Solution Architect Devops Engineer
Resume:
Santhosh Kumar Ballu
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santhoshballu/
Professional Summary
** ***** ** ********** ** specialized AWS and Azure cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) and DevOps tools
AWS Certified Solution Architect -Professional (Feb 2021 to Feb 2027)
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Mar 2021 to Mar 2027)
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AWS Certified Solution Architect -Associate (June 2018 to Feb 2024)
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Providing the failover architectures like, Disaster Recovery and High availability models.
High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles.
Implementation of architectures and infrastructure and application deployments
Expertise in Amazon Cloud Services and its features (EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, IAM, RDS, SQS, SNS, RDS, ELB, Cloud Watch, SMS, ECS, EKS, ECR, Config, RAM, Kinesis, OpenSearch, workspaces, MGN, Glue, Glue studoi, WAF Config etc.).
Experienced in setting up EC2 instances, security groups and setting up applications and databases in AWS.
Experience in delivering solutions to improve cloud architecture, deployment for AWS private and public cloud.
Experience in Build tools and CICD tools like Hudson, ALM and Jenkins, Code pipeline, code build and Code Deploy
Experience in working with configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform.
Experience with different operating systems like Unix, Linux, Ubuntu, and Windows.
Created and managed security groups for inbound and outbound traffic for instances in both public and private subnets.
Created S3 buckets and implemented the policies for Pre-prod and Prod environments.
Configured IAM Roles and security groups.
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) for cloud security and vulnerably
Provisioning of AWS Workspaces to the users.
Good Experience in Terraform to build Infrastructure.
In depth knowledge of Linux system administration with the ability to write custom-specific shell scripts in bash and Perl
experience into IT operational and maintenance.
Good understanding on ChatGPT and Open AI.
Recently completed certification on Open AI from LinkedIn.
Good Understanding and Utterance utilizes on ChatGPT.
Good experience on presales for cloud solutions and Data warehouse solutions
Good Knowledge on Snowflake.
Implemented monitoring process of cloud environment and notification system using cloud watch and SNS.
Experience in creating AMIs and rehydrating the EC2 instances.
Decent work experience with Agile model and using agile tools like Scrum and Jira.
Excellent in communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.
Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.
Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.
Experienced in Orchestration tools like AWS ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and Nirmata.
Worked with SMS (Server Migration Service), MGN, DMS and Cloud Endure.
Worked with CDN technologies i.e., Imperva & CloudFront.
Experience in implementing the Caching mechanism using Redis Cache and Oracle Coherence Server.
Experience in sonar cube validation.
Experience with a relational database such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Experience in versioning systems like Bitbucket and Git repository.
Experienced in writing complex SQL queries and scheduled tasks using cron jobs.
Good knowledge in AWS Database services like RDS Aurora, MySQL and MS SQL), Dynamo DB and Database Migration Services.
Effectively communicate data design to other members of the team to ensure proper implementation and utilization of the data structures.
Worked on Amazon Kendra for search engine.
Kendra configured with public domains for search engine to support ML based search features.
Kendra configured with multiple connecters
Experience Summary:
Working as Sr Cloud Architect at LPCorp (LTIM) from Nov 2023 till date.
Worked as Sr Cloud Technical Architect at State of Georgia from Aug 2022 to Nov 2023.
Worked as AWS Architect at TCS from June 2022 to Aug 2022.
Worked as Cloud Architect Associate Manager at Accenture from May 2021 to June 2022
Worked as AWS Lead Engineer in 9Logic Technologies from Sept 2020 to May 2021.
Worked as Senior Consultant in Ciber Sites HTC from May 2019 to July 2020.
Worked as IT System Consultant in Oracle India Pvt ltd from 2014 to May 2019.
Worked as Software Engineer in ADP India Pvt ltd from 2011 to 2014.
Technical Skills:
Cloud Technologies : AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Configuration Management : Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Tools : Jenkins, Hudson, REMO, Codebuild, Codepipeline and Bitrise.
Ticketing Tools : Remedy 7.5, Service Now.
Databases : RDS, Oracle Databases.
Versioning Tools : Git, Bitbucket.
Monitoring Tools : Cloud Watch, Nagios.
Scripting : Shell/Bash Script & Python scripting.
Oracle Product : Oracle Software (10g, 11g & 12c), Oracle Application Server, Oracle Business Intelligence, Web Cache, APEX, WebLogic, Agile, SSL and SSO, SQL Server, MySQL
Language : SQL, PL/SQL.
Operating Systems : Oracle Enterprise Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
Orchestration tools : AWS ECS, EKS, Kubernetes and Nirmata.
Work Experience:
LP Corp (LTIMindtree), Nov 2023 to till date.
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
Responsibilities:
Working on the Cloud Infrastructure Implementations.
Implemented the Landing zone deployments with multi org structure and multi account strategies
enforced and managed governance rules for security, operations, and compliance at scale across all organizations and accounts in the AWS Cloud using the Control tower
Working on Disaster Recovery architecture implementations with using AWS native services for SAP workloads
Working on Operating system upgrades from lower version to latest version for Cloud provider servers for critical SAP workloads
Working on Infrastructure support activities, Finops and Security implementations.
Provide and Implement the Cloud best practices solutions to the SAP Deployments.
Providing the failover architectures like, Disaster Recovery and High availability models.
High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles.
Implementation of infrastructure and application deployments
Infrastructure automation using CloudFormation and Terraform.
Application deployments into orchestration or serverless platforms.
Migrated Applications to cloud using the MGN (AWS Migrations service)
Configured DR for workloads using the AWS EDR.
State of Georgia (GTA), Atlanta Aug 2022 to Nov 2023.
Sr Cloud Solution Architect
Responsibilities:
Working under the State Enterprise architecture group as a cloud architect.
As a cloud architect interacting with most of the state agencies/entities and understanding their requirements in cloud environments.
Provide and Implement the Cloud best practices solutions to the agencies.
Implemented the Landing zone deployments with multi org structure and multi account strategies
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) for cloud security and vulnerably using partner service and possible security services and IAM services from AWS.
Providing failover architectures like Disaster Recovery and High availability models.
High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles.
Implementation of infrastructure and application deployments
Infrastructure automations using Terraform and CDK for CICD pipelines.
Worked on WAF firewalls for application integrations using AWS native firewalls
Application deployment followed Devops CICD process using multiple pipeline tools.
Application deployments into orchestration or serverless platforms.
Building the Inhouse call center platform using AWS connect services and it will enable to onboard all the state agencies into one platform.
Customization of CCP boards for connect user board experience as per application demands.
Configuring the Routing profiles for Connect contact flows.
Agent’s onboarding and user management for connect.
Realtime call recording and forwarding options for connect.
Customization of contact flows and real-time attributes for aws connect.
Integration of chatbot with lex and DynamoDB for connect virtual support.
For chat experiences using lex bot customizations on connect.
Good Experience on Data warehouse to implement the ETL process.
Working on AWS Glue Studio easy to create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue
Working experience on Glue to create and run the ETL jobs for data process
Focused on Data Lake implementations and providing industry standard and customized solutions to the State agencies based on the data and their requirements.
Working on Glue and Glue crawlers for data lake implementations.
Working experience on Splunk dashboards
Working on Aws Data Lab to club all data migrations and DB migrations in single platform.
Working on AWS Dat labs to achieve the complex enterprise data solutions.
Working experience on CloudFront.
With that it resolves the complex Bigdata and Data warehouse solutions to the customers
Worked on Amazon Kendra for search engine.
Kendra configured with public domains for search engine to support ML based search features.
Kendra configured with multiple connectors.
Enabled Kendra with crawler depths.
Nutrien (TCS), Denver, CO, Remote Jun 2022 to Aug 2022.
AWS Solution Architect / Migration SME
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with client and designing architecture for production applications migrations (AWS)
Did migrations from on Prem to cloud using MGN and cloud endure migration tools.
Did Migrated more than 500+ servers’ SAP systems and Applications migrations with multiple waves using the MGN.
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CEIM) for cloud security and vulnerably using the CrowdStrike falcon endpoint services.
All SAP migrations strategies applied to all the environments.
Infrastructure provisions and automation using Terraform and CFT’s.
Deployments CICD are configured using aws native services Codebuild, Code pipelines using CDK.
Configurations of Datadog for monitoring.
Worked on WAF firewall systems for applications firewalls with Illumio and AWS WAF
Working experience on Cloud front distributions.
Worked on Imperva configurations for vulnerability.
Worked on Direct connect configurations for tunnel creations.
MODEC (Accenture), Hyderabad, India Jul 2021 to May 2022
Cloud Architect Associate Manager
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with client and designing architecture for SAP production applications on IAAS(AWS)
Implementation of architectures and infrastructure and application deployments
Implemented the Landing zone deployments with multi org structure and multi account strategies
High resiliency on the architecture designs and best practices included using the WAR principles
Providing the failover architectures like, Disaster Recovery and High availability models.
Working on multiple PAAS services like, elastic beanstalk, RDS, ECS, EKS
Terraform tool used for Infrastructure provisions.
Migrated all SAAP systems to AWS cloud with Lift and shift R path.
Gathering information from clients to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.
AWS Workspaces creation for users to provide virtual VM’s
Good Experience in Data Analytics with configuring of EMR and Athena with glue jobs.
Configure the lambda functions to fine tune the data.
CICD pipelines are configured for infrastructure and application deployments.
Backend databases used, Postgres SQL, Aurora, and MS SQL databases.
Configured glue jobs to enable the data lake to store it in storage and quire process from Athena.
Working on ECS clusters and EKS Clusters and building applications using Docker images.
Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
Building the Inhouse call center platform using AWS connect services and it will enable the services to onboard all the state agencies into one platform.
Customization of CCP boards for connect user board experience as per application demands.
Configuring the Routing profiles for Connect contact flows.
Agent’s onboarding and user management for connect.
Realtime call recording and forwarding options for connect.
Customization of contact flows and real-time attributes for aws connect.
Integration of chatbot with lex and DynamoDB for connect virtual support.
For chat experiences using lex bot customizations on connect.
Worked on Data Labs to prepare the data migrations and DB migrations
Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
Automated deployments with Code build, Codedeploy and Code pipeline services.
Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.
Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.
Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
Worked on AWS connect services and it will enable to onboard all the state agencies into one platform.
Customization of CCP boards as per application demands.
Realtime call recording and forwarding options.
Customization of contact flows and real-time attributes.
Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.
Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
Worked with Terraform to build infrastructure.
Implemented Direct connect tunnel and configurations as part of cloud network setup.
Invent Health (9Logic), Hyderabad, India Sep 2020 to May 2021
AWS Architect
Responsibilities:
Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
Automated deployments with Code build, Codedeploy and Code pipeline services.
Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.
Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.
Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.
Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.
Experience on Python boto3
Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.
Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
Worked on presales area on the projects and cloud discussions.
Presales will give the confident to the customers to choose right solutions
Experience installing, configuring, and supporting Amazon AWS.
Ciber, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India Jun 19 to Jul 2020
AWS Architect & Devops engineer
Client : MBSi
Project : MBSIQ
Responsibilities:
Working on ECS clusters and build applications using Docker images.
Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups, Load balancers, VPC, site-to-site vpn connections, vpc peering connections.
Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, and IAM through AWS Cloud formation templates.
Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
Working with SMS (Server Migration Service) and Cloud Endure.
Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.
Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.
Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
Experience installing, configuring, and supporting Amazon AWS.
Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.
Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.
Experienced in creating Docker images, build Docker images.
Experienced in push Docker image to private repositories and pull image to our local environment.
Experienced in Docker image health checkup and Docker Tag creation.
Experienced in Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Nirmata.
Part of presales for AWS cloud and Bigdata solutions
Client: MBSi
Project: Determination Engine, LWS
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with client and designing architecture for production applications.
Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.
Gathering information from client to build a HA Multi region Active-Active configuration.
Working on ECS clusters and build applications using Docker images.
Installed Third-party firewalls on AWS HA applications.
Must create ECR repository to save the docker images.
configure codebuild to create the images using docker file and push the images to ECR repository.
To configure codebuild, prepared Buildspec.yml and save it to bitbucket repository.
created RDS database for application.
create internal network load balancer to distribute the traffic between the containers and assigned static Ip’s.
configure code pipeline to automate the process.
configure the code pipeline, prepared pipeline script and s3 artifacts.
Code pipeline watches the updates in s3 bucket and starts creation of task definition using latest ECR images.
Collaborating with client and designing architecture for production applications.
Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.
Created Automation CI/CD process for mobile applications.
Used Bitrise Pipeline process to configure Deployments.
Creating an application in Bitrise from the scratch and publishing it to the store.
Responsible for creating the workflows for both Android and iOS.
Responsible for creating the code signing profiles for both android and iOS.
Responsible for creating the certificate and provisioning profile for iOS app deployment.
Creating the workflow for Android and iOS and specifying to deploy to AppStore and Play Store.
once the build gets successful it can view in the respective track.
Responsible for modifying the app.json file by incrementing the build value.
Created a copy and modified the Bitrise.yml file so that the process of workflow creation is simplified for the new application creation in Bitrise.
Created Triggers, so the build process will be automated whenever there is a code push or code pull.
Responsible for creating and adding the testers group, so that whenever there is a new build the testers can download the latest version in the mobile for testing.
Client: Myrecoveryconnect
Project: Recovery Connect
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with client and designing architecture for production applications.
Creating full infrastructure with vpc, subnets, iam users and roles, s3 storages.
Set up Ubuntu EC2 Brown instance.
Create Brown Deployment profile in Jenkins.
Add Brown deployment key to Brown Deployment profile in Jenkins.
Set up the software/config on the EC2 Brown instance.
install git. Get the new instance key to Bitbucket repository.
install PHP5 + PHP-FPM 5.x - for RC web app. Enable FPM service autoload.
install NGINX Openers distro with extra add-ons.
make sure NGINX + FPM running on UNIX file sockets. Configure FPM to run on a socket and NGINX config to look for that socket.
install wildcard SSL certificates in NGINX config.
Oracle India, Bengaluru, India Jun 2015 to May 2019
AWS Developer & DevOps Engineer
Project: iProjects
Responsibilities:
Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
Design and develop the Jenkins jobs to create an application and infrastructure jobs to deploy the applications/ deployment.
Used Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has integrated Ansible YAML Scripts.
Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Designing and Deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and Ropeworks.
Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance, and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash.
Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.
Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
Create and maintain the documentation accordingly in Project SharePoint websites.
Worked on Nagios for monitoring the systems.
Worked closely with Software Developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
Created scripts in Ruby which integrated with Amazon Web Services to control instance operations.
Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions.
Experience installing, configuring, and supporting Amazon AWS.
Experienced in Hudson for creating builds and applying patches.
Experienced in creating micro services applications and maintain micro services applications.
Oracle India, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India Sep 2014 to May 2015
Database Administrator
Project : Impact, Dimple
IMPACT stands for Implementation of Advanced Consulting Tools. It is primarily used by the Global Consulting Project Management Office and the DPOs of various regions within Consulting. Impact application has extensive BI reporting that serves the business needs of Oracle Consulting Globally.
DIMPLE Global Sales Operations - CDM Portal has been providing an enhanced workflow management system for all its users. DIMPLE 4.0 is not only used internally but also been used by various external groups like Finance, Support, Marketing, A&C, Territories etc. This application supports the PULL strategy and executes other activities such as Development, Support Services, Database Migration & DBA Support
Responsibilities:
Providing 24x7 support on all the Production, Stage, Test and Development Databases for resolving issues related to databases.
Understand the business requirements, analyze the source systems.
Automating the jobs like backup checks, tablespace size alerts, blocking sessions, etc., by using shell scripts. Scheduling jobs through crontab.
Performing user managed backups like hot backups for daily backups and Cold backups for weekly and monthly.
Attending the design review, code review meetings.
Performing logical backups using the conventional export & import data pump utilities at various levels like schema level, database level and tablespace level.
Taking Daily incremental backup and full backup on weekly basis using RMAN.
Installation and configuration of Oracle Application Server 10g and WebLogic 11g.
Installation and configuration of Discoverer (Business Intelligence).
Generating the AWR and ADDM reports for checking the database performance.
Performed tablespace and database reorganization.
Upgraded the databases to the newer releases of the Oracle.
Applying quarterly CPU and PSU patches using OPatch utility.
Installation and configuration of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g and 11g.
Configuring Data guard and direct Experience on both Logical and Physical Standby databases, performing Restoration and Recovery on Standby when needed.
Co-ordinated with security team for opening the required security system ports between the servers.
ADP, Hyderabad, India Aug 2009 to Aug 2014
Database Administrator
Project: DASH (Delivery Awesome Service Here)
Responsibilities:
Installation of Oracle software & creation of database.
Provided regular DBA support for the database servers.
Creating the Users, Roles and assign privileges required.
Monitoring the database growth using appropriate views and managing it by providing the necessary spaces for users.
Planning, Implementing and Testing Backup strategy.
Taking Daily incremental backup and full back up on weekly basis using RMAN.
Configuration of standby database.
Multiplexing and managing redo logfiles, control files & datafiles.
Managing undo segments and redo logs.
Checking alert logs and trace files for errors.
Applying CPU and PSU patches on regular basis.
Upgrading the databases to the newer releases of the Oracle.
Generating AWR reports and gathering statistics.
Education:
Bachelors in computer science engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad, India, 2009
Certifications:
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (June 2018 to Feb 2027).
AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional (Feb 2021 to Feb 2027).
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Mar 2021 to Mar 2024).
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