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Overview
Work History
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PROFILE AT A GLANCE
Key Achievements
CLOUD EXPERIENCE
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Tharun Pavuluri

Tharun Pavuluri

Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer
Bangalore

Summary

Over 6.6 years of expertise managing Relational Database Management Systems has made an experienced MSSQL and MariaDB Database Administrator. Proficient in database monitoring, configuration, upgrade management, and migration. Skilled in high availability, disaster recovery, log shipping, clustering, and handling alerts and outages. Additionally, experienced in Service Now Cloud management and RHELOS installation and regular maintenance. My expertise in monitoring applications with Dynatrace, NewRelic, ECK, and Prometheus allows me to use APM to track user app data and provide insights into application usage. I am capable of working with Docker, automating script work with Jenkins, and creating containers in Kubernetes and able to manage the platform in Azure with the help of IaaS.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Intel
Bangalore
12.2021 - Current

Project 1: SQL Server Administration, Always on HA,

  • Upgrades & Migration: Experienced in the installation of MS SQL Server 2016 and 2019 in standalone and clustered environments.
  • High Availability: We are configuring Always on High Availability, ensuring maximum uptime for critical applications.
  • Replication: Managing SQL Server replication to ensure data consistency across multiple nodes.
  • Multilayer Architecture: Implementing a 5-layer architecture configuration to optimize performance and scalability.
  • Monitoring: Continuous monitoring is in place to guarantee 100% uptime and proactive issue detection on the platform with help of Dynatrace, newrelic. Making PowerBI dashboards visually using various data storages and ensuring that real-time data is provided to keep customers informed.
  • On-Call Support: Providing on-call support for any urgent system issues or queries.
  • IIS & Load Balancer Configuration: Configuring and managing the IIS layer application and load balancer to ensure seamless performance and traffic distribution.

Project 2: MariaDB & RHEL Administration, Service Now Cloud Admin

  • MariaDB Installation & Upgrades: Installing and upgrading MariaDB to the latest supported version, including applying the latest patches.
  • Scripting: Creating and maintaining scripts for daily MariaDB administration tasks.
  • RHEL OS Installation & Patching: Installing RHEL OS and applying patches to mitigate vulnerabilities, ensuring the platform's stability and security.
  • Availability: Ensuring 100% availability of platform by performing regular checks and preventive maintenance.
  • ServiceNow Administration: Managing administration, upgrades, and patching activities for ServiceNow to ensure continued performance.
  • JDK Installation & Scripting: Installing JDK and scripting daily administrative tasks for improved efficiency.
  • My expertise in monitoring applications with Dynatrace, NewRelic, ECK, and Prometheus allows me to use APM to track user app data and provide insights into application usage. I am capable of working with Docker, automating script work with Jenkins, and creating containers in Kubernetes and able to manage the platform in Azure with the help of IaaS.

Project 3: Oracle Cloud Database Integration

  • Database Upgrades & Restarts: Performing upgrades and restarts of Oracle Cloud databases to maintain optimal performance and stability.

Database Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore
01.2018 - 12.2021
  • Install and Configure SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016 on Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012/R2 servers. Service pack installation and security fix.
  • Upgrade/Migration of MS SQL Server 2000 to 2005, 2008, 2012 & 2016 using suitable approach
  • Transfer of logins, Jobs & Maintenance plans across SQL Server instances.
  • Worked on High availability options like Mirroring, Replication, Clustering and Always on.
  • Monitored and modified Performance using execution plans and Index tuning
  • Handling many performance issues by enabling extended events with appropriate parameters.
  • Troubleshoots and debugs to identify RCA, other failures. Participates/influences on corporate projects and initiatives regarding Database Management.
  • Prepared and provided Knowledge based documents to the client.
  • Configured and implemented Linked servers between SQL Server to different environments.
  • Worked with Project manager and provided best value-added improvements to the client.
  • Handling suspect database issues and resolving them with minimal data loss.
  • Providing database-troubleshooting issues like Blocking and Deadlocking, fail over maintenance and database recovery.
  • Management reporting and capacity planning with regards to database growth and performance statistics

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology & Science
Guntur, Andrapradesh
09.2014 - 04.2018

Skills

Databases & Technologies: MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server Cloud Platforms: Azure , AWS

Administration of various SQL database environments: SQL Server 2005/2008 R2 / 2012/2014/2016 in large projects

Experienced in configuring and managing high availability technologies of Database such as Always-on clustering, database mirroring, log shipping etc

Monitoring space on server, handling issues with log files, shrinking log and data files

Experienced in optimizing performance of databases through performance tuning measures such as indexing, updating statistics, and expensive query analysis by query execution plans etc

Experienced in Azure IAAS: Configuring the VM and providing services for Azure Cloud

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PROFILE AT A GLANCE

  • Supervising ServiceNow Cloud's administration, upgrades, and patching to maintain its performance
  • Updating MariaDB to the latest supported version, which includes applying the latest patches.
  • Stability and security of the platform can be guaranteed by installing RHEL OS and implementing patches to address vulnerabilities.
  • Ensure data consistency across multiple nodes (10) by managing SQL Server replication with high availability.
  • Daily operational support along with resolution of business-critical application issues related to SQL databases like Database analysis, design and development, testing and maintenance.
  • Capacity maintenance, backup management and disaster recovery from backups as per agreed RPO and RTO.
  • Implementation of high availability features like always on, clustering and log shipping.
  • Experience in using DMVs and dynamic management functions for troubleshooting and identifying database issues.
  • Recommendations for SQL Server best practice implementations based on application requirement and business standards.
  • SQL server performance tuning using SQL profiler to find performance bottlenecks and deadlocks,Fine-tuning of databases and index analysis.
  • Planning and implementing database migration between systems.

Key Achievements

  • I received the IT Division Recognition Award for enabling Tier-1 access to the application across various platforms within the organization.
  • The Collaborative Award and the ONE Team Award were presented to me with great honor for demonstrating flawless integration and successfully executing platform upgrades.
  • I have received the Enterpise Operations Group award for providing significant values for IT and Intel, while also demonstrating role modelling values.
  • I was awarded the CUSTOMER FIRST award by the stakeholders for enabling monitoring in server, SQL, and Windows environments. This initiative played a key role in reducing application costs as part of the core reduction exercise, supporting smooth processing of approximately 87 million transactions per month and serving over 36,000 users, all through collaboration with multiple teams

CLOUD EXPERIENCE

• Worked on AWS Migration from on premise to cloud

• EC2 Creation, Cloud Front, SQL installation in EC2 machine

• Volume (EBS) creation and attachment through disk attachment

• CLUSTER configuration and cloud witness

• Always on configuration on EC2 machine

• AWS RDS, S3

• DBA operation support for cloud servers and many more

• Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance and SQL on VM, Azure Migration from On premise .

• Azure monitoring with help of log analytics & tuning the alerts ensure the find the root cause of the issue.

• Automate the scripting with help of jenkins, maintaining the Dockers containers and ensure non one them effected through monitoring.


Timeline

Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Intel
12.2021 - Current

Database Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2018 - 12.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology & Science
09.2014 - 04.2018
Tharun PavuluriInfrastructure and DevOps Engineer