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Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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NAGA KOLIPAKA kolipakanagendra3@gmail.com 8606030185 Troy, MI 48084 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Passionate IT professional with over 15 years of experience as a Devops engineer, Senior Systems Engineer, Architect. Proven expertise in designing, delivering, migrating, optimizing, and monitoring complex systems and infrastructures across both on-premises and cloud environments, with a strong focus on integrity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Recognized for an automation-driven mindset and a successful track record in fostering long-term partnerships with vendors and clients. Seeking to leverage my skills and experience in a challenging role. SKILLS SET Cloud: Azure, AWS, Openshift, PCF, Kubernetes Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, Check MK, Kibana, Rancher, Zabbix, Appdynamics, j-probe, Wily. Metric tool. Provisioning tools: VMware, VRA, VRO, ARM, CAF, AWS cloud formation, Morpheus, Ansible. CI/CD: HAL, Circle CI, HTEAM, Guidwire, Jenkins, GitHub, Helm, Bit bucket, Teraform, Azure devops, U-deploy Integration: Kafka, UM, MQ, Mule API related: Postman, Insomnia. Middleware: WXS, Liberty, WebSphere Web logic, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Iplanet, Solace and NGINX. Automation: Shell, Teraform, Python Authentication: LDAP, IAM, Oauth, Vault, SAML, JWT, Api-keys. Sudo. Network: IFP, VPC, AVI, F5, Palo Alto, IFP, MD5, ACE, GSS, CSM PM and configuration: TFS, ADO, JIRA, Confluence, SNOW, BMC, ITSM & Remedy Database: Oracle, SQL server,DB2 Backup: Rubrix, TSM Operating systems: CentOS, RHEL, Suse, Solaris and windows COTS: AEM, Fatwire, Lombardo, Maximo, BPM, GRC, Hyperion, Data stage, Metric stream, Latex, Enigma, Geolus, GAM, Opnet, Clarity, Unica, Vertex and Saba. Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, RMI/IIOP WORK HISTORY RKT Companies Devops- Application Engineer Detroit, MI 07/2020 - Current End-to-end support for applications hosted in cloud, on-premises with ensuring the stability and integrity of the mortgage platform. Re-architecture of integration products by incorporating business logic enhancements and coordinating with clients to ensure a smooth transition Successfully lead and automated Mule migration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards with Ansible and Shell which reduce the 70% of manual effort. On boarded applications, topics, and streams by configuring network setups and security groups using python, deploying self, fully managed connectors and KSQL DB in Kafka Implemented robust security measures, including ACL management and encryption key sharing, to ensure compliance with industry standards. API definitions, SLA s, Access, Resources management etc. using Anypoint and Jenkins. Deployment and management of KVM virtualization environments, ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Developed CI/CD pipelines and automated day-to-day operations to avoid production outages with 50% less effort. Utilized tools Teraform for provisioning and Morpheus, Rubrix for platform operations. Developed comprehensive documentation for clients, including changes and issues, and facilitated office hours and knowledge-sharing sessions. Experience in Kubernetes container orchestration, optimizing application deployment and scaling processes using Rancher. Maintained infrastructure as code using Teraform and Ansible, streamlining resource provisioning across AWS and Azure environments. Observability of platforms and apps using monitoring tools and driving the KPI measures in periodic basis with SLI, SLO's & Error budgets Optimized & streamlined. Contributed to various automation initiatives using Shell Scripting and Python programming. Managing of queues and qtweet via SQL server with creating, updating and deletion of routing rules. Conducting chaos tests and performance readiness assessments to prepare for future load requirements. Analyzing and optimization of cloud resources in AWS for cost saving. Cross functional-collaboration of mission-critical platforms with agile of TFS/ADO. Vendor case management and enhancements for future view. AAA insurance - Sr.System Administrator Dearborn, MI 03/2020 - 07/2020 Hardening the Applications infrastructure security and perform vulnerability remediation. Lead performance analysis for applications tuning, Storage and DB performances. Deploying the application, starting using Guidwire automation tool LLE to PROD. Managing the application permissions and provisioning based in ITIL process Resource management via AWS console and deployed apps in various regions. Migration of Liferay and Middleware suite with different versions. Installation of mule agents, Whitelisting the IP s for various domain applications. Automated daily operations and enhanced platform observability using Dynatrace. Bank of America - Application Architect V Plano, Texas 09/2019 - 03/2020 Eligent support of enterprise Middleware suite in prod and non-prod environments with 150+ commercial and consumer applications with high availability and failover capability. EDUCATION Master s degree in Computer Science USA 2009 SOFT SKILLS Release , DR ,Incident, Change ,BIR, Migration coordinator Datacenter Consolidator Process and Mentor Collaboration and Cross functional Project Management Decision making and strategic planning. Problem solving and automation mindset. Adaptability and flexibility Process and Documentation skills. Communication and presentation skills. CERTIFICATIONS IBM Certified Systems Administrator on Web Sphere Application Server ND Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) 10G/9i Database ACCOMPLISHMENTS Automation migration expert. Migration specialist with zero rollback. Delivered multiple COTS/3rd party application Served as the single point of contact for delivering enterprise projects across all environments, managing tight deadlines and coordinating go-live support. Ensured Middleware Integration platforms are patched with the latest software versions to mitigate risk to customers with SLA/SLO lines. Collaborated with cross functional teams on a daily basis and providing recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development; Followed bank process, creation of onboarding documentation and mentored new bees. Performance monitoring of JVM using Instrumenting the appdynamics and dynatrace Utilized mDeliver/Blade logic platform operations, application and access management. Built and deploy of apps with Data sources, JMS, Queues, Queue-CF, session pool, connection pool in WAS, JBoss. Securing and updating the password using Vault. Site-minder installation and configuration of mod-cluster b/n application and web server. Bridge between internal and external vendors consultation at various points of SDLC. Ford - Sr. System Engineer/Next Gen/Devops Dearborn, MI 12/2011 - 07/2019 Oversaw the support and migration of over 2,000 applications across Intranet, B2B, and B2C environments hosted in heterogeneous global settings to ITIL standards. Lead an Ultra large project releases in terms of Site Reliability, Management, Release Management and DevOps readiness for successful delivery Provided support apps moving from legacy DC to New DC which are Standard compute (PCF, CaaS) and IaaS, NextGen DC along with containers kubernetes, Openshift. Conducted in-depth analysis of cloud infrastructure, application migration, and data center technologies. Maintained Open Stack environments, contributing patches to the community and optimizing cloud services. Explored Helm charts for application deployments in Kubernetes, ensuring consistent and repeatable installations. Driving projects using best practices in Supply Chain Management (SCM) across Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies. L2/L3 technical expertise on performance, High availability, and extreme workloads. Managing, maintenance of Integration resources used applications used in Middleware Served as the escalation point of contact for RTP provisioning and network/platform. Experience with various different CI/CD tools for infra and application provisioning. End to end change management coordinator for Submitting, validating the launch plans, GO/NOGO meetings, scheduling and smooth implementation with less business risk Drive production incidents to resolution and perform blameless postmortems for permanent fixes Experience with network/load-balancers, tools like LBAAS, F5, ACE /DNS /CSM /GSS. Creation and managing of Security management with SSL certs and validations. Configured resources like JDBC Providers, Data sources, and security resources. Set-up security permissions against LDAP, IAM servers to access Middleware suite. Administered COTS applications, managing updates and user support while coordinating with global vendors to resolve issues and implement enhancements. Created and implemented Release management process for Middleware and Integration production along with WDF and EAA to avoid minimal down time and future issues. Automated operating system level tasks of installing security patches, SP1/2 to SP3 upgrades and SP3 to SP4 upgrades. Rebuilt the server from scratch with latest backup within a specified timeline. Creating the UNIX users accounts, sudo rules and providing access, restricting the access Managed NAS, SAN physical and logical volume access and performance drive in DB. SPOC for Resource, User management, bug fix, audit/security monitoring in Linux. Proficient in handling Linux admin tasks like disk and resource management along with virtual and physical servers VMware, RSA. Ford - WebSphere/Linux Administrator Dearborn, MI 01/2010 - 12/2011 Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis for Internet, Intranet, B2B, B2C,C3P applications running in production in different countries. Onboarding applications with Network, Site-builds, configuration, SSL certs apply, deploying, DR setup and Go live. Experience in automating access authorized access for enterprise wide applications via Single Sign on. Provide Level II support complete administration of WebSphere on Linux and Windows Installation of WebSphere message broker for vendor supported application. Change process for upgrade, maintenance, Migration and Disaster recovery testing. Installation, configuration and maintenance of monitoring tools and COTS applications. Automated Operations tasks Middleware process using UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts. Building the applications Engineering, Network, configuration, Deploy and go live. Experience in Security, Tuning and Clustering of Middleware and Integration products. Configuring Data source, MQ, MDBs and LDAP for securing access to enterprise apps. . Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment message queue database information technology golang ffive Michigan North Dakota