Servers:  Vertex, Taxware, GTS

AWS Toolkit: 

VPC, RDS,ECS, EC2, Lambda

SQS,SNS,SES,S3,SnowMobile,EBS

Route53,S3,Python,Elastic Cache

CloudWatch,CloudFront,CloudTrail,CloudFormation

Kubernetes,Containers,

DynamoDB, Networking,Backups,GitHub,

List of Clientele Handled

AECON, Group Touchette, MSC Cruises, SwissCom,Nokia, Sigura Water, Mi-9, Mobi TV,Mondelez International,Sumitomo Corporation, DBS Bank, NGS Telecom, IndoFood & IndoLotte,SAMKO TIMBER, GOJEK,  PASAR JAYA, ACSET, PRASMULYA,NBS, SAMSUNG KOREA, ALUKO, KSN, UBP, BEM, THAI SILK, OSOTSPA,SEB,PT.SUMBER MITRA JAYA,INTERFLOUR, MRT JAKARTA,ZF TRW, GE Health Care, AMS – Arcelor Mittal Corporate, Lyondell Basell Industries, GSK,KOYO Bearing USA LLC, The Timken Company,  Caterpillar Inc., GSK, Abbar & Zainy Cold Stores.

Work Environment on SAP Suite

ECC 6.0 Ehp6, GRC, BW, XI, SLES 11.2, HANA1.0 SPS9/10, Redwood BPA9.1, Sun-Solaris, AIX, Windows, Oracle 10, Solution Manager 7.1, GRC 5.3/10, ECC 6.0 Ehp 6, BI 7.0, APO4.1, PI7.1, HANA 1.0, SLES 11, ECC 6.0, BI 7.1, PI 7.1, EP7.3, SM 7.1 on AIX 5.3 and Oracle 11.2, R/3 4.6C/4.7, ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0 Ehp6, , BI 7.3 Powered By HANA, SRM 7.0, SCM 7.0,Vendavo 7.0, BO4.0, EP7.0 BW3.0,MDM 2.0,PI7.1,SM 7.1,Vertex 4.2,Vendavo 7.0,GRC10.0 and Redwood Job Scheduler on Microsoft Clustered environment with OS  MS-Windows 2003/2008 and DB MS SQL 2008 on HP Servers, ECC 5.0, SCM 4.1,XI 3.0 and SM3.2,GRC5.3 on Microsoft Clustered environment with OS  MS-Windows 2003 and DB MS SQL 2005 on HP Servers, Taxware, ECC 5.0, SCM 4.1,XI 3.0 and SM3.2,GRC5.3 on Microsoft Clustered environment with OS  MS-Windows 2003 and DB MS SQL 2005 on HP Servers, AIX5.3, SUSE LINUX- DB2 UDB 9, Solution Manager 7, GRC 5.2/5.3, ECC 6.0 Ehp 2, SEM-BI 7.0, SCM 2007, GTS 7.2, PI 7.0 and Vertex4.

SLES 12 SP1/SP2, HANA SPS12 Rev 122 Patch 9, HANA 2.0 Rev.22/23, Kernel 7.49 PL 401, ERP 6.0 EHP7 SPS6, Web Dispatcher 7.49 PL 423/ 7.53 PL 22, SolMan 7.2 FPS6, SAP BW NW7.5 SPS10 with BI Content Add-on 757 SP16, CRM 7.0 EHP4 FP8, SAP HYBRIS MARKETING 1709 SP01, SAP ASE 16.0 SP02 PL05 Hotfix 1, Add-on: DMIS, NW Gateway, SAP HCM Renovate 2.0

SAP FIORI FOR SAP S/4HANA 1610’ FPS01 on SAP FIORI FRONTEND SERVER 3.0 (NW ABAP 7.51 Innovation Package), Fiori Add-On for S/4HANA (S4CORE, FIN, ILM, MDG,S4CORE,FIN,ILM,MDG,MDG001,UIS4HOP1,UIAPFI70,UITRV001,UIMDC001,UIX01CA1,UIHR00,IMDG001,IW_PGW)

S/4 HANA 1709 on Linux  SAP HANA 2.0, PLM S/4 HANA 1709 on Linux, Fiori &  WWI Windows 2016 ERP 6.0 EHP8 on AIX/Oracle, SCM, APO, CRM,WM(EWM),GRC,MII,SRM,GMD RWF Portal, GMD MDM Repositories, Vertex, SolMan 7.2, SAP BW NW7.5, PO, MDG, DMS/MaxDB7.9 (Windows 2016), WWI, Tableau 10.2, Python.

 SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 7, SAP BW/SEM 7.5 EHP 8, SAP PI/PO 7.5, SAP SRM 7.0/7.01 SP11, MDM 7.1 SP9,  SAP GRC12.0, SAP SolMan 7.2, SAP HANA 1.0, Web Dispatcher 7.53, SLES Enterprise 15, HP-Unix 11.31, Suse 10, Suse15, Windows Server 2012 R2 Data center, M4CE, Google Cloud Platform, Zabbix


Timeline

AWS/SAP ECS/GCP/Azure Cloud Solution Architect

Virtusa
12.2021 - 05.2023

GCP/Azure/AWS/SAP Cloud Architect

HCL Technologies Ltd
07.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Cloud Architect

Virtusa
12.2019 - 07.2020

Associate Manager

Accenture
11.2018 - 11.2019

Cloud Project Manager

Cloud4C
04.2017 - 08.2018

Senior Solution Architect

TechMahindra
10.2005 - 03.2017

Master of Science - Mathematics

M.Sc. (Mathematics) From Osmania University, Indi

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, Economics, Statistics

B.A. (Mathematics, Economics, Statistics)
Srinivas Yanamandra