Santha Rao Arji
Project Management
TX, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Santha Rao Arji's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Santha also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Santha Rao Arji has 10 years of work experience, with 2 years of management experience, including a low-level position.
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Work Experience
DevOps Tech Lead
AT&T (Telecom Domain)
November 2021 - January 2024
- Project Description: AT&T an innovative environmental project that covers one or more designated facilities, designed and implemented in the form of an EMSA. Installation, testing and commissioning, integration of computer hardware and services with support under Warranty and annual maintenance contract. The AT&T Project is consistent with the Town Plan insofar as expanding wireless broadband service into areas of the town with service quality, while minimizing and mitigating adverse impacts to historic districts or public parks, necessary wildlife habitats, special flood hazard areas, primary agricultural soils, or along designated scenic roadways. Project Environment: Jenkins, Git-Lab, Docker, XLR/XLD, Kubernetes(k8), Terraform, Azure, AWS Services, Confluence. Key Result Areas: * Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure; setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations; creating CI/CD pipelines for deployments in production using XLR/XLD. * Configured & integrated the servers in various environments for automatic provisioning with tools like Ansible. * Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) security best practices to ensure that cloud infrastructure is provisioned securely using tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform. * Administering DevOps practices & executing daily operations from development to production * Leverage predictive scaling capabilities in AWS Auto Scaling or third-party tools to forecast future workload patterns and proactively adjust capacity to meet anticipated demand. * Driving automation for the DevOps Environment and ensuring that end-users were able to trigger builds from Bamboo effortlessly at any time * Adopting practices such as Continuous Integration, DevOps and aligning with development activities to increase effectiveness and reducing risks * Implement self-service portals or APIs to enable developers and teams to provision resources on-demand. * Optimizing development and deployment processes using Azure DevOps tools(VSTS) and practices. * Implementing automated incident detection and response workflows using AWS Lambda, AWS Config, and AWS CloudWatch Events. * Working on preparing operational processes for a fast-growing distributed Cloud platform * Design highly available architectures with redundancy and failover mechanisms to minimize downtime and data loss. * Extending support to the clients and building a solution for migration and efficient usage of Cloud Computing Services * Performing application deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and Microsoft Azure. * Configuring JENKINS, List and built views to display the status and progress of selected jobs with build version information. * Creating and managing Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins * Working with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and identifying providers * Experienced with Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket, GIT Hub Actions. * Creating automation scripts using python and shell scripts. * Rich exposure in Terraform.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Baker Hughes
September 2018 - October 2021
- Project Description: Baker Hughes has two operating segments; Oilfield Services & Equipment (OFSE) and Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) are organized based. Oilfield technology and services help to operate efficiently and predictably, ensuring that projects are executed right the first time and assets consistently perform at peak productivity. Baker Hughes is enriched by digitalization, artificial intelligence and automation capabilities that enable remote operations, reduce risk, and drive decarbonization efforts. Energy technology helps industry advance on the path to net-zero and a sustainable energy future. Project Environment: GIT CI, Maven, Nexus, JFrog, Jenkins, Git-Lab, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, AWS Services, ios server Key Result Areas: * Built CI/CD on Azure and AWS environment using Azure repo/AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy & Code Pipeline. * Worked on installing, configuring, & maintaining Jenkins & Bamboo for the purpose of all build & deployments that are implementing CI/CD for database using Jenkins in Groovy. * Created setup for the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Bitbucket, JFROG Artifactory, Chef, & Terraform. * Created various build & deployment scenarios such as jobs to build from various branches, deploy tasks to development server or QA server or Staging/Production server using Jenkins. * Configured & integrated the servers in various environments for automatic provisioning with tools like Ansible, Chef. * Implemented Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with Docker, Maven, Ant, Nexus Artifactory, Jenkins & AWS/Azure. * Collaborate with developers, operations teams, and stakeholders to align auto-scaling strategies with business objectives and application requirements. * Implement backup and replication strategies tailored to the specific needs of applications and data. * Integrate Splunk with CI/CD pipelines to capture deployment events, build logs, and release metrics. * Deployed and maintained mobile application into ios servers to manage mobile applications. * Working with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and identifying providers * Experienced with Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions. * Automated the complex manual process via python scripting.
AWS DevOps Engineer
HSBC (Banking Domain)
June 2016 - July 2018
- Project Description: HSBC, a global banking and financial services company, has undertaken several strategic initiatives to enhance its services and customer experience. Commercial banking involves providing basic banking services and products to the public, both individual consumers and small to midsize businesses Project Environment: AWS Services, Jira, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Linux, Windows, GitHub, G3, RTC, Akamai Key Result Areas: * Change management, Incidence management and participating in root cause analysis. * Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation * Implement blue-green or rolling deployment strategies to seamlessly update auto-scaling groups with new application versions while maintaining availability and performance. * Coordination and communication within the team and with customers * Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline) * Application failover using Akamai and switching to one data center to another data center. * AWS cloud migration activities from on-prem data center * Experienced with Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket * Kubernetes Pod's deployment and monitoring logs. * Autoscaling, zero down time application implementation in project * Python scripting is used for the automation of project complex scenarios. * Maintain WebSphere commerce application on datacenter.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Lowe's (Retail Domain)
December 2014 - June 2016
- Project Description: American retail company specializing in home improvement. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, the company operates a chain of retail stores in the United States. Home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. Project Environment: AWS Services, GIT, Jira, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Linux, Windows, Bit-bucket, Total View Key Result Areas: * Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation * Setting up tools and required infrastructure for AWS * Implement blue-green or rolling deployment strategies to seamlessly update auto-scaling groups with new application versions while maintaining availability and performance. * Share Splunk dashboards, reports, and insights with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, security, and business stakeholders. * Incidence management and root cause analysis * Coordination and communication within the team and with customers * Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline) * Level-3 support for troubleshooting application and server level * AWS cloud migration activities from on-prem data center * Experienced with Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket * Kubernetes Pod's deployment and monitoring logs. * User creation and access permission granted as per the policies.
DevOps Engineer
IBM (Financial Domain)
July 2013 - December 2014
- Project Description: IBM W3C Connections show their support for standards and for W3C through a variety of means, including participation in groups, sponsorship of events, chairing groups and implementing specifications. This page lists testimonials from Members that give a view into the broad range of organizations leading the development of Web Standards. Project Environment: GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, WAS, WebLogic, Linux, Remedy, Jira, TSRM. Key Result Areas: * Adopting practices such as Continuous Integration, DevOps and aligning with development activities to increase effectiveness and reduce risks * Hands-on experience with using different configuration management tools * Demonstrable experience of software development methodologies, including the use of code management through GIT * Hands-on experience with build and release setup and maintenance using tools like Jenkins * Working experience with build tools Maven * Application deployments on WAS and WebLogic * Smoke testing of application in regular interval before and after changes * Installation and configuration of middleware component products * Troubleshooting the issues on server level and application level * Remote data center operations and maintenance * Back-up and recovery plans implementation during the change * Proactively monitoring the application alerts * Using and scheduling shell scripts for the weekly maintenance tasks. * Weekly based changes implementation plans and coordination. * Working on preparing operational processes for a fast-growing distributed Cloud platform
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