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Prudhvi Raj Vellam - Devops Engineer

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PRUDHVI RAJ VALLEM DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer [email protected] | 646-415-2607 | linkedin.com/in/prudhvi-raj-vallem-38a55639/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer with 15 years of total IT experience, featuring 7+ years of hands-on experience in production support, reliability, automation, and cloud engineering, alongside 8+ years specializing in SAN storage architecture and enterprise systems administration. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate with deep cloud expertise across AWS (GovCloud, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch), Azure (VMs, Scale Sets, Traffic Manager, Azure AD), and GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Build). Extensive expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management utilizing Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Python (boto3). Proficient in building robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code), Concourse, and Bitbucket Pipelines. Strong containerization and orchestration skills leveraging Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) with Helm charts for standardized deployment. Experienced in leveraging AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate incident triage, optimize log/alert analysis, and standardize RCA/runbook documentation. Comprehensive background in Linux (RHEL) administration, enterprise SAN infrastructure (Hitachi VSP, EMC VMAX), disaster recovery planning, and large-scale data migrations. TECHNICAL SKILLS Cloud Technologies AWS (including GovCloud), Azure IaaS/PaaS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Automation & IaC Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Shell Scripting (Bash), Python (Boto3), JSON, YAML, Groovy Containers & Orchestration Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, AWS ECS CI/CD Tools Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code), Bitbucket Pipelines, Concourse, Git, GitHub Monitoring & Observability ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), New Relic, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Grafana Web & Application Servers Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, WebLogic, IIS Databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL Hardware & Storage Hitachi VSP (G5500, G1500, GXX), EMC VMAX, EMC DMX, Brocade/Cisco MDS Switches Operating Systems Linux/Unix (RHEL), Windows Server, VMware PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SAP NS2 Sr. DevOps Engineer Oct 2023 Present Provided comprehensive production support for CPI services, SAP Ariba, UI Theme Designer, and Business Rules, driving prompt incident triage, resolution, and post-mortem follow-ups. Managed, maintained, and optimized containerized application workloads in AWS GovCloud and Cloud Foundry environments, ensuring high availability and strict change execution controls. Developed and troubleshot Concourse CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous delivery and fix build breaks. Orchestrated a successful PostgreSQL database migration to a hyperscaler, owning the planning, cutover validation, and post-migration stabilization phases. Designed and deployed Kubernetes manifests (Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets) on AWS EKS, standardizing cloud releases with Helm charts. Enhanced Kubernetes operational health by implementing resource requests/limits, health checks, autoscaling policies, and advanced metric visibility. Integrated AI-assisted analysis to streamline log review summaries, identify anomalous error patterns, and accelerate root-cause analysis (RCA) and runbook generation. Maintained rigid IAM and security compliance by remediating application vulnerabilities, updating security groups, and supporting enterprise audit readiness. Bank of America Sr. DevOps Engineer Feb 2023 Dec 2023 Directed continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines utilizing XLR Release Manager to automate multi-environment vendor image rollouts. Managed vulnerability scanning workflows, implementing prompt patching and hotfixes across application environments. Engineered AWS Glue ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and map data from Amazon S3, RDS, and Redshift into analytics-ready datasets. Constructed and managed Ansible Tower templates to control and standardize application releases. Authored Dockerfiles and maintained container configurations to standardize local and remote development environments. Governed IAM compliance across teams by routinely validating and upgrading AWS Security Groups. BioIntellisense Sr. DevOps Engineer (GCP) Dec 2022 May 2023 Provisioned and managed scalable GCP infrastructure for python-based applications using modular Terraform architecture. Developed reusable Terraform modules for a wide array of GCP resources including IAM, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, GCS Buckets, Cloud Functions, and GKE. Created Bitbucket Pipelines to orchestrate automated, multi-branch, and multi-environment deployments across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production. Successfully migrated legacy monolith workloads from Google App Engine to microservices running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Formulated and documented a comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) implementation strategy for critical infrastructure. Capital One SRE / AWS DevOps Engineer Jan 2022 Sept 2022 Served as Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) managing and scaling multiple high-throughput Java and Python-based corporate applications. Leveraged Terraform to provision AWS cloud resources including EC2, Application Load Balancers (ALB), RDS instances, Redshift, EMR clusters, and CloudWatch alarms. Structured multi-region Jenkins pipelines to automatically deploy infrastructure code through lower environments and safely elevate to production. Implemented Blue/Green deployment strategies for underlying infrastructure to achieve zero-downtime upgrades. Created and validated a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) application workflow on AWS; drafted operational production runbooks and successfully navigated architecture review board approvals. Developed custom Bash and Python automation scripts to replace manual systems administration tasks and parse bulk log data. Hitachi Vantara AWS Cloud and DevOps Engineer Apr 2017 Jan 2022 Designed scalable, multi-cloud architectures across AWS and GCP using Terraform and Ansible in full alignment with Architecture Review Board (ARB) standards. Deployed enterprise microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and AWS EKS, optimizing them via Helm packages for reproducible cluster builds. Standardized secret management and application data protection by introducing HashiCorp Vault within GCP. Setup automated image compilation workflows using Google Cloud Build, automatically shipping secure Docker containers to the Google Container Registry. Formulated multi-node configurations for performance tracking using ELK Stack and New Relic, actively solving authentication and token-based issues via Kibana log auditing. Consolidated fragmented source control platforms by migrating hundreds of legacy Git and SVN repositories over to structured Bitbucket spaces. Hitachi Vantara Senior System Administrator / DevOps Engineer Apr 2011 Jan 2017 Provided enterprise infrastructure consulting, SAN administration, and disaster recovery strategies for a diverse portfolio of Fortune 500 clients. CBOE & State Street Bank: Controlled large-scale SAN storage architectures and seamless data migration workflows. Orlando Health & Allstate: Architected and executed high-availability replication, disaster recovery simulation planning, and complex business continuity strategies. Credit Suisse: Oversaw a multi-vendor data migration layout (3PAR/IBM/EMC to Hitachi) featuring a resilient 3-Data-Center (3DC) solution. Verizon & ExxonMobil: Conducted large-scale physical data center moves and non-disruptive migrations using TrueCopy and Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR). EDUCATION Master of Science in Electrical Engineering | University of New Orleans Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering | JNTU Hyderabad, India HONORS & AWARDS Platinum Recognition Award (Hitachi, 2015): Awarded for exceptional performance managing multiple high-profile enterprise accounts. Special Deal Recognition Award (Hitachi, 2016): Received for technical infrastructure work that directly enabled a multi-million-dollar storage deal with a major healthcare client. Customer Satisfaction Accolades: Earned multiple commendations from clients for outstanding operational delivery and system reliability. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment artificial intelligence user interface sthree active directory information technology