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Abhimanyakousik Vemuri

Leeds

Summary

Self motivated individual bringing over a decade of IT experience to the table, specializing Infrastructure as Code and AWS. Proficient in all major platform tools, thrive on Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration, DevOps culture and shared success. With a leadership approach and teamwork capabilities, I am dedicated to driving excellence in every project.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
10.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded the DevOps efforts in the Digital Transformation initiative at DLG, overseeing the complete cloud infrastructure.
  • Collaborated closely with stakeholders, playing a pivotal role in the decision-making process for application rollout and release strategies.
  • Engineered customized cloud-based CI/CD and github actions based solutions aligned with business stakeholder requirements and strategic automation, resulting in remarkable reduction in deployment time, efforts and cost.
  • Conducted comprehensive code reviews and provided coaching to team members, promoting best practices in software delivery.
  • Designed, orchestrated, and implemented DLG's Infrastructure as code using Terraform workspace, modules and registries.
  • Leading digital operations team that supports customer digital journeys.
  • Created and managed framework for managing IAM roles for platform users in AWS.
  • Planning and Implementing modernization of legacy infrastructure from on prem to AWS.
  • Responsible for Disaster Recovery setup for all applications supporting digital journey.
  • Orchestrating Golden container Image creation and patching container based applications on monthly basis.
  • Identifying crucial metrics that impact service and application reliability.
  • Creating Splunk and Cloudwatch dashboards to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
  • Creating pipelines for docker based applications and node js based front end application deployments.
  • Performing post Incident analysis and blameless postmortems.
  • Implemented best practices to improve accountability and collaboration with development teams.
  • Leading administration tasks like access management and configuration management for Jenkins infrastructure.
  • Checked technical designs and drawings for adherence to platform standards.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
08.2023 - 12.2023
  • Reconciled open projects per platform requirements.
  • Involved in seamless migration of data and applications from on-premises infrastructure to AWS, ensuring minimal disruption.
  • Engineered High Availability solutions on ECS, catering to the needs of multiple AWS accounts.
  • Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
  • Developed validation master plans, process flow diagrams and standard operating procedures.
  • Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.

Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
01.2022 - 08.2023
  • Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams for identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
  • Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in implementing best practices.

Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2016 - 12.2021
  • Cloud Infrastructure Planning and Design: Assessing the existing applications and infrastructure for cloud suitability and develop migration approach.
  • Implementing various architecture design for High availability, Scalability and Disaster recovery at region level as per the client requirements.
  • Working with various operations and development teams on software deployment, operability, troubleshooting and monitoring.
  • Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS.
  • Implementing cost control strategies across cloud.
  • Amazon Web Services: Used AWS, Creating, Importing and launching volumes, EC2, RDS, Lambda, security groups, autoscaling, load balancers (ELBs), NACL in the defined VPC.
  • Cloud Watch Alarm Metric creation for CPU utilization.
  • Elastic Block Storage(EBS) addition/deletion/expansion to EC2 instance as per application requirement.
  • Manage Users and Group and their permissions in AWS using IAM(Identity and Access Management).
  • EBS Volumes management and snapshots for backups using python scripts.
  • Worked on BC/DR for cloud Environment and created work instructions on BC/DR.
  • Jenkins: Setting up Jenkins jobs to pull the code from the repository to build packer images.
  • Jenkins Job setup using groovy pipeline script to perform infrastructure creation in AWS through terraform and shell scripts.
  • Installing and configuring Jenkins on windows instances created in AWS environment.
  • Monitoring and analyzing Jenkins console output and log files after run.
  • Modifying groovy script to add/delete parameters and stages in Jenkins jobs based on changes in process.
  • Maintained and administered GIT source code tool.
  • Written terraform modules for cloud migration project.
  • Creation of customized images using Scripts in packer.
  • Troubleshooting issues raised during AMI refresh schedules.

Senior QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2015 - 03.2016
  • Setting up test plans for VMAX3 testing which involves setup of enas functionality.
  • Performed regression testing, code coverage testing on VMAX3 hardware.
  • Tested VMAX3 components like megatron, Thunderbolt, Moon Shadow, Whirlwind, Asteroid, Gorgon, Infini band switch.
  • Performed testing on I/o modules, SAS functional modules.
  • Testing Systems with Mainframe I/O by configuration of Symmetrix Mainframe connectivity and a CLAY mainframe replication system.
  • Hands-on experience in working with EMC PowerPath and EMC IOMeter.
  • Coordinating with remote teams in the U.S to work on projects and design for future next generation of products.
  • Experience in working with data communication protocols including Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocols to analyze, monitor and inject (jamming) software errors into the running data communications of our systems.
  • Usage of CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) devices: Replicating 'hard' system faults on our data storage systems by using Universal fault injections in a live SAN infrastructure.

Storage and Cloud operations support engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2015 - 05.2015
  • Working on EMC Symmetrix products including Symmetrix management console (SMC), SRDF, Symmetrix bin file operations, Symetrix bin file upgrades and other code loads on DMX, VMAX products.
  • Helping to replicate customer environments by working closely with the Symmetrix Engineering, data storage sustaining team and the Cloud Operations team.
  • Maintenance of Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure in local lab environment.
  • Replication of customer environment through appropriate SAN configuration for testing purposes.
  • Maintenance of systems involving host technologies VMWare ESX.

QA Engineer VMAX 3

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 01.2015
  • Participated in configuration set up of VMAX3 systems.
  • Setting up test plan and writing test cases for testing VMAX3 functionality.
  • Performed QA testing on basic functionalities of VMAX3.
  • Participated in discussions about enas functionality implementation in VMAX3.

EMC Data Storage Lab Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 03.2014
  • Exposure to Latest EMC storage technologies
  • Operating, maintaining and testing the storage products like symmetrix, VCE
  • Participated in storage area network installations and configuration processes
  • Developed diverse knowledge of storage architecture and operating standards.

QA Engineer : DMX & VMAX

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 12.2013
  • Performed Regression testing for Enginuity code that will manage symmetrix hardware and data storage
  • Participated in System Integration testing for new features included in symmetrix software and testing customer scenarios
  • Configuring the storage testing environment and maintaining and troubleshooting the EMC infrastructure
  • Strong knowledge on testing methodologies like Regression testing, Performance testing, Load Testing.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Electronics and Instrumentation

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
01.2009

Skills

  • Packer
  • AWS
  • Splunk
  • AppDynamics
  • SQL
  • Scripting Languages: HCL, Bash, Python basics
  • Automation Tools: Terraform
  • Version controls: GITHUB, Bit Bucket
  • Operating Systems: Linux
  • Monitoring: Splunk, Cloud Watch
  • CI/CD: Github Actions, Jenkins
  • Project management tool: JIRA
  • Collaboration tool: Confluence

Certification

  • Cloud Architect, IT-as-a-Service Expert, C14JKR85FMQ11ZP9
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Issued Mar 2023 - Expires Mar 2026
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) - HashiCorp, Issued May 2020 - Expires Jun 2023

Awards

On The Spot Award - Tata Consultancy Services, Mar 2014, In appreciation of your efforts towards completing Symmetrix Enginuity Regression Testing on time.

Timeline

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
10.2023 - Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
08.2023 - 12.2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
01.2022 - 08.2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2016 - 12.2021

Senior QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2015 - 03.2016

Storage and Cloud operations support engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2015 - 05.2015

QA Engineer VMAX 3

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 01.2015

EMC Data Storage Lab Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 03.2014

QA Engineer : DMX & VMAX

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2011 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Electronics and Instrumentation

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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